Backup and disaster recovery of Microsoft Windows systems became easier today with the release of StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® IT Edition 5. This latest addition to the award-winning ShadowProtect line of disaster recovery products has several new features, including support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.

ShadowProtect IT Edition 5 provides system administrators with unlimited disaster recovery, data protection and system migration for every Windows system in a company’s IT environment without installing any software. ShadowProtect IT Edition also allows administrators to recover data anywhere, at any time, enabling a business to continue operations following a disaster.

“We know small and medium-sized businesses face many challenges managing and maintaining business systems. StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition 5 is a tool that is easy to use and will efficiently help them protect valuable business systems and data, without adding new headaches to system administration,” said Brandon Nordquist, vice president of product management at StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

Another new feature of ShadowProtect IT Edition 5 is the Disk Copy feature that allows administrators to make an exact duplicate of a disk. This feature can capture everything on a system: operating system, applications and data.

Other features of the ShadowProtect IT Edition 5 allow users to:

• Perform a bare metal recovery of Windows servers, desktops and laptops in minutes.

• Restore backup images to or from physical and virtual machines.

• Migrate backup images to new systems (physical or virtual) with StorageCraft Hardware Independent Restore™ technology.

• Back up systems without installing any software.

• Recover individual files and folders in moments.

• Use on an unlimited number of servers, desktops and laptops during your subscription period.

ShadowProtect IT Edition 5, along with the entire StorageCraft Recover-Ability™ Solution, is available to managed service providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) throughout the world and can be purchased through flexible subscription models. More information about ShadowProtect IT Edition 5 is available at www.StorageCraft.com/ShadowProtectIT.

Shadow Protect IT Edition 5 is the second major product release this year for StorageCraft Technology Corporation. ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange 7 hit the market in April. In June, ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange 7 won the Best of TechEd 2013 award in the Messaging and Unified Communication category at the Microsoft TechEd North America 2013 IT Pro Conference.

StorageCraft is a provider of best-in-class backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft’s business solutions give small and medium-sized businesses the power and capability to effectively plan for and recover from minor and major disruptions in business operations in seconds, rather than hours or days.

In addition to ShadowProtect IT Edition 5 and ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange 7, the company has recently added new versions of its award-winning software, StorageCraft ShadowProtect 5 and StorageCraft ImageManager 6, as well as StorageCraft Cloud Services to its suite of disaster recovery solutions.