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 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. VM Backup 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.
Non-stop Technologies Offered by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can help your business to build a cost-effective, zero-downtime environment that resolves major challenges encompassing a wide array of networking technologies and processes such as:
Business Continuity Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning professionals can help you design a business continuity strategy in order to resume IT functionality in case of an information system disaster. Progent can help you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also show you how to build an affordable, fault-tolerant system solution that addresses reliability issues involving a wide range of infrastructure technologies and procedures. To read more, go to Business Continuity Consulting and Support Services.
CRISC-Certified Network Risk Control
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To find out more, see CRISC-Certified IT risk mitigation experts.
Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced important improvements in scale, throughput, manageability, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, container networking, and hybrid integration of local and cloud resources. Headline enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud resources, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive intelligence to manage on-premises networks, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and administering large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from outdated versions of Windows Server. To learn more, see Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Support.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can help your organization to design a DR system based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance network-attached storage using commodity equipment, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical creation of a failover cluster quorum witness. For details, see Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Support.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and verify a repeatable workflow for recovering services rapidly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also allows transparent testing for site recovery, updates and patches and can generate audit reports to confirm full service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and prove compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help you to plan, configure, test and administer a DR solution powered by VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering along with continual replication to provide fast, zero RPO disaster recovery between sites that are as far as 185 miles away from one another. Progent offers access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to design, configure, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and budget. Progent can make sure you follow leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by delivering help with procedures like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker, designing a configuration replication network, and testing your DR solution to show adherence with industry standards and government mandates.
Network Load Balancing
Progent provides fault tolerant load balancing consulting covering system load balancing, load balanced applications, network backbone routing, and content dispatching technology such as F5 Networks 3DNS. Fault tolerant load balancing solutions for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Presentation Server, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. To find out more, go to Fault Tolerant Load Balancing.
High-Availability Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center professionals can show you how to identify fault-tolerant data centers that match the particular requirements of your company. Fault tolerant colocation sites are particularly appealing to small and mid-size businesses because of their low cost and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to build an on-site data center with even a basic degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small organizations. Progent can help you reap all the benefits of high-availability colo centers by providing a full range of consulting and maintenance services. To learn more, visit Fault Tolerant Colocation Solutions.
Non-stop Inter-office Networking
Progent's multi-site connectivity consultants can help businesses achieve fault tolerant multi-site connectivity via redundant system architectures featuring automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can plan and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks supported by fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how multi-path connections and automatic fail-over offers affordable non-stop interoffice connectivity. To learn more, go to High-Availability Interoffice Networking.
Non-stop Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT consultants can show you how to build an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can achieve non-stop Internet connectivity via a broad range of high availability Internet network solutions including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent can provide CCIE engineers to show you how to apply the latest technology for fault tolerant Internet access to create an affordable, fully redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to deliver zero-downtime Internet access. For more information, go to High Availability Internet Access Solutions.
Backup and Recovery Technology Consultants
Progent can provide economical online access to IT engineers with expertise in a broad array of utilities and services that deliver solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux servers and desktops as well as laptops and smartphones. Progent can provide consulting support for all major backup platforms such as Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Backup, Mozy, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and Solaris FLARs. Progent can help you to implement, enhance, or troubleshoot backup solutions for a variety of architectures such as on-premises, remote, cloud, or hybrid. To learn more, visit Backup and Restore Solutions Expertise.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Data Recovery Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager support professionals can help you to develop an effective disaster recovery strategy, design an affordable fault-tolerante IT architecture, deploy a Microsoft SCDPM-based recovery system, thoroughly validate your DPM system, train your IT personnel or regular consultants how to maintain Microsoft SCDPM, or provide complete IT outsourcing services including off-site housing of SCDPM machines in Progent's secure data center. To learn more, visit System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Consulting.
Barracuda Backup Multi-site and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup/restore platform for small and medium-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup solution can include a purpose-built hardware appliance built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with comparable features but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical company data generated on-premises, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, 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 offer a broad range of consulting support services to help you to plan, configure, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery system built on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.
ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers simple archiving but does not include integrated support for key data protection services like Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a full-featured BDR solution for automatic backup and quick restoration of all your company's M365 mail, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive for Business files, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) 365 Total Backup to provide comprehensive managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service solution that defends M365 apps against data loss or corruption resulting from human or system error, malevolent sabotage, and cyber attacks such as ransomware. To read more, visit ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and enable fast restoration of critical files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup and recovery.
ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can help your company to create, implement and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution built around MSP360 technology. MSP360 enables file/folder or image-based backup/recovery for VMs and physical machines, works with all leading public clouds, and allows businesses to build a backup solution with a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup system to protect against data loss resulting from human miscues, system errors, malicious insiders, and external attacks like ransomware. To read more, go to ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup services.
Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup
Double-Take offers a selection of products intended to provide small businesses a range of affordable solutions for replicating and restoring business-critical applications including Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have in-depth experience incorporating Double-Take Software technology into small company information systems to create a high state of availability and disaster recovery readiness at a budget-friendly price. To learn more, see Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers specialized application support for a broad variety of small business software programs, Progent can assist customers to find comprehensive information technology solutions that optimize the business value of your information system. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the services of premier consultants and specialists with expertise in architecting, installing and troubleshooting infrastructure solutions based on Cisco technology. The depth and breadth of Progent's IT know-how and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small companies make Progent the perfect partner for building and running an affordable, dependable information system.
How to Contact Progent's Engineers for Business Continuity Solutions Help
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