NovaStor

NovaStor is a privately held software company headquartered in Agoura Hills, California, with offices in Hamburg, Germany, and Zug, Switzerland. Founded in 1987, the company develops and supplies backup, recovery, archiving, and broader data-protection software for home users, small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and managed service providers. The company’s product and service scope spans both traditional and cloud-oriented data protection. Its capabilities include backup and restoration for personal computers and servers, local and offsite backup, tape and disk imaging, disaster recovery, virtualization support, cloud-storage backup enablement, and hard-drive recovery or disk-booting functions. NovaStor’s offerings are positioned for environments that need to protect data across on-premises infrastructure, removable or archival media, and offsite or cloud locations. NovaStor’s business model and technical focus reflect the transition from conventional local backup toward hybrid and managed data-protection services. In addition to software for individual and organizational users, the company provides technology intended to support cloud-based managed services and service-provider deployments. This gives the brand relevance across several customer groups rather than limiting it to consumer backup software. In June 2009, NovaStor was acquired by a management-led investor group. That group remained the company’s majority shareholder according to the referenced company history. NovaStor continues to operate as a private software business. Public reference material compares its products with offerings associated with larger data-protection and enterprise-technology vendors, including Symantec and EMC, although no current market-share or financial information is established in the available material.

NovaStor was established in 1987 as a software company focused on protecting and recovering digital data. The available historical material does not identify the founder or provide a detailed account of the company’s earliest products, but it places the business within the development of backup software for personal computers and organizational information systems. Over time, NovaStor’s scope expanded beyond basic file copying and restoration. Its product capabilities came to include PC and server backup, local and offsite protection, tape and disk imaging, disaster recovery, virtualization, cloud-storage backup enablement, and hard-drive recovery or disk-booting functions. These capabilities cover several stages of the data-protection lifecycle: creating copies, storing them on different media or locations, restoring systems after failure, and supporting recovery in more complex infrastructure environments. The company serves a broad customer base that includes home users, small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and managed service providers. Its stated emphasis on cloud and enterprise services reflects the increasing importance of hybrid backup architectures, in which data may be protected both on site and through remote or cloud-based systems. NovaStor also provides technology for cloud-based managed-service deployments, extending its relevance to providers that deliver backup and recovery as an outsourced service. A significant ownership change occurred in June 2009, when NovaStor was acquired by a management-led investor group. The referenced company history states that this group continued as the majority shareholder. No further ownership changes, public listing, founder information, or financial results are established by the available sources. NovaStor is described as being headquartered in Agoura Hills, California, and maintaining offices in Hamburg, Germany, and Zug, Switzerland. Its geographic footprint supports an international operating profile, although the available reference material does not specify a complete country-by-country market list, revenue breakdown, or current workforce size. The company remains a privately held provider of backup and recovery software. Public comparisons place its products alongside solutions from larger technology and data-protection vendors such as Symantec and EMC.

• 2009

  Management-led acquisition

  [1]NovaStoren.wikipedia.org

  In June 2009, a management-led investor group acquired NovaStor and remained its majority shareholder according to the referenced history.

• 1987

  NovaStor founded

  [1]NovaStoren.wikipedia.org

  NovaStor was founded as a software company focused on backup and data recovery.

Data backup, recovery, disaster-recovery, and cloud-enabled data-protection software for consumers, businesses, enterprises, and managed service providers.

• Backup and recovery software

  PC and server backup and restore

  NovaStor provides software for backing up and restoring data on personal computers and servers. This core capability supports routine protection against accidental deletion, hardware failure, system corruption, and other data-loss events. The available reference material does not identify a specific product name or current edition.

• Data protection

  Local and offsite backup

  The company’s solutions support backup to local destinations as well as offsite locations. This approach is intended to provide a nearby recovery copy for convenience while also preserving a geographically separate copy for resilience against site-level incidents.

• Storage and imaging software

  Tape and disk imaging

  NovaStor’s stated capabilities include tape and disk imaging. These functions support the creation and management of fuller system or storage copies and address environments that continue to use disk-based repositories or tape for backup and archival purposes.

• Disaster recovery software

  Disaster recovery and virtualization support

  NovaStor provides disaster-recovery functionality and support related to virtualization. These capabilities are designed for restoring systems or workloads after disruption and for protecting virtualized environments, although the available source does not specify supported platforms, recovery objectives, or product editions.

• Cloud data protection

  Cloud-storage backup enablement

  The company focuses partly on cloud and enterprise services, including technology that enables backup to cloud storage and the deployment of cloud-based managed services. This places NovaStor’s offerings within hybrid and service-provider-oriented data-protection models.

• System recovery tools

  Hard-drive recovery and disk booting

  NovaStor’s listed product capabilities include hard-drive recovery and disk-booting functions. These tools address recovery situations in which a damaged, inaccessible, or failed system drive must be examined, restored, or used to restart a protected environment.

1. 1NovaStoren.wikipedia.org