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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 service designed to offer small and middle-size organizations a reliable and low-cost solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. ProSight DPS Altaro Backup can be deployed on-premises, remote, multi-site, and cloud based network models and also supports cost-effective backup to a Microsoft Azure Blob storage service.

Top features of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to cut backup storage size, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup intervals down to five minutes for minimizing your window for lost data, military-grade data encryption, granular recovery options for whole virtual machines or for specific files, full support for Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and VMware, and support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to back up running virtual machines with no disruption.

Progent is an Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and offers a broad assortment of services to assist you to design, implement, test and debug a backup system built on Altaro's VM Backup technology. Progent also has developed ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup as a subscription service to deliver end-to-end management of your backup/restore system. Progent's Windows Hyper-V experts and VMware integration experts can assist you to design and maintain virtual machine environments that utilize on-premises or offsite virtual machines or that use a hybrid network that combines on-prem and cloud-based assets. Also, Progent offers workplace recovery planning expertise to assist you to get ready for calamities such as ransomware attacks and natural disasters.

Major Features of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is built to handle the data protection needs of typical small and midsize businesses and provides ease of management plus a rich feature set typically found only in enterprise-class products. Altaro backs up widely used releases of Windows Hyper-V and VMware and supports most backup hardware:

Altaro VM Backup offers advanced features in critical areas of backup includung replication, prompt recovery, and management and reporting.

Replication
Altaro VM Backup delivers rapid, efficient, and safe backup for data protection and archiving plus offsite replication for reliable restoration. Major backup and replication features include:

• Ransomware Protection via Immutable Cloud Storage: Immutability for cloud object storage enables tamper-proof data while under the defined policy so that backup data cannot be erased or modified by anyone including administrators or root users. Immutable storage provides an extra level of protection and restoration ability in the event of a ransomware breach.
• Global Augmented In-Line Deduplication: Altaro's in-line deduplication sends only altered data to backup devices, conserving bandwidth, minimizing storage requirements, and enhancing throughput. Altaro's deduplication works with data on single VMs as well as across multiple virtual machines.
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP): Instead of scheduling one-a-day backups, you can schedule backup spacing to as short as five minutes to minimize your Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Concurrent Backups: You can back up many virtual machines concurrently, allowing you to conduct backup processes within shorter low-activity time windows when the most network bandwidth is available and workload throughput is less critical.
• Live/Hot Backup: Integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) permits you to back up VMs without requiring downtime.
• Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter: The ability to back up VMs running in a Windows Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without CSV) or in a vCenter system allows large-scale deployments.
• Offsite Replication: To assist with business recovery, you can deploy the Altaro Offsite Server utility on a remote server for storing 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.
  
  Backup scheduling and retention policies for Altaro VM Backup are easy to set up, review and edit

• Workload Specific Protection: Altaro can utilize Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and all VSS Writers running within the target virtual machine when making a backup. Apps such as Exchange and Microsoft SQL will sense the backup has happened and automatically run the relevant maintenance procedures such as truncating transaction logs.
• Military-Grade Encryption: Prior to copying data to a backup destination, you have the option of encrypting it using the AES-256 encryption standard.
• Virtual Disk Exclusion: You have the ability to select which Virtual Disks to include or exclude in your virtual machine backups.
• Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving (GFS): Besides your on-going and daily backups, you can set up an additional backup schedule to make and archive a new backup version every week, month and year.
• Cloud Backup to Azure: Altaro VM Backup supports backup to a Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage account, which is the least expensive storage option available on the Azure cloud.
  
