Disaster Recovery Support and Service

ProSight Data Protection Services - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Server Backup
ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a managed subscription service intended to provide small and mid-size organizations a reliable and low-cost option for protecting Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used with local, offsite, multi-site, and hybrid cloud environments and also supports budget-friendly backup to an Azure Blob storage service.

Key capabilities of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to cut backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection with backup spacing down to five minutes for minimizing your vulnerability to data loss, enterprise-class data encryption, flexible recovery options for entire virtual machines or for specific files and emails, extensive integration with Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and VMware, and the ability to leverage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up running virtual machines with no disruption.

Progent is an Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and offers a broad assortment of services to assist your business to design, deploy, test and troubleshoot a backup/restore system built on Altaro's VM Backup platform. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) Altaro VM Backup as a Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) package to provide end-to-end monitoring and management of your data protection system. Progent's certified Hyper-V experts and VMware vCenter and vSphere integration experts can assist you to design and maintain VM deployments that utilize local or remote VMs or that work in a hybrid architecture that incorporates both on-prem and cloud-based assets. Also, Progent offers workplace recovery preparedness consulting to help you to rebound from calamities such as ransomware assaults and natural disasters.

Major Features of Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup
Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup is built to address the backup/restore needs of typical small and medium-size businesses and provides ease of management as well as a comprehensive set of features usually available only in enterprise-grade platforms. Altaro backs up widely used versions of Windows Hyper-V and VMware and works with standard backup hardware:

Altaro VM Backup comes with advanced features in vital areas of backup includung replication, prompt recovery, and management and reporting.

Replication
Altaro VM Backup offers rapid, efficient, and secure backup for data protection and archiving plus offsite data replication for reliable recovery. Major backup and replication features include:

• Ransomware Defense leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage: Immutability for cloud object storage enables tamper-proof data for a set duration so that backup data cannot be modified or deleted by any user including administrators. Immutable storage provides an extra level of security and restoration ability in case of a ransomware breach.
• Global Augmented In-Line Deduplication: In-line variable block size deduplication sends only changed data to backup storage devices, conserving bandwidth, cutting storage demands, and improving performance. Altaro's deduplication works with data on lone VMs as well as across multiple virtual machines globally.
• Continuous Data Protection: Instead of scheduling daily backups, you can schedule backup spacing to as short as five minutes to minimize your Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Concurrent Backups: You can back up many VMs at the same time, which makes it possible to conduct backup processes within briefer off-hour time windows while more bandwidth is available and network throughput is less critical.
• Live Backup: Integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) allows you to back up VMs without incurring downtime.
• Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter: The ability to back up virtual machines running in a Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without Cluster Shared Volumes) or within a vCenter environment allows large-scale implementations.
• Remote Replication: To facilitate disaster recovery, you can set up the Altaro Offsite Server tool on a remote server for keeping a copy of your backups at a remote site.
• Flexible Scheduling and Retention Policies: You can set different backup schedules and retention policies for individual VMs.
  
  Backup scheduling and retention policies for Altaro VM Backup are simple to set up, check and revise

• Workload Consistent Protection: Altaro can use Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and all VSS Writers working within the target virtual machine when making a backup. Applications including Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL will be aware the backup has taken place and automatically run the appropriate maintenance tasks like truncating VLFs.
• Military-Class Encryption: Before copying data to a backup destination, you have the option of encrypting it with the AES-256 standard.
• Virtual Disk Exclusion: You can select which Virtual Disks to include or exclude in your VM backups.
• Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving: On top of your on-going and daily backups, you can set up an additional backup schedule to make and archive a new backup copy every week, month and year.
• Cloud Backup to Azure: Altaro VM Backup allows backup to an Azure Block Blob storage account, which is the least expensive storage option offered on the Azure cloud.
  
  Altaro Virtual Machine Backup allows you to back up virtual machines hosted on-site, offsite or in a public cloud

• Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi: Altaro VM Backup VM Backup allows native backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi clouds. No extra resources operating in the cloud are required to provide storage for backup.
• Back up to multiple offsite datacenters: For better resilience, you can make copies of virtual machines on multiple remote sites including multiple clouds like Azure and Amazon S3.

