EFI adds remote data protection to cloud services

Marking its twelfth year of delivering cloud-based services, used by more than 2,500 customers, EFI has launched an additional cloud service offering – off-site data protection services utilizing its own data center in North America and additional sites in Europe.

Available now, EFI is offering new online back-up, storage and data recovery options for Print MIS and web-to-print customers, to ensure protection, redundancy and speedy recovery in case of disaster. Operations are monitored continuously and customers are notified immediately of conditions that could impact service.

‘EFI has been a pioneer in cloud-based services with active customers since 2000. We are the largest managed services provider for print providers, with thousands of locations and millions of users accessing the cloud,’ said Ghilad Dziesietnik, chief technology officer of EFI. ‘Software in the cloud offers numerous benefits, most notably reduced maintenance costs for users, 24/7 care and management by a team of experts, anywhere access to information, redundancy, back-up and highly secure data. Our new remote data protection services provide many of these advantages for clients that wish to host their own applications.’

EFI’s current cloud-based software offerings include EFI Pace and EFI PrintSmith Vision management systems, the EFI Digital StoreFront web-to-print platform, and the new EFI Fiery Dashboard business information service. Unlike some applications on the market that are designed as client-server products, EFI applications were designed from the ground up to run in a browser; their performance and reliability have been fine-tuned over the years to work optimally in a cloud-based deployment.

EFI cloud offerings enable customers to utilize powerful, web-based tools without investing in any hardware or dedicated IT personnel on site. The system is continuously available to administrators, print operations personnel and print requestors via the internet, without any need for local software other than a browser.

‘The cloud is not only ideal for hosting services, but also for providing other critical capabilities such as disaster recovery,’ said Greg Carter, director of EFI cloud services. ‘With their data safely stored off-site with EFI, customers are more prepared than they could be on their own. Our capacity and expertise ensure a timely recovery at a moment that is trying and critical for any organization.’

Customer data are transferred automatically every day using secure protocols to allow a full recovery into EFI’s cloud which uses the latest border security, access control techniques, active virus filtering and centralized monitoring.

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