ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Server Backup and Restore
ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a managed subscription service intended to offer small and middle-size businesses a reliable and low-cost solution for protecting Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). ProSight DPS Altaro Backup can be deployed on-premises, offsite, multi-site, and cloud network models and also supports budget-friendly cloud backup to a Microsoft Azure Blob storage account.
Key capabilities of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing as low as five minutes for minimizing your window for data loss, enterprise-class encryption, flexible restore options for whole virtual machines or for individual files, full integration with Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware, and the ability to leverage Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service technology to back up running VMs with no downtime.
Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of services to help your business to plan, deploy, validate and troubleshoot a backup system built on Altaro's VM Backup technology. Progent also has developed ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup as a managed service to deliver remote management of your data protection ecosystem. Progent's Hyper-V consultants and VMware specialists can assist you to design and maintain virtual machine deployments that use on-premises or offsite virtual machines or that work in a hybrid architecture that combines local and cloud resources. Also, Progent offers workplace recovery planning expertise to help businesses to rebound from calamities such as ransomware attacks and widespread disasters.
Key Features of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is designed to address the backup/recover requirements of most small and midsize businesses and provides simplicity of management as well as a comprehensive set of features typically available only in enterprise-class platforms. Altaro protects popular releases of Windows Hyper-V and VMware vCenter and supports standard backup media:
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) Azure Stack HCI |
VMware vCenter V(5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0) VMware vSphere V(5.0) VMware ESXi V(6.5) (Free VMware ESXi not compatible) |
USB Drives eSata Drives USB Flash Drives Network Shares NAS storage PC Internal HDs RDX Cartridges Altaro AOS |
Altaro VM Backup comes with powerful capabilities in vital areas of data protection such as replication, fast recovery, and management and reporting.
Backup and Replication
Altaro VM Backup offers rapid, efficient, and safe backup for data protection plus remote replication for dependable recovery. Top backup and replication features include:
Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
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How Progent Can Assist Your Business to Get the Most from Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V planning and deployment experts and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter specialists can assist you to design, deploy and manage a backup/recover solution built on Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange experts can help you to use Altaro VM Backup to protect your Exchange system, and Progent's Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud integration experts can assist you to use your Azure Block Blob storage service with Altaro software to protect your VMs.
Progent's business continuity preparedness experts can help you to use Altaro's replication tools and offsite backup capability to protect your mission-critical data and enable you to resume your vital operations rapidly in case of a calamity.
Periodic validation, testing, and enhancement of system restoration are vital and often underappreciated requirements for proper disaster readiness. In the event of a disaster like a ransomware attack, these recovery drills can spell the difference between a temporary loss of availability and an existential crisis to a business. Progent's Altaro VM Backup experts can assist you to create a program for regularly validating, testing, and enhancing your restore procedures so you can keep your backup solution current and contain the impact of a disastrous incident.
Progent's GIAC information assurance specialists can gauge the security profile of your data protection system and can assist you to implement the latest tools and adhere to industry best practices for operating securely in the modern threat environment.
Fault Tolerant Technologies Offered by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified support professionals can help your business to design a cost-effective, zero-downtime environment that addresses key problems encompassing a wide array of infrastructure technologies and operations such as:
Business Continuity Planning
Progent's business continuity planning engineers can help you create a workplace recovery plan so you can resume IT functionality in the event of an information system catastrophe. Progent can assist you to develop a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified professionals can also help you create an affordable, fault-tolerant system solution that addresses reliability issues covering a broad range of network technologies and procedures. For details, go to Disaster Recovery Expertise.
CRISC-Certified IT Risk Management
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. For more information, visit CRISC-Premier network risk mitigation experts.
Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 incorporated important enhancements in capacity, performance, management, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid integration of on-premises and cloud-hosted assets. Top new features of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid local/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive analytics to manage on-premises environments, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and administering massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the migration from legacy releases of Windows Server. For details, see Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Consulting.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can help you to plan and deploy a DR solution based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class storage clusters using commodity equipment, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable deployment of a failover cluster quorum witness. For details, see Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Expertise.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to define, automate and test a repeatable runbook for recovering services rapidly following an outage. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-disruptive site relocation, failback and re-protect. SRM also allows non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can produce reports to confirm full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consultant to help you to plan, configure, test and maintain a disaster recovery system based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that combines array-based storage clustering along with replication to provide rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery between sites located as far as 300km apart. Progent offers online or on-premises access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to design, configure, administer, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to leading practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with procedures like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, arranging aggregate layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and testing your MetroCluster disaster recovery system to prove adherence with information assurance standards and government requirements.
Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing consulting that addresses network load balancing, load balanced applications, network infrastructure routing, and content delivery products such as Cisco Content Engine. High availability load balancing solutions for which Progent can provide consulting services include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Engine and ACNS, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. To find out more, see Fault Tolerant Load Balancing.
Non-stop Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you identify fault-tolerant data centers that meet the particular needs of your business. Fault tolerant off-site data centers are especially appealing to small and mid-size businesses due to of their low cost and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to build an in-house data center that offers even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small organizations. Progent is ready to show you how to get all the benefits of 24x7 colocation centers by offering a complete array of engineering and maintenance services. To find out more, see High-Availability Data Centers Solutions.
Failsafe Branch Office Networking
Progent's multi-site connectivity engineers can help companies achieve zero-downtime inter-site connectivity via fully redundant system architectures with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can plan and deploy fault-tolerant Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and transparent fail-over offers affordable 24x7 interoffice connectivity. To find out more, visit 24x7 Inter-office Networking.
Fault Tolerant Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified network experts can show you how to build an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can achieve non-stop Internet access via a wide array of fault tolerant Internet access solutions including fault tolerant BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert professionals to help you apply the most up-to-date technology for high availability Internet connectivity to build an affordable, fully redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver fault tolerant Internet access. To read more, see Non-stop Internet Connectivity Architecture.
Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Experts
Progent can provide economical online access to engineers skilled in a wide range of products and technologies that deliver solutions for backing up Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops plus laptops and handhelds. Progent offers expertise for leading data protection products including Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Backup, MozyPro, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist you to implement, enhance, or maintain backup solutions for a variety of environments including on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud, or hybrid. For details, go to Backup and Restore Solutions Expertise.
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Recovery Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can help you to develop a practical disaster recovery strategy, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, install a SCDPM-powered backup and restore system, thoroughly test your DPM system, educate your IT staff or regular consultants how to maintain System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete information technology support outsourcing such as off-site housing of System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's world-class data center. For details, go to System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting and Support Services.
Barracuda Backup Multi-site and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup/restore service for small and mid-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with comparable features but which utilizes your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital company data produced locally, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any site with a physical or virtual Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants can provide a broad range of consulting support services to assist your business to plan, configure, manage and repair a BDR system based on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.
ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for key data protection services such as Exchange Online backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a full-featured BDR solution for automatic backup and quick recovery of all your organization's M365 mail, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive for Business files, and content on Windows endpoints. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to deliver comprehensive management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service alternative that protects M365 components against data loss caused by user or system error, malevolent sabotage, and cyber attacks like ransomware. To learn more, visit ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.
Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates your backup processes and allow fast restoration of critical files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup.
ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Services
Progent can help your company to create, implement and debug a backup solution based on MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file or image backup/restore for VMs and physical machines, supports all leading public clouds, and allows businesses to build a backup ecosystem with a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to prevent data loss caused by user mistakes, computer errors, malicious insiders, and external assaults such as ransomware. To read more, visit ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.
Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Backup/Restore
Double-Take offers a family of tools designed to deliver small and midsize companies a variety of affordable solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical workloads such as Exchange Server, SQL Server, Blackberry, and Microsoft SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have extensive experience integrating Double-Take Software technology into small company information systems to create an advanced state of fault tolerance and business continuity capability at an affordable price. To find out more, see Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup.
Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and provides professional application support for a wide variety of business applications, Progent is able to help customers to arrive at complete information technology solutions that maximize the productivity of your IT network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the support of premier consultants and specialists with experience in designing, configuring and maintaining infrastructure environments built on Cisco technology. The depth of Progent's technical experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small and midsize businesses make Progent the perfect partner for creating and maintaining a cost-effective, dependable network.
How to Contact Progent's Engineers for Business Continuity Solutions Support
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