ABOUT CRISTIE DATA

Cristie Data has stood for reliable storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions for over 50 years.

Founded in Stroud, England, in 1969, the Cristie group of companies serves more than 300.000 installations worldwide. We work with some of the most advanced technology partners in modern data management to deliver a range of highly scalable solutions that enable data growth without vendor lock-in.

Your partner for digital survival strategies

Cristie Data GmbH specializes in business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience. As part of the international Cristie Group, the company supports organizations in quickly and reliably restoring business-critical IT systems after outages or cyberattacks.

The focus is not on classic data backup, but on the rapid restoration of complete IT systems and business processes.

With solutions like Cristie System Recovery (CSR), Cristie enables the automated recovery of entire systems – regardless of infrastructure, platform or environment.
These technologies can be seamlessly integrated into existing backup and security landscapes and help companies to

Regular testing and automated processes ensure that restart procedures actually work in an emergency. Cristie sees itself as a partner for modern IT resilience and supports companies in maintaining their operational capability even under critical conditions. In addition, flexible OPEX models – especially for on-premises environments – the use of innovative technologies without high initial investments.

OUR STORY

Learn all about our exciting journey to becoming a data management specialist in our company history.

2024

Cristie focuses on appliance-based backup technologies. A close premium partnership is being formed between Cohesity and Cristie.

2023

CBS is evolving into the comprehensive CBS MultiEngine service. Licenses for leading backup solutions are now available on a pay-as-you-go basis, with fair pay-per-use billing for data volumes used.

2022

Partnerships with AvePoint and Arctic Wolf expand Cristie’s security portfolio.  

2021

At the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in Hamburg, Cristie is implementing an exabyte archive for researchers.

2019

Grau Data and Cristie Data enter into a strategic development partnership. Cristie will be responsible for the distribution of Grau solutions as Part of the Cristie.Partners division.

2018

A close partnership with StrongBox Data Solution Inc. creates the Cristie Cognitive Data Management solution – CCM. Cristie Data establishes the Cristie.Partners division.

2017

The Cristie Project Archive and Cristie Project Archive as a Service (CPA) are launching in Germany. CPA is the solution for project-based long-term file storage.

2016

The company is renamed from Cristie Data Products GmbH to Cristie Data GmbH. The new name reflects the company's broad range of solutions and services. The Cristie Media Warehouse (CMW) service is founded in Germany. A professional service for the safekeeping and long-term storage of media.

2015

Cristie Backup Solution – CBS – is launching on the German market. The service is a combination of an IBM Spectrum licensing model, Cristie TBMR, and other applications and services.

2014

Cristie Bare Machine Recovery for Commvault Simpana – SBMR launches. Cristie responds to a recurring request for Commvault support.

2013

Cristie exceeds 150,000 installations of Cristie disaster recovery solutions. Avamar Bare Machine Recovery – ABMR, the disaster recovery solution for EMC Avamar, is released. Cristie Clone Manager and Recovery Simulator are released in the same year.

2008

Cristie Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli – TBMR is displayed. It is the logical further development of the Cristie disaster recovery solution. The recovery media is converted from Linux to Windows PE. Various TSM backup clients are now available on the media.

2007

Cristie Bare Machine Recovery for EMC NetWorker – NBMR for Windows is released. The solution is integrated directly into EMC NetWorker as a plug-in. NBMR for Linux will be released shortly after the Windows version.

2005

There are now more than 50.000 Cristie installations worldwide with disaster recovery solutions on a wide variety of systems.

2004

CBMR for Linux is released. The solution has the same feature set as CBMR for Windows.

2003

Cristie Bare Machine Recovery – CBMR for Windows is released. The first solution capable of recovering systems on dissimilar hardware. The solution is also distributed by IBM. It integrates seamlessly with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Cristie is the first company to offer software capable of performing a complete, automated recovery on dissimilar hardware.

2002

The first Cristie storage arrays are sold in Germany under the name “Cristie Gigastream”.

2001

StorTrec was founded.

2000

Cristie Electronics GmbH is renamed Cristie Data Products GmbH. The company's activities and business areas are clearly reflected in the new name. The PC-Bax solution for Windows will be launched later this year.

1999

The first Cristie office in southern Germany opens in Großwallstadt.

1994

Founding of Cristie Electronics GmbH in Düsseldorf at Königsallee 1.

1990

The company begins to focus on data security solutions for companies. Further development of the SDB software for OS/2. The PC-BAX software for data backup and automatic recovery of OS/2 systems is redeveloped. The company begins developing and marketing its own tape streamers and autoloaders.

1980

Cristie's entry into the professional IT sector began with the self-developed backup software SDB for DOS and Novell Netware.

1970

Start of development and sales of data logger systems for the maritime industry.

1969

Cristie Electronics Ltd was founded in Stroud, England. The company is named after the wife of the company founder, "Cristie." Among other things, Cristie Electronics worked on the control of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Cristie Cloud Protection powered by AvePoint has been protecting your business-critical data since SharePoint was still called Team Services and Microsoft 365 was still called BPOS. AvePoint's multi-SaaS backup solution was released in 2013, so after more than a decade of innovation, your data is in safe hands.
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