Proxure the online backup provider announced that KeepVault will officially be getting new features to their KeepVault Pro and Business service. The add-in is due to release August 4th, 2010 and will include security and reporting improvements for account administration as well as a new sub-account feature to allow administrators to securely segregate data across different business departments.
The success of the ‘KeepVault Pro & Business’ (www.keepvaultpro.com) solution is its ground-up design targeting small to medium businesses (SMB); easy to setup with no special IT skills required, almost no maintenance thanks to its automatic operation, and it is significantly cheaper than the competition with prices starting at under $7/month. Most other SMB vendors try to re-purpose highly technical enterprise solutions, resulting in a poor user experience and high prices with hidden bandwidth and per seat fees.
Importantly we also listen to our customers and we continue to improve our service based on their feedback; which has helped to shape these new SMB features:
Enhanced Administrator Control & Reporting
Ensuring data is secure and that backups are functioning successfully is of particular importance to business owners, where any loss of data can jeopardize their company. The KeepVault Pro & Business software ‘admin lock feature’ prevents unauthorized changes to settings that control, amongst other things, the what, when, where of backup, and how much bandwidth each device uses. These controls are now enhanced with the new ‘web-based admin console’ which provides an overall backup status report as well as health reports for each device being protected. The administrator or account owner can review (per device) the date of the last backup, device status, and the amount currently protected. These reports are in addition to the existing automated ‘health’ notifications via SMS, email, and Twitter.Access to data via the web is included at no additional cost for ‘Pro & Business’ users. The new admin console allows the administrator to control web access, greatly enhancing overall security. Web access control and backup ‘health’ reporting can be managed on a ‘sub user account’ basis for extra flexibility.
Sub User Accounts
Securing sensitive financial data, personnel or patient records, or product roadmaps is now a lot easier with the Sub Account feature. As the name suggests, account owners/administrators can now create sub accounts within their main account, easily letting them section-off data for different departments within the company and prevent unauthorized access. Best of all we’ve kept it really simple and easy to use, no complicated permissions rules to manage or keep in-sync. For example, a 100GB account could be subdivided with 20GB for the accounting department, 30GB for senior management, 50GB for marketing etc. As needs change, those storage amounts can be increased or decreased with the click of a button. Usage, status, web access can all be tracked by sub account.
From Stacy (Proxure):
Here we will explain many of the features in more detail, and provide additional links on how to setup and configure:
1. Continuous Protection: Once your files are uploaded to your online storage account, all files within that folder/share are monitored and re-protected when modified. For example, FileA.doc has already been uploaded to your online storage account. When you open this word document and make changes, the file is saved to your online storage account with the latest changes.
2. Local Backup: In addition to online backup, both Standard and Pro & Business offer local backup.
The Standard version can only protect to local hard drives and removable devices.
The Pro & Business version can also protect to network drives that are not physically located on your PC and located within your local network. Here is additional information on Network drive support: http://forums.proxure.com/viewtopic.php?t=38073. KeepVault Connector: Right now, both Standard and Pro & Business support this feature on WHS only. Coming soon, Pro & Business will also support this feature for Server 2003 and Server 2008. Learn more and configure KeepVault Connector here: http://forums.proxure.com/viewtopic.php?t=3302
4. Web Access: The Pro & Business version offers Web Access and once you have a KeepVault account, you will be able to login via our website to restore your data: https://www.proxure.com/kv_redirect/business/login.php
NOTE: this FAQ page will go into detail about the different restore options for Standard and Pro & Business: http://forums.proxure.com/viewtopic.php?t=29625. Cross Device Access/Restore: This is a restore feature for the Pro & Business version only, called Selective Download within the application. Here is additional information on this feature: http://forums.proxure.com/viewtopic.php?t=2880
NOTE: this FAQ page will go into detail about the different restore options for Standard and Pro & Business: http://forums.proxure.com/viewtopic.php?t=29626. Administrator Features: There are two Administrative features available once you have a Pro & Business account. The first feature is available now with our latest version, and the other will be available August 2010:
• KeepVault for Windows allows Administrators to lock the KeepVault application installed on Client PC’s (XP, Vista, Windows 7). Once this feature is turned on under the Administrator tab in Settings, users must enter a password in order to view/modify the KeepVault settings. Here is additional information on this feature: http://forums.proxure.com/viewtopic.php?t=3804
• Coming August 2010, Administrators and resellers will have the ability to create sub accounts from one Pro & Business KeepVault account. Sub accounts can use either KeepVault for Windows or KeepVault for Windows Home Server and the Administrator has control of sub user access and can monitor the health of the sub user backups from the convenience of a single web-based admin console. Here is additional information and how to configure: http://forums.proxure.com/viewtopic.php?t=3806