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:
| Supported Hyper-V OS | Supported VMware OS | Supported Media |
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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 |
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:



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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 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.
Zero-Downtime Technologies Offered by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco consultants can assist you to implement an affordable, fault-tolerant network that addresses major challenges encompassing a broad array of infrastructure solutions and operations such as:
Business Continuity Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants can show you how to design a disaster recovery plan that will allow you to restore IT functionality in case of an IT system catastrophe. Progent can help you to define a complete disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also show you how to create an affordable, fault-tolerant network architecture that takes into account reliability issues covering a wide range of infrastructure technologies and processes. For details, see Workplace Recovery Consulting Services.
CRISC-Premier IT Risk Mitigation
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and support IS controls 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 plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. To learn more, see CRISC-Premier network risk management specialists.
Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated significant enhancements in scale, performance, manageability, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid combinations of on-premises and cloud assets. Headline new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid local/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive intelligence to manage local environments, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and administering massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from legacy editions of Windows Server. For details, see Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Expertise.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can help you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using low-cost hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the speed and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for easy, economical creation of a stretch cluster quorum witness. To learn more, go to Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Consulting.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and test a repeatable runbook for recovering services rapidly after an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also allows non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate reports to verify full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate DR compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consulting expert to help your organization to design, deploy, 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 disaster recovery platform that combines array-based storage clustering along with synchronous replication to provide rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery between sites that are as far as 185 miles (300km) apart from each other. Progent offers the skills of a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to design, deploy, administer, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster environment that meets your functional requirements and IT budget. Progent can make sure you follow leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by delivering guidance with procedures like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and testing your MetroCluster DR solution to verify compliance with information assurance standards and regulatory mandates.
Network Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing consulting that addresses network load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content delivery products such as F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing solutions for which Progent offers consulting services include Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Distributed Director and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. For details, visit High Availability Load Balancing.
Zero Downtime Data Centers
Progent's Data Center consultants can show you how to select high availability data centers that match the specific needs of your business. High availability colocation sites are especially appealing to small and mid-size businesses due to of their affordability and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to create an on-site data center with even a basic degree of fault tolerance is too expensive for typical small organizations. Progent is ready to help you get all the advantages of high-availability Internet data centers by offering a full array of engineering and support services. To learn more, go to Fault Tolerant Colocation Consulting.
Fault Tolerant Branch Office Connectivity
Progent's inter-site connection engineers can help businesses create fault tolerant interoffice connections by means of fully redundant networks with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can design and implement high-availability Inter-office connections based on zero-downtime EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and automatic fail-over can provide economical 24x7 interoffice networking. For more information, visit High-Availability Interoffice Networking.
High Availability Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT engineers can show you how to design an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can deliver non-stop Internet connectivity via a broad range of fault tolerant Internet access solutions including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple Internet Service Providers. Progent offers Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert professionals to show you how to utilize the latest technology for high availability Internet connections to build a cost-effective, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to deliver fault tolerant Internet availability. For more information, visit Non-stop Internet Access Solutions.
Backup and Restore Technology Consulting and Support Services
Progent offers affordable remote access to engineers skilled in a broad range of utilities and services that deliver solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and workstations plus notebooks and handhelds. Progent can provide help for leading data protection platforms including Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Backup, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist your company to install, upgrade, or troubleshoot data backup systems for a range of environments such as on-premises, remote, cloud-based, or hybrid. To read more, see Backup and Recovery Solutions Expertise.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consulting Services
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) support professionals can assist you to create an effective workplace recovery plan, implement an affordable fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, install a Microsoft SCDPM-powered recovery solution, comprehensively validate your system, educate your administrative staff or regular service providers how to maintain SCDPM, or provide extensive information technology support outsourcing such as off-site hosting of Microsoft SCDPM servers in Progent's data center. For more information, go to System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Consulting Services.
Barracuda Backup On-premises and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup and disaster recovery platform for small and mid-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a purpose-built physical appliance built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with comparable features but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects vital business data generated 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 certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a broad range of consulting support services to assist you to design, integrate, manage and debug a BDR system built on Barracuda technology. For more information, go to 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 include native support for crucial data protection capabilities like Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich platform for automatic backup and quick restoration of all your organization's M365 mail, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup delivers a low-cost backup-as-a-service solution that protects M365 components against data loss caused by user or software mistakes, malicious corruption, and malware assaults like ransomware. To find out more, visit ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS ECHO automates your backup processes and allow fast recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup and recovery.
ProSight MSP360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can assist you to create, implement and troubleshoot a backup plan based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file/folder or image-based backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical machines, works with all popular public clouds, and allows businesses to create a backup ecosystem with a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a granular RPO. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent offers comprehensive monitoring and management of your backup environment to protect against data loss resulting from human miscues, system errors, ill-intentioned users, and external assaults like ransomware. For details, visit ProSight MSP360 Backup solutions.
Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup
Double-Take publishes a selection of products designed to provide small and midsize businesses a variety of cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical workloads including Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take technology into small business IT networks to create an advanced state of availability and business continuity readiness at a budget-friendly price. To find out more, visit Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and provides specialized application expertise for a broad variety of small business applications, Progent can assist clients to find comprehensive IT solutions that maximize the business value of your IT network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent can provide the services of certified engineers and specialists with experience in designing, installing and troubleshooting infrastructure solutions built on Cisco products. The depth and breadth of Progent's IT know-how and Progent's sensitivity to the needs of small companies make Progent a great resource for building and running a cost-effective, dependable network.
How to Access Progent's Engineers for Disaster Recovery Solutions Support
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