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Asigra Inc.: Asigra Televaulting Delivers "Unobtrusive Virtual Server
Data Protection" According to Research Report by Enterprise Strategy
Group; ESG Touts Asigra for Agentless Approach to Solving Toughest
VMware Data Protection Challenges
(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
RDATE:12022008
LONDON - Asigra Inc., the technology leader in agentless backup and
recovery software for global enterprises and service providers, today
announced availability of a research report entitled Asigra's VMware
Optimised Backup from the IT analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group.
The report provides insight into the value of Asigra's agentless
backup and recovery solution compared with agent-based solutions when
deployed in virtualised server environments. The ESG brief precedes a
broader report, Business Resilience for VMware Environments, which
focuses on data protection options for VMware and highlights agentless
backup and recovery for VMware.
ESG characterises the adoption rate of server virtualisation as
phenomenal,' and notes the dramatic effect server virtualisation has
already had across IT organisations. Rapid adoption is driving the need
for backup and recovery solutions optimised to protect VMware
environments and Asigra's agentless software platform delivers on the
requirements for highly efficient and feature-rich application and data
protection.
In a survey of 709 enterprises on the rate of server virtualisation
adoption performed by ESG, 48% of enterprises surveyed plan to adopt
server virtualisation within the next 12-24 months and 52% already have
virtualised server environments. In the same survey, 57% of respondents
stated that their ability to better implement disaster recovery is a
factor for deploying server virtualisation.
Unobtrusive Virtual Server Data Protection
According to ESG, "Asigra's approach to protecting virtual server
environments offers several advantages when compared to traditional
backup solutions. For organisations that have deployed server
virtualisation in production environments, a majority are placing a
backup client agent in the host or guest OS. While these approaches
most closely reflect how backup was performed in the physical world
(and therefore is simple to understand and configure), they place
unnecessary strain on the host's resources compared with an agentless
approach. Agentless backup also eliminates the need to configure agent
technology in every virtual machine, as with traditional approaches."
"Reducing capital and operational costs, better utilising resources and
creating cost-effective disaster recovery strategies are just a few of
the reasons why companies-both small and large-are deploying server
virtualisation," said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group. "Asigra's next-generation backup software stands apart from
traditional backup solutions due to its agentless architecture and has
compelling capabilities to support VMware environments."
Asigra, a 20-year member of the backup vendor community, stands out
because it employs a non-intrusive software architecture that optimises
backup operations and management, delivering enterprise data protection
from the core to the edge. Unlike backup solutions that have per-server
and/or per-client licensing, Asigra's solution is capacity-based, with
licensing based on the amount of de-duplicated, compressed data stored.
Asigra Televaulting requires only one full backup, and thereafter it
performs incremental backups (only the block-level changes made since
the last full or incremental backup are transmitted and stored). These
changes are collected by a single piece of software installed at each
location, where the data is additionally de-duplicated across all
physical and virtual locations, compressed and encrypted before
transfer to the staged backup server.
Televaulting for Virtual Server Backup and Recovery Asigra delivers
pro-virtualisation backup and recovery, giving multi-national
enterprises with these environments the most powerful protection levels
available. With 64-bit Televaulting, Asigra addresses the shortcomings
of alternative backup and recovery solutions for protecting virtualised
server environments by providing:
Agentless backup optimised for virtualised server environments A
pro-virtualisation pricing model Any-to-any restore capability (P2P,
P2V, V2V, V2P) Live VM backup Fast and simple implementation and
management Centralised management of VM backup and recoveryfrom the
core to the edge File-level recovery at the VM and guest OS level Bare
metal restore
"Asigra has made a name for itself by addressing the challenges
associated with ROBO backup, as well as capitalizing on an MSP model,"
concluded Whitehouse. "With the widespread adoption of virtual machine
technology, and more specifically VMware, Asigra has an opportunity to
address one of the biggest concerns that organisations have with the
virtual world' - backup and recovery."
To access the Enterprise Strategy Group reportAsigra's VMware Optimized
Backup, visit:
http://www.asigra.com/form/signup_download.php?form=esg_vmware.
About Asigra Televaulting
Asigra Televaulting is agentless, multi-site backup/recovery software
that combines utility service provisioning with a disk-based
WAN-optimized architecture to overcome the limitations of traditional
distributed-backup software. Televaulting's simple, reliable and
affordable multi-site backup and recovery consolidates ROBO backups to
a central datacentre. With Asigra's automated backup, IT management is
not required as the entire process is administered centrally. With
support for 64-bit environments, organisations using Televaulting will
reduce network traffic loads, thereby reducing time and hardware
requirements for global enterprise backup and recovery. This disk-based
backup solution provides more affordable, scalable, reliable, secure
and manageable backup than available with conventional backup products.
About Asigra
Asigra is the award-winning leader in remote office/branch office
(ROBO) online backup and recovery software for global enterprises and
service providers, protecting more than 50,000 remote sites. The
company's flagship product, Televaulting, is used by large enterprises
in the financial, insurance, legal, government, healthcare, and retail
industries with more than four petabytes of data protected. Asigra
technology is used by hundreds of service providers worldwide that
offer managed backup services to companies ranging from small and
medium businesses (SMBs) to Global 2000 enterprises. The agentless
remote site backup and recovery solution provides simple, centralised
management of the data protection process while eliminating the capital
and operational expenses associated with agent-based solutions. Founded
in 1986, Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with partner
offices around the world. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.
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