ProSight Data Protection Services - Altaro VM Backup: Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Server 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 Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of services to help you plan, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on the Altaro VM Backup platform. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services 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 Altaro VM Backup
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:
Supported Hyper-V OS | Supported VMware OS | Supported 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, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0) VMware ESXi V(5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0) (Free ESXi not supported) |
USB External Drives eSata External Drives USB Flash Drives Network Shares NAS devices PC Internal Hard Drives RDX Cartridges Altaro Offsite Server |
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
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:
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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 Altaro VM Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can help you integrate 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 Altaro to protect your VM backups.
Progent's business continuity consultants can show you how 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 Technologies Provided by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help your business to build a cost-effective, non-stop environment that resolves major challenges covering a broad array of networking solutions and processes such as:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity planning professionals can show you how to create a business continuity plan in order to resume network operations in the event of an information system disaster. Progent can help you to develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes periodic disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also show you how to build an affordable, high-availability system solution that addresses reliability issues covering a broad array of network technologies and procedures. To learn more, see Business Continuity Consulting and Support Services.
CRISC-Certified Network Risk Mitigation
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To find out more, go to CRISC-Premier network risk control experts.
Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 introduced important enhancements in scale, performance, manageability, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud-hosted assets. Headline 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 advance predictive intelligence to control local environments, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for deploying and administering large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from legacy editions of Windows Server. For details, see Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Help.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can assist your organization to plan and deploy a DR system built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance network-attached storage using low-cost equipment, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for enhancing the speed and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while minimizing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable deployment of a stretch cluster quorum witness. For details, see Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Support.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that allows you to define, automate and verify a repeatable workflow for recovering applications and services rapidly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-disruptive site relocation, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables transparent testing for site recovery, upgrades and fixes and can produce reports to verify complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate DR compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to assist you to design, configure, test and administer a disaster recovery system powered by VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses array-based storage clustering along with replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between sites that are up to 300km apart from each other. Progent can provide the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help you to plan, configure, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that meets your technical requirements and budget. Progent can make sure you follow best practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with procedures like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your MetroCluster disaster recovery solution to prove compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing consulting that addresses system load balancing, load balanced programs, network infrastructure routing, and content dispatching technology such as F5 Networks 3DNS. Non-stop load balancing products for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To read more, visit High Availability Load Balancing.
Fault Tolerant Colocation
Progent's Data Center professionals can help you find fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific needs of your business. Fault tolerant colocation sites are particularly appealing to small and mid-size organizations due to of their low cost and simplified logistics compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to design an in-house data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance is too costly for the majority of small companies. Progent can help you reap all the advantages of non-stop colocation facilities by offering a full range of engineering and maintenance services. To learn more, see Non-stop Data Centers Consulting.
Fault Tolerant Branch Office Connectivity
Progent's inter-site network infrastructure professionals can help companies achieve non-stop multi-site connectivity solutions via fully redundant system architectures with automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE engineers can design and implement high-availability Inter-office networks supported by zero-downtime EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and automatic fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice networking. To find out more, visit 24x7 Interoffice Connectivity.
24x7 Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-certified network experts can show you how to create an affordable, high availability Internet connection architecture that can achieve non-stop Internet access via a broad range of high availability Internet access technologies including high availability BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent can provide CCIE engineers to help you apply the most up-to-date techniques for 24x7 Internet connectivity to create a cost-effective, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create zero-downtime Internet availability. For more information, see 24x7 Internet Connectivity Architecture.
Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting Services
Progent offers economical remote support from engineers skilled in a broad range of products and services that provide solutions for backing up Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux servers and desktops plus laptops and handhelds. Progent can provide help for leading data protection products including Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery (VDR), and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can assist you to install, upgrade, or troubleshoot data backup systems for a range of topologies such as on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or a mix. For more information, see Backup and Restore Technology Consulting and Support Services.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consultants
Progent's certified Microsoft SCDPM support professionals can assist your company to create an effective workplace recovery plan, design an affordable fault-tolerante IT architecture, configure a SCDPM-powered backup and recovery solution, thoroughly test your DPM system, train your IT personnel or local consultants how to maintain Microsoft SCDPM, or provide extensive IT support outsourcing including off-site housing of SCDPM servers in Progent's secure data center facility. For details, visit Microsoft SCDPM Consulting and Support Services.
Barracuda Backup Multi-site and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup/restore platform for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can include a custom-designed physical appliance manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with comparable functionality but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects critical business data generated locally, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any site with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a broad array of consulting services to help your business to plan, configure, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery system based on Barracuda technology. For additional information, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.
ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not include native support for key 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 feature-rich BDR solution for programmable backup and quick restoration of all your organization's M365 mail, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive for Business files, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to provide comprehensive managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup delivers a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service alternative that protects M365 apps against data loss caused by human or software mistakes, malicious sabotage, and cyber attacks like ransomware. To find out more, go to ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and allow rapid recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup and recovery.
ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Solutions
Progent can assist you to design, deploy and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file or image backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical computers, supports all popular public clouds, and allows you to build a backup ecosystem with a low RTO and a granular Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup, Progent offers comprehensive monitoring and management of your backup environment to prevent data loss resulting from human miscues, computer errors, ill-intentioned insiders, and external assaults such as ransomware. For details, go to ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup solutions.
Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup/Restore
Double-Take offers a selection of products designed to deliver small companies a variety of cost-effective alternatives for replicating and recovering vital applications including Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL, RIM Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have extensive backgrounds incorporating Double-Take products into small business IT networks to achieve an advanced state of availability and disaster recovery capability at an affordable cost. To find out more, visit Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers high-level application expertise for a broad range of business software programs, Progent can help customers to arrive at complete IT solutions that optimize the productivity of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the support of premier engineers and specialists with expertise in architecting, configuring and troubleshooting infrastructure environments built on Cisco products. The breadth of Progent's technical experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small companies make Progent the ideal resource for building and maintaining an affordable, fault-tolerant information system.
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