Business Continuity Support

ProSight Data Protection Services - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine Backup and Restore
ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a fully managed service intended to offer small and mid-size organizations a robust and affordable option for protecting Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). ProSight DPS Altaro Backup can be deployed on-premises, remote, multi-site, and hybrid cloud network models and also supports budget-friendly backup to an Azure Block Blob storage service.

Key capabilities of ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection with backup spacing down to five minutes for reducing your vulnerability to lost data, military-grade encryption, granular restore options for entire VMs or for specific files and emails, extensive support for Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware, and the ability to leverage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology to protect live virtual machines with no downtime.

Progent is an Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of services to assist your business to design, deploy, test and troubleshoot a backup solution based on Altaro's VM Backup technology. Progent also has developed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) Altaro VM Backup as a subscription service to provide end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup ecosystem. Progent's certified Hyper-V consultants and VMware vCenter and vSphere specialists can help your organization to design and maintain VM environments that utilize on-premises or offsite virtual machines or that work in a hybrid architecture that incorporates both local and cloud-based resources. Also, Progent can provide business continuity preparedness expertise to assist you to get ready for calamities such as ransomware attacks and widespread disasters.

Key Features of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is designed to handle the backup/recover needs of most small and midsize organizations and offers ease of operation as well as a comprehensive feature set typically available exclusively in enterprise-grade products. Altaro protects popular versions of Windows Hyper-V and VMware and supports most backup media:

Altaro VM Backup offers advanced features in vital facets of backup such as replication, fast restoration, and management and reporting.

Replication
Altaro VM Backup delivers fast, efficient, and safe backup for data protection and archiving plus remote replication for reliable recovery. Major backup and replication features include:

• Ransomware Protection leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage: Immutable backup for cloud object storage enables tamper-proof data for a set duration so that backup data cannot be modified or deleted by any user including administrators or root users. Immutable storage adds another level of protection and recoverability in the event of a successful ransomware attack.
• Global Augmented In-Line Deduplication: In-line variable block size deduplication sends only altered data to backup storage devices, reducing network traffic, minimizing backup storage requirements, and enhancing performance. Altaro's deduplication works with data on single virtual machines and across multiple VMs globally.
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP): Instead of running daily backups, you can schedule backup spacing to as short as five minutes to minimize your Recovery Point Objective.
• Concurrency: You can back up many virtual machines simultaneously, allowing you to carry out backup processes within briefer off-hour time windows when more network bandwidth is available and workload throughput is less critical.
• Live/Hot Backup: Integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) allows you to back up VMs without incurring downtime.
• Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter: The ability to protect virtual machines within a Windows Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without CSV) or in a vCenter system supports large-scale implementations.
• Remote Replication: To facilitate business recovery, you can set up the Altaro Offsite Server utility on an external server for storing a copy of your backups at a remote location.
• Flexible Scheduling and Retention Policies: You can set different backup schedules and retention policies for individual VMs.
  
  Scheduling and retention options for Altaro VM Backup are easy to set up, check and edit

• Workload Specific Protection: Altaro can utilize Volume Shadow Copy Service and any VSS Writers working inside the protected virtual machine when executing a backup. Apps such as Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL will be aware the backup has taken place and automatically run the relevant maintenance procedures like truncating virtual log files.
• Military-Class Encryption: Prior to copying data to a backup device, you have the ability to encrypt it using the 256-Bit AES encryption standard.
• Virtual Disk Exclusion: You have the ability to specify which Virtual Disks to include or exclude in your VM backups.
• Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving (GFS): Besides your on-going and scheduled backups, you can implement an additional backup schedule to make and archive a new backup copy every week, month and year.
• Cloud Backup to Microsoft Azure: Altaro enables backup to an Azure Block Blob account, which is the lowest priced storage alternative offered on the Azure cloud.
  
