Comprehensive VMware Virtual Machine Protection with Asigra Cloud Backup TM

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1 Comprehensive VMware Virtual Machine Protection with Asigra Cloud Backup TM

2 Virtualization is changing the way companies design, run, and manage their IT environments. Today, virtual machines (VM) are being used to run critical business applications and store valuable corporate data. While multiple VM vendors exist in the market, VMWare continues to be the leading VM platform. Most enterprise IT environments are more than 50 percent virtualized and organizations are looking to increase their virtualization footprint further. You need to make sure that these virtual machines storing essential data and missioncritical applications are safeguarded in the event of data loss so you can ensure business continuity if servers fail or your entire data center goes down. Even if only a small percentage of your environment is virtualized, you can t afford not to protect data residing on virtual machines. Some enterprises look at virtual machine protection as being independent of all of their other data protection activities, and it can lead you to adopt point solutions for backing up virtual machines. Unfortunately, these point solutions don t provide complete protection they may only backup local machine or only provide protection for virtual machines. Asigra Cloud Backup is a comprehensive enterprise-class backup, recovery and restore platform designed to integrate virtual machine protection into your enterprise-wide data protection activities. With the Asigra platform, you can ensure your virtual machines are protected and available at all times; it provides peace of mind that you can continue your business operations in the event that either a server or the entire site goes down. In addition, the complimentary virtual machine protection integrated into our end-to-end backup and recovery suite can help you save money by reducing license costs and improving operational efficiencies. VMware Backup Needs of Organizations As virtualization technology has matured, and enterprises have been running a number of critical applications on VMware, a great deal of corporate data now resides on virtual machines. If any of these virtual machines were to go down or become unavailable, you would be faced with a significant interruption in business operations because you couldn t access mission-critical business data. To address these challenges, you ve likely been seeking a solution that can protect your VMware environment against both server failures and complete site failures. The use of multiple solutions one for virtual machine backups and others for file backups -- has led to a division of responsibility for data protection: The VMware administrator is typically responsible for the backup and recovery of virtual machines, rather than the backup administrator, who is responsible for backing up all of the other machines in the organization. This separation of responsibilities has also led to the same data being backed up multiple times. In addition, using multiple solutions has increased your licensing, training and management costs. These point solutions for virtual machine protection often don t comprehensively safeguard against local failures or site failures. Ideally, you want a backup and recovery solution that allows you to have backup copies of your virtual machines available to you that can be turned on instantly when faced with the failure of either a single machine or an entire site. These copies should be available locally for machine failures, as well as remotely if an entire site goes down. You also want a data protection solution for virtual machines that automates the process of managing backups. You also want to be able to create policies for backing up multiple sets of virtual machines simultaneously rather than having to create copies of machines individually. Most importantly, you want assurance that your virtual machines can be recovered from backup copies at all times. COMPREHENSIVE VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE PROTECTION WITH ASIGRA CLOUD BACKUP

3 The Asigra Solution In order to provide an end-to-end solution for your entire enterprise backup and recovery needs, Asigra Cloud Backup provides a comprehensive stack of VMware protection capabilities. We believe that virtualization is a given in today s data center, so we do not treat virtual machine protection any different from any other data protection capability in our platform. VMware data protection capabilities are included at no additional cost with our end-to-end enterprise backup, recovery, and restore software. Our VMware data protection solutions offer you a host of options to ensure your virtual machines are always available to you when you need them. Low impact virtual machine backups Asigra Cloud Backup leverages the native VMware APIs for Data Protection (VADP) with Change Block Tracking (CBT). This improves the efficiency of data backups because only the changes to the virtual machines are sent to the backup repository. By following the VMware-recommended API method to backup virtual machines, Asigra Cloud Backup ensures virtual machines are quiesced and backed up incrementally using low impact methods. Organizations can also schedule backups of virtual machines at regular intervals. Asigra Cloud Backup automatically backs up new virtual machines that are created in the environment and also performs backups of virtual machines that are turned off. Recover instantly from server failures with Local DS-VDR Asigra Cloud Backup features Local DS-VDR to help you recover instantly from local server failures. This feature allows you to create a backup copy of one or more physical or virtual machine within the local environment. When the original machine goes down, organizations can continue to operate by just turning on the virtual copy of the machine. This functionality helps organizations gain access to their data and applications within minutes, guaranteeing continued business operations as usual even as you work on recovering the primary infrastructure. Figure 1: Our comprehensive solution for VMware virtual machine data protection

