Data Security and Compliance

ProSight Data Protection Services - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine Backup/Recovery
ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a managed subscription service designed to offer small and middle-size businesses a robust and low-cost option for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed local, remote, multi-location, and cloud based environments and also offers budget-friendly backup to an Azure Blob storage service.

Key features of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce storage size, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing down to five minutes for minimizing your exposure to lost data, enterprise-class data encryption, flexible restore alternatives for whole virtual machines or for specific files and emails, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and VMware vCenter and vSphere, and support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology to protect running VMs with no downtime.

Progent is an Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of services to assist you to plan, implement, test and debug a data protection system built on Altaro's VM Backup technology. Progent also has developed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) Altaro VM Backup as a managed service to deliver end-to-end management of your data protection ecosystem. Progent's Windows Hyper-V consultants and VMware vCenter and vSphere specialists can help you to plan and manage VM deployments that utilize local or remote virtual machines or that work in a hybrid network that incorporates both on-prem and cloud assets. Also, Progent offers workplace recovery preparedness consulting to assist you to rebound from catastrophic events such as ransomware assaults and natural disasters.

Key Features of Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup
Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup is designed to address the backup/restore requirements of most small and midsize organizations and offers simplicity of operation as well as a rich range of capabilities typically available exclusively in enterprise-grade products. Altaro VM Backup protects widely used releases of Windows Hyper-V and VMware and works with standard backup hardware:

Altaro VM Backup comes with advanced features in critical areas of data protection such as replication, fast restoration, and centralized management.

Replication
Altaro VM Backup offers rapid, economical, and secure backup for data protection and archiving plus offsite data replication for dependable restoration. Top backup and replication capabilities include:

• Ransomware Defense leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage: Immutable backup for cloud storage enables tamper-proof data for a set duration so that backup data cannot be erased or modified by anyone including administrators or root users. This provides another level of protection and restoration ability in case of a ransomware breach.
• Global Augmented In-Line Deduplication: Altaro's in-line deduplication saves only altered data to backup devices, conserving bandwidth, cutting storage requirements, and enhancing throughput. Altaro's deduplication works with data on single VMs and across multiple virtual machines globally.
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP): Instead of running one-a-day backups, you can schedule backup intervals to as brief as five minutes to lower your Recovery Point Objective.
• Concurrent Backups: You can back up multiple virtual machines concurrently, allowing you to conduct backup processes within briefer low-activity time windows while more bandwidth is available and workload performance is less urgent.
• Live/Hot Backup: Altaro's integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) permits you to back up VMs without incurring downtime.
• Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter: The ability to back up VMs running in a Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without Cluster Shared Volumes) or within a vCenter system supports large-scale deployments.
• Remote Replication: To facilitate business recovery, you can deploy the Altaro Offsite Server utility on an external server for keeping a copy of your backups at a remote site.
• Flexible Scheduling and Retention Policies: You can set different backup schedules and retention policies for individual VMs.
  
  Scheduling and retention policies for Altaro VM Backup are easy to configure, check and revise

• Workload Consistent Protection: Altaro can utilize Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and any VSS Writers working inside the protected virtual machine when making a backup. Applications like Exchange and Microsoft SQL will sense the backup has taken place and automatically proceed with the appropriate maintenance procedures such as truncating transaction logs.
• Military-Class Encryption: Prior to copying data to a backup device, you have the option of encrypting it with the 256-Bit AES encryption standard.
• Virtual Disk Exclusion: You have the ability to select which Virtual Disks to include or exclude in your VM backups.
• Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving: On top of your continuous and daily backups, you can set up an additional schedule to make and archive a backup copy each week, month and year.
• Cloud Backup to Microsoft Azure: Altaro supports backup to a Microsoft Azure Block Blob account, which is the most affordable storage alternative offered on the Azure cloud.
  
  Altaro VM Backup allows you to back up VMs hosted on-site, remotely or in a public cloud

• Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi: Altaro VM Backup supports native backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi. No additional resources operating in the cloud are needed to provide storage for backup.
• Back up to multiple remote datacenters: For better robustness, you can create copies of virtual machines on multiple remote locations including multiple clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

• Recover as Clone: You can restore a virtual machine backup to a new destination with a new name, allowing the cloned VM to operate alongside the original VM. This avoids the necessity to write over live virtual machines.
• Restore to Different Host: You can recover a VM backup to a new or different host. The virtual machine can be restored from the on-prem backup location, or directly from the offsite copy location. (You cannot cross-restore between Hyper-V and VMware.)
• Boot from Backup: You can immediately boot any virtual machine version directly from the backup location either for testing or to create a major improvement in Recovery Time Objective during a disaster recovery event.
• File-Level Recovery: You can quickly recover individual files from any VM copy.
• WAN-Optimized Replication: You can make continuous backups of your VMs to a different location and switch instantly to the copy site in the event that a disaster disables your main VMs. This can dramatically shrink your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and get your organization back online quickly.
• Exchange Item-Level Recovery: You can recover specific emails from within the Exchange Mailbox.
  
  Altaro VM Backup permits you to restore specific emails from an Exchange Mailbox

• Recover Different Versions: You can recover from multiple periods instead of being restricted to the last backup.
• Sandbox Restores and Verification: This feature lets you program or launch manually tests to confirm the accuracy of your backup data. You can verify backup folders without attaching the virtual machine to your Windows Hyper-V or VMware host, or you can run a full confirmation recovery to a replicant and ensure that the restored VM is able to boot.
• Backup Health Monitor: Backup storage accuracy can be monitored proactively and repaired automatically as part of the next backup operation.

Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
To view a datasheet describing the major features 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 Get the Most from Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V planning and deployment experts and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter consultants can assist your organization to design, deploy and manage a backup/restore solution based on Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can assist your business to utilize Altaro VM Backup to safeguard your Exchange system, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud integration experts can assist your company to use your Azure Block Blob storage with Altaro to back up your virtual machines.

Progent's business continuity planning consultants can help your company to use Altaro VM Backup's replication tools and offsite backup capability to safeguard your critical data and enable you to resume your vital operations rapidly in case of a catastrophe.

Ongoing verification, testing, and optimization of system recovery are vital and frequently underappreciated requirements for effective disaster readiness. In the event of a disaster like a ransomware attack, these restoration drills can make the difference between a short loss of availability and a life-or-death crisis to a business. Progent's Altaro VM Backup experts can assist you to create a program for periodically validating, testing, and improving your recovery procedures so you can keep your backup strategy up to date and minimize the impact of a catastrophic event.

Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance specialists can assess the cybersecurity profile of your data protection system and can assist your organization to implement the latest tools and adhere to industry best practices for operating safely in the modern threat environment.