  Altaro Virtual Machine Backup permits you to protect virtual machines hosted on-premises, 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 running in the cloud are required to support storage for backup.
• Back up to multiple off-premises datacenters: For improved resilience, you can create copies of VMs on multiple off-premises sites including multiple clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

• Restore as Clone: You can restore a VM backup to a new destination with a new name, allowing the cloned virtual machine to run beside the original VM. This avoids the necessity to write over live VMs.
• Recover to Different Host: You can restore a virtual machine backup to a different Hypervisor. The VM can be recovered from the on-prem backup location, or directly from the remote copy location. (You cannot cross-recover between Hyper-V and VMware Hypervisors.)
• Boot from Backup: You can immediately boot any VM version from the backup location either for verification purposes or to create a significant reduction in RTO in a disaster recovery event.
• File-Level Restore: You can quickly restore specific files from any VM backup.
• WAN-Optimized Replication: You can make ongoing copies of your VMs to a remote location and switch instantly to the copy location in the event that a disaster takes out your primary virtual machines. This can significantly shrink your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and put your organization back in business quickly.
• Exchange Item-Level Recovery: You can retrieve individual emails and attachments from within the Exchange Mailbox database.
  
  Altaro Virtual Machine Backup allows you to restore specific emails from an Exchange Mailbox database

• Recover Various Backup Versions: You can recover from multiple periods instead of being limited to the latest backup.
• Sandbox Restores and Testing: This feature lets you program or launch manually tests to assess the accuracy of your backup. You can verify backup folders without attaching the virtual machine to your Windows Hyper-V or VMware Hypervisor, or you can run a complete test recovery to a clone and verify that the recovered virtual machine is able to boot.
• Backup Health Monitor: Backup copy integrity can be checked proactively and repaired automatically as part of the next backup process.

Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
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How Progent Can Help Your Business to Benefit from Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Server Hyper-V planning and deployment experts and VMware-certified vCenter consultants can help your organization to plan, deploy and manage a backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can assist your business to use Altaro VM Backup to safeguard your Exchange environment, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud consulting specialists can assist your company to utilize your Azure Block Blob storage service with Altaro software to back up your VMs.

Progent's disaster recovery planning experts can help you to use Altaro's replication tools and offsite backup capability to protect your critical data and enable you to restart your core operations quickly in the event of a calamity.

Regular validation, testing, and enhancement of data restoration are vital and frequently underappreciated requirements for effective disaster readiness. In case of a disaster such as a ransomware attack, these restoration drills can spell the difference between an inconvenient loss of availability and an existential crisis to a business. Progent's Altaro VM Backup experts can assist you to design a workflow for regularly validating, testing, and improving your restore procedures in order that you can keep your backup solution current and contain the damage of a catastrophic event.

Progent's GIAC information assurance (IA) consultants can assess the security posture of your data protection solution and can help you to implement the latest technology and adhere to industry leading practices for working securely in the modern threat landscape.

Zero-Downtime Solutions Provided by Progent
Progent's certified consultants can assist you to implement an efficient, non-stop IT architecture that addresses key issues encompassing a wide array of infrastructure solutions and processes such as:

Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity consultants can help you design a workplace recovery plan in order to restore network functionality in case of an information system catastrophe. Progent can help you to define a complete disaster recovery plan that includes periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also show you how to build an affordable, high-availability network architecture that addresses reliability issues involving a broad array of network technologies and processes. For more information, go to Workplace Recovery Consulting Services.

CRISC-Certified IT Risk Management
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. For more information, visit CRISC-Premier IT risk management experts.

Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated significant improvements in capacity, throughput, management, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud-hosted assets. Top new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive intelligence to control local networks, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and managing massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from legacy versions of Windows Server. For more information, go to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Consulting.

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can assist you to plan and deploy a DR solution built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using low-cost equipment, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. For details, go to 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 orchestrate, automate and test a repeatable workflow for restoring services quickly following an outage. SRM provides centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also supports non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can generate reports to verify complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help your organization to design, deploy, test and administer a DR system powered by VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses failover storage clustering along with replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters located up to 300km apart from each other. Progent offers the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to design, configure, administer, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your technical needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you follow leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with procedures such as assigning disk pools, determining aggregate layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing switches, implementing a tiebreaker, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your DR solution to verify compliance with information assurance standards and regulatory requirements.

