Introduces a promotion for its CDP Starter Pack; an alternative for businesses looking to get started with the data protection solution.

R1Soft, a developer of Continuous Data Protection, today announced an end-of-year special promotion for its CDP Starter Pack, a solution for businesses looking to get started with the data protection solution.

The company avers that the CDP Starter Pack includes a collection of the core components of Continuous Data Protection. Customers receive 3 CDP Agents; the CDP for MySQL add-on; the CDP Server; the CDP Archive add-on ; the Service Provider API for provisioning; and 1 year of software support and maintenance.

It explains that CDP offers the ability minimize time periods between restore points, helping to prevent significant data loss in the event of a disaster. With true Bare Metal Restore, entire servers can be restored from a single disk backup without the need to first install the operating system. The company adds that its recently released CDP Server 2.0 also introduces the ability to back up open files and more easily manage both Windows and Linux servers through a single management interface.

"The CDP Starter Pack provides our new customers with a cross-section of the very best CDP technology has to offer," said David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies, Inc. "By offering this product at a discount of almost half, we are making our technology available to an even wider base of prospective customers."