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ProSight Data Protection Services - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a managed service designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with a reliable and affordable solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud-based environments and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to a Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage account.

Top features of VM Backup include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup intervals as low as five minutes for reducing your exposure to data loss, military-grade encryption, granular restore options for entire virtual machines or for individual files and emails, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and VMware vCenter, and the ability to leverage Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology to back up live virtual machines without downtime.

Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity partner and can provide a broad range of services to help you plan, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on the Hornetsecurity VM Backup platform. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup as a managed service to provide end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup ecosystem. Progent's Hyper-V consultants and VMware experts can help you design and manage virtual machine deployments that utilize on-premises or offsite VMs or that use a hybrid architecture that incorporates both local and cloud-based resources. In addition, Progent offers disaster recovery/business continuity (DRBC) planning consulting to help organizations protect business-critical data and services from potentially catastrophic threats such as ransomware, human error, hardware failure, fire, and natural disasters.

Key Features of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is designed to handle the backup/restore requirements of most small businesses and combines simplicity of operation with a rich feature set that includes capabilities typically found only in enterprise-grade platforms. VM Backup protects the most widely used versions of Hyper-V and VMware and supports popular backup media:

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup includes powerful features in three crucial areas of data protection: backup/replication, restoration/disaster recovery, plus management and reporting.

Backup and Replication
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers fast, efficient, and secure backup for data protection and archiving plus offsite replication for disaster recovery. Major backup and replication features include:

• Ransomware Protection leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage: Immutability allows tamper-proof data while under the defined immutable policy so that backup data cannot be erased, modified, or deleted by any user (including administrators or root users) for a specified duration. This adds an extra level of security and recoverability in the event of a successful ransomware attack.
• Augmented In-Line Deduplication: In-line variable block size deduplication sends only changed data to the backup device or site, conserving bandwidth, reducing storage requirements, and improving performance.
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP): Rather than run daily backups, you can reduce backup intervals to as short as five minutes to lower your Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Concurrency: You can back up multiple virtual machines simultaneously, which makes it possible to conduct backup operations during shorter off-hour time windows when more bandwidth is available and network performance is less critical.
• Live/Hot Backup: Integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service allows you to back up virtual machines without incurring downtime.
• Cluster Shared Volumes & VMware vCenter: The ability to back up virtual machines running in a Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without cluster shared volumes) or in a VMware vCenter environment supports larger deployments.
• Offsite Replication: To facilitate disaster recovery, you can set up the Hornetsecurity Altaro Offsite Server tool on an external server for storing a copy of your backups at a different location.
• Flexible Scheduling and Retention Policies: You can set different backup schedules and retention policies for individual VMs.
  
  Backup scheduling and retention options for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are easy to configure, review and update

• Application Consistent Backups: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup can use Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and all VSS Writers running inside the protected VM when making a backup. Applications like Microsoft SQL and Exchange will be aware the backup has happened and automatically run the relevant maintenance tasks such as truncating transaction logs.
• Military-Grade Encryption: Prior to saving your data to a backup device, you have the option of encrypting it using 256-Bit AES Encryption.
• Virtual Disk Exclude: You can select which Virtual Disks to include or exclude in your VM backups.
• Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving (GFS): In addition to your continuous and daily backups, you can set up a special backup schedule to create and archive a new backup version every week, month and year.
• Cloud Backup to Azure: Hornetsecurity Altaro supports backup to an Azure Block Blob storage account, which is the most affordable storage option available on the Azure cloud.
  
  Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup lets you back up VMs that are hosted on-premises, offsite or in the cloud

• Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi: Hornetsecurity Altaro supports seamless native backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi. No additional resources running in the cloud are required to provide backup storage.
• Back up to multiple offsite locations: For enterprise-class resilience, you can take copies of VMs to multiple offsite locations including multiple clouds such as Azure and Amazon S3.

