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Featured on TruthinIT: StorageCraft at VMworld 2019
At VMworld 2019, TruthinIT speaks to Douglas Brockett, president, about StorageCraft and the ways it helps protect against ransomware.
Watch now: StorageCraft at VMworld 2019READ MORE
Featured in MicroScope: Summer the Ideal Time to Talk about Data Protection Plans
MicroScope quoted Florian Malecki, international product marketing senior director, in this article about taking advantage of the summer slowdown to check data protection plans.
"'The quieter weeks over summer are an opportunity for channel partners to engage with customers when everyone has a little more time than usual. As well as investing time in building relationships, the time can be used to review back up and recovery deployments and most importantly, to test them."READ MORE
CRN Top 100 Channel Executives - 2019
CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named StorageCraft executives Matt Medeiros, chairman and CEO, and Douglas Brockett, president, to its 2019 list of Top 100 Executives. CRN named Medeiros to its 25 Most Influential Executives list and Brockett to its Top 25 Enterprise IT Innovators list.READ MORE
Solutions Review's Coolest Chief Executives in Enterprise Data Storage
Solutions Review listed StorageCraft CEO Matt Medeiros as one of 12 "coolest chief executives in enterprise data storage."
"Solutions Review has compiled this list of the 12 coolest chief executives in enterprise data storage CEOs based on a number of factors, including the company's market share, growth trajectory and the impact each individual has had on its presence in what is becoming an incredibly competitive global software market."READ MORE
Solutions Review's Best Enterprise Data Storage Companies - 2019
Solutions Review named StorageCraft one of the best enterprise data storage companies for 2019.READ MORE
FeaturedCustomers Rising Star Customer Success Award - 2019
FeaturedCustomers named StorageCraft a Rising Star in the Disaster Recovery Software category in its Summer 2019 Customer Success Report.READ MORE
Storries XVI Award Winner 'Capacity Storage Vendor' from Storage Magazine - 2019
StorageCraft won the 2019 Storries XVI Storage Award for Capacity Storage Vendor. Additionally, ShadowProtect was runner-up in the Cloud Backup & DR Hybrid Platform of the Year category, and StorageCraft along with National Concert Hall were runners-up for the Storage Solution of the Year – Case Studies.READ MORE
Channel Partner Insight European MSP Innovation Awards 2019
At its inaugural award ceremony in London, Channel Partner Insight awarded StorageCraft the Best Managed Services Partner Programme award.
The European MSP Innovation Awards honor vendors, distributors, and MSPs across Europe who are leading the way in managed services and winning at a time of unprecedented disruption and change in the channel.
Reviewed on ITPro: OneXafe 4417
ITPro gave the OneXafe 4417 a five-star review.
"During testing, we were impressed with how simple StorageCraft's OneXafe and OneSystem solutions are to deploy and use. Along with high levels of redundancy, its ring architecture allows capacity to be scaled with consummate ease, the Converged option delivers a unified backup and recovery environment and it's priced right for mid-sized businesses."READ MORE
CRN Women of the Channel Power 100 - 2019
Jeannine Edwards was named to CRN's Power 100 list, an elite subset of its prestigious Women of the Channel list, thanks to her contributions to the channel.
"The Power 100 belong to an exclusive group of the overall list: women whose leadership and vision are key drivers of their companies' success and have had significant influence to move the entire IT channel forward.READ MORE
CRN Women of the Channel - 2019
"CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Jeannine Edwards, senior director of channel marketing, and Olivia Donnell, EMEA channel director, to its prestigious 2019 Women of the Channel list.READ MORE
Reviewed on Simply.Reviews: OneXafe 4417
"Mid-sized businesses faced with a combination of rapid data growth, increasing backup demands and shrinking IT budgets could find StorageCraft has the answer. Its OneXafe appliances are designed to offer a converged scale-out storage and data protection platform for physical and virtual environments at a more affordable price than costly enterprise solutions.READ MORE
Network Computing Award - 2019
The Network Computing Awards recognize the companies and solutions that help keep networks running effectively. Solutions with the most votes from IT staff in the UK and elsewhere win in each category.
OneXafe was voted Best Storage Product of the Year.READ MORE
Featured in Solutions Review: Sitting Down with Douglas Brockett of StorageCraft
Solutions Review spoke on camera to Douglas Brockett, StorageCraft's president, about the challenges and opportunities with regards to data protection and why data protection is so important.
Watch the video: Solutions Review Sits down with Douglas Brockett of StorageCraftREAD MORE
Featured in Storage Insider: What Do Data Breaches Really Cost?
International product marketing senior director Florian Malecki writes about data breach costs to companies in this German publication.READ MORE
CRN Partner Program Guide, 5-Star Award - 2019
"CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, gave StorageCraft a 5-Star rating in its 2019 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide identifies the strongest and most successful partner programs in the channel today, ones offered by the top technology suppliers for IT products and services. The 5-Star rating recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs."READ MORE
Featured in Dataversity: Next Generation Data Storage at Petabyte Scales
"'Seven years ago, the petabyte was pretty much the exclusive realm of very, very, very, large enterprises, like Citibank or Boeing,' said Shridar Subramanian, VP Product and Marketing at StorageCraft, but petabyte-sized data sets are now becoming more common with smaller companies. Over time, more companies in the mid-sized enterprise space, and more importantly, companies in the small and mid-sized business segment, are getting inundated with these petabyte-sized data sets.READ MORE
Reviewed in Storage Magazine: OneXafe 4417
"StorageCraft's OneXafe appliances target mid-sized businesses that want to get their data backup and storage houses in order. They go way beyond the capabilities of typical legacy backup appliances by offering a converged scale-out storage and data protection platform for both physical and virtual environments.READ MORE
Featured in Building Better Healthcare: StorageCraft Protects Healthcare Organisations
This article featured StorageCraft for Healthcare and quoted a StorageCraft partner on the solution.
Jamie Hissitt, technology consultant at Air-IT, said:
"Our healthcare customers cannot tolerate compromise between modernising the patient experience and delivering the best-possible care.
"As such, their data management solutions have to cost-effectively enable digital workflows that simplify, accelerate and improve the care continuum; all within a completely-protected environment that doesn't get in the way of patient care.READ MORE
BIG Innovation Award - 2019
The Business Intelligence Group named 74 companies as leaders and winners of the 2019 BIG Innovation Awards. This annual business awards program recognizes the organizations, products, and people that are bringing new ideas to life. Among those recognized is StorageCraft OneXafe.READ MORE
Featured in Storage Consortium: StorageCraft Delivers Healthcare Data Protection Solution
StorageCraft's data protection solution for healthcare organizations is featured in this German-language publication.
Damit sich Organisationen im Gesundheitswesen gegen die drei wesentlichen Bedrohungen – steigende Datenhaltungskosten, Systemausfallzeiten und Verlust der Datenintegrität – schützen können, stellt StorageCraft nach eigenen Angaben jetzt mit StorageCraft for Healthcare eine konvergente Scale-Out-Primär- und Sekundärdatenplattform mit integriertem Datenschutz zur Verfügung.READ MORE
Featured in Healthcare IT News: Medical Records Get Hacked
StorageCraft Asia-Pacific Head of Sales Marina Brook was quoted in this article about a ransomware attack on a hospital in Melbourne:
"The ransomware attack on the Melbourne Heart Group reinforces the importance of ensuring that data is stored securely and, equally important, is able to be restored within the shortest time possible, to prevent compromising quality of care for patients," she said.READ MORE
Featured in Channel Futures: StorageCraft Announces New Healthcare-Focused Solution
Channel Futures discusses StorageCraft's data solution for healthcare organizations.
It's no secret that health care organizations are drowning in the endless and ever-increasing tide of data these days, and fighting against the rising threats of data costs, system downtimes and loss of data integrity. This is due in part to the use of standardized electronic health records and medical imaging. ...READ MORE
Featured in ChannelProNetwork: StorageCraft Introduces Healthcare Data Solution
ChannelProNetwork featured StorageCraft's new healthcare data solution.READ MORE
Featured in Channele2e: Channel Partner Updates for February 2019
StorageCraft's data protection solution for healthcare received mention in Channele2e's daily updates.
"StorageCraft has introduced StorageCraft for Healthcare, a converged scale-out primary and secondary data platform with integrated data protection. A complete OneXafe converged scale-out data protection solution, optimized for mid-sized healthcare organizations, begins at $63,248 for 120TB."READ MORE
Featured in Small Business Trends: What is a Business Continuity Plan?
In Small Business Trends' article explaining what a business continuity plan is, StorageCraft is mentioned as a software provider.
