ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine Backup/Recovery
ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a fully managed subscription service designed to offer small and mid-size businesses a reliable and low-cost solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed on-premises, offsite, multi-site, and hybrid cloud network models and also offers budget-friendly backup to a Microsoft Azure Blob storage account.
Key capabilities of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are advanced Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing as low as five minutes for reducing your exposure to data loss, enterprise-class data encryption, flexible restore options for entire virtual machines or for individual files, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter and vSphere, and the ability to leverage Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up live VMs with no downtime.
Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and offers a wide range of services to assist you to plan, implement, validate and troubleshoot a data protection system built on Altaro's VM Backup technology. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup as a managed service to deliver remote monitoring and management of your backup/restore system. Progent's certified Hyper-V consultants and VMware vCenter and vSphere integration experts can help your organization to plan and manage virtual machine environments that utilize local or offsite virtual machines or that run in a hybrid architecture that combines on-prem and cloud-based assets. Also, Progent offers business continuity preparedness expertise to help businesses to rebound from catastrophic events such as ransomware attacks and widespread disasters.
Key Capabilities of Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup
Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup is built to address the backup/recover needs of most small and midsize organizations and provides simplicity of operation plus a rich feature set typically found only in enterprise-class products. Altaro VM Backup protects widely used versions of Hyper-V and VMware and supports most backup media:
| Hyper-V OS | VMware OS | Media |
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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 and later) VMware vSphere V(5.0) ESXi V(5.0 and later) (Free VMware ESXi is not supported) |
USB External Drives eSata Drives USB Flash Drives Network Shares NAS storage Desktop Hard Drives RDX Cartridges Altaro Offsite Server |
Altaro VM Backup offers advanced capabilities in crucial areas of backup such as replication, fast recovery, and centralized management.
Backup and Replication
Altaro VM Backup delivers fast, economical, and safe backup for data protection plus offsite replication for reliable recovery. Major backup and replication capabilities include:



Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
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How Progent Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V planning and deployment experts and VMware-certified vCenter specialists can help you to design, implement and maintain a backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can assist you to utilize Altaro VM Backup to protect your Exchange system, and Progent's Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud integration specialists can help your company to utilize your Azure Block Blob storage with Altaro software to protect your virtual machines.
Progent's disaster recovery planning experts can help your company to use Altaro VM Backup's replication tools and offsite backup options to safeguard your mission-critical data and enable you to restart your vital services quickly in case of a catastrophe.
Ongoing validation, testing, and enhancement of data recovery are crucial and frequently overlooked components for effective disaster preparedness. In case of a disaster such as a ransomware attack, these recovery drills can make the difference between an inconvenient period of downtime and a life-or-death crisis to a business. Progent's Altaro VM Backup experts can help you to create a workflow for regularly validating, testing, and optimizing your recovery procedures in order that you can keep your backup strategy up to date and minimize the damage of a catastrophic event.
Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance experts can evaluate the security posture of your data protection solution and can help your organization to deploy advanced tools and adhere to industry best practices for operating securely in the current threat landscape.
High Availability Solutions Offered by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco consulting experts can assist your business to design a sensible, high-availability network that addresses critical problems encompassing a wide array of infrastructure solutions and processes including:
Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning professionals can show you how to create a disaster recovery strategy that will allow you to restore network functionality in the event of an IT system catastrophe. Progent can assist you to define a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also show you how to build an affordable, high-availability network solution that takes into account availability issues involving a broad range of network technologies and procedures. To learn more, go to Workplace Recovery Consulting Services.
CRISC-Premier Network Risk Control
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To read more, see CRISC-Certified network risk mitigation specialists.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced significant improvements in scale, throughput, management, security and compliance, app compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud assets. Top new features of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid local/cloud-hosted deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive analytics to manage on-premises networks, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for building and administering large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from outdated releases of Windows Server. For more information, visit Microsoft Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Consulting.
Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can assist you to design a disaster recovery system built around Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using commodity hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the speed and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for easy, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum witness. To read more, visit Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Help.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and verify a consistent runbook for restoring services rapidly after an outage. SRM provides centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, and transparent site migration, failback and re-protect. SRM also enables transparent testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate audit reports to verify full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help your organization to design, configure, test and administer a DR solution based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery software suite that combines failover storage clustering with replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between sites that are as far as 300km apart from each other. Progent can provide online or on-premises access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can assist your business to plan, deploy, manage, update, test and repair a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional needs and budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with tasks such as assigning disk pools, arranging aggregate layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker, designing a configuration replication network, and testing your MetroCluster DR solution to show compliance with industry standards and government mandates.