Network Load Balancing
Progent provides fault tolerant load balancing support that addresses system load balancing, load balanced programs, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content dispatching products such as F5 Networks 3DNS. Non-stop load balancing solutions for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Engine and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. To find out more, visit Non-stop Load Balancing.

Fault Tolerant Data Centers
Progent's Data Center consultants can help you select zero-downtime data centers that match the specific requirements of your company. High availability Internet Data Centers are especially attractive to small and mid-size businesses due to of their affordability and convenience compared to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to create an on-site data center with even a basic degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for typical small organizations. Progent is ready to help you get all the advantages of 24x7 colo sites by providing a full array of engineering and support services. For more information, go to Non-stop Internet Data Centers Consulting.

Failsafe Branch Office Networking
Progent's multi-site connectivity professionals can help companies achieve non-stop interoffice connectivity solutions through fully redundant system architectures with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can design and implement high-availability Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and transparent fail-over offers affordable 24x7 interoffice connectivity. To learn more, go to Non-stop Inter-office Networking.

Non-stop Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-certified IT engineers can show you how to design an affordable, fault tolerant Internet configuration solution that can deliver non-stop Internet connectivity through a broad range of high availability Internet network solutions including high availability BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert professionals to show you how to utilize the latest technology for 24x7 Internet access to implement a cost-effective, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to create zero-downtime Internet connections. To find out more, go to Fault Tolerant Internet Connectivity Solutions.

Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting Services
Progent can provide economical online access to IT engineers skilled in a broad array of products and technologies that deliver solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops as well as laptops and handhelds. Progent can provide expertise for leading data protection platforms such as Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Backup, Mozy, Retrospect for Macintosh, Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and Solaris FLARs. Progent can help your company to implement, upgrade, or troubleshoot backup solutions for a range of architectures such as on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud, or a mix. For more information, visit Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consulting Services
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) engineers can assist you to develop an effective workplace recovery plan, design an affordable high-availability IT architecture, configure a System Center Data Protection Manager-powered backup and restore solution, thoroughly validate your system, train your IT staff or local service providers how to manage SCDPM, or provide complete information technology outsourcing services including remote housing of Microsoft SCDPM servers in Progent's data center facility. For details, go to System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Consulting.

Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup and disaster recovery service for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built physical storage device built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with comparable functionality but which utilizes your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical company data generated on-premises, at one or multiple remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any site with a physical or virtual Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a wide range of consulting services to help you to plan, integrate, operate and troubleshoot a BDR solution built on Barracuda technology. For details, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting and management.

ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not have integrated support for crucial data protection services such as Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a full-featured platform for programmable backup and rapid recovery of all your organization's M365 mail, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive for Business files, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is an authorized 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 delivers a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that protects M365 components against data loss caused by human or system mistakes, malevolent 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 offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates and monitors your backup activities and enable rapid recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed cloud backup.

ProSight DPS 360 Backup Solutions
Progent can assist you to create, deploy and debug a backup plan based on MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file/folder or image backup/recovery for VMs and physical computers, works with all popular public clouds, and permits businesses to create a data protection solution with a minimum Recovery Time Objective and a granular RPO. With ProSight Data Protection Services 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 glitches, ill-intentioned users, and malware attacks like ransomware. To learn more, see ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup services.

Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup/Restore
Double-Take offers a family of tools intended to deliver small businesses a range of cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical workloads including Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have extensive experience incorporating Double-Take Software products into small company IT networks to create an advanced level of availability and disaster recovery capability at an affordable cost. To learn more, go to Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and offers professional application consulting for a broad range of business applications, Progent can assist customers to find comprehensive information technology solutions that optimize the business value of your information system. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the support of certified engineers and specialists with experience in designing, deploying and troubleshooting infrastructure environments built on Cisco products. The depth of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's sensitivity to the needs of small businesses make Progent the perfect partner for building and running a cost-effective, dependable information system.

How You Can Contact Progent's Engineers for Disaster Recovery Solutions Support
To contact Progent about technical help for business continuity planning, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.