"There are numerous tools and software applications businesses can use to assist crafting and maintaining a business continuity plan. Tools range from consultants to single task tools to full software programs. ...READ MORE
CRN Channel Chiefs - 2019
"CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Lee Schor, vice president of sales – Americas at StorageCraft, a 2019 Channel Chief. For the second consecutive time, Lee was chosen by the CRN editors for inclusion in the Channel Chiefs Most Influential list.READ MORE
CRN 100 Coolest Cloud Vendors - 2019
CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, named StorageCraft to its 100 Coolest Cloud Companies of 2019 list. StorageCraft made the "20 coolest vendors in the cloud storage space" category.READ MORE
Featured in TechRadar Pro: Best Cloud Storage of 2019
In this article featuring the best cloud providers for consumers or businesses, international product marketing senior director Florian Malecki gives his thoughts on how to choose a cloud storage service:
"Organisations are often unclear about the best way to keep their files and systems safe, but there are plenty of preventative measures that can be taken to avoid the costly risk of downtime. Arguably the most important factor is backing up and recovering data quickly and efficiently. That is where cloud storage comes in."READ MORE
Featured in Storage Insider: Why SMEs are Struggling with IT Outages
International product marketing senior director Florian Malecki comments on IT infrastructure solutions for SMEs in this German publication.
Laut der Aberdeen Group betragen die Kosten für Ausfallzeiten heute durchschnittlich 260.000 US-Dollar pro Stunde – Ausgaben, die für ein mittelständisches Unternehmen untragbar sind. Aber es gibt dennoch Lösungsansätze. Hier sind drei Möglichkeiten, die mittelständischen Unternehmen helfen, dieses Problem zu lösen.READ MORE
Featured in Technology Reseller: Storage as a Service
International product marketing senior director Florian Malecki explains how storage as a service can give managed service providers a competitive edge:
"SMEs have reached a point where it becomes extremely challenging and expensive for them to deal with information overload. They need assistance and they need the right solution, which is where MSPs can help by providing a robust, scalable STaaS offering."READ MORE
Featured in MicroScope: MSPs Can Tap into Booming Demand
StorageCraft's senior director of product marketing Florian Malecki speaks to MicroScope about managed service providers' opportunity to provide storage to small and medium-sized enterprises.READ MORE
Featured in Datanami: Big Data Prognostications for 2019
"Datanami has opened the floor to industry prognosticators from across the big data, analytics, and IT industries. Let's hear what they have to say. ...
"Big data means big storage requirements, even for small companies in 2019, according to Douglas Brockett, president of StorageCraft. ... Mid-sized organizations in particular will find their IT architectures simply can't scale with their data growth."READ MORE
Featured in ChannelProNetwork: The Year Ahead in Managed Services
ChannelProNetwork featured Douglas Brockett, president of StorageCraft, in its roundup of vendor predictions for 2019.
"Petabyte-sized storage is about to become everyone's problem, according to Douglas Brockett, president of StorageCraft Technology Corp.
"'What used to be an anomaly, will start to become the norm for SMBs and mid-size organizations,' he predicts in an emailed analysis. 'Mid-sized organizations in particular will find their IT architectures simply can't scale with their data growth.'"READ MORE
Featured in Storage Newsletter: 2019 IT Trends
This article features StorageCraft president Douglas Brockett's predictions for 2019.
"Petabyte-size data management used to be a challenge only large enterprises would face. With data growing ten-fold—according to IDC—the petabyte era will start barreling down on mid-sized organizations too. What used to be an anomaly, will start to become the norm for SMBs and mid-size organizations."
Continue reading: 2019 IT Trend StoryREAD MORE
Featured in Solutions Review: Data Storage Predictions for 2019
Solutions Review spoke with Douglas Brockett, President of StorageCraft, about his data storage predictions for 2019.
"Silos will buckle due to volumes of data so large that they cannot be supported. However, without the collapse of silos, IT infrastructures themselves will fail because of aggressive data growth. As a result of this change, the popularity of converged storage and infrastructure will likely increase."READ MORE
Featured in Intelligent Tech Channels: Storing and Managing Data Intelligently
Intelligent Tech Channels spoke with Matt Medeiros, CEO and Chairman of StorageCraft, about the challenges around data storage and how the company works with channel partners for mutual success.
"Globally, the single biggest challenge I hear from our customers and partners around the world is when they look at data growth and compare that to their storage or IT budget, the two don't come close."READ MORE
Featured in Intelligent CIO Europe: Storing and Managing Data Intelligently
Intelligent CIO spoke to CEO Matt Medeiros about GDPR, data management and storage, and StorageCraft's solutions.
Globally, the single biggest challenge I hear from our customers and partners ... is when they look at data growth and compare that to their storage or IT budget, the two don't come close. ... This is exactly where StorageCraft can have a strong level of differentiation.
Continue reading: Storing and Managing Data Intelligently with StorageCraft's Innovative ProductsREAD MORE
ChannelPro SMB All-Star award - 2018
ChannelPro Network named StorageCraft a 2018 ChannelPro SMB All-Star. The only awards program of its kind in the channel, the ChannelPro SMB All-Stars represent a select group of hardware, software, and service vendors whose products, programs, and initiatives have made a significant impact on the SMB channel during the editorial calendar year.READ MORE
CRN ARC Award - 2018
StorageCraft is the winner in two Data Protection Software subcategories of the CRN® 2018 Annual Report Card (ARC) awards program: 1) Partnership and 2) Managed and Cloud Services. The Annual Report Card summarizes results from a comprehensive survey that details solution-provider satisfaction.READ MORE
Featured in ChannelProNetwork: Affordable Storage Solution for Education Customers
The article highlights StorageCraft's storage solution for education customers. StorageCraft's Shridar Subramanian speaks about the problem schools have regarding data storage and protection:
"Most classes these days are conducted with videos," notes Shridar Subramanian, vice president for marketing and product management at StorageCraft. Stowing all of that content, he continues, quickly exhausts the legacy storage systems most education clients rely on.READ MORE
Readers' Choice Award, ChannelPro Network - 2018
StorageCraft wins bronze in the "Best Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery" category.
"StorageCraft replaces Carbonite at the bronze spot in this category and Veeam advances to silver. Datto, unsurprisingly, cruises to yet another gold."
Storries XV Award Winner 'Capacity Storage Vendor' from Storage Magazine - 2018
Once again, readers of Storage Magazine voted on outstanding products, services, and people. StorageCraft walked away from this year's Storage Awards dinner, hosted in London, with the 'Capacity Storage Vendor' award.
List of winners: The Storries XV, Storage AwardsREAD MORE
Contributed to Data Center Dynamics: the Trouble with Data Hoarding
Andy Zollo, vice president of sales, EMEA, penned this article about the problem of company data accumulation for DatacenterDynamics.
Data accumulation is now a problem for companies both large and small. Not long ago, 500 terabytes of data used to be solely concern for a Fortune 500 company. Today, it is a problem for a lot of small and midsize companies as well. ...READ MORE
Featured in Reseller News: Kiwi Channel Debates GDPR
This exclusive Reseller News Exchange, in association with Arrow ECS ANZ, ForeScout and StorageCraft, went on the road to debate the early implications of GDPR in New Zealand, extracting opportunities while evaluating challenges for the channel in the year ahead.
View photos and continue reading: Kiwi channel debates GDPR as Reseller News Exchange hits WellingtonREAD MORE
CRN Women of the Channel Power 100 - 2018
Janet O'Sullivan was named to CRN's Power 100 list, thanks to her innovative initiatives and outstanding channel performance.READ MORE
CRN Women of the Channel - 2018
Janet O'Sullivan, channel marketing manager, Marina Brook, head of sales (APAC) and Olivia Donnell, EMEA business development director, were named to CRN's prestigious 2018 Women of the Channel list.READ MORE
Featured in GDN Online: StorageCraft Sales Manager for Middle East, India
"U.S.-based StorageCraft, a premier backup and disaster recovery software company, has announced its regional expansion plans with the appointment of Sayed Shamshuddin as the new regional sales manager for the Middle East and India.
Shamshuddin, an industry veteran, with his deep technology experience and over a decade of experience in business development, will help build strong sales channel structures and relationships with medium to large enterprise businesses across all verticals, said a statement from the company."READ MORE
Featured on iHLS: New Storage Solution to Help Police
StorageCraft has developed a new storage solution for this sector. The StorageCraft for Law Enforcement solution is aimed specifically at law enforcement and more specifically it gives them a simple and scalable storage solution for body-worn cameras (or body cams). The technology can help law enforcement keep costs down associated with data storage.
Continue Reading: New Storage Solution to Help Police Cope with Body Cam Data.READ MORE
Featured on Security InfoWatch: Law enforcement's growing need for video storage
Although some of the more traditional enterprise-type video storage products would give law enforcement agencies the increased capacity they need, most of them simply do not have budget for these solutions which cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. Enter StorageCraft, which has created a new storage solution, "StorageCraft for Law Enforcement," which is tailored to meet the growing storage needs of police and sheriffs' departments at a more budget-friendly price point.READ MORE
Featured in Officer.com: Solving Data Management for Body Cams
As agencies increasingly deploy body-worn cameras (BWCs) and dash cams to better protect and serve their communities, they encounter a significant obstacle: the high cost, complexity and compliance of storing video surveillance footage.READ MORE
Mentioned on CHANNELe2e: Channel Partner Updates, First Responders
In a list comprised of 11 channel partner updates, StorageCraft was listed under number seven, First Responders.