  Altaro Virtual Machine Backup enables you to back up VMs hosted on-site, remotely or in the cloud

• Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi: Altaro VM Backup VM Backup supports seamless backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi clouds. No additional resources operating in the cloud are necessary to support storage for backup.
• Back up to multiple off-premises datacenters: For better resilience, you can create copies of virtual machines on multiple off-premises sites including multiple public clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

• Recover as Clone: You can recover a virtual machine backup to a new destination with a new name, allowing the cloned virtual machine to run beside the original VM. This eliminates the need to overwrite active VMs.
• Restore to Different Host: You can recover a VM backup to a different host. The virtual machine can be recovered from the on-prem backup location, or directly from the remote copy location. (You may not cross-restore between Hyper-V and VMware Hypervisors.)
• Boot from Backup: You can instantly boot any VM copy from the backup location either for verification or to create a major improvement in Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in a disaster recovery event.
• File-Level Recovery: You can rapidly restore individual files and folders from any VM copy.
• WAN-Optimized Replication: You can make continuous backups of your VMs to an off-premises site and switch instantly to the copy location in case a disaster disables your primary VMs. This can significantly improve your RTO and get your organization back online fast.
• Exchange Item-Level Recovery: You can recover specific emails from within the Exchange Mailbox.
  
  Altaro Virtual Machine Backup allows you to recover specific emails from an Exchange Mailbox

• Restore Different Backup Versions: You can recover from different periods rather than being restricted to the last backup.
• Sandbox Restores and Testing: This feature lets you schedule or run manually tests to assess the accuracy of your backup data. You can verify backup folders without connecting the virtual machine to your Hyper-V or VMware Hypervisor, or you can run a complete confirmation recovery to a clone and verify that the restored virtual machine is able to boot.
• Backup Health Monitor: Backup copy integrity can be checked proactively and fixed automatically as a component of the subsequent backup process.

Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
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Progent's ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet. (PDF - 310 KB)

How Progent Can Help You to Benefit from Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Server Hyper-V planning and deployment experts and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter consultants can help your organization to plan, implement and maintain a backup/recover solution built on Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can help your business to utilize Altaro VM Backup to protect your Exchange system, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud consulting experts can help your company to use your Azure Block Blob storage service with Altaro to protect your virtual machines.

Progent's disaster recovery planning experts can help your business to use Altaro VM Backup's replication tools and remote backup options to safeguard your critical data and enable you to resume your core operations quickly in case of a catastrophe.

Periodic validation, testing, and optimization of data recovery are crucial and frequently underappreciated components for successful disaster preparedness. In the event of a disaster like a ransomware attack, these recovery drills can be the difference between a short loss of availability and an existential threat to a business. Progent's Altaro VM Backup experts can assist you to create a program for regularly validating, testing, and enhancing your recovery procedures in order that you can keep your backup solution current and minimize the damage of a disastrous incident.

Progent's GIAC information assurance (IA) consultants can gauge the security profile of your backup solution and can assist you to deploy the latest tools and adhere to industry leading practices for operating securely in today's threat landscape.

Fault Tolerant Solutions Offered by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco engineers can assist you to design an efficient, high-availability IT architecture that resolves key challenges covering a wide range of infrastructure solutions and operations such as:

Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity engineers can help you create a workplace recovery plan in order to restore IT operations in the event of an information network disaster. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also show you how to create an affordable, zero-downtime system solution that takes into account reliability issues covering a wide array of network technologies and processes. For details, go to Disaster Recovery Expertise.

CRISC-Premier Network Risk Management
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. For details, visit CRISC-Certified network risk control specialists.

Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced significant improvements in scale, throughput, management, security and compliance, app compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid integration of on-premises and cloud assets. Headline enhancements of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive intelligence to control on-premises networks, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and managing massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from outdated editions of Windows Server. For details, go to Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Consulting.

Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can assist you to design a DR solution based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools including Cluster Operating System 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 commodity hardware, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for improving the speed and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum arbitration point. For details, go to Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Consulting.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that lets you define, automate and test a repeatable runbook for recovering applications and services quickly following a breakdown. SRM supports centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also allows non-intrusive testing for site recovery, updates and fixes and can produce reports to verify full service recovery, validate SLAs and prove DR compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consulting expert to assist your organization to design, deploy, test and maintain a DR system based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses array-based storage clustering with continual replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between sites located up to 185 miles (300km) apart from each other. Progent can provide access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can assist you to plan, deploy, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select a topology for your MetroCluster environment that meets your functional requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by providing help with procedures like assigning shelf IDs, determining plexes layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network, and verifying your disaster recovery solution to prove compliance with information assurance standards and government requirements.

