ProSight Data Protection Services - Altaro VM Backup: Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Server Backup
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a managed service designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with a reliable and affordable solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud-based environments and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to a Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage account.
Top features of Altaro VM Backup include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup intervals as low as five minutes for reducing your exposure to data loss, military-grade encryption, granular restore options for entire virtual machines or for individual files and emails, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and VMware vCenter, and the ability to leverage Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology to back up live virtual machines without downtime.
Progent is a certified Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of services to help you plan, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on the Altaro VM Backup platform. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup as a managed service to provide end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup ecosystem. Progent's Hyper-V consultants and VMware experts can help you design and manage virtual machine deployments that utilize on-premises or offsite VMs or that use a hybrid architecture that incorporates both local and cloud-based resources. In addition, Progent offers disaster recovery/business continuity (DRBC) planning consulting to help organizations protect business-critical data and services from potentially catastrophic threats such as ransomware, human error, hardware failure, fire, and natural disasters.
Key Features of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is designed to handle the backup/restore requirements of most small businesses and combines simplicity of operation with a rich feature set that includes capabilities typically found only in enterprise-grade platforms. Altaro protects the most widely used versions of Hyper-V and VMware and supports popular backup media:
Supported Hyper-V OS | Supported VMware OS | Supported Media |
Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server (Core) Azure Stack HCI |
VMware vCenter V(5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0) VMware vSphere V(5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0) VMware ESXi V(5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0) (Free ESXi not supported) |
USB External Drives eSata External Drives USB Flash Drives Network Shares NAS devices PC Internal Hard Drives RDX Cartridges Altaro Offsite Server |
Altaro VM Backup includes powerful features in three crucial areas of data protection: backup/replication, restoration/disaster recovery, plus management and reporting.
Backup and Replication
Altaro VM Backup offers fast, efficient, and secure backup for data protection and archiving plus offsite replication for disaster recovery. Major backup and replication features include:
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How Progent Can Help You Benefit from Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V consultants and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter consultants can help you plan, deploy and manage a backup/restore solution based on Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can help you integrate Altaro VM Backup with your Exchange environment, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud consulting specialists can show you how to use your Azure Block Blob storage account with Altaro to protect your VM backups.
Progent's business continuity consultants can show you how Altaro VM Backup's replication features and offsite backup capability can help safeguard your mission-critical data and enable you to resume your core services quickly in case of a catastrophic event. Essential and frequently overlooked requirements for effective disaster preparedness include ongoing verification, testing, and optimization of system restoration. In the event of a disaster such as a ransomware attack, these drills can spell the difference between a short period of downtime and an existential threat to a business. Progent can assist you to design a program for regularly validating, testing, and enhancing your recovery procedures so you can keep your backup solution current and minimize the damage of a catastrophic incident.
Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can assess the security profile of your backup solution and can help you deploy the latest tools and follow industry best practices for operating safely in the modern threat landscape.
Fault Tolerant Solutions Supported by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help your business to design an efficient, non-stop network that resolves major issues covering a broad array of networking technologies and operations including:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity engineers can show you how to create a business continuity plan in order to resume network functionality in the event of an information network disaster. Progent can help you to create a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery evaluations and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also show you how to create an affordable, non-stop system solution that addresses reliability issues involving a wide array of infrastructure technologies and processes. For more information, see Workplace Recovery Consulting and Support Services.
CRISC-Certified Network Risk Mitigation
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and carry out a business continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. For details, see CRISC-Certified IT risk management experts.
Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated significant improvements in capacity, performance, management, security and compliance, app compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud assets. Headline new features of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management and monitoring of hybrid local/cloud deployments, System Insights for utilizing advance predictive analytics to control local environments, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and managing large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from outdated releases of Windows Server. For details, visit Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Support.
Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can help you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system built around Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using commodity hardware, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for improving the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while minimizing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical creation of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. To read more, visit Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Help.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to orchestrate, automate and test a repeatable process for recovering services rapidly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and transparent site relocation, failback and re-protect. SRM also enables transparent testing for disaster recovery, updates and fixes and can produce audit reports to verify complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove DR compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consulting expert to help you to design, deploy, test and manage a disaster recovery system based on VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering along with continual replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between sites located as far as 185 miles away from one another. Progent offers the skills of a certified NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help your business to design, deploy, manage, update, test and repair a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your technical needs and budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing help with tasks like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a configuration replication network, and verifying your MetroCluster DR solution to prove adherence with industry standards and regulatory mandates.