StorageCraft has launched StorageCraft for Law Enforcement, which allows police departments and other law enforcement organizations to effectively manage video recordings and associated storage. The offering is particularly timely, considering the growing use of body cams throughout the law enforcement sector.READ MORE
Featured on Sci-Tech Today: Body-Cam Data Fix
StorageCraft Helps Law Enforcement Solve Data Management Challenges of Body Cam and Static Surveillance -- StorageCraft for Law Enforcement Provides Highly Cost-Effective, Simple and Scalable Storage Solution.READ MORE
Featured in Storage Review: StorageCraft for Law Enforcement
Today StorageCraft announced its new storage solution, StorageCraft for Law Enforcement. As the name implies, the solution is aimed specifically at law enforcement and more specifically it gives them a simple and scalable storage solution for body-worn cameras (or body cams). The new solution not only makes storage simple and scalable, it can help law enforcement keep costs down associated with data storage.READ MORE
Featured in Channel Buzz.ca: StorageCraft targets law enforcement market
The demand for body-worn cameras in U.S. law enforcement has risen dramatically. So has the cost of storing the video surveillance footage that they generate. Accordingly.READ MORE
Featured in Channel Partners: MSPs Prosper from DRaaS
Shridar Subramanian, StorageCraft's vice president of marketing and product management, tells Channel Partners that partners who are concerned about protecting their customers' data, not just in the data center but also in the cloud, are opting to offer DRaaS.READ MORE
Featured on TechTarget: StorageCraft Survey: Cloud Services Boost Customer Retention
That's one takeaway from StorageCraft's newly released channel partner survey. The data protection vendor, which sells a disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering through its partners, surveyed 50 channel companies in the U.S. in February 2018. According to StorageCraft, 63% of the respondents reported improved customer retention as a result of adding cloud services to their portfolios.READ MORE
Featured in Cision PR Newswire: Big Gains for Channel Organizations Expanding into Cloud Services
A survey of U.S. channel organizations1 conducted by StorageCraft®quantifies the business benefits to channel organizations expanding into cloud services. The survey reveals increased per customer and quarterly revenue, expanded new customer acquisition, and improved customer retention as a direct result of adding cloud services to their portfolios.READ MORE
Featured on CHANNELe2e: Channel Partner Updates, Cloud Partner Momentum
In a list comprised of 10 channel partner updates, StorageCraft was listed under number three, Cloud Partner Momentum.READ MORE
Featured in ARN: Leading STC Partners Across A/NZ
StorageCraft has honoured its top performing partners across Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), recognising channel excellence following a strong year of growth.
Held at the Ivy Penthouse in Sydney, the awards acknowledged innovation across nine categories, spanning partners, distributors, alliance vendors and individuals.
"Congratulations to our partner winners following a strong year of growth across Australia and New Zealand," StorageCraft head of sales Asia Pacific, Marina Brook, told ARN.READ MORE
Featured on DOTmed.com: From HIPAA to Hyper-Converged
The struggle with data management, compliance and protection is reaching breaking point for many organizations. A recent independent survey by StorageCraft among IT Decision-Makers (ITDMs) showed that more than half of U.S. organizations are at risk from potentially disastrous data recovery practices.READ MORE
Contributed to Small Biz Daily: Implementing a DR Plan
Sean Derrington, a Senior Director of Product Management at StorageCraft, is responsible for all aspects of Product Management, Product Marketing, and Marketing. He wrote this article for Small Biz Daily on DR plans.READ MORE
Contributed to ChannelLife: Ways for MSPs to Sharpen their Business
Marina Brook, StorageCraft APAC sales head, wrote this article for ChannelLife outlining different ways MSPs can improve their business.
Now that A/NZ's holiday season is over, managed service providers (MSPs) will be considering areas in which they can improve. What did they do last year that made a big impact? What fell flat? What did they hope to achieve that they ultimately couldn't?
Decisions are most likely to include finding new clients and improving profits. But there are less obvious milestones that might lead to those larger goals?READ MORE
Featured on CRN: 2017 CRN Fast50 Finalists
StorageCraft was listed as No. 8 on CRN Fast50 Finalists' slideshow.READ MORE
CRN Channel Chiefs - 2018
Lee Schor, vice president of sales – Americas, has been named to CRN's prestigious list of 2018 Channel Chiefs for the second year in a row. In addition, CRN honored Schor as one of the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs.READ MORE
CRN 100 Coolest Cloud Vendors - 2018
CRN named StorageCraft to its list of the 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors of 2018.
"This annual lineup recognizes the most innovative cloud technology suppliers in each of five categories: infrastructure, platforms and development, security, storage, and software. ...READ MORE
Featured on ChannelPro: StorageCraft Grows Partner Program
BEEN BUSY LATELY? If so, you have that in common with StorageCraft Technology Corp. The Draper, Utah-based data protection vendor has had a lot going on the last couple of years
According to Marvin Blough, StorageCraft's vice president of worldwide sales and one of the earliest additions to Medeiros' leadership team, the company came out of all those moves with a continuity portfolio equipped to safeguard data on desktops, servers, and virtual machines running both Windows and Linux, either on-site or in the cloud.READ MORE
Featured on ARN: Servicing a Ransomware-Hit Market
Security, or a distinct lack of, continues to break the world's most iconic organisations - think Target, Sony or Home Depot - creating sensationalism and media headlines in the process.
"Each business is different but they are also the same," StorageCraft vice president of worldwide sales Marvin Blough observed. "The data is different and that is especially applicable for small and medium sized businesses [SMBs] because the owners just want to run the company and not worry about IT.READ MORE
Featured on ARN: How Partners Can Service a Ransomware-Hit Market
"With the media spotlight shining on a bruising Equifax breach, and Yahoo continuing to count the costs of a three billion user hack, security concerns are surfacing. As ransomware attacks rise at an alarming rate, customers across Australia are on edge, under pressure and threatened, passing such pressures onto partners as a result. In operating as first responders on the front line, the onus is on the channel to adopt a services-focused approach, designed to combat cloud concerns while complementing disaster recovery and back-up strategies.READ MORE
Featured on CRN: StorageCraft Resellers Socialise in Sydney
More than 100 StorageCraft channel partners gathered at Cafe Del Mar in Sydney for the backup vendor's pre-Christmas party in late October.
See the photos: StorageCraft resellers socialise in Sydney for pre-Christmas partyREAD MORE
Featured on Dataversity: Majority of U.S. Businesses at Risk
Dataversity shared our recent press release regarding sub-par data protection practices.
"An independent survey of U.S. IT decision makers (ITDMs) conducted by StorageCraft®, a leading data management and protection company, reveals that many organizations lack confidence in their current data recovery implementation. The survey also uncovered an alarming number of businesses unable to increase the frequency of data backup due to the scale of data growth and limitations in their backup infrastructure."READ MORE
Featured on Enterprise Storage Forum: Half of U.S. Businesses Bungle Their Backups
"Approximately half of all American businesses will have a tough time getting their data back after an unplanned outage and other mishaps, suggests a new survey from data protection specialist StorageCraft. ...
The StorageCraft study reveals that this critical safety net is looking a little tattered at many companies. More than half (51 percent) of the 510 U.S.-based IT decision makers surveyed by the firm said they had doubts about their ability to recover data immediately following a disaster or failure."READ MORE
Featured on Channel Partners: Businesses Struggling with Data Backup, Recovery
Many businesses lack confidence in their current data-recovery implementation, and an alarming number of them are unable to increase the frequency of data backup due to the size of data growth and limitations in their backup infrastructure.
That's according to a new survey of more than 500 U.S. IT decision makers conducted by StorageCraft, the data backup and disaster-recovery provider. ...READ MORE
Featured on eSecurity Planet: Flood of Attacks
A recent survey commissioned by StorageCraft is cited in this article about ransomware.
Sophos researchers warn that cybercriminals are using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to spread ransomware. ...READ MORE
Reviewed on Windowsreport: Five Best Backup Software for Windows 10
With digital content becoming crucial for business and also for personal assets including videos, photos, and music, it's obvious that protecting everything with backup software has become more important than ever. ...
StorageCraft ShadowProtect 5 Desktop is one of the best backup software out there due to its speed, reliability and full protection. All this tool's functions are centered on creating and using disk-images files that contain a complete snapshot of a partition from your disk.READ MORE
Featured on Redmond Channel Partner: Data Recovery Uncertainty and Channel Opportunity
Redmond Channel Partner featured statistics from a survey that StorageCraft commissioned.
In an interview, about the results, Douglas Brockett, president of Draper, Utah-based StorageCraft, said the sense of uncertainty among U.S. customers points to opportunities for the channel.
