ProSight Data Protection Services - Altaro VM Backup: Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Server Backup
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). 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 business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning consulting to help smaller organizations prepare for potentially catastrophic threats to business-critical data such as ransomware, human error, hardware failure 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 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server (Core) |
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 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. 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.
Zero-Downtime Solutions Supported by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco consultants can help your company to create an efficient, fault-tolerant environment that resolves major problems covering a wide array of infrastructure technologies and operations such as:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery professionals can help you create a disaster recovery strategy so you can resume IT functionality in the event of an information network disaster. Progent can assist you to create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also help you create an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that addresses reliability issues involving a broad range of network technologies and processes. To read more, go to Business Continuity Consulting.
CRISC-Premier IT Risk Management
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. To learn more, see CRISC-Premier network risk mitigation experts.
Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 introduced important enhancements in scale, throughput, management, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux support, container technology, and hybrid integration of on-premises and cloud assets. Headline enhancements of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid local/cloud resources, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive intelligence to manage local environments, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and administering massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the migration from legacy editions of Windows Server. For details, go to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Consulting.
Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can help you to plan and deploy a DR system based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies including 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 enterprise-class network-attached storage using low-cost equipment, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a stretch cluster quorum witness. To read more, see Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Help.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to define, automate and test a consistent workflow for recovering applications and services quickly following an outage. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and transparent site relocation, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports non-intrusive testing for site recovery, upgrades and fixes and can produce audit reports to verify complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consulting expert to assist your organization to plan, deploy, test and administer a DR solution powered by VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that combines failover storage clustering with replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between datacenters located as far as 300km apart. Progent offers the skills of a certified NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help your business to design, deploy, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you follow best practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing help with procedures like assigning shelf IDs, determining aggregate layout, setting up FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your DR solution to show compliance with information assurance standards and government requirements.
Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing consulting covering system load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content dispatching products such as Cisco Content Engine. Non-stop load balancing technologies for which Progent offers consulting services 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 ACNS, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. To read more, see High Availability Load Balancing.
High-Availability Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you select zero-downtime data centers that meet the particular requirements of your company. High availability Internet Data Centers are particularly attractive to small and mid-size organizations because of their affordability and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to design an in-house data center with even a basic degree of fault tolerance is too expensive for the majority of small businesses. Progent can show you how to get all the advantages of non-stop colocation centers by offering a full array of engineering and maintenance services. To read more, go to Non-stop Data Centers Consulting.
Non-stop Interoffice Networking
Progent’s interoffice connection professionals can help organizations achieve zero-downtime interoffice connections by means of fully redundant networks featuring automatic failover. Progent’s Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can design and implement high-availability Inter-office connections based on non-stop EIGRP routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connections and transparent fail-over can provide affordable non-stop interoffice connectivity. To read more, go to Failsafe Interoffice Networking.
Non-stop Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-authorized network experts can show you how to build an affordable, fault tolerant Internet connection solution that can deliver non-stop Internet access through a wide range of high availability Internet network technologies including fault tolerant BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide CCIE professionals to show you how to utilize the most advanced technology for 24x7 Internet connectivity to create a cost-effective, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver zero-downtime Internet availability. For details, visit 24x7 Internet Access Architecture.
Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting and Support Services
Progent can provide economical online access to engineers skilled in a wide array of utilities and technologies that provide solutions for protecting Windows, Mac, and Linux physical and virtual servers and desktops plus laptops and smartphones. Progent can provide help for all major backup platforms such as Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take, Mozy, Retrospect for Macintosh, Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist you to install, upgrade, or troubleshoot backup systems for a range of architectures including local, edge to datacenter, cloud, or hybrid. For more information, go to Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Services.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Data Recovery Consulting Services
Progent's certified Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager support professionals can help your company to develop an effective business continuity plan, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT architecture, install a SCDPM-powered backup and restore system, thoroughly validate your DPM system, educate your administrative staff or regular service providers how to manage SCDPM, or provide extensive IT outsourcing services such as off-site housing of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's data center facility. For more information, see System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.
Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup/restore service for small and medium-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup solution can include a custom-designed hardware appliance manufactured by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with comparable features but which utilizes your existing storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects critical company data produced locally, at one or more 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 certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a broad range of consulting support services to help you to design, integrate, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery solution built on Barracuda technology. For additional information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.
ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro O365 Backup Services
Microsoft 365 (previously named Office 365) provides rudimentary archiving but does not include native support for crucial data protection capabilities like Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. Altaro O365 Backup delivers a full-featured platform for programmable backup and quick recovery of all your organization's O365 mail, Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, and OneDrive files. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) O365 Backup to deliver comprehensive managed services for Altaro's O365 data protection product. ProSight DPS O365 provides an affordable backup-as-a-service solution that guards O365 components against data loss resulting from user or system error, malevolent deletion, and malware assaults such as ransomware. To read more, go to ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro O365 Backup solutions.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS ECHO automates your backup processes and enable rapid restoration of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed cloud backup.
ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can help you to create, deploy and troubleshoot a backup plan built around MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file or image-based backup/restore for VMs and physical computers, supports all leading public clouds, and allows businesses to create a data protection ecosystem with a minimum RTO and a granular Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent offers comprehensive monitoring and management of your backup system to protect against data loss caused by human mistakes, system errors, ill-intentioned users, and malware assaults such as ransomware. To read more, see ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup services.
Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup and Recovery
Double-Take publishes a family of products intended to deliver small businesses a variety of cost-effective solutions for replicating and recovering vital workloads such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent’s business continuity planning consultants have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take technology into small business information systems to create a high level of availability and business continuity capability at a budget-friendly price. For details, see Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Partner and provides professional application expertise for a wide variety of business software programs, Progent is able to help clients to arrive at complete IT solutions that substantially enhance the business value of your information system. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the services of premier engineers and specialists with experience in designing, deploying and supporting networking solutions based on Cisco products. The extent of Progent's technical experience and Progent's sensitivity to the needs of small and midsize companies make Progent a great partner for building and running an affordable, dependable information system.
How You Can Access Progent's Engineers for Business Continuity Planning Support
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