• Recover as Clone: You can recover a virtual machine backup to a new destination with a new name, permitting the cloned VM to operate side by side with the original VM. This avoids the necessity to write over live virtual machines.
• Recover to Different Host: You can restore a VM backup to a new or different Hypervisor. 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 Hyper-V and VMware Hypervisors.)
• Boot from Backup: You can instantly boot any virtual machine version from the backup device either for testing or to achieve a major improvement in RTO during a disaster recovery event.
• File-Level Restore: You can rapidly recover specific files and folders from any virtual machine copy.
• WAN-Optimized Replication: You can create continuous backups of your virtual machines to an off-premises location and switch instantly to the copy site in case a disaster disables your primary VMs. This can significantly improve your RTO and put you back online quickly.
• Exchange Item-Level Recovery: You can recover individual emails and attachments from within the Exchange Mailbox.
  
  Altaro Virtual Machine Backup allows you to recover specific emails from an Exchange Mailbox database

• Recover Various Versions: You can recover from different points in time instead of being limited to the latest backup copy.
• Sandbox Restores and Verification: This feature lets you schedule or run by hand tests to assess the accuracy of your backup. You can validate backup folders without connecting the virtual machine to your Hyper-V or VMware Hypervisor, or you can execute a complete test restore to a clone and ensure that the recovered VM is able to boot.
• Backup Health Monitor: Backup copy integrity can be checked on demand and fixed automatically as a component of the next backup process.

Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
To view or download a datasheet describing the major features of ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services, click:
Progent's ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet. (PDF - 310 KB)

How Progent Can Assist Your Business to Get the Most from Hornetsecurity/Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V planning and deployment consultants and VMware-certified vCenter consultants can help your organization to design, implement and maintain a backup/recover solution based on Altaro VM Backup software. Progent's Exchange consultants can help your business to utilize Altaro VM Backup to safeguard your Exchange environment, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud integration specialists can assist your company to use your Azure Block Blob storage service with Altaro software to protect your virtual machines.

Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants can help your company to use Altaro VM Backup's replication tools and remote backup options to protect your mission-critical data and enable you to restart your vital operations rapidly in case of a catastrophe.

Ongoing verification, testing, and optimization of system restoration are critical and often underappreciated components for effective disaster readiness. In the event of a disaster such as a ransomware attack, these restoration drills can make the difference between a temporary loss of availability and a life-or-death threat to a business. Progent can assist you to design a workflow for periodically verifying, testing, and optimizing your recovery procedures in order that you can keep your backup strategy current and minimize the damage of a catastrophic event.

Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance experts can evaluate the cybersecurity profile of your data protection solution and can help you to implement advanced tools and adhere to industry leading practices for operating securely in the modern threat environment.

Fault Tolerant Technologies Supported by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can assist your company to design an affordable, non-stop environment that addresses key issues encompassing a broad array of networking solutions and operations including:

Business Continuity Planning
Progent's disaster recovery professionals can show you how to design a business continuity plan in order to resume IT operations in case of an IT system catastrophe. Progent can help you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery evaluations and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help you build an affordable, non-stop network solution that takes into account reliability issues involving a broad array of network technologies and processes. For more information, see Business Continuity Consulting and Support Services.

CRISC-Certified IT Risk Mitigation
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. For details, visit CRISC-Premier IT risk management specialists.

Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated important improvements in capacity, performance, manageability, security and compliance, app compatibility, Linux support, container networking, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud assets. Top new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management and monitoring of hybrid local/cloud deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive intelligence to control local networks, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for creating and managing massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from legacy versions of Windows Server. For more information, visit Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Help.

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can assist you to design a DR system 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, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance network-attached storage using commodity hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. To read more, visit Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Consulting.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and test a repeatable process for restoring services rapidly after an outage. SRM supports centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports transparent testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate audit reports to verify full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consultant to assist you to design, deploy, test and maintain a DR solution powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery software suite that combines failover storage clustering along with synchronous replication to provide fast, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between sites that are up to 185 miles (300km) apart from each other. Progent offers access to a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help you to design, configure, administer, update, test and repair a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by delivering guidance with procedures like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, setting up volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your MetroCluster disaster recovery solution to show adherence with industry standards and government mandates.