Continue reading: New Survey Points to Data Recovery Uncertainty, Channel OpportunityREAD MORE
Featured in Storage Magazine: Unalaska City School District Uses StorageCraft OneBlox
Storage Magazine featured a case study about Unalaska City School District (UCSD). The remote school district, located in the Aleutian Chain, selected StorageCraft OneBlox for its data storage needs because of its scale-out architecture, innovative data protection features, and affordability.READ MORE
Featured on ChannelLife: Data Storage Lifespans
Marina Brook, StorageCraft's Head of Sales in APAC, wrote about data storage options, old and new, and their typical lifespans:
"Lifespan depends on everything from environmental factors to usage rates to component quality and manufacturing, so the figures here are very general guidelines. The only true way to protect data is to have multiple copies of everything, and the best way to do that is to invest in a good backup and recovery solution."READ MORE
Featured on TradeArabia: StorageCraft Launches Scale-Out Storage
StorageCraft announced the Middle East launch of the OneBlox object-based storage appliance, which solves issues such as complex installation, cumbersome management, limited capacity, and forklift upgrades.
"After the successful integration of Exablox earlier this year, StorageCraft is laser-focused on helping businesses analyze, protect, and store their data. The company features a new approach that recognizes the disappearing lines between primary and secondary storage and combines data backup, availability, and data protection.READ MORE
Featured on ChannelLife: Top Five Ways Data is Lost in the Cloud
Marina Brook, StorageCraft's Head of Sales in APAC, wrote on the topic of backup and recovery of SaaS data for ChannelLife and ITBrief:
"A common assumption is that if data is deleted, 'well, it's in the cloud, so it must be backed up, right?' Wrong.
"An industry study a few years back showed that the risk of data loss is very real, even if a cloud infrastructure service sends the data offsite. In fact, 32% of companies using SaaS services reported data loss in an Aberdeen report.READ MORE
Featured on ChannelLife: How Hybrid Cloud Improves Disaster Recovery
Marina Brook, StorageCraft's Head of Sales in APAC, wrote about hybrid cloud architecture and the benefits for DR:
"According to an IDG Research survey, 56% of the enterprise IT executives polled said that a hybrid cloud architecture improves their disaster recovery capabilities. Hybrid clouds offer the best-of-breed of both private and public cloud architectures, while allowing IT to leverage their existing investments and maintain control.READ MORE
Featured on Channel Partners: 10 Tasty Insights from SpiceWorld
Channel Partners shared 10 insights from the recent Spiceworks SpiceWorld event, including StorageCraft's new $100K guarantee and the StorageCraft Cloud's 99.999 percent uptime.
Read the article: 10 Tasty Insights from Spiceworks SpiceWorldREAD MORE
Featured on ChannelLife NZ: Four New Vendors Added as Dicker Data Ramps Up Portfolio
Dicker Data New Zealand welcomes four new brands, including StorageCraft.
"Lisa Tierney, Dicker Data New Zealand general manager of enterprise, says the addition of the StorageCraft portfolio will allow the distributor's resellers to sell backup, recovery and storage solutions.
"'StorageCraft already complements a number of vendors within the Dicker Data portfolio and we look forward to working closely with the reseller community on educating and enabling the channel,' Tierney says."READ MORE
Featured on Reseller News: Dicker Data Adds Four New Vendors in NZ
Dicker Data has been appointed as distributor for four new vendors in New Zealand, including StorageCraft. Dicker Data will distribute the full range of StorageCraft solutions, including all software and cloud products and the OneBlox scale-out storage appliances.
"Our business enjoys significant success with Dicker Data in Australia," Marina Brook, APAC Head of Sales for StorageCraft, told Reseller News. 'Our companies want to further build on this and strengthen and expand our existing partnership.'"READ MORE
Featured in an RCPP: OXEN Technology Grows with StorageCraft
Redmond Channel Partner did a Q&A with OXEN Technology, a service provider in Iowa who uses StorageCraft solutions.
RCP: What questions do your clients ask regarding security, especially for data?READ MORE
Featured on ARN: Partners Keep Critical Information Safe in Healthcare
ARN spoke to StorageCraft about how IT service providers can help healthcare providers' keep critical information safe.
"Threats to data such as ransomware, human error, or a flood or fire can strike any organisation and, without proper backups, businesses are struggling to get the affected data back.
"In healthcare there is a legal requirement; however, that does not mean data protection is performed well," StorageCraft director of technical services for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) Jack Alsop said.READ MORE
Featured on CDN: StorageCraft Makes $100K Guarantee
Computer Dealer News covered the fact that StorageCraft now offers a $100K guarantee to platinum-level partners.
"StorageCraft plans to guarantee the recovery of virtual or physical machines, either on-premises or in the cloud. And, the are going to put a large amount of cash behind that guarantee."
CDN also mentioned StorageCraft's demos at VMworld.READ MORE
Featured on MSPmentor: Delivering Managed IT Services During a Catastrophe
StorageCraft partner Elevated Technologies was in MSPmentor on Aug. 28, 2017; the founder spoke about preparing clients for Hurricane Harvey and using StorageCraft.
"It's being called a 500-year storm and Houston, Texas-based Elevated Technologies finds itself smack in the middle of it.
"As early as the middle of last week, the managed services provider (MSP) began reaching out to clients, preparing the organizations as much as humanly possible for the fury of Hurricane Harvey.READ MORE
Featured on ChannelLife: MSP Reaps Benefits from Move to StorageCraft
"Sydney managed service provider Netcare says it has slashed the time it takes monitoring and maintaining backups after moving to StorageCraft.
"The company, which has more than 100 customers, moved to StorageCraft after it acquired a competitor who utilised StorageCraft's backup and recovery technology."
Continue reading: MSP NetCare reaps benefits from move to new backup vendorREAD MORE
Featured on IT Brief: Aussie IT company deploys StorageCraft Technology
"When Michael White and Matthew Dean founded their company IntegrateIT Australia in 2012, they were motivated by the number of IT providers in the region that were sales driven rather than customer-driven.
"Based in Queensland and Northern New South Wales, Dean and White are determined to provide personalised customer service that underpins IntegrateIT's services and solutions.READ MORE
Featured on Dicker Data Channel: StorageCraft Talks about OneBlox
Watch Dicker Data's exclusive interview with StorageCraft Sales Director Leo Lynch during Dicker Data's TechX Melbourne 2017.
Lynch explains where StorageCraft fits in the market with its new OneBlox solutions and how StorageCraft can help your business grow.READ MORE
Featured on DSA: Object Storage, an Interview with StorageCraft
Data&StorageAsean interviewed StorageCraft about object storage: what it is, major use cases, and key features to look for.
Data&StorageAsean: Should object storage be on premises or in the cloud?READ MORE
CRN Top 100 Channel Executives - 2017
"CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named StorageCraft Chairman and CEO, Matt Medeiros, to its 2017 list of Top 100 Executives for the second year in a row.READ MORE
CRN ARC Award - 2017
StorageCraft is the winner in the Data Protection Software category of the CRN® 2017 Annual Report Card (ARC) awards program. The Annual Report Card summarizes results from a comprehensive survey that details solution provider satisfaction.
StorageCraft swept the category, meaning it received the highest marks in each of the three criteria used to determine the category winner: partnership, product innovation, and support.READ MORE
Featured on This Week in Enterprise Tech - Episode 246
Ramesh Balan, vice president of engineering of Exablox, was featured on the podcast This Week in Enterprise Tech on June 30, 2017. Exablox was recently acquired by StorageCraft, and during this podcast, Balan shared why he thinks you shouldn't need a Ph.D. in storage to handle the explosion in data quantity.READ MORE
Storries XIV Award Winner of 'One to Watch - Vendor' from Storage Magazine
StorageCraft's Exablox not only won the 2017 Storries XIV Storage Award for 'One to Watch - Vendor' but also took runner-up in the 'Best Newcomer' category at the ceremony held in London.
"We are thrilled to win this prestigious award," said Andy Zollo, vice president of sales for EMEA at StorageCraft. "It underscores the market's validation of our Exablox offerings and our pay-as-you-grow scale-out NAS storage solution."
The full list can be found at www.storage-awards.com.
