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ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine Backup and Restore
ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a fully managed subscription service designed to offer small and middle-size organizations a robust and low-cost solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. ProSight DPS Altaro Backup can be used with local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also supports budget-friendly cloud backup to an Azure Block Blob storage account.

Key capabilities of ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to cut storage size, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing down to five minutes for reducing your exposure to data loss, military-grade data encryption, flexible recovery options for whole VMs or for individual files, extensive integration with Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter and vSphere, and support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up running VMs without downtime.

Progent is an Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and offers a broad range of services to assist you to plan, implement, validate and troubleshoot a backup solution based on Altaro's VM Backup platform. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) Altaro VM Backup as a subscription service to deliver end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup ecosystem. Progent's Hyper-V experts and VMware integration experts can assist your organization to plan and manage virtual machine deployments that utilize local or offsite virtual machines or that work in a hybrid architecture that combines local and cloud assets. In addition, Progent offers business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning consulting to help businesses to rebound from catastrophic events such as ransomware assaults and natural disasters.

Major Capabilities of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is built to fulfill the backup/recover needs of typical small and medium-size organizations and offers ease of operation as well as a comprehensive set of features typically found exclusively in enterprise-grade platforms. Altaro protects widely used releases of Hyper-V and VMware and works with most backup media:

Altaro VM Backup comes with powerful capabilities in vital areas of backup includung replication, prompt restoration, and management and reporting.

Backup and Replication
Altaro VM Backup offers fast, efficient, and safe backup for data protection and archiving plus offsite data replication for reliable recovery. Major backup and replication features include:

• Ransomware Defense leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage: Immutability for cloud object storage allows tamper-proof data for a set duration so that backup data cannot be erased or modified by anyone including root users. Immutable storage provides an extra level of protection and recoverability in case of a ransomware breach.
• Global Augmented In-Line Deduplication: In-line deduplication saves only changed data to backup storage devices, conserving bandwidth, cutting backup storage demands, and enhancing performance. Deduplication works with data on single VMs and on multiple VMs globally.
• Continuous Data Protection: Instead of performing one-a-day backups, you can schedule backup spacing to as short as five minutes to lower your Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Concurrent Backups: You can back up many virtual machines at the same time, allowing you to conduct backup operations within shorter low-activity time windows when the most network bandwidth is open and network throughput is less critical.
• Live/Hot Backup: Altaro's integration with Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) allows you to back up VMs without requiring downtime.
• Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter: The ability to back up VMs within a Windows Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without Cluster Shared Volumes) or within a VMware vCenter environment supports large-scale deployments.
• Offsite Replication: To assist with business recovery, you can set up the Altaro Offsite Server utility on a remote server for keeping a copy of your backups at a different site.
• Flexible Scheduling and Retention Policies: You can set different backup schedules and retention policies for individual VMs.
  
  Backup scheduling and retention options for Altaro are simple to configure, review and edit

• Workload Consistent Protection: Altaro can use Volume Shadow Copy Service and all VSS Writers running within the target VM when executing a backup. Applications including Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL will be aware the backup has taken place and automatically run the appropriate maintenance jobs such as truncating VLFs.
• Military-Class Encryption: Before copying data to a backup destination, you have the ability to encrypt it with the 256-Bit AES encryption standard.
• Virtual Disk Exclusion: You can select which Virtual Disks to include or exclude in your virtual machine backups.
• Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving (GFS): On top of your continuous and scheduled backups, you can implement an additional backup schedule to create and archive a backup version each week, month and year.
• Cloud Backup to Microsoft Azure: Altaro VM Backup enables backup to an Azure Block Blob storage account, which is the most affordable storage alternative available on the Azure cloud.
  
  Altaro VM Backup allows you to protect VMs hosted on-premises, offsite or in the cloud

• Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi: Altaro VM Backup supports seamless backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi. No additional resources operating in the cloud are required to support storage for backup.
• Back up to multiple remote locations: For improved robustness, you can make copies of virtual machines on multiple remote sites including multiple public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

• Recover as Clone: You can recover a VM backup to a new location with a new name, permitting the cloned virtual machine to run beside the original VM. This eliminates the necessity to write over active virtual machines.
• Restore to Different Host: You can recover a virtual machine backup to a different Hypervisor. The virtual machine can be restored from the on-prem backup location, or directly from the remote copy location. (You cannot cross-recover between Hyper-V and VMware.)
• Boot from Backup: You can immediately boot any VM version directly from the backup device for verification or to achieve a significant improvement in RTO in a disaster recovery scenario.
• File-Level Recovery: You can quickly recover specific files and folders from any VM backup.
• WAN-Optimized Replication: You can make continuous backups of your virtual machines to a different site and transfer immediately to the backup location in case a calamity disables your primary virtual machines. This can significantly shrink your Recovery Time Objective and get your organization back online quickly.
• Microsoft Exchange Item-Level Restore: You can retrieve specific emails from within the Exchange Mailbox database.
  
  Altaro Virtual Machine Backup enables you to recover specific emails from an Exchange Mailbox database

• Recover Various Versions: You can restore from different periods instead of being restricted to the last backup.
• Sandbox Restores and Verification: You can program or launch manually tests to assess the accuracy of your backup data. You can verify backup folders without connecting the VM to your Hyper-V or VMware Hypervisor, or you can run a complete test recovery to a replicant and verify that the recovered virtual machine can boot.
• Backup Health Monitor: Backup storage accuracy can be monitored on demand and repaired automatically as a component of the next backup process.

Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
To view a datasheet about the key capabilities of ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services, click:
Progent's ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet. (PDF - 310 KB)

How Progent Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Server Hyper-V integration consultants and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter consultants can assist you to design, deploy and maintain a backup/recover solution built on Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can help your business to use Altaro VM Backup to protect your Exchange environment, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud integration experts can help your company to use your Azure Block Blob storage with Altaro software to back up your VMs.

Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants can assist your business to use Altaro's replication features and remote backup capability to safeguard your mission-critical data and enable you to resume your core operations rapidly in case of a calamity.

Periodic verification, testing, and optimization of data recovery are critical and often overlooked components for successful disaster preparedness. In the event of a disaster like a ransomware breach, these recovery drills can spell the difference between an inconvenient loss of availability and a life-or-death crisis to a business. Progent can assist you to create a program for regularly validating, testing, and optimizing your restore procedures in order that you can keep your backup solution current and minimize the damage of a catastrophic event.

Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance specialists can assess the security posture of your data protection solution and can assist your business to deploy advanced tools and follow industry leading practices for working safely in the modern threat landscape.