Network Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing consulting that addresses system load balancing, load balanced programs, network infrastructure routing, and content delivery technology including Cisco Content Engine. Fault tolerant load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting services include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Access Gateway, Cisco CSS, Cisco Distributed Director and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To find out more, go to Non-stop Load Balancing.
Zero Downtime Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to identify zero-downtime data centers that meet the specific needs of your company. Fault tolerant co-location sites are particularly appealing to small and mid-size businesses due to of their low cost and simplified logistics compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to create an on-site data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small organizations. Progent can help you get all the advantages of high-availability data centers by providing a complete array of consulting and maintenance services. To read more, see Non-stop Data Centers Consulting.
Non-stop Interoffice Networking
Progent's multi-site connectivity engineers can help businesses create non-stop interoffice connections through fully redundant networks with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can design and implement high-availability Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or zero-downtime OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and transparent fail-over can provide economical non-stop interoffice connectivity. To learn more, go to Non-stop Inter-office Connectivity.
24x7 Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified network engineers can help you build an affordable, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet connectivity via a broad range of high availability Internet access technologies including fault tolerant BGP, automatic fail-over, and multiple Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide CCIE engineers to help you apply the most up-to-date techniques for 24x7 Internet access to build an economical, fully redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to deliver fault tolerant Internet availability. To learn more, see Fault Tolerant Internet Access Solutions.
Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Experts
Progent can provide economical online access to engineers with expertise in a wide range of products and services that provide solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops as well as laptops and smartphones. Progent offers consulting support for all major data protection platforms including Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take Backup, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can assist you to design, enhance, or maintain data backup systems for a variety of architectures such as on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud, or a mix. To learn more, visit Backup and Restore Technology Consulting and Support Services.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Data Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) support professionals can assist you to develop a practical workplace recovery strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability network infrastructure, deploy a Microsoft SCDPM-based recovery system, thoroughly test your DPM system, educate your IT staff or regular consultants how to manage SCDPM, or provide extensive IT outsourcing services such as off-site hosting of SCDPM servers in Progent's world-class data center facility. For more information, see Microsoft SCDPM Consulting Services.
Barracuda Backup On-premises and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup/restore service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a purpose-built hardware storage device built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with comparable functionality but which utilizes your existing storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital business data produced on-premises, at one or multiple remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any location with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a broad array of consulting support services to assist your business to design, integrate, manage and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery solution built on Barracuda Backup. For details, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.
ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides simple archiving but does not include integrated support for vital data protection capabilities such as Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a feature-rich platform for automatic backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides a low-cost backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that protects M365 apps against data loss resulting from human or system error, malevolent deletion, and malware assaults like ransomware. For more information, see ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates and monitors your backup activities and allow rapid recovery of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup and recovery.
ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Services
Progent can assist you to design, deploy and debug a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file/folder or image backup/restore for virtual machines and physical machines, works with all leading public clouds, and allows you to build a data protection solution with a low Recovery Time Objective and a defined RPO. With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent can provide comprehensive monitoring and management of your backup environment to protect against data loss caused by human mistakes, system errors, ill-intentioned insiders, and external attacks such as ransomware. For more information, go to ProSight DPS 360 Backup services.
Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup
Double-Take Software publishes a family of tools intended to provide small companies a variety of affordable solutions for backing up and restoring vital workloads such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have extensive experience integrating Double-Take Software products into small company information systems to create a high state of availability and business continuity readiness at an affordable price. For details, see Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Data Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers high-level application expertise for a broad range of small business software programs, Progent is able to assist customers to find comprehensive IT solutions that substantially enhance the productivity of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the expertise of premier consultants and specialists with experience in designing, installing and maintaining networking environments based on Cisco technology. The depth of Progent's IT know-how and Progent's appreciation for the needs of small businesses make Progent a great partner for building and maintaining a cost-effective, dependable network.
How You Can Get in Touch with Progent's Consultants for Business Continuity Planning Help
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