• Restore as Clone: You can restore a VM backup to a new location with a new name, allowing the cloned VM to run side by side with the original VM. This avoids the need to overwrite live VMs.
• Restore to Different Host: You can restore a VM backup to a different host. The VM will be restored to a new location on the new host and will be given a new name.
• Boot from Backup: You can instantly boot any VM version directly from the backup location either for verification purposes or to achieve a significant reduction in RTO (Recovery Time Objectives) in a disaster recovery scenario.
• File Level Restore: You can quickly restore individual files and folders from any VM backup.
• WAN-Optimized Replication: You can make continuous copies of your VMs to a remote site and switch immediately to the copy site in the event that a disaster takes out your primary VMs. This can significantly shrink your recovery time objective (RTO) and get you back in business quickly.
• Microsoft Exchange Item Level Restore: You can restore individual emails from within the Exchange Mailbox database.
  
  Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup allows you to restore individual emails from an Exchange Mailbox

• Restore Different Versions: You can restore from multiple points in time rather than being limited to the latest backup.
• Sandbox Restores and Verification: This features lets you schedule or manually launch test drills to confirm the integrity of your backup data. You can verify backup folders without attaching the VM to your Hyper-V or VMware Host, or you can run a complete test restore to a clone and ensure that the restored VM can boot.
• Backup Health Monitor: Backup storage integrity can be monitored proactively and repaired automatically as part of the next backup process.

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

How Progent Can Help You Benefit from Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V consultants and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter consultants can help you plan, deploy and manage a backup/restore solution based on Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can help you integrate Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup with your Exchange environment, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud consulting specialists can show you how to use your Azure Block Blob storage account with Hornetsecurity Altaro to protect your VM backups.

Progent's business continuity consultants can show you how Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's replication features and offsite backup capability can help safeguard your mission-critical data and enable you to resume your core services quickly in case of a catastrophic event. Essential and frequently overlooked requirements for effective disaster preparedness include ongoing verification, testing, and optimization of system restoration. In the event of a disaster such as a ransomware attack, these drills can spell the difference between a short period of downtime and an existential threat to a business. Progent can assist you to design a program for regularly validating, testing, and enhancing your recovery procedures so you can keep your backup solution current and minimize the damage of a catastrophic incident.

Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can assess the security profile of your backup solution and can help you deploy the latest tools and follow industry best practices for operating safely in the modern threat landscape.

High Availability Solutions Provided by Progent's Consultants
Progent's certified consultants can help you to design an efficient, non-stop system that resolves key issues covering a broad range of infrastructure solutions and processes including:

Business Continuity Planning
Progent's disaster recovery professionals can help you design a workplace recovery strategy in order to resume IT operations in the event of an IT network catastrophe. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also show you how to create an affordable, high-availability system architecture that takes into account reliability issues covering a broad range of infrastructure technologies and procedures. For more information, go to Workplace Recovery Consulting and Support Services.

CRISC-Premier IT Risk Control
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist 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 company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. To read more, see CRISC-Premier IT risk management experts.

Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 incorporated significant enhancements in capacity, throughput, manageability, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud-hosted assets. Headline new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive analytics to manage local networks, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for creating and managing large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for simplifying the migration from outdated versions of Windows Server. For more information, go to Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Help.

Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can help your organization to plan and deploy a disaster recovery 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 industry-standard hardware, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for improving the performance 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 learn more, visit Windows 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 lets you define, automate and test a repeatable runbook for recovering services quickly after a breakdown. SRM provides centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus non-intrusive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also supports non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to confirm full service restoration, validate SLAs and demonstrate disaster recovery compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help you to design, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery solution based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery software suite that combines array-based storage clustering along with continual replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters located as far as 300km apart from each other. Progent offers online or on-premises access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help your business to design, configure, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that meets your functional needs and IT budget. Progent can make sure you follow best practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by delivering guidance with tasks such as assigning shelf IDs, determining plexes layout, setting up volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a configuration replication network, and verifying your MetroCluster DR system to verify adherence with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

High Availability Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing support that addresses network load balancing, load balanced programs, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content dispatching technology including F5 Networks 3DNS. Fault tolerant load balancing solutions for which Progent offers consulting services include Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Engine and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. For more information, go to Non-stop Load Balancing.