4 Continue business operations at a remote site with Remote DS-VDR With Remote DS-VDR organizations can create a hot spare of their VMware virtual machines at a remote offsite data center, providing a failover option in the event their entire site goes down. Organizations can configure the backup of the primary site at regular intervals, as well as configure the software to perform a refresh of the warm spare at the end of every backup activity. In the event of a site failure, organizations can continue to access their data and run applications from this remote data center even as they work on recovering the machine at the primary location. The Asigra Advantage Asigra Cloud Backup includes a broad array of features to support the backup and recovery of virtual machines, as well as all on-premise data residing within your organization: It does not require software agents within the virtual machine for backup or recovery, ensuring efficient backups that do not consume additional server resources. Asigra s incremental forever technology performs deduplication and compression of the data before it is transmitted to the remote offsite data center, preventing network degradation when backup jobs run. It also performs global deduplication of data to optimize the use of storage resources. Automation features help backup administrators configure, manage and schedule backup activities, as well as set up retention policies and dictate the number of generations of the data that they would like to protect in their offline repositories. NIST FIPS certified encryption ensures that all data sent outside the local data center is secure and encrypted. Multiple recovery and restore assurance capabilities protect against the corruption of data in the backup repositories and ensure data is always recoverable. Because Asigra protects virtual machines in the form of virtual disk images, recovering a virtual machine is as simple as turning on the backed up copy of the virtual machine. Asigra provides enterprise-class scalability to ensure that organizations can backup every virtual machine in their environment using a single platform; you can backup hundreds to thousands of virtual machines. Comprehensive data protection Besides protecting VMware virtual machines, Asigra Cloud Backup is an enterprise solution that backs up and recovers data residing on servers, laptops, desktops, tablets, smartphones and cloud-based applications such as Platform-asa-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) infrastructures. Asigra Cloud Backup provides users with multiple options to protect their data including instant recovery and long-term backup options for your VMware virtual machines. VMware data protection is just one of the many features in our enterprise end-to-end backup, recovery and restore platform. This capability comes packaged complimentary with a host of other capabilities that ensure that your data is protected, secure, recoverable, and therefore always available from anywhere within the enterprise. If you have been using a point solution for backing up virtual machines and a separate solution for backing up all of the other data in your organization, it is time to switch to a true enterprise data protection platform. COMPREHENSIVE VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE PROTECTION WITH ASIGRA CLOUD BACKUP

5 For more information about Asigra Cloud Backup, visit / product or to speak to a cloud backup specialist call us at About Asigra Cloud Backup Award-winning Asigra Cloud Backup is an agentless hardware-and-software platform agnostic cloud backup, recovery and restore software solution that supports servers, virtual machines, desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, cloud-based applications, enterprise applications and databases enabling organizations to resume business operations quickly while reducing costs and achieving peace of mind. About Asigra Asigra is the leading cloud computing software vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 550,000 global installations. Asigra Cloud Backup transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. With more than 26 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology and provide hands-on local service. Asigra Cloud Backup was recently awarded the 2012 Frost & Sullivan North American New Product Innovation Award in Cloud Based Data Management and was named Product of the Year by Storage Magazine. Asigra was recently awarded a 5-Star rating in the CRN Magazine s 2012 Partner Program Guide, named a CRN 2012 Channel Chief, and also named a Best Channel Partner for 2012 by Business Solutions Magazine. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit 2012 Asigra, the Asigra logo and Asigra Cloud Backup are trademarks of Asigra Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.