Barracuda Backup: Cloud-integrated Backup and Fast Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup and fast disaster recovery service for small and medium-size businesses. The Barracuda Backup solution can include a physical, purpose-built Barracuda appliance or a virtual, software-based appliance with similar functionality but which uses your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects critical business data generated on-premises, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any private location you designate. A simple-to-operate and web-accessible management and reporting console makes it easy to administer and monitor all backup, replication, retention and recovery processes in real time.
Barracuda Backup offers a variety of capabilities critical in the process of recovering data after a ransomware incursion. Immutable backup and air-gapped cloud storage create and protect a read-only backup of your data in Barracuda's cloud, which is accessible exclusively via Barracuda Backup's secure interface. In addition, files in the cloud are subject to a delayed purge. This provides enough time to retain your protected data in the event of its inadvertent or hostile erasure from your on-premises backup appliance.
Key features of Barracuda Backup include:
Barracuda Backup offers a variety of capabilities critical in the process of recovering data after a ransomware incursion. Immutable backup and air-gapped cloud storage create and protect a read-only backup of your data in Barracuda's cloud, which is accessible exclusively via Barracuda Backup's secure interface. In addition, files in the cloud are subject to a delayed purge. This provides enough time to retain your protected data in the event of its inadvertent or hostile erasure from your on-premises backup appliance.
Capabilities of Barracuda Backup
Barracuda Backup offers small and mid-size organizations a full-featured data protection solution by providing advanced capabilities in the areas of backup, recovery and management. Barracuda Backup protects the most popular operating systems, the most widely used versions of Hyper-V and VMware, and cloud-hosted Microsoft applications. Mission-critical servers can be backed up as often as every 15 minutes to support a low Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Replication to offsite datacenters and to the cloud facilitate disaster recovery and offer deployment options to suit any SMB.
Operating Systems | Hypervisors | Cloud Applications | Replication |
Windows Server Mac OS X Linux Unix |
Microsoft Hyper-V VMware vSphere |
Office 365 Exchange Online Azure SQL SharePoint Online |
Barracuda Cloud Amazon AWS Barracuda Appliance Virtual Appliance |
Secure Backup and Replication
Barracuda Backup utilizes a physical or virtual (software-based) onsite appliance that securely and automatically replicates data offsite. Local backup allows fast restores, and offsite replication supports disaster recovery.
Barracuda Backup Deduplication
Deduplication is a data compression technique that plays a critical role in any modern backup and recovery solution. Deduplication works by comparing incoming data blocks with backup data that has already been stored. Deduplication algorithms remove redundant incoming data blocks and substitute a concise reference to the data already stored. Barracuda Backup Agents (BBAs) deduplicate and compress local data, including Hyper-V VHD files, on the client-side host server before transmitting the deduplicated data to the physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. By preventing redundant data from being sent to the Barracuda Backup appliance for processing, so-called source-based dedpulication reduces LAN network traffic and significantly shortens the backup window.
To backup VMware virtual disks, Barracuda Backup takes advantage of VMware's VADP technology, using Changed Block Tracking to avoid sending redundant data chunks to Barracuda Backup appliances.
How Progent Can Help You with Barracuda Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Hyper-V consultants and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter experts can assist your business to design, install and manage a data backup and disaster recovery solution powered by Barracuda Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can help you use Barracuda Backup to protect your Exchange Server deployment, and Progent's Amazon AWS hybrid cloud consulting experts can help you set up your AWS account to replicate and restore critical data. Progent's Disaster Recovery consultants can show you how Barracuda Backup's offsite and cloud replication capability can protect your vital business data and get you up and running fast in the event of a natural or human-made disaster, a ransomware attack, or any other catastrophic event. Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can evaluate the security and compliance of your backup ecosystem and can help you leverage affordable tools and smart processes and policies to survive in today's increasingly dangerous IT environment.
Fault Tolerant Technologies Supported by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can help your business to create an affordable, fault-tolerant network that resolves critical issues encompassing a wide array of networking solutions and processes such as:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity planning consultants can show you how to create a workplace recovery strategy in order to restore network functionality in case of an IT network catastrophe. Progent can assist you to develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes scheduled disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help you create an affordable, fault-tolerant system solution that addresses availability issues involving a wide array of network technologies and processes. To read more, go to Disaster Recovery Consulting Services.
CRISC-Certified IT Risk Management
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To read more, see CRISC-Certified network risk management specialists.
Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 introduced significant improvements in scale, throughput, management, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux support, container technology, and hybrid integration of local and cloud resources. Headline new features of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid local/cloud-hosted deployments, System Insights for utilizing advance predictive intelligence to manage local environments, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for creating and managing large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from outdated versions of Windows Server. To learn more, go to Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Expertise.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can help you to plan and deploy a DR system built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using low-cost equipment, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable deployment of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. For more information, see Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery 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 orchestrate, automate and verify a repeatable workflow for recovering services quickly following an outage. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally managed and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also enables non-disruptive testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can produce reports to verify complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate disaster recovery compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to assist your organization to plan, deploy, test and maintain a DR system based on VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery software suite that uses array-based storage clustering with replication to deliver fast, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between sites located as far as 185 miles (300km) away from one another. Progent offers access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help your business to plan, configure, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select a topology for your MetroCluster environment that meets your technical requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you follow best practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with tasks such as assigning shelf IDs, determining aggregate layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a configuration replication network, and verifying your DR system to show compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing support covering network load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content delivery products including Cisco Content Engine. Non-stop load balancing technologies for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Access Gateway, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and ACNS, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. For details, see Non-stop Load Balancing.
High-Availability Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to identify zero-downtime data centers that match the particular requirements of your company. Fault tolerant colocation sites are particularly appealing to small and mid-size businesses because of their affordability and simplified logistics in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to create an in-house data center with even a basic level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for the majority of small businesses. Progent can show you how to get all the advantages of non-stop Internet data centers by offering a full range of engineering and support services. For details, visit High-Availability Colocation Consulting.
Non-stop Branch Office Networking
Progent's inter-site connectivity professionals can help businesses create fault tolerant multi-site connectivity solutions via fully redundant networks with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE engineers can design and deploy fault-tolerant Inter-office connections based on zero-downtime EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how multi-path connectivity and transparent fail-over can provide affordable 24x7 interoffice connectivity. For details, go to Failsafe Interoffice Connectivity.
Fault Tolerant Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified network professionals can show you how to design an affordable, high availability Internet connection solution that can achieve non-stop Internet access via a broad array of high availability Internet network technologies including non-stop BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent offers CCIE consultants to show you how to utilize the most up-to-date techniques for fault tolerant Internet access to create a cost-effective, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to deliver fault tolerant Internet access. To read more, see Non-stop Internet Connectivity Solutions.
Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting and Support Services
Progent offers affordable remote access to engineers skilled in a wide range of products and technologies that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and workstations as well as laptops and handhelds. Progent offers consulting support for all major data protection platforms including Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist you to implement, upgrade, or maintain backup solutions for a variety of topologies such as on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or a mix. For details, visit Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting Services.
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consulting Services
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can assist your company to create a practical disaster recovery strategy, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, install a Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager-based backup and restore solution, thoroughly test your system, educate your administrative staff or regular service providers how to manage System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete IT outsourcing such as remote housing of SCDPM machines in Progent's world-class data center facility. To find out more, see System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Consulting and Support Services.
ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup offers small and mid-size organizations a reliable and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, remote, distributed, and cloud environments and also supports low-cost cloud backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup includes advanced features such as Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced protection from ransomware. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad array of online or on-premises services to help you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup/restore solution powered by Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup technology. For details, go to Altaro VM Backup consulting services.
ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for crucial data protection services such as Exchange Online backups or long-term point-in-time recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a feature-rich platform for programmable backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mail, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive files, 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 provide end-to-end managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup provides a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service alternative that guards M365 apps against data loss caused by human or system error, malicious sabotage, and malware assaults such as ransomware. For more information, go to ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates and monitors your backup activities and enable fast recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, 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 Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed backup.
ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Services
Progent can assist you to create, deploy and troubleshoot a backup/restore plan based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file/folder or image backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical machines, supports all popular public clouds, and permits businesses to build a data protection ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective and a defined RPO. With ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup, Progent offers comprehensive monitoring and management of your backup system to prevent data loss caused by user miscues, system errors, ill-intentioned users, and external attacks such as ransomware. For details, see ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.
Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup and Recovery
Double-Take publishes a family of tools intended to provide small and midsize businesses a range of affordable solutions for replicating and restoring vital workloads including Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take technology into small business information systems to create an advanced state of fault tolerance and business continuity readiness at an affordable price. To read more, see Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Backup.
Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and provides high-level application consulting for a wide range of small business software programs, Progent can assist customers to arrive at complete IT solutions that maximize the business value of your IT network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the expertise of certified consultants and specialists with expertise in architecting, deploying and troubleshooting infrastructure solutions built on Cisco products. The depth and breadth of Progent's IT know-how and Progent's appreciation for the needs of small companies make Progent the ideal partner for creating and maintaining an affordable, dependable information system.
How to Contact Progent's Engineers for Business Continuity Planning Help
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