ProSight Data Protection Services - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup: Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine Backup
ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a managed subscription service intended to provide small and mid-size organizations a reliable and low-cost solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. ProSight DPS Altaro Backup can be deployed local, remote, multi-site, and cloud based environments and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to an Azure Block Blob storage account.
Top features of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to cut backup storage size, Continuous Data Protection with backup spacing as low as five minutes for reducing your window for data loss, military-grade encryption, granular restore options for entire virtual machines or for individual files and emails, extensive support for Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter and vSphere, and support for Volume Shadow Copy Service to back up running virtual machines with no downtime.
Progent is an Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad assortment of services to assist you to plan, implement, validate and troubleshoot a backup system based on Altaro's VM Backup platform. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) Altaro VM Backup as a managed service to provide remote monitoring and management of your data protection solution. Progent's Hyper-V experts and VMware vCenter and vSphere integration experts can assist your organization to plan and maintain virtual machine environments that use local or remote VMs or that work in a hybrid architecture that incorporates both local and cloud-based resources. Also, Progent can provide workplace recovery preparedness consulting to assist businesses to get ready for catastrophes such as ransomware attacks and natural disasters.
Key Features of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is built to address the backup/recover needs of typical small and midsize organizations and provides ease of operation as well as a rich range of capabilities usually found only in enterprise-class products. Altaro VM Backup backs up widely used versions of Windows Hyper-V and VMware and supports standard backup hardware:
Hyper-V OS | VMware OS | 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) |
VMware vCenter V(5.0 and later) VMware vSphere V(6.5) VMware ESXi V(5.0) (Free ESXi not compatible) |
USB Drives eSata External Drives USB Flash Network Shares NAS devices Desktop Internal Drives RDX Storage Altaro AOS |
Altaro VM Backup comes with powerful capabilities in vital facets of data protection such as replication, fast recovery, and management and reporting.
Replication
Altaro VM Backup offers rapid, economical, and secure backup for data protection plus remote data replication for dependable recovery. Major backup and replication features include:
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How Progent Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V planning and deployment consultants and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter consultants can help you to plan, implement and maintain a backup/recover solution built on Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can assist you to utilize Altaro VM Backup to protect your Exchange environment, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud consulting experts can assist you to use your Azure Block Blob storage service with Altaro software to back up your VMs. Progent's disaster recovery preparedness experts can assist your company to use Altaro VM Backup's replication tools and remote backup capability to safeguard your mission-critical data and enable you to restart your vital operations quickly in the event of a calamity. Progent's GIAC information assurance experts can gauge the security posture of your data protection solution and can assist you to deploy advanced technology and adhere to industry best practices for operating safely in the modern threat environment.
High Availability Technologies Provided by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can assist you to design an affordable, fault-tolerant system that resolves major issues covering a broad range of infrastructure technologies and operations such as:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity professionals can help you design a workplace recovery plan that will allow you to restore IT functionality in the event of an information system disaster. Progent can assist you to develop a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also help you create an affordable, non-stop system architecture that takes into account reliability issues involving a wide range of infrastructure technologies and processes. To learn more, go to Workplace Recovery Consulting and Support Services.
CRISC-Certified Network Risk Management
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. For more information, visit CRISC-Certified network risk control specialists.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 introduced significant improvements in capacity, throughput, manageability, security and compliance, app compatibility, Linux support, container networking, and hybrid combinations of on-premises and cloud resources. Headline new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive intelligence to manage on-premises environments, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for building and managing massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from legacy releases of Windows Server. For details, visit Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Help.
Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can help you to design a disaster recovery solution based on Microsoft's latest Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using industry-standard hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the speed and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for easy, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum arbitration point. To read more, visit Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Help.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and verify a repeatable runbook for recovering applications and services rapidly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables non-intrusive testing for site recovery, updates and fixes and can produce audit reports to confirm full service restoration, validate SLAs and prove compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help your organization to design, deploy, test and manage a DR solution powered by VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses failover storage clustering with replication to provide rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between sites located up to 185 miles (300km) away from one another. Progent offers online or on-premises access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help you to design, deploy, administer, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that meets your technical needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by providing help with procedures such as assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, setting up volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your DR system to show compliance with information assurance standards and government mandates.