Network Load Balancing
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing support that addresses network load balancing, load balanced programs, network backbone routing, and content delivery products such as F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing products for which Progent offers consulting services include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. To find out more, visit Non-stop Load Balancing.
Non-stop Colocation
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you find zero-downtime data centers that match the specific requirements of your business. Fault tolerant co-location sites are especially attractive to small and mid-size organizations due to of their affordability and convenience in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to build an in-house data center with even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small companies. Progent is ready to help you reap all the benefits of 24x7 colocation facilities by offering a full array of engineering and maintenance services. For details, see Fault Tolerant Internet Data Centers Expertise.
Fault Tolerant Inter-office Networking
Progent's multi-site network infrastructure consultants can help organizations achieve zero-downtime inter-site connections through redundant networks with automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can design and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connections and automatic fail-over can provide economical non-stop interoffice connectivity. For details, see Failsafe Interoffice Networking.
24x7 Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT experts can help you design an economical, high availability Internet connection architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet connectivity via a wide array of fault tolerant Internet access technologies including fault tolerant BGP, automatic fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent offers CCIE consultants to help you apply the most advanced techniques for fault tolerant Internet connectivity to build an affordable, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to create zero-downtime Internet access. For more information, see Fault Tolerant Internet Connectivity Architecture.
Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting Experts
Progent can provide affordable online access to engineers skilled in a broad array of utilities and technologies that deliver solutions for backing up Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops plus laptops and smartphones. Progent offers expertise for all major data protection platforms such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Software, Mozy, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and FLARs. Progent's consultants can help your company to implement, enhance, or troubleshoot data backup systems for a variety of architectures including on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud, or hybrid. For more information, go to Backup and Recovery Solutions Expertise.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's expert Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can assist your company to create a practical business continuity plan, design an affordable high-availability IT infrastructure, deploy a System Center Data Protection Manager-powered backup and restore solution, thoroughly validate your system, educate your IT staff or regular service providers how to maintain SCDPM, or provide complete information technology outsourcing services such as off-site hosting of virtual or physical SCDPM servers in Progent's secure data center facility. To read more, go to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting.
Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup and disaster recovery service for small and mid-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a purpose-built physical appliance built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar features but which utilizes your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital business data produced locally, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a broad range of consulting services to help your business to plan, integrate, manage and debug a backup and disaster recovery system based on Barracuda Backup. For more information, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.
ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for vital data protection services like Exchange Online backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich platform for programmable backup and rapid recovery of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive files, and content on Windows endpoints. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) 365 Total Backup to provide end-to-end managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup delivers an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that protects M365 apps against data loss resulting from user or system mistakes, malevolent corruption, and cyber attacks such as ransomware. For details, see ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.
Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates your backup activities and allow fast recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup and recovery.
ProSight MSP360 Backup Services
Progent can help you to design, implement and debug a backup plan based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file/folder or image-based backup/restore for VMs and physical machines, works with all leading public clouds, and permits businesses to create a data protection solution with a low Recovery Time Objective and a granular Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent can provide comprehensive monitoring and remote management of your backup system to prevent data loss caused by user mistakes, system errors, ill-intentioned users, and external attacks like ransomware. For details, visit ProSight MSP360 Backup services.
Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Data Backup and Recovery
Double-Take Software publishes a selection of products designed to deliver small and midsize companies a range of affordable alternatives for replicating and recovering vital workloads such as Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have extensive backgrounds incorporating Double-Take Software technology into small company information networks to create an advanced state of availability and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly cost. To find out more, visit Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup.
Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified AI Cloud Partner and provides specialized application support for a broad variety of small business software programs, Progent can assist customers to arrive at complete IT solutions that optimize the productivity of your information system. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the support of certified engineers and specialists with expertise in architecting, configuring and troubleshooting networking solutions built on Cisco technology. The broad scope of Progent's technical experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small companies make Progent the perfect resource for building and maintaining an affordable, dependable network.
How You Can Get in Touch with Progent's Engineers for Business Continuity Solutions Help
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