Company Overview

Revinetix was founded in August 2003 in Salt Lake City, Utah with the mission to provide innovative data backup and recovery technology solutions for small and medium size businesses (SMBs). Under the direction of CEO Tom Hogan and Founder/Chief Scientist Steve "Max" Ackerman, the former co-founder and CTO of Phobos Corp. (now SonicWALL), Revinetix is revolutionizing the disk-based computer network disaster recovery space with a compelling product offering that delivers distinct advantages to SMB network administrators and Information Technology (IT) managers.

Central to Revinetix' technology and market approach is its Disk2Disk2Disk™ or D2D2D™ (D3) backup philosophy. Whereas traditional backup solutions transfer data from disks to tapes - a slow and often unreliable method - Revinetix offers affordable total disk-based backup solutions, complete with preinstalled management software, Bare Metal Restore (BMR) utility and support for off-site archiving and replication. Other companies that compete in the Disk2Disk (D2D) market either rely on tape as their final step in taking data offsite or they do not provide the same level of fully integrated and easy-to-use software.

Products

Revinetix offers two lines of backup appliances under the brands Volo™ and Sentio™. The Volo Pro comes in a desktop form factor chassis with storage capacity (currently) up to 750 Gigabites (GB) mirrored, whereas the rack-mount Sentio line supports (currently) up to 40 Terabites (TB) of raw data.

With the Sentio line, Revinetix differentiates itself from other disk to disk (D2D) companies by providing hot swappable (removable without turning off, or impacting the system) serial ATA (SATA) drives to achieve portability, so that users can take their data offsite. This is not only a sensible disaster proofing practice, but a minimum requirement of new regulations being enacted. Similarly, the Volo supports critical data to be conveniently archived and then taken off-site for safe keeping by way of any industry standard removable USB drive.

Revinetix further enhances protection against hardware failure by means of RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) technology, an industry standard that has various levels of data redundancy. The Sentio ships complete with a hardware RAID card that expedites the many algorithms needed to set configure and manage RAID. Revinetix preconfigures all of its Sentio appliances to be RAID5. RAID5 allows for up to one disk in the array to fail without causing any loss of data.

Both Volo and Sentio include Revinetix' powerful RevOS™ and basic Bare Metal Restore (BMR) software pre-loaded on "best-of-breed" hardware to enable seamless installation into existing IT infrastructures, as well as management without any additional third-party software. Users simply plug the appliance into a network Ethernet switch and let RevOS guide them through the simple configuration process. Competitors' data backup products, alternatively, require the separate purchase of software and hardware, and are more difficult to use, which complicates installation and adaptability, while increasing total-cost-of-ownership.

Revinetix' easy-to-use software allows customers to accept pre-defined parameters or to customize the backup of their data. Using Disk2Disk2Disk technology, Revinetix eliminates tape from the backup process. Rather, high-density, low-cost, and reliable SATA disks replace slow and unreliable tape to provide the data protection SMBs need. With prices ranging from $2,595 to $149,995, Revinetix delivers solutions that are affordable to its target market.

Technology

The heart of Revinetix' solution is its Linux-based software and intuitive graphical interface. This Intellectual Property (IP) is the company's key differentiator. Its user interface continues to gain recognition as the easiest to use in the market, enabling rapid deployment and fast learning curves.

Revinetix has multiple patents pending that deal with the efficient management and storage of data across a network, especially pertaining to backup and recovery to disk. The company's backup software provides a well tested, professional quality backup solution. The user interface, control, configuration, and, most importantly, off-lining to disk capabilities have all been built to ensure high reliability and ease of use.

Because of tape's limitations, people generally perceive data backup as a snapshot in time. Revinetix, however, is pioneering continuous snapshots to secure clients' data - a concept referred to by the company as "perpetual backup"™. This concept represents a dramatic shift in how people fundamentally view backing up data, and a huge advantage in ensuring compliance with HIPAA, and other regulations. Among the key benefits and differentiators of Revinetix' IP are:

• Assurance of the continuous (perpetual) protection of data
• Provision of an audit trail, creating a quantum leap in regulation compliance
  
• Saved storage space by intelligently eliminating redundant copies of files
  
• Radical reduction in traffic and improved network efficiency
  
• Elimination of the need for backup windows (period of time when servers need to be down to allow backup)
  
• Recovery of a system or file at any point in time
  
• Data encryption and the ability to verify data on a Revinetix box or data going off-site
  

Additional technologies currently planned or in development will offer even more efficiency in D2D2D backup and archiving, enable strong encryption capabilities, and generally ensure greater data security and redundancy. Revinetix is changing the backup paradigm by making storage and data retrieval affordable, scalable and easy-to-use for every business.