Business Continuity Consulting

ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Server Backup/Recovery
ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a fully managed subscription service intended to provide small and middle-size organizations a robust and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be used with local, offsite, multi-location, and cloud based network models and also supports budget-friendly backup to a Microsoft Azure Blob storage service.

Top features of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup include advanced Augmented Inline Deduplication to cut storage size, Continuous Data Protection with backup intervals down to five minutes for minimizing your vulnerability to data loss, enterprise-class data encryption, granular recovery alternatives for whole virtual machines or for specific files, full integration with Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and VMware vCenter and vSphere, and support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service technology to protect running virtual machines without disruption.

Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad assortment of services to help you to plan, implement, validate and debug a data protection solution based on Altaro's VM Backup platform. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) Altaro VM Backup as a subscription service to provide end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup/restore system. Progent's Hyper-V consultants and VMware integration experts can assist you to plan and manage VM environments that use on-premises or offsite VMs or that work in a hybrid architecture that incorporates both local and cloud-based assets. In addition, Progent can provide workplace recovery preparedness consulting to assist businesses to get ready for catastrophes such as ransomware attacks and natural disasters.

Major Features of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is designed to fulfill the data protection needs of most small and midsize organizations and offers simplicity of operation as well as a rich range of capabilities typically found exclusively in enterprise-grade products. Altaro VM Backup protects widely used versions of Windows Hyper-V and VMware and supports standard backup media:

Altaro VM Backup comes with advanced features in critical areas of data protection includung replication, prompt recovery, and centralized management.

Backup and Replication
Altaro VM Backup delivers rapid, economical, and safe backup for data protection plus offsite replication for reliable restoration. Major backup and replication features include:

• Ransomware Protection leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage: Immutable backup for cloud storage allows tamper-proof data while under the defined policy so that backup data cannot be erased or modified by any user including administrators or root users. Immutable storage adds an extra level of security and recoverability in case of a ransomware breach.
• Global Augmented In-Line Deduplication: Altaro's in-line variable block size deduplication sends only changed data to backup storage devices or sites, conserving bandwidth, minimizing backup storage requirements, and enhancing throughput. Deduplication works with data on single virtual machines as well as on multiple virtual machines globally.
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP): Rather than scheduling daily backups, you can schedule backup intervals to as short as five minutes to lower your Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Concurrency: You can back up multiple VMs at the same time, allowing you to conduct backup processes during shorter low-activity time windows while more network bandwidth is available and workload throughput is less urgent.
• Hot Backup: Integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) permits you to back up virtual machines without requiring downtime.
• Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter: The ability to back up VMs running in a Windows Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without CSV) or in a VMware vCenter system supports large-scale deployments.
• Remote Replication: To facilitate business recovery, you can deploy the 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.
  
  Scheduling and retention policies for Altaro are easy to configure, check and revise

• Application Specific Protection: Altaro VM Backup can use Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and all VSS Writers working inside the protected VM when making a backup. Apps like Exchange and Microsoft SQL will be aware the backup has taken place and automatically proceed with the relevant maintenance procedures like truncating VLFs.
• Military-Grade Encryption: Before saving your data to a backup destination, you have the ability to encrypt it with the AES-256 standard.
• Virtual Disk Exclude: You have the ability to specify which Virtual Disks to include or exclude in your virtual machine backups.
• Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving: On top of your on-going and daily backups, you can implement an additional schedule to create and archive a backup copy every week, month and year.
• Cloud Backup to Azure: Altaro supports backup to a Microsoft Azure Block Blob account, which is the least expensive storage alternative offered on the Microsoft Azure cloud.
  
