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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.

Zero-Downtime Technologies Offered by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can assist your business to build a cost-effective, high-availability information network that addresses key problems covering a wide range of infrastructure technologies and processes including:

Business Continuity Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning engineers can show you how to design a disaster recovery strategy so you can resume network operations in the event of an information network disaster. Progent can assist you to define a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also help you build an affordable, high-availability system architecture that takes into account reliability issues involving a wide range of infrastructure technologies and processes. To read more, visit Business Continuity Expertise.

CRISC-Certified IT Risk Management
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To learn more, visit CRISC-Certified network risk management specialists.

Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced significant improvements in capacity, throughput, management, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid combinations of on-premises and cloud-hosted resources. Headline enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud deployments, System Insights for utilizing advance predictive analytics to control on-premises environments, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container networking using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for creating and administering massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from legacy editions of Windows Server. For more information, see Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Support.

Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can assist you to plan and deploy a DR 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 crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using industry-standard equipment, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for easy, affordable creation of a stretch cluster quorum witness. For details, visit Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Help.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to define, automate and test a repeatable process for restoring services rapidly following an outage. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports transparent testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to verify full service restoration, validate SLAs and demonstrate compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help you to plan, configure, test and administer a DR system powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.

NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that combines failover storage clustering with continual replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between datacenters that are as far as 185 miles (300km) away from one another. Progent can provide online or on-premises access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to design, configure, administer, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that meets your technical needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you follow best practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing help with procedures like assigning shelf IDs, determining aggregate layout, provisioning FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and testing your DR solution to prove adherence with industry standards and government mandates.

Network Load Balancing
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing consulting that addresses network load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content delivery technology including Cisco Content Engine. Fault tolerant load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Engine and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To learn more, visit High Availability Load Balancing.

Zero Downtime Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center professionals can show you how to select fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific requirements of your company. Fault tolerant off-site data centers are particularly attractive to small and mid-size companies because of their affordability and simplified logistics compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to design an on-site data center that offers even a basic level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for the majority of small businesses. Progent is ready to show you how to get all the advantages of 24x7 data centers by offering a full range of consulting and support services. To learn more, visit High-Availability Colocation Consulting.

Failsafe Interoffice Connectivity
Progent's interoffice connection professionals can help businesses create fault tolerant inter-site connectivity via redundant networks with automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can design and deploy fault-tolerant Inter-office connections based on zero-downtime EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connections and transparent fail-over offers economical 24x7 interoffice connectivity. To learn more, visit Non-stop Interoffice Connectivity.

Fault Tolerant Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-certified network professionals can help you design an affordable, high availability Internet connection solution that can deliver non-stop Internet connectivity via a broad range of high availability Internet network solutions including non-stop BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert professionals to help you apply the latest technology for 24x7 Internet access to implement an economical, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create zero-downtime Internet connections. To learn more, go to High Availability Internet Connectivity Solutions.

Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting Experts
Progent can provide economical online support from engineers with expertise in a wide array of utilities and services that deliver solutions for protecting Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops plus laptops and smartphones. Progent can provide help for all major data protection products such as Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can help your company to implement, upgrade, or troubleshoot data backup solutions for a variety of environments such as local, remote, cloud, or a mix. To learn more, see Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting and Support Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consultants
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can assist your company to create a practical disaster recovery strategy, design an affordable fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, configure a System Center Data Protection Manager-powered backup and restore solution, thoroughly test your DPM system, train your IT personnel or local service providers how to maintain SCDPM, or provide complete IT support outsourcing including off-site hosting of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager servers in Progent's world-class data center facility. To read more, see Microsoft SCDPM Consulting and Support Services.

Barracuda Backup On-premises and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup/restore platform for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can include a purpose-built hardware appliance manufactured by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar functionality but which uses your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects critical business data produced 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 AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a wide range of consulting support services to help you to design, integrate, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery system built on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.

ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides simple archiving but does not include integrated support for vital data protection capabilities such as Exchange Online backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a feature-rich platform for automatic backup and quick restoration of all your company's M365 mail, Microsoft 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 end-to-end management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that guards M365 apps against data loss or corruption resulting from user or system mistakes, malevolent corruption, and cyber attacks such as ransomware. To find out more, see 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 provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup activities and enable fast restoration of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup and recovery.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can help you to design, implement and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file or image backup/recovery for VMs and physical computers, supports all leading public clouds, and permits you to build a data protection ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a granular Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to prevent data loss caused by human miscues, system glitches, ill-intentioned users, and malware attacks such as ransomware. To learn more, see ProSight MSP360 Backup services.

Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup/Restore
Double-Take offers a selection of products intended to provide small businesses a range of cost-effective solutions for replicating and restoring vital applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, RIM Blackberry, and Microsoft SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have extensive experience incorporating Double-Take technology into small company information networks to create an advanced level of availability and disaster recovery readiness at a budget-friendly cost. To learn more, see Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Data Backup.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified AI Cloud Partner and offers specialized application consulting for a wide variety of business applications, Progent can help customers to find comprehensive IT solutions that substantially enhance the productivity of your IT network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent can provide the expertise of premier engineers and specialists with experience in architecting, installing and managing networking solutions built on Cisco products. The extent of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's familiarity with the needs of small businesses make Progent a great partner for creating and maintaining an affordable, fault-tolerant information system.

How to Contact Progent's Engineers for Business Continuity Planning Help
To ask Progent about technical help for workplace recovery solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.