How Do You Stay Entrepreneurial?
6.27.08 APTARE CEO Rick Clark shares his tips on staying entrepreneurial and taking risks in an era of uncertainty.

Top Backup Problems & How To Avoid Them
6.09.08 —"These days, backing up data is significantly more complex and risky. Here are a few key backup problems SMEs face and ways either to avoid them or solve them.."

How to implement data de-duplication
6.03.08 —" The best way to select, implement and integrate data deduplication can vary depending on how the deduplication is performed. Here are some general principles that you can follow in selecting the right deduplicating approach and then integrating it into your environment."

A New Level Of Backup Reporting
2.08 —"Backup success rates are improving, but reliable data recovery is still a concern. Not only does data loss impact business productivity and potentially revenue, but failure to produce data could result in fines or damage to a company's reputation. The good news is that a collection of vendor offerings has arrived to address the need to provide reporting beyond a single backup event."

90% of APTARE's Customers Have 2008 Initiatives
2.25.08 —"APTARE's Clark says that it is essential that APTARE first deliver what their current and potential customers want to see in a reporting tool: (1) A centralized database; (2) A web-based GUI and (3) No agents."

2008: The Year of the Storage Vendor
2.04.08 —"All of the compliance talk – SOX, COBIT, COSO, HIPAA, Section 404 – has overwhelmed organizations of all sizes and has made them more accountable for the data they collect and store."

Product Releases
12.27.08 —"New from Aptare are its StorageConsole 6.5 and StorageConsole Capacity Manager products. StorageConsole 6.5 is an agentless, bridged platform that offers single Web 2.0 console access to backup reporting and storage management features."

Data Protection Management: A Good Fit For SMEs
11.30.07—"Backup failure and performance rank at the top of the list of issues that continue to perplex storage administrators on a daily basis."

Brain Drain
11.07—" Does the promise of huge financial payoffs cramp the creativity of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs?"

A standard that leaves out the good stuff?
10.24.07—"A specification meant to bring together storage device management under one umbrella instead continues to be criticized for its innate inability to enable interoperable functionality."

Checking Storage Capacity -- on an iPhone
10.19.07—"There's nothing like making a phone call, listening to a favorite MP3, then checking your company's storage capacity -- all on the same handheld unit. In this case, it's an iPhone."

Is Your Storage Vendor Ripping You Off?
10.04.07—"Not every bit and byte requires the best storage. Tier your storage and save money."

Aptare expands into capacity management
8.30.07—"StorageConsole Platform 6.5 now includes the ability to track storage capacity utilization to let storage administrators determine future storage needs."

Aptare adds capacity planning
8.22.07—"StorageConsole Platform 6.5 gives administrators access to the status of their backups, detailed insight into their heterogeneous storage environments, and the ability to run reports to check on storage capacity and utilization."

Aptare releases new version of StorageConsole software
8.21.07—"Aptare Inc., a provider of web-based storage reporting and management software, has announced on Monday a new release of StorageConsole software,"

Backup Reporting Tools Become DPM
8.20.07—"backup reporting specialist Aptare, which started life as a services company back in the early '90s, unveiled the addition of capacity management to its StorageConsole software."

Backup reporting expands to add capacity planning
8.20.07—"Aptare Inc. is the latest vendor of data storage reporting and monitoring tools to try to sweeten the pot for users by expanding the scope of its product."

What's Up With Centralized Storage?
4.13.07—"Rick Clark, president and CEO of APTARE, notes many of its customers found “connecting [storage] systems was the easy part; managing it was a nightmare.”"

Capacity planning tools require serious purchase consideration
4.11.07—"Gauging storage needs over time is one of the biggest challenges faced by IT administrators, and a new generation of capacity planning tools is emerging to help forecast growth and utilization of storage resources."

"IDC predicts rapid growth for DPRM"
3.26.07—"A recent report from International Data Corp. (IDC) predicts that the worldwide data protection and recovery management (DPRM) market will grow from $58 million in 2006 to $200 million by 2011, representing a 28% compound annual growth rate (CAGR)."

"Big Bytes Finalists Named"
8.30.06—"Byte and Switch today announced that nearly three dozen organizations have been selected as finalists for the Big Bytes, an industry awards program that recognizes storage innovation and creativity."

"Aptare upgrades DPM software"
7.26.06—"Aptare added support for IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software in the latest edition of its StorageConsole data protection management (DPM) software."

"Six storage companies to watch"
7.24.06—"In researching this story, analysts and others also pointed us to these two independent storage companies that, while not start-ups, are worth watching:

"Aptare expands channel focus"
7.12.06—"Aptare, a provider of web based data protection management software, is seeking to expand its reseller base from its current 20 to at least 100 worldwide."

"Users tame backup systems with reporting tools"
7.10.06 —"as data grows everywhere and backup environments grow more and more difficult to manage manually, many enterprises are seeing the value in a separate reporting tool."

"APTARE Manages backup"
6.27.06 —"Using the centralized, Web-based portal, Aptare says storage administrators can increase the integrity of their data protection by being able to quickly identify unprotected data, improve capacity planning, increase performance and provide compliance with audits and legal discovery."

"APTARE announces backup managed service"
6.26.06 —"The software enables resellers and managed service providers to offer customers backup reporting and management..."

"APTARE Adds Data Protection"
6.25.06 —"APTARE, Inc., provider of web-based data protection management software, today announced APTARE StorageConsole(R) Managed Services Edition."

"APTARE StorageConsole, Web Based Management, Reporting of Backup Platforms"
5.18.06—"StorageConsole provides for the Enterprise a Web-based management and reporting console offering visibility into the organization's current backup posture and performance.".

"APTARE Upgrades Data-Protection Software"
5.18.06—"Aptare has added the latest edition of its StorageConsole data-protection management software as support for IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager.

"APTARE Unveils Enhanced APTARE StorageConsole 5.1"
5.15.06—"APTARE, Inc., provider of web-based data protection management software, today unveiled APTARE StorageConsole(R)5.1, the next major update of its enterprise backup reporting and management solution."

eWeek - "APTARE Confronts Competitors with Data Protection Upgrade"
5.15.06—"Aptare's new version of its backup and management tool is a call to arms against competitors Bocada and WysDM, while also offering compatibility with major backup products."

Byte and Switch - "APTARE Adds Tivoli Support"
5.15.06—"Already deployed in hundreds of installations worldwide, APTARE StorageConsole is the only web-based reporting and management tool that provides centralized, real-time information on complex backup and recovery environments."