  Altaro VM Backup allows you to protect VMs hosted on-premises, offsite or in a public cloud

• Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi: Altaro VM Backup VM Backup allows seamless backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi. No additional resources operating in the cloud are needed to provide storage for backup.
• Back up to multiple off-premises locations: For improved robustness, you can create copies of VMs on multiple off-premises locations including multiple public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

• Restore as Clone: You can recover a virtual machine backup to a new location with a new name, allowing the cloned VM to operate beside the original VM. This eliminates the need to write over active virtual machines.
• Recover to Different Host: You can restore a VM backup to a new or different host. The virtual machine can be recovered from the on-prem backup location, or directly from the offsite copy location. (You may not cross-recover between Windows Hyper-V and VMware.)
• Boot from Backup: You can instantly boot any VM version from the backup location for verification purposes or to achieve a major improvement in Recovery Time Objective (RTO) during a disaster recovery scenario.
• File-Level Restore: You can rapidly recover specific files and folders from any virtual machine backup.
• WAN-Optimized Replication: You can make continuous backups of your VMs to an off-premises location and switch immediately to the copy location in case a calamity disables your main VMs. This can dramatically reduce your Recovery Time Objective and get your organization back in business quickly.
• Microsoft Exchange Item-Level Recovery: You can restore specific emails and attachments from the Exchange Mailbox database.
  
  Altaro VM Backup permits you to recover specific emails from an Exchange Mailbox database

• Recover Various Backup Versions: You can recover from multiple points in time instead of being limited to the last backup copy.
• Sandbox Restores and Testing: You can schedule or run manually tests to confirm the accuracy of your backup data. You can validate backup folders without attaching the VM to your Hyper-V or VMware Hypervisor, or you can run a full confirmation restore to a clone and verify that the recovered VM is able to boot.
• Backup Health Monitor: Backup storage accuracy can be monitored on demand and fixed automatically as a component of the subsequent backup operation.

Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
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How Progent Can Assist Your Business to Get the Most from Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V integration consultants and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter consultants can assist your organization to plan, implement and manage a backup/restore solution built on Altaro VM Backup software. Progent's Exchange experts can assist your business to use Altaro VM Backup to safeguard your Exchange system, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud consulting experts can help you to use your Azure Block Blob storage with Altaro software to back up your VMs.

Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants can help you to use Altaro's replication features and remote backup options to safeguard your critical data and enable you to restart your core operations rapidly in the event of a calamity.

Periodic validation, testing, and enhancement of system restoration are vital and often underappreciated components for successful disaster preparedness. In case of a disaster like a ransomware breach, these restoration drills can make the difference between a temporary period of downtime and a life-or-death threat to a business. Progent's Altaro VM Backup experts can assist you to create a program for regularly validating, testing, and optimizing your recovery procedures in order that you can keep your backup solution current and contain the damage of a catastrophic event.

Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance specialists can gauge the cybersecurity posture of your backup solution and can help you to deploy advanced technology and adhere to industry leading practices for operating securely in the modern threat landscape.

High Availability Technologies Supported by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified support professionals can assist your company to design an efficient, non-stop network that addresses key issues covering a wide range of networking solutions and processes including:

Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity engineers can show you how to design a workplace recovery strategy so you can resume IT functionality in the event of an information system catastrophe. Progent can assist you to define a complete disaster recovery plan that includes scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also help you build an affordable, zero-downtime network solution that addresses reliability issues involving a broad array of network technologies and procedures. To learn more, go to Workplace Recovery Consulting and Support Services.

CRISC-Certified IT Risk Management
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. For details, see CRISC-Premier network risk control specialists.

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced significant improvements in capacity, throughput, manageability, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid combinations of on-premises and cloud-hosted assets. Headline new features of Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive intelligence to manage local environments, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and administering large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from legacy releases of Windows Server. To learn more, visit Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Support.

Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can help your organization to design a disaster recovery solution built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools such as Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance network-attached storage using commodity hardware, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the speed and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. For details, see Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Support.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and verify a consistent runbook for restoring applications and services rapidly after an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site relocation, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also allows non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and fixes and can generate audit reports to verify complete service restoration, validate SLAs and prove compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist your organization to design, deploy, test and administer a DR system based on VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that combines array-based storage clustering along with replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between sites that are as far as 185 miles (300km) apart from each other. Progent can provide online or on-premises access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help you to design, configure, administer, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your technical needs and IT budget. Progent can make sure you follow leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by delivering help with tasks like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and testing your disaster recovery solution to show adherence with industry standards and regulatory mandates.

Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing support that addresses system load balancing, load balanced applications, network backbone routing, and content delivery technology such as F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing products for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and ACNS, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. For more information, visit High Availability Load Balancing.

Zero Downtime Colocation
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to find fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific requirements of your business. High availability off-site data centers are particularly attractive to small and mid-size businesses because of their affordability and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to design an in-house data center with even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is too costly for the majority of small organizations. Progent is ready to show you how to reap all the benefits of non-stop colo centers by providing a complete range of consulting and maintenance services. To read more, visit Non-stop Internet Data Centers Consulting.

Failsafe Branch Office Networking
Progent's branch office network infrastructure engineers can help companies achieve non-stop inter-site connectivity by means of fully redundant system architectures featuring automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can plan and implement fault-tolerant Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connectivity and automatic fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice connectivity. For details, see Non-stop Inter-office Networking.

Fault Tolerant Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-certified network consultants can show you how to create an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can deliver non-stop Internet access via a broad array of high availability Internet access solutions including fault tolerant BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent offers CCIE engineers to show you how to utilize the most up-to-date technology for 24x7 Internet connectivity to create an economical, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver fault tolerant Internet availability. For more information, go to High Availability Internet Connectivity Architecture.

Backup and Recovery Technology Consultants
Progent offers affordable online support from IT engineers with expertise in a wide range of products and services that provide solutions for protecting Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux physical and virtual servers and workstations as well as laptops and smartphones. Progent offers help for all major data protection platforms such as Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and FLARs. Progent can assist your company to deploy, enhance, or maintain backup solutions for a variety of topologies including on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or a mix. For details, go to Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting and Support Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Restore Consultants
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can help your company to create a practical disaster recovery plan, design an affordable high-availability network infrastructure, install a Microsoft SCDPM-based backup and restore solution, thoroughly validate your DPM system, educate your IT staff or local service providers how to maintain System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete IT outsourcing such as off-site housing of virtual or physical SCDPM servers in Progent's world-class data center facility. To find out more, go to System Center Data Protection Manager Expertise.

Barracuda Backup Multi-site and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup/restore service for small and medium-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a custom-designed hardware appliance built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar functionality but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical business data produced locally, at one or multiple remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any site with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a wide range of consulting services to assist your business to plan, integrate, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Barracuda technology. For more information, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.

ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for vital data protection capabilities such as Exchange Online backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a full-featured BDR solution for automatic backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive for Business files, and content on Windows endpoints. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup delivers a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service solution that protects M365 apps against data loss resulting from user or software error, malevolent corruption, and malware assaults such as ransomware. To find out more, visit ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.

Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and allow fast restoration of critical files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software bugs, 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, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup and recovery.

ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can help your company to create, deploy and debug a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file/folder or image-based backup/restore for VMs and physical computers, supports all popular public clouds, and allows businesses to build a data protection ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined 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 errors, ill-intentioned users, and malware attacks such as ransomware. For more information, go to ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup services.

Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup and Recovery
Double-Take Software publishes a family of products designed to deliver small companies a variety of cost-effective alternatives for backing up and restoring vital workloads such as Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have in-depth backgrounds incorporating Double-Take products into small business information networks to create a high level of fault tolerance and business continuity capability at a budget-friendly price. For details, visit Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and offers high-level application consulting for a wide range of small business applications, Progent is able to assist customers to arrive at complete information technology solutions that optimize the business value of your IT network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent offers the expertise of certified engineers and specialists with expertise in architecting, installing and maintaining infrastructure environments built on Cisco technology. The extent of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's sensitivity to the requirements of small businesses make Progent a great partner for creating and maintaining a cost-effective, dependable network.

How You Can Get in Touch with Progent's Engineers for Disaster Recovery Planning Support
To contact Progent about professional expertise for disaster recovery planning, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.