Network Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing support that addresses network load balancing, load balanced programs, network backbone routing, and content dispatching technology including F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Engine and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. For details, visit Non-stop Load Balancing.

Non-stop Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you select zero-downtime data centers that meet the particular requirements of your company. High availability Internet Data Centers are particularly appealing to small and mid-size organizations because of their low cost and simplified logistics compared to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to design an on-site data center that offers even a basic level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for typical small organizations. Progent is ready to show you how to reap all the advantages of non-stop colo sites by offering a complete array of consulting and support services. For details, visit Non-stop Data Centers Consulting.

Failsafe Interoffice Networking
Progent's branch office network infrastructure consultants can help companies achieve non-stop interoffice connectivity through redundant networks with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can design and deploy high-availability Inter-office connections supported by zero-downtime EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how multi-path connectivity and transparent fail-over can provide affordable non-stop interoffice networking. For details, visit 24x7 Inter-office Connectivity.

High Availability Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-certified network engineers can show you how to create an economical, high availability Internet connection solution that can deliver 24x7 Internet access via a broad range of high availability Internet network technologies including fault tolerant BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to show you how to apply the latest techniques for fault tolerant Internet connectivity to build an economical, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create fault tolerant Internet connections. To find out more, visit High Availability Internet Connectivity Architecture.

Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting Services
Progent can provide economical remote access to consultants with expertise in a wide array of utilities and technologies that deliver solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops as well as notebooks and smartphones. Progent can provide expertise for leading data protection products such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan, Double-Take Software, Mozy, Retrospect for Macintosh, Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and FLARs. Progent can assist your company to install, upgrade, or maintain backup/restore solutions for a range of topologies including local, remote, cloud, or hybrid. For more information, go to Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting and Support Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Data Recovery Consulting
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can assist you to develop a practical business continuity plan, design an affordable high-availability IT architecture, configure a Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager-based recovery system, comprehensively test your system, train your administrative personnel or regular consultants how to manage SCDPM, or provide extensive IT outsourcing services including remote housing of virtual or physical SCDPM servers in Progent's data center. For more information, visit System Center Data Protection Manager Expertise.

Barracuda Backup Cloud and Offsite Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup and disaster recovery platform for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a custom-designed physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar functionality but which utilizes your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects vital company 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 Web Services (AWS), or to any site with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a broad range of consulting services to help your business to design, integrate, operate and troubleshoot a BDR system built on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.

ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not include native support for vital data protection services such as Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a feature-rich BDR solution for automatic backup and rapid recovery of all your organization's M365 mail, 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 (DPS) 365 Total Backup to provide end-to-end managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup delivers a low-cost backup-as-a-service solution that guards M365 components against data loss or corruption caused by human or system error, malicious corruption, and malware attacks like ransomware. To learn more, see 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 provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS ECHO automates your backup activities and allow fast restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you protect, 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 an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed backup.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Solutions
Progent can assist you to design, implement and debug a backup/restore plan based on MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file or image backup/restore for VMs and physical machines, supports all leading public clouds, and permits businesses to create a data protection solution with a low RTO and a defined RPO. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent offers comprehensive monitoring and management of your backup system to prevent data loss caused by human miscues, system glitches, ill-intentioned insiders, and malware attacks such as ransomware. To learn more, go to ProSight MSP360 Backup services.

Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Backup and Recovery
Double-Take Software publishes a family of products designed to provide small and midsize companies a range of cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering vital applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, RIM Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take technology into small business information systems to achieve a high level of availability and business continuity capability at a budget-friendly price. For more information, see Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and provides high-level application support for a wide variety of small business applications, Progent is able to assist clients to arrive at complete information technology solutions that substantially enhance the productivity of your IT network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the support of certified engineers and specialists with experience in architecting, deploying and supporting infrastructure solutions built on Cisco products. The broad scope of Progent's technical experience and Progent's sensitivity to the requirements of small companies make Progent a great resource for creating and running an affordable, high-availability information system.

How You Can Get in Touch with Progent's Experts for Business Continuity Planning Help
In order to get in touch with Progent about professional support for workplace recovery planning, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.