StorageCraft Wins Big at 2017 Storage AwardsREAD MORE
5 Stars in the CRN Partner Program Guide - 2017
StorageCraft's Partner Program has achieved a "5 Star" rating in The Channel Company's partner program guide, for the fourth year in a row. This annual guide is the definitive listing of partner programs from technology vendors.READ MORE
Editor's Choice Award, Redmond Channel Partner - 2017
StorageCraft received Redmond Channel Partner Editor's Choice Award 2017 for best Storage Software. "In this second-annual listing, Redmond Channel Partner editors scanned the field for those products, services and programs that present the greatest opportunities for Microsoft channel partners," said Scott Bekker, editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner.READ MORE
'Best of VMworld 2016' Gold Award Winner, Data Protection - 2016
"The intelligent recovery capability of StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® SPX was named a 'Best of VMworld 2016' Gold Award Winner in the Data Protection category. This award is the strongest recognition to date for the product and is the latest in a continuing list of accolades in 2016.READ MORE
CRN Top 100 Executives - 2016
"CEO, Matt Medeiros, has received the number one position in CRN's Top Innovator category. Published as part of CRN's Top 100 Executives Of 2016 list, the 25 Most Innovative Executives are 'those who recognize today's biggest business challenges and find the most creative ways to solve them.'"READ MORE
Utah Fast 50 - 2016
"StorageCraft Technology Corp., announced today that it has been named to Utah Business magazine's Fast 50 list. This year's placement at No. 33 marks the sixth-consecutive year that StorageCraft has been honored for its growth."
StorageCraft continues success; recognized as one of Utah's fastest growing companies for 6th-straight yearREAD MORE
CRN Women of the Channel Power 100 - 2016
"CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Channel Marketing Manager Jennifer Bodell to its list of the 2016 Power 100, an elite subset of its prestigious annual Women of the Channel list. This list identifies an exclusive group of channel influencers drawn from the larger pool of CRN's 2016 Women of the Channel: the most powerful women leaders across IT channel organizations whose expertise and vision have positioned their companies for success."READ MORE
Redmond Channel Partner Editor's Choice Award - 2016
"Redmond Channel Partner (RCP), has announced StorageCraft Technology Corp. the winner of its Editor's Choice Award for Best Storage Software. The RCP editorial staff selected the StorageCraft Recovery Solution because it met the criteria of being among 'the hottest, most interesting, most game-changing technologies and programs for the Microsoft channel in the last year.'"READ MORE
CRN 5-Star Rating Award - 2016
"CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has given the company a 5-Star rating in its 2016 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is the definitive listing of technology vendors that service solution providers or provide products through the IT channel. StorageCraft received the 5-Star Rating because of its highly regarded StorageCraft Partner Program."READ MORE
CRN Channel Chiefs, Most Influential - 2016
"CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Mike Kunz, senior vice president of operations, to its prestigious list of 2016 Channel Chiefs. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organizations through channel partners."
Mike Kunz of StorageCraft recognized as 2016 CRN Channel ChiefREAD MORE
Business Solutions Best Channel Vendor - 2016
"For the second consecutive year, Business Solutions magazine readers voted StorageCraft Technology Corporation as a Best Channel Vendor in the Business Continuity and Backup and Disaster Recovery category.READ MORE
100 Coolest Cloud Vendors - 2015
"CRN introduced the first annual 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors in 2010 with the aim of helping solution providers navigate the cloud market. ... While that goal hasn't changed over the past five years, the cloud market certainly has with offerings now coming in a multitude of shapes, sizes and flavors. ...READ MORE
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StorageCraft ShadowXafe Transforms Data Protection and Recovery with Radical Simplicity and ScaleRead More
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|Masters of Horror - Stuart Gordon - Dreams in the Witch House
|Tuesday, 28 March 2006
A group of friends, mostly horror writers and directors, have occasionally met for dinner here and there in Los Angeles. Somewhat in the spirit of "Hey, Judy's got the costumes, my uncle's got a barn, we can do the show right here!", Mick Garris, one of the group, proposed a series of made-for-TV hour-long horror dramas, each to be made by a name horror director.
The resulting series, "Masters of Horror," aired on Showtime and was popular enough that a second "Masters of Horror" season is now in production, and a "Masters of Sci-Fi" series is also in the works.
Anchor Bay is releasing the first series two episodes at a time. Each episode comes in its own cardboard sleeve, with the DVDs almost incredibly jammed with extras. Someone knew that horror movie buffs are among the most avid DVD collectors, and that they simply can't be told too much about their favorite movies. This extras-laden treatment is rare in general, and incredibly rare for individual episodes of a TV series. Watching all the extras takes considerably more time than the individual episodes; this may be too much of a good thing.
"Dreams in the Witch House"
Stuart Gordon is primarily known for his free adaptations of stories by H.P. Lovecraft, who's famous to those who know his work, a mystery to others. Gordon first made his mark with the vivid, gory "Re-Animator," from a Lovecraft story. He's occasionally returned to the writer again and again—and does so once more for his first "Masters of Horror" entry.
"Dreams in the Witch House" tells of Walter Gilman, a graduate student at Miskatonic University. Like most grad students, he has little money and rents a room in a seedy rooming house that's more than 300 years old. He befriends fellow roomer Frankie (Chelah Horsdal), a single mom with a baby son.
Walter is surprised to find that the walls of his room form a pattern very similar to those he's created on his desktop while working on an interpretation of string theory. He tells Frankie of "membranes" of existence, and that it might be possible to use geometry to find where they intersect, allowing travel between dimensions.
He begins having horrible dreams in the old house, dreams involving a frightening rat with a human face and an old witch who clearly wants something from him.
Gordon keeps things moving at a good clip, building suspense efficiently and smoothly, though he doesn't shy away from gallons of blood, when that's what the story requires.
However, there's something slight to this entry. It's very well made, and remarkably true to Lovecraft (his famous book, the Necronomicon, appears) though it is set in the present day. Performances are on the mark, especially the increasingly rattled Ezra Godden, who also appeared in Gordon's movie "Dagon."
Like all episodes of "Masters of Horror," "Dreams in the Witch House" was shot in just over a week.
The DVD has plentiful extras. Not only is there the fancy slip cover, but inside you'll find a Stuart Gordon Masters of Horror trading card. There are trailers for other episodes, a still gallery, a storyboard gallery, a remarkably thorough Stuart Gordon filmography, some DVD-ROM features, plus an overflowing handful of featurettes. There's "Dreams, Darkness and Damnation: An Interview with Stuart Gordon" that shows him to be a genial, intelligent who's clearly thought about all this. "Working with a Master: Stuart Gordon" consists of interviews with a variety of actors who've worked with Gordon, including Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton. "On Set: An Interview with Chelah Horsdal," is relatively trivial, as is the making-of for "Dreams in the Witch House." It has no narration—and sorely needs it. Oscar winning makeup effects artist Howard Gordon talks about the creation of "Brown Jenkin," the rat with the human face.
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Brian Chen over at the NY Times has an interesting post about prepaid phone plans, and how, on average, they're cheaper than the more common 2-year contract from AT&T, Sprint, Verizon or T-Mobile. But the catch is that you have to pay full price for a handset up front, which is almost always more expensive.
Is the immediate benefit of not having to pay full price for a smartphone worth the added cost in the end? [NY Times]


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The Courage to Be a Stepmom, by Sue Patton Thoele was a book recommended to me many years ago when I first started this blog. I will admit to buying it, and reading *some* of it. I never finished it, but what I did read was pure genius and offered me just the right amount of insight I needed to trudge through the feelings I was experiencing at the time - the feelings expressed in this post, which continues to get feedback and comments more than any other post...five years after it was first published.
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Vancouver: where the wild things are.
I knew that things were going to be different here in Canada. I knew I'd see things I'd not seen before, eat food I'd not heard of before and that most popular culture references would go merrily sailing over my head. I was, however, unprepared to be confronted with unfamiliar wildlife on my doorstep.
Recently, I took Freddie, my dog, out for his evening stroll around the block and saw something trotting towards us. At first I thought it was a cat and called out to it, then I saw its white 'bib' and swaying tail… Skunk! I knew that I should avoid it, I'd already heard dire warnings of the stink of skunk spray, but it was so damn cute! Sigh.. sensibly, Fred and I retreated to the road to watch Mr Skunk serenely trot past. I was completely excited. I couldn't believe I'd seen something so unusual – to me – right outside my house.
A few nights later, I walked past the rather swanky building at the end of my block which has a swimming pool. I heard something so, on tip-toes, looked through the railings to see what it was. In a scene that was straight out of Disney, three raccoons were frolicking on the cover of the pool in the shallow end. They were playing! Splashing each other with water, and rolling around. It was adorable. I stayed there, silently watching, a huge grin on my face, until Fred became impatient and woofed his annoyance. Busted! The raccoons froze, one stared at me, looking down its pointy nose with those beady eyes behind their 'bandit mask' and then scampered off into the bushes.
Just last weekend I took a drive out to Deep Cove, a beautiful spot; all rolling hills and calm clear water, just 30 minutes away from downtown Vancouver. You can kayak and hike there and they have the most amazing doughnuts at Honey's. As I was walking, I heard something singing. A bird? What? I looked up to the soaring green pine and saw it; not a bird, but something that looked like a squirrel. Perplexed, I tweeted to ask advice – and in yet another slice of Disney-come-to-life, it turns out it was a chipmunk.
