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Stone Ram celebrates Third Anniversary

We are delighted to have celebrated our third anniversary last month. The past three years have gone by so quickly, our services capability has expanded on the back of a robust partnership with Symantec and then (after its split) Veritas and an expanding international client base. The development of our flagship product Tranzman, is also nearing its first release, all of which would not have been possible without the ongoing support from our wonderful staff, and their families. A heartfelt thank you to all our customers and partners and also, all of you who share our vision.

3 years!!!

Simon Brown, Managing Director and Founder, says:

"How time has flown by, this year has gone even quicker. I have a great team working with me, and we wouldn't be where we are now if it wasn't for all the hard efforts they have put in. Big thanks to the team, next party is the launch one!!!!"

Stone Ram on the Move

I am delighted to announce that we have upsized offices this week. We are settling in nicely into our lovely new offices, which are bigger, lighter, and with plenty of space for our growing team. The team has grown from a very small number, to almost doubling in size in the last year alone.

We can still be found at Caswell Science and Technology Park in , just in larger offices that better suits our requirements.

This is the beginning of our planned expansion to support our soon to be released product, Tranzman.

New Tranzman Product Development Update

In March we published our Tranzman development roadmap. It automates backup migrations and acts as a storage server so you can access backed-up data by converting its format when you restore or duplicate it. Here’s a progress update:

Production-ready interface has been completed
The front and back end of Tranzman’s database have been revamped, making it more robust. This will make it quicker and easier for us to integrate additional backup vendor products (origins and destinations) as transition engine plugins.

Backup Exec automated migration plugin
Backup Exec research is well under way and image readers and configuration converter processes are being tested. Prototype plugins have been created to extract and convert the workload configuration and image data from Backup Exec before converting it to NetBackup.

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) automated backup migration plugin
TSM readers and converters are being expanded to support additional data types, including Lotus Notes, Exchange and MSSQL.

Click here for our development schedule for migrations involving NetBackup, TSM, Backup Exec, Veam, Commvault and Networker.

Providing Tools To The Open Source Community

Stone Ram is indebted to the open source community for the information it’s provided which has proved important to our research.

We’d like to give something back, so we are sharing tools we’ve created to speed up or improve the success rates of Stone Ram’s services: we genuinely hope they’ll benefit others. For details of the tools we are providing, please visit https://github.com/StoneRam/nbu_tools

Two Exciting Opportunities

We currently have a backup market investment opportunity – and need a new team member.

Investor: If you’re an investor or a company with an interest in the backup market, and you’re interested in accelerating the development timescales, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Analysis assistance: Having created a framework along with a package of data files in raw format and as backup images, we are looking for skilled individuals to help determine how to extract the raw data from the backup images. The data formats of many of the backup images are based on well-known structures such as MTF and TAR. The objective is to extract the data, and (where applicable) any attributes/ACL/credential information stored in the backup image.