Network Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing consulting that addresses network load balancing, load balanced programs, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content dispatching products such as Cisco Content Engine. Fault tolerant load balancing products for which Progent can provide consulting services include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and ACNS, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To find out more, go to Non-stop Load Balancing.

Non-stop Colocation
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you identify high availability data centers that match the specific requirements of your business. High availability colocation sites are particularly appealing to small and mid-size businesses due to of their low cost and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Trying 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 show you how to reap all the benefits of 24x7 colocation facilities by providing a full range of consulting and support services. To read more, see Fault Tolerant Colocation Solutions.

Fault Tolerant Inter-office Networking
Progent's branch office network infrastructure professionals can help organizations achieve fault tolerant multi-site connectivity solutions through fully redundant networks featuring transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can plan and implement fault-tolerant Inter-office networks supported by non-stop EIGRP network routers or zero-downtime OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connections and transparent fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice connectivity. For more information, go to 24x7 Interoffice Networking.

Non-stop Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-authorized network consultants can help you create an affordable, high availability Internet configuration architecture that can achieve 24x7 Internet connectivity via a broad array of fault tolerant Internet network solutions including non-stop BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent offers CCIE consultants to show you how to utilize the most advanced techniques for 24x7 Internet connectivity to build a cost-effective, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to create non-stop Internet access. To read more, go to High Availability Internet Access Solutions.

Backup and Recovery Solutions Consultants
Progent offers affordable online access to IT engineers with expertise in a broad range of utilities and technologies that deliver solutions for protecting Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and workstations plus laptops and smartphones. Progent can provide expertise for all major data protection products including Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take, MozyPro, Retrospect, Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist your company to implement, enhance, or troubleshoot backup solutions for a range of architectures including local, remote, cloud-based, or hybrid. To learn more, visit Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting and Support Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consultants
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can assist your company to create a practical business continuity plan, design an affordable fault-tolerante IT architecture, install a Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager-powered recovery system, thoroughly validate your DPM system, train your IT personnel or local service providers how to maintain Microsoft SCDPM, or provide extensive IT outsourcing services such as off-site hosting of SCDPM servers in Progent's secure data center facility. To learn more, see Microsoft SCDPM Consulting.

Barracuda Backup On-premises and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup and disaster recovery service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a custom-designed hardware storage device built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which uses your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical business data produced on-premises, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, 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 Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a broad array of consulting services to help you to design, configure, operate and repair a BDR solution based on Barracuda technology. For details, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.

ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not include integrated support for vital data protection capabilities like Exchange Online backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a full-featured platform for programmable backup and quick restoration of all your company's M365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive for Business 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 suite. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service solution that defends M365 components against data loss or corruption caused by user or software mistakes, malicious corruption, and malware assaults such as ransomware. For more information, see ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.

Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates your backup activities and allow fast restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed cloud backup and recovery.

ProSight DPS 360 Backup Solutions
Progent can assist you to design, deploy and debug a backup plan based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file or image-based backup/recovery for VMs and physical computers, supports all popular public clouds, and allows businesses to create a data protection ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective and a defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup environment to prevent data loss caused by human mistakes, system glitches, malicious insiders, and malware attacks like ransomware. For more information, visit ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup solutions.

Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup/Restore
Double-Take offers a family of tools intended to provide small businesses a range of cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering vital applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, Blackberry, and Microsoft SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have extensive experience integrating Double-Take Software products into small business IT systems to create a high level of fault tolerance and disaster recovery capability at an affordable price. To find out more, go to Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Partner and provides high-level application consulting for a wide variety of business software programs, Progent can assist customers to arrive at comprehensive IT solutions that substantially enhance the productivity of your information system. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent can provide the services of premier consultants and specialists with experience in architecting, installing and supporting networking solutions built on Cisco products. The extent of Progent's IT know-how and Progent's sensitivity to the requirements of small businesses make Progent a great resource for building and maintaining a cost-effective, fault-tolerant information system.

How You Can Get in Touch with Progent's Engineers for Business Continuity Solutions Support
To get in touch with Progent about professional expertise for business continuity planning, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.