Zero Downtime Data Centers
Progent's Data Center professionals can help you find fault-tolerant data centers that match the specific requirements of your company. Fault tolerant co-location sites are particularly appealing to small and mid-size organizations because of their affordability and convenience compared to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to design an in-house data center that offers even a minimum level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for the majority of small businesses. Progent can help you get all the advantages of high-availability colocation centers by providing a full array of consulting and support services. For details, go to Fault Tolerant Internet Data Centers Expertise.

24x7 Interoffice Connectivity
Progent's interoffice connection consultants can help businesses achieve zero-downtime branch office connections through fully redundant networks featuring automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can plan and deploy high-availability Inter-office connections based on non-stop EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and transparent fail-over offers affordable 24x7 interoffice connectivity. For details, see 24x7 Interoffice Networking.

Non-stop Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-certified IT experts can help you build an affordable, fault tolerant Internet connection architecture that can achieve non-stop Internet access through a broad range of fault tolerant Internet network solutions including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent offers CCIE engineers to show you how to utilize the most up-to-date techniques for 24x7 Internet connections to implement a cost-effective, fully redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to create zero-downtime Internet connections. To read more, visit High Availability Internet Access Architecture.

Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting and Support Services
Progent can provide affordable remote support from engineers with expertise in a wide array of utilities and services that deliver solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and workstations plus notebooks and smartphones. Progent offers help for all major data protection platforms including Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take Backup, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist your company to install, enhance, or maintain backup solutions for a range of topologies including on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or a mix. To learn more, visit Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Data Recovery Consulting
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) support professionals can help you to create an effective business continuity strategy, design an affordable high-availability network infrastructure, deploy a SCDPM-powered backup and recovery solution, thoroughly test your DPM system, educate your IT staff or local consultants how to manage SCDPM, or provide extensive IT outsourcing services such as remote hosting of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's data center. To read more, visit System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.

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 organizations. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a purpose-built hardware storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with comparable features but which uses your existing storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects vital business data generated on-premises, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants can provide a wide array of consulting support services to assist your business to plan, configure, operate and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.

ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not have integrated support for vital data protection capabilities 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 full-featured BDR solution for programmable backup and quick restoration of all your company's M365 mail, 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 365 Total Backup to deliver comprehensive managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup delivers an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that guards M365 apps against data loss or corruption caused by human or system mistakes, malevolent sabotage, and malware attacks like ransomware. To find out more, go to ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.

Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS ECHO automates your backup activities and enable fast restoration of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed backup and recovery.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Services
Progent can help you to create, deploy and troubleshoot a backup solution built around MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file/folder or image backup/recovery for VMs and physical computers, works with all popular public clouds, and allows businesses to build a data protection ecosystem with a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a granular Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup system to protect against data loss caused by human mistakes, computer errors, malicious users, and malware assaults such as ransomware. To read more, visit ProSight MSP360 Backup services.

Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Backup
Double-Take Software publishes a family of products designed to provide small companies a variety of affordable alternatives for backing up and recovering vital applications including Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have in-depth experience incorporating Double-Take Software technology into small company IT systems to create an advanced level of availability and business continuity readiness at an affordable cost. To learn more, see Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and offers high-level application support for a wide range of business software programs, Progent is able to help clients to find complete information technology solutions that maximize the business value of your information system. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the services of certified consultants and specialists with expertise in designing, configuring and maintaining networking environments built on Cisco technology. The extent of Progent's IT experience and Progent's appreciation for the needs of small businesses make Progent the ideal partner for building and maintaining an affordable, dependable network.

How to Access Progent's Consultants for Disaster Recovery Planning Support
If you wish to get in touch with Progent about professional assistance for business continuity solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.