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Three months ago, NCSE launched a national expansion of our Science Booster Club (SBC) program. Many of the new clubs have already started holding events, and more are scheduled through the spring and summer. We estimate that in just the first three months of operation, around 3,000 people have participated in SBC events held by volunteer-led clubs in California, West Virginia, Ohio, Texas, Nebraska, and Indiana. Events are also scheduled in Kentucky, Virginia, and Oklahoma.
I spent Saturday wet, cold, but exhilarated nonetheless, on the National Mall, with some 40,000 other participants in the March for Science. NCSE was one of the earliest partners of the march, and our logo was prominently displayed on the big stage. There were dozens of speakers with stories that spanned generations and disciplines. NCSE didn't have a speaking role, but I found myself wondering what I would have said if we did.
I'm sure everybody reading this is as excited as I am for another dose of scientific literacy data. You may remember our last data update, where we revealed the exciting news of significant improvement in scientific literacy in Cedar Rapids over a six month time period. Now we've collected data for a year and can show you some cool numbers not only from Cedar Rapids, but now also from Iowa City.
As reported last week by Glenn Branch, NCSE board member Ben Santer was on Late Night with Seth Meyers this past Wednesday. If you haven't watched it yet, please do so now—you won't regret it.
NCSE's annual raft trip down the Grand Canyon just returned, and Teacher Scholarship winner Crystal Davis offered to describe her experience on the river with us. Enjoy, and consider donating to the scholarship fund to support future trips like this.
Here at NCSE, we tend to frown on formal staged debates, especially about science itself. But in this political season, there's an exception to be made.
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Photographer Sends C&D To Something Awful Over Photo 'Shopped To Add A Butt To A Bird
from the this-should-be-low-key-and-uneventful dept
The internet is filled with meritless cease and desist letters. Some are simply obeyed because people see legal letterhead and panic. Others are fought more vigorously, much to the dismay of those sending the C&Ds, as the fallout is almost always completely negative.
Some C&Ds are just sent to the wrong people -- people whose primary plane of existence is the internet. These are the worst of all (for the senders). It's perhaps too much to ask that lawyers and their clients do a little research before firing off a cease and desist letter. But a little knowledge goes a long way. You may think you're just smacking down some clueless IP "thief," when in all reality, you're jabbing a stick into a hornet's nest, along with most of your arm.
Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka of Something Awful just received a C&D (posted below) from an IP law firm representing photographer Mia McPherson. Those of you familiar with Something Awful will be familiar with its feature, Photoshop Phriday, which is a weekly collection of themed image manipulations.
Those of you familiar with Something Awful's response to legal action will recall the utter destruction of cartoonist Donna Barstow, who claimed the site "stole" her cartoons. The cartoons in questions were posted in a forum dedicated to the commentary on political cartoons. As such, the posting of the cartoons is considered fair use. This didn't stop Barstow from wandering all over the internet digging holes for herself, making a lot of noise about copyright and theft, while ignoring the fair use aspects staring her directly in the face.
This promises to be no different. Even if Something Awful's case might be a little weaker than its joust with Donna Barstow, there's no indication that it will let this C&D slide by without extensive comment.
Here's the text of the C&D (also embedded below).
Dear Mr. Kyanka:First off, while Something Awful may be hosting the image, it was submitted by another user. This isn't quite the same as posting an image in the forums (where it's hosted by a third party service). Something Awful staff actually have to upload the image themselves to the website, which likely decreases any protections it might have under the DMCA's safe harbor provisions.
We represent Mia McPherson with respect to certain intellectual property matters. Ms. McPherson is a wildlife photographer located in the Salt Lake City area. Recently we viewed your website at http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/put-butts-things/4/ and were surprised to see one of Ms. McPherson's photographs in an article entitled Put Butts on Things! by Andrew "Garbage Day" Miller. Ms. McPherson's photograph had been altered to remove her copyright notice and a butt was placed over the red-tailed hawks face. A copy of infringing image is attached hereto. Also attached, is a copy of Ms. McPherson's photograph including the copyright notice.
Ms. McPherson is very selective as to those who are allowed to use her photographs and she has not approved of the use of any of her photographs on your website. The unauthorized use of our client's photographs constitutes copyright infringement pursuant to 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq. Pursuant to the Copyright Act, Ms. McPherson is entitled to damages for the infringement. Moreover, removal of her copyright notice is a violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1202.
To resolve this matter amicably, we must demand that you remove the infringing material 'from the website immediately. Additionally, we must also demand that you provide compensation to Ms. McPherson in the amount of $1,250.00 per infringing photograph, plus $2,500.00 as the statutory minimum for the removal of Ms. McPherson's copyright notice.
Additionally, we will require a written agreement wherein you agree not to copy any of her photographs in the future without her express written consent. Additionally, please consider this letter a demand for an evidentiary hold on all documents, whether in hard or electronic form relating to the above-referenced website and the use of Ms. McPherson's photographs. Any destruction of evidence after the date of this letter will be judicially pursued with a request for sanctions and all other remedies agreed to by the Court.
We look forward to your response within 10 days of the date of this letter. Should you wish to discuss this with me please contact me directly.
The removal of the image probably wouldn't have been a problem (although I imagine SA would still have fought that demand on principle), but the IP firm and the photographer are pursuing damages. One has to wonder how exactly a butt photoshopped onto a photo by someone else diminishes the market for the original, but that sort of questioning gets you nowhere. Fortunately, the law firm chose not to employ the exaggerated (and often, just plain wrong) verbiage Mia McPherson does when discussing infringement.
McPherson obviously has a problem with people "stealing" her photos. She has an entire section dedicated to copyright infringement at her studio's website. She also has a problem with anyone altering her photos. A long post dealing with a redditor who makes "animal mashups" for fun contains these sort of phrases. (Link to photo she's discussing here, which I had to pull from the page's coding itself -- right-click is disabled everywhere.)
Why did I feel punched in the gut? Look carefully at my Short-eared Owl image, notice any thing odd about the face? The quality of the background? I sat at my screen fuming because some person had taken MY image without my permission and digitally manipulated it. What this copyright infringer has done is illegally create what is called a "derivative work". This is what the U.S. Copyright Office has to say about derivative works:While Arne Olav (the redditor who created the animal mashup) definitely used McPherson's photo without permission, he made no claim to the copyright nor did he preemptively declare it a derivative work. As McPherson notes, he didn't even strip out her watermark.
"How much do I have to change in order to claim copyright in someone else's work?
Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work. Accordingly, you cannot claim copyright to another's work, no matter how much you change it, unless you have the owner's consent."
She then hunted down the original photo of the second animal combined with her photo of an owl (a baby tapir) and then makes this claim:
I won't post the actual photo here because… well that would be a VIOLATION of copyright laws.Well, except that it wouldn't. It would be used as part of her commentary on the "theft" of her photos and would be clearly utilized for illustrative purposes. She could have almost definitely used it, but she doesn't seem to recognize that fair use exists. Her photos' appearance anywhere else on the web is automatically assumed to be infringement (which she repeatedly calls "theft"). She continues:
Please bear in mind that Arne Olav flipped the image horizontally before he stole the head of the baby Tapir and mashed it up with my owl.Flipped the image??!! The horror… Somehow this is presented as being equally as wrong as using the image without permission.
It's a good thing McPherson has hired an IP law firm to represent her, as she seems a bit clueless as to how Reddit actually works. (Speaking of hornets' nests you wouldn't want to be elbow-deep in…)
I will eventually send DMCA Takedown Notifications to Reddit to have the image removed from Arne Olav's page there.Arne Olav's "page" is actually a subreddit and, like every image on Reddit, his mashups are actually hosted at third-party hosts like imgur. So, while she could send a DMCA to Reddit, to block the link, it seems like going to the actual host would make more sense, if she's really so offended by such a use, and so determined to ignore the existence of fair use.
Back to the case at hand. Something Awful has been doing Photoshop Phriday for years, with a minimum of complaints from rights holders. (It's not as though there haven't been any, but the number of legal threats it has faced pales in comparison to the number of photos used.) This doesn't necessarily mean there's no infringement going on (although many of the submissions would fall under fair use) but that most right holders are either unaware this is happening or understand that it doesn't have a deleterious effect on their ability to sell their creations.
McPherson, however, sees the internet as nothing more than a den of thieves. Her post also points out that she's taking action against Pinterest and hates that site as much as she does Tumblr. (She's got something against Google as well, unsurprisingly.) According to Chilling Effects, McPherson has sent out 14 takedown requests since 2011, most of those routed to Blogger, but Chilling Effects is hardly comprehensive, and many sites do not pass their takedowns on to that site.
No doubt Something Awful's legal representation, Leonard J. Crabs, will post a highly entertaining and endlessly profane defense of the website's actions. If nothing else, SA's legal defense team (including the highly entertaining and endlessly profane Cliff Yablonski) can point to the recent legal decision that found a majority of Richard Prince's appropriation art to be protected by fair use. If Prince can paste a someone else's photo of a guitar across someone else's photo of a dreadlocked tribesman, then certainly someone can 'shop a butt across a bird's face.