High Availability Load Balancing
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing support that addresses network load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content dispatching technology such as F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing technologies for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. For more information, visit High Availability Load Balancing.
High-Availability Colocation
Progent's Data Center professionals can show you how to find zero-downtime data centers that match the specific requirements of your business. High availability co-location sites are especially appealing to small and mid-size companies due to of their low cost and convenience in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to build an on-site data center that offers even a minimum level of fault tolerance is too expensive for most small companies. Progent can show you how to get all the benefits of 24x7 Internet data centers by offering a complete array of consulting and support services. To learn more, go to High-Availability Internet Data Centers Expertise.
Non-stop Branch Office Networking
Progent's inter-site network infrastructure engineers can help businesses create non-stop multi-site connectivity via redundant networks with automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can plan and deploy fault-tolerant Inter-office connections based on non-stop EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connections and automatic fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice connectivity. To read more, go to Failsafe Interoffice Connectivity.
Non-stop Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-certified IT experts can show you how to create an economical, high availability Internet connection solution that can achieve non-stop Internet connectivity via a wide array of high availability Internet network technologies including non-stop BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent offers CCIE engineers to help you utilize the most advanced techniques for 24x7 Internet access to implement a cost-effective, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to deliver non-stop Internet access. For more information, see Fault Tolerant Internet Access Solutions.
Backup and Recovery Technology Consultants
Progent offers economical online access to IT engineers with expertise in a wide array of utilities and technologies that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux physical and virtual servers and workstations plus laptops and handhelds. Progent offers expertise for all major backup products including Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan, Double-Take Backup, Mozy, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and FLARs. Progent's consultants can help you to deploy, upgrade, or troubleshoot backup solutions for a range of topologies including on-premises, remote, cloud-based, or a mix. To learn more, see Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting Services.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Recovery Consulting and Support Services
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can assist your company to develop an effective disaster recovery strategy, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante network infrastructure, configure a SCDPM-powered backup and restore solution, comprehensively test your system, train your IT staff or regular service providers how to maintain Microsoft SCDPM, or provide complete IT outsourcing services including remote housing of System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's secure data center. To read more, see Microsoft SCDPM Consulting and Support Services.
Barracuda Backup On-premises and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup/restore service for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can include a purpose-built physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects critical company data generated locally, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any site with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a broad array of consulting services to help you to plan, configure, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery system built on Barracuda Backup. For details, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.
ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not include integrated support for key data protection capabilities like Exchange Online backups or long-term point-in-time recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup (formerly named Altaro O365 Backup) delivers a feature-rich platform for programmable backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mail, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive for Business data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. 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 Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup delivers an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that protects M365 components against data loss or corruption caused by user or system mistakes, malevolent corruption, and cyber assaults such as ransomware. To read more, see ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup activities and enable fast restoration of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup and recovery.
ProSight DPS 360 Backup Solutions
Progent can help your company to create, implement and debug a backup plan based on MSP360 technology. MSP360 enables file or image backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical machines, supports all popular public clouds, and allows you to build a data protection solution with a low Recovery Time Objective and a defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup environment to protect against data loss resulting from user miscues, system errors, ill-intentioned users, and external attacks such as ransomware. To read more, see ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.
Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Backup/Restore
Double-Take Software publishes a selection of products intended to provide small and midsize companies a range of cost-effective solutions for replicating and recovering vital workloads including Exchange, SQL Server, RIM Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have in-depth backgrounds incorporating Double-Take Software technology into small company IT networks to achieve an advanced state of fault tolerance and business continuity readiness at an affordable price. To learn more, go to Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and provides high-level application consulting for a broad variety of small business software programs, Progent can help customers to find complete IT solutions that optimize the productivity of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the services of certified engineers and specialists with experience in architecting, configuring and supporting infrastructure solutions built on Cisco technology. The breadth of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's appreciation for the needs of small businesses make Progent a great partner for creating and running a cost-effective, fault-tolerant network.
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