Of course, fair use is still viewed as a defense rather than an assumed right. The stripping of McPherson's watermark can be problematic, but there would need to be some discovery directed towards when that happened (by the contributor or by SA itself) or if the watermark even was present on the "original" photo grabbed by "BaconButts" to use as the base for his/her Butts on Things! submission.
The only thing that can be said for certain is that this action won't portray McPherson in the best light. There will likely be a very negative reaction to her demand for $4,000 to cover the "damages" caused by a silly photoshopping of a bird with a butt for a face. No doubt this will simply confirm her prejudices about the internet in general.
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Whiting man stabbed, beaten in home invasion
WHITING — Vermont State Police are looking for two suspects who allegedly entered a Whiting man's home during the night of June 6 and beat and stabbed him while he lay sleeping.
Police said the victim, 30-year-old Efrain Jimez DelaCruze, reported two men entered his Route 30 home at around 1:15 a.m. and hit him with metal pipes and stabbed him with a knife.
A friend rushed the victim to the Porter Hospital Emergency Department, where he was treated for multiple lacerations and stab wounds, according to police. DelaCruze was also found to have wounds consistent with being assaulted with a blunt instrument, authorities said. He was treated by Porter staff and released.
State police said no robbery occurred and that the victim was apparently specifically targeted for what is being labeled a home invasion and aggravated assault.
The victim described one of the male assailants as being shorter, heavy set, with a round face and tanned skin. The victim did not get a good look at the second male suspect, according to police.
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Discussion of an important section in the Homestead Heritage book:
The Bible
Is it or Is It Not God's Word and the Divine Measure of Truth for Human Lives?
This is the Homestead Heritage iteration of a type of bumbling apologetic position.
Question 36
HH: There are said to be 150,000 different readings of the New Testament available.
A: What is a "reading" really has to be defined, however the data is very stale, way over a century stale. The more general number today in the Greek ms. line is 400,000 or 500,000. The 150k number dates from a Philip Schaff writing in 1881, written as an introduction for Westcott and Hort on p. liii :
The New Testament in the original Greek (1881)
Introduction to the American Edition
Philip Schaff
Homestead Heritage references the very similar 1883:
and the 150k number is ancient history. False non-scholarship.
HH: Of these, only 400 caused doubt about textual meaning.
A: This is an absurd number, again from the hortian dupe and apologist Philip Schaff. (ibid. 1881, p. liv.) There are over 4,000 differences in the NT included in the apparatus differences of sources like Nestle-Aland, UBS and Ruben Swanson . And the apparatus differences are almost always inclusive of "textual meaning". 4,000, not 400. And the 400 is itself is a high amount of doubt for what is supposed to be God's pure word.
Plus, you should note that a "different reading" can itself be as much as the inclusion or omission of a full verse, or 12 full verses (counted as only one reading, the Mark ending and the Pericope Adulterae are 12 veres each) In such a section, the one variant has multiple meanings and various doctrines are involved.
HH: and only 50 of these were of any significance
A: Absurd. More Schaff deception, (1881 p. liv , 1883, p. 177.. "not more than about fifty are really important for some reason or another" .. in fact Homestead Heritage has totally mangled by faux editing even the Schaff mangling of truth. Shoddy scholarship and writing on the Homestead Heritage part is the nicest that can be said, since Schaff did not talk of "any significance" but "really important…".)
In fact, it is easy to find 500 textual variants in the NT of real solid "significance". The "Magic Marker" page of Brandon Staggs (author of the Swordsearcher software and involved in a fascinating vidoe back-and-forth with James White on Acts 8:37 and a truly wonderful gentleman)
The King James Bible Page
Would you take a magic marker to your Bible and cross out words from passages?
is excellently done, and has about 200 glaring omissions. And we can show a totally different list of 25 hard errors in the Critical Text New Testament. Will Kinney and Ken Matto and others have research writings on 100s of other variants where there are real problems caused by the Alexandrian corruption, which is usually ultra-minority in the Greek ms line. So, on any "significance" the number is easily in the thousands, on glaring significance, 500 is a reasonable number, within the under 8,000 verses. In fact, looking at the language used, it is hard to find a "textual meaning" that is not "significant", so the very claim itself is word-parsing of no substance.
Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God is pure:
he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
HH: "Not one of the variations altered an article of faith or a precept of duty which is not abundantly sustained by other and undoubted passages, or by the whole tenor of scriptural teachings." – Phillip Schaff
A: Nonsense. "God was manifest in the flesh" is fought tooth and nail by the low-Christology unitarians and adoptionists and ebionites not as a scholastic game, but because of the incredible significance in declaring the majesty and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, which they deny. The "only-begotten God" of the literal Critical Text in John 1:18 (NASV, Emphasized) is affirmed by the Arians, like the JWs, precisely because it fits their doctrine of Jesus being a begotten God. The ascension is removed from the modern versions. The believer's baptism testimony of Acts 8:37, which Homestead Heritage used to teach as a fundamental of the faith, is removed, and is nowhere else to be found. Maybe Homestead Heritage would prefer to remove it today, since the emphasis is simply on the revelation of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. It would be interesting to know if Homestead Heritage teaches this verse as scripture today. In the CT (critical text), Luke does not have that amazing verse where Jesus asks the Father to forgive from the cross. The signs following of the Mark ending, along with the resurrection appearances of Jesus, are gone. Jesus does not teach the forgiveness of the woman caught in adultery in the hortian versions.
In fact, the very concepts of Bible infallibility and inerrancy were radically changed to accommodate all the new errors brought into the versions and the new concept of a probability text.
Articles of faith everywhere can be different, the situation is even worse today when we consider the tendency to cherry-pick the actual English version text from dozens of available versions. Homestead Heritage tris to find the version that they feel matches their eschatology or soteriology at specific points. Even basic issues like young earth creationism or the words condemning sodomy can be made comportable to errant and perverse views, by searching around. Homestead Heritage members can even go to The Message, where they will get a new age flair under the veneer of supposedly "Christian" views.
In fact, the public discussion by Christians of the Bible has become one big mumble-jumble of competing texts and translations. The center does not hold. Each one supports their views by whatever texts are available. Homestead Heritage does similar when it rummages through the versions looking for a text that can be used to support their doctrines. (This does not mean that any particular doctrine is false, it simply means that the Homestead Heritage smorgasbord approach will give unreliable results. Results that should be rejected as based on an insufficient and inconsistent methodology.)
There is an important and incredible exception, however, with Reformation Bible and those who esteem the Authorized Version as God's pure word. They can seek to reason together, to discern sound doctrine, with the straight and true plumb line. Thank you Lord Jesus for your pure word.
Psalm 12:6-7
The words of the LORD are pure words:
as silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD,
thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalm 119:140
Thy word is very pure:
therefore thy servant loveth it.
The claim (article of faith .. precept of duty) given by Homestead Heritage is simply the parroting of word parsing from Philip Schaff designed (consciously or not) to deceive the reader about the significance of the words of God. A whole industry developed around corruption version pseudo-apologetics.
A major element of this was Benjamin Warfield's abandonment of infallibility and inerrancy apologetics in any tangible, readable Bible. The traditional view defended the source language texts, the Reformation Bibles from the Received Text, as the inspired and preserved apographa. And with the translations into English and other languages being fully capable of being invested with the same properties of excellence, majesty and accuracy. This Warfieldian (and later, Chicago Statement) change, to what is essentially a laughable new doctrine (infallibility and inerrancy in an unknown and unknowable text), spearheaded by Warfield, was a necessary and important compliment to the nouveau Westcott and Hort recension corrupt text, with its many hard errors. Warfield had to deal with the new concept of the textual criticism probability text, which can change any year as theories change, as new textual discoveries are found or faked, and the text can even vary among each individual proponent. No verse is really sure. This change to ethereal, unknown and unknowable autographs from Warfield was necessary in order to keep a veneer of evangelicism. In the Homestead Heritage book, they support this disaster.
Returning to the "articles of faith…" .. to have any meaning at all, first Homestead heritage would have to clearly and precisely define what is every "article of faith" and every "precept of duty". Which is never done. Would they accept as true and complete a list of "articles of faith" and "precepts of duty" given by Philip Schaff? Do they agree with Schaff that the verses affect some passages on the "doctrine of the Trinity"? Or do they agree with revision scholar George Vance Smith? (Who denied even the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ and emphasized how important the Revision was for his doctrinal viewpoints. See "Texts and margins of the revised New Testament affecting theological doctrine briefly reviewed.") Surely, Homestead Heritage does do not think that Schaff was talking of the Homestead Heritage "articles of faith"!
Please, let us strive for some consistency and scholastic honesty. Let's eschew the quote-snippet mentality. Lets avoid vagaries like unknown "articles of faith".
Ironically, Schaff even quotes Richard Bentley and the unitarian Ezra Abbott (who was against worship of the Lord Jesus Christ, as a "creature", which made the American Revision notes) in making these claims. Richard Bentley was attempting to parry Anthony Collins, who was analogous to Bart Ehrman today, so at least that could be an interesting historical study.
HH: The fact of so many readings allows us to immediately dismiss 19/20th of the variations from consideration as being obviously out of character with the thousands which substantiate each other.
A: Eliminating 19/20th of the more accurate 400,000 leaves 20,000 variants. So what good is it to be "allowed" to reduce the conundrum to only 20,000 variants? This would leave 2 1/2 variant problems per verse average in each of the almost 8,000 verses. Not a big help.
Now, the 19/20th is technically accurate in the sense that there really are less than 20,000 of the 400,000 Greek ms textual variants that have any real pizazz or significance. A good number is 5,000 overall, translatable, although of course only 1,000 or so are glaring. However, sometimes what looks like a piddle corruption (e.g the faux ultra-minority grammar of a demon being personified in Mark) can have major implications in the rolly-bolly world of New Testament exegesis.
Anyway, all this 19/20th stuff is generally irrelevant. Similar number juggling was used by Daniel Wallace in his own special case of statistical illiteracy where he bases statistical manipulation on misplacing large numbers, in a grossly deficient attempt to attack both the Received Text and the Greek Byzantine Majority Texts.
When this irrelevancy that Homestead Heritage quotes is given with a reference, the reference goes like this:
"Dr. Ezra Abbott was accustomed to remark that
'about nineteen-twentieths of the variations have so little support that, although there are various readings, no one would think of them as rival readings, and nineteen-twentieths of the remainder are of so little importance that their adoption or rejection would cause no appreciable difference in the sense of the passages in which they occur.' "
An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1887)
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Warfield was working with 200,000 variants, with 400,000 variants that would leave 1,000 appreciable differences. 400,000 x .05 x. .05 = 1,000. Do you see how charlatans can play with numbers by emphasizing and doing the math on the irrelevant large numbers? Sounds impressive, means nothing. Like the 400,000 total variants. Why not simply say .. "There are 500 or 1000 appreciable differences" (really the number is 1000s.) Simply because it is harder to be a charlatan if you speak accurately.
A longer Ezra Abbot quote, with its own nuances and differences and deceptions, is given by Schaff, when Abbot was trying to defend the decrepit Revision, American version.
HH: Indeed, there is an ambiguity involved in saying that there are 150,000 variants. If one single word is misspelled in 3,000 different manuscripts, this was counted as 3,000 variants or readings.
A: Totally false! This was a well-known and quite embarrassing blunder from Neil R. Lightfoot and the more public Norman Geisler and William Nix, starting in the 1960s. Later, parroted by others, like Josh McDowell, ignorant men on this topic, now referenced as scholars by Homestead Heritage. This situation was so bad that Daniel Wallace has even written a paper (helpful for correction yet itself uneven) about this specific blunder, this "evangelical miscalculation." That phrase is sufficient to find the paper online, along with discussion.
Now I understand men of no textual understanding, hortian dupes like Lightfoot and Geisler, making the blunder. The fact that it is parroted by Homestead Heritage is not good, it shows that their Bible textual agenda is multi-version pseudo-apologetics, as part of allowing Alexandrian corruption versions. And the goal is not one of seeking to understand these issues. Anybody with a little sense and background would never fall for this blunder.
Es suficiente. A small review of the rest.
The statements on Question 13 continue with this type of error, confusion and disinformation. They are actually, at best, worthless assertions. Would Homestead Heritage like more corrections? I would be happy to continue to go down line by line. If not, here are some highlights.
One of the worst elements is using Alexandrian apologists, who you quote, in an appeal to the numbers of manuscripts, e.g:
"Great multitude of MSS … easier to reconstruct the original" – Josh McDowell
These claims are totally hypocritical, since the scholars that McDowell follows consistently reject the mass of Byzantine Greek manuscripts as corrupt. What good is appealing to the number of Greek mss if you think they are woefully corrupt and unreliable? Obviously, a speaker has shot his own position in the foot if he appeals to the 1000s of mss while saying that the mass of mss are worthless and corrupt. Which is in fact the position of all the hortian dupes Homestead Heritage is are referencing.
Another joke is:
"the true meaning of every doubtful passage is preserved in some one or other of these ancient authorities."
So what? How does that help? When that "true meaning" is not considered the scripture, then the modern version dupes are reading a false meaning and rejecting the true meaning. What good does it say that the "true meaning" is in some rejected text? All we have is sophistry.
And for Homestead Heritage actually quote statements like:
"Only 40 lines (or 400 words) of the New Testament are in doubt" – Geisler and Nix
Homestead Heritage must know full well that this is simply not true. And this makes them accomplices in the deliberate deception of the Christian believer. Homestead Heritage should know full well, if nothing else, that 40+ full verses are included in the Reformation Bible texts and called non-scripture by the corruption version scholars. Why are they quoting what you know to be false? Why are they writing as hortian dupes who think the Critical Text is the verified pure Bible? Homestead Heritage even said to me that you reject the Alexandrian ultra-minority corruptions that pollute that text. The text that the writers of these quotes presume to be accurate.
"Seven-eights of the whole vocabulary of the New Testament is accepted without controversy." – Geisler and Nix
This would be 87.5% of the words. This actually comes from Westcott and Hort from 1881.
It would leave the equivalent of 1,000 verses as unaccepted. Is this meant to be an argument they would use responsibly? Or is a concession speech from the probability text positions? ("We do not know the word of God.") Or is Homestead Heritage just trying to dazzle the reader with numbers? Hort in his normal turgid and obtuse style continues from that point.
"Substantial variation. Hardly form more than 1/1000 of the entire text" – Westcott & Hort
Again, totally false (from the same page above.) That would be the equivalent of 8 verses. How do you pigeon-hole the 40+ full verses and the 4,000+ CT-TR differences into those 8 verses? Why are you trying to deceive your readers with dazzle numbers?
"Mathematically this would compute to a text that is 98.33% pure" – Geisler and Nix
Here we add the fallacy of false precision. This charlatan number, parroted by Josh McDowell and Homestead Heritage and others, goes back to Westcott and Hort in 1881:
The New Testament in the Original Greek (1881)
Westcott and Hort
"one sixtieth of the whole New Testament"
Since Hort's 59/60 = 98.33.
And Hort, unlike Geisler and Homestead Heritage, was at least honest enough to at least point out that these last two computations, 1/1000 and 98.33%, are conditional, with a very dubious base:
"If the principles followed in the present edition are sound, this area may be very greatly reduced."
However, Hort's principles, and the resulting Alexandrian text, are totally unsound. As Homestead Heritage well knows. So we have GIGO, given falsely in Homestead Heritage literature as fact. Homestead Heritage in this section hides behind quoting ignorant and errant assertions from others, claims that are not defensible.
Affirmation by proxy is often a fallacious approach, and one that we associate with the probabalism mentality of the Jesuits. We find this proxy-style faux appeal to authority drifts into modern version and Critical Text corruption version defense with writer after writer. And I would hope that Homestead Heritage would have the insight and wisdom to eschew this trickery.
Now, it is clear that the Homestead Heritage research was largely using Josh McDowell as the fulcrum, since he provides the beginning quote-mining, and then working backwards to the McDowell sources. This is not a good way to study or learn the history, or the field of textual analysis, or the numbers.
Sidenote: Note 65: Hort is given the wrong initials, Fenton John Anthony is F. J. A. This is correct in the text, wrong in the footnote.


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The Xappr and Micro-Xappr guns are currently on preorder, but will be available in the EU, Isreal, U.S., and Canada this June. Apps will be required to support it and while there's only a handful right now, more should be coming soon. A lot more I hope, especially the Modern Combat, N.O.V.A. and other premiere App Store games.
Pre-order price is $30. I'm getting one. Are you?
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MetalCompass will reveal for the first time two models of gaming accessories for smartphones - The Xappr and the Micro-Xappr guns. The models will be revealed in the international toy fair that will take place in Nuremberg, Germany between February 1st and February 6st.
Both the Xappr and the Micro-Xappr allows players to play a variety of augmented reality and shooting games. "The Xappr guns has already more than 10 amazing augmented reality games that will allow the player to intercept alien spaceships, find and eliminate ghosts, fight evil flying robots, hunt a horde of blood thirsty zombies and the most important - engage in battle with other players" says Oren Shtark, MetalCompass' CDO.
MetalCompass will release this spring the first real world multiplayer first person shooter for smartphones - ATK. ATK will allow players to simulate combat scenarios with different types of weapons - guns, rifles, grenade launchers and powerful pulse weapons. ATK will support three battle modes: Death-match, Last Man Standing and Teams Mode.
The Xappr guns will be available this spring but players from the US, Canada or the EU you can pre-order the Xappr gun now, get a discount and be the first among their friends to get the Xappr gun this spring.


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