Backup Solutions

Veritas Backup Exec

Veritas Backup Exec focuses on keeping data protection simple,secure and unified. You choose what to back up, where to store it and how to pay for it. Your data remains secure and available at every stage—whether backing up on-premises to the cloud, protecting workloads within the cloud, recovering from the cloud or just connecting to on-site storage.  

Backup Exec is available for purchase in term subscription licensing. Manage your entire data ecosystem from a single console, eliminate the need for multiple backup solutions, as well as save time and resources with easy deployment. 

Key Features and Benefits
  • Unified solution for virtual, physical, public and hybrid cloud environments simplifies data protection and eliminates the cost and complexity of multiple point product.  
  • Support all tiers for AWS, Azure, Google and any generic S3 compatible cloud storage. 
  • Deduplication everywhere allows you to protect more data while minimizing disk space required on-site and in the cloud. 
  • Includes fully integrated support for the protection and recovery of Microsoft 365 workloads, including Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. 
  • Protection against ransomware attacks thanks to the Ransomware Resilience feature that protects backups hosted on a media server from being modified by unauthorized processes. 
  • Be aware and respond to unexpected changes in your backup data with built-in Anomaly Detection.  
  • Instant Recovery and Recovery Ready of VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines provides an immediately usable copy of the server and data for DR, compliance, testing and application deployment. 
  • Backup Exec Accelerator v3 significantly improves performance of incremental forever backups of VMware and Hyper-V workloads compared to traditional backup methods. 
  • Integrated bare-metal Disaster Recovery, physical to virtual (P2V), and virtual to physical (V2P) recovery help minimize downtime and disruption. 
  • Instant Cloud Recovery provides seamless failover to Microsoft® Azure in case of disaster. 

Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication is a comprehensive data protection and management solution designed for virtualized environments. It provides backup, replication, and recovery features for virtual machines (VMs) running on platforms such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Veeam Backup & Replication is widely used by organizations to ensure the availability and integrity of their critical data in virtualized environments.

Here are key aspects of Veeam Backup & Replication:
  • Virtual Machine Backup: Veeam allows users to perform image-based backups of virtual machines. This includes capturing the entire VM, including its configuration, operating system, applications, and data, in a consistent state. 
  • Incremental and Forever-Incremental Backups: Veeam uses incremental backup technology, capturing only changes made since the last backup. This reduces backup times and optimizes storage utilization. Forever-incremental backups mean that subsequent backups only store the changes, without the need for periodic full backups. 
  • Snapshot Integration: Veeam leverages hypervisor-based snapshots for fast and efficient backups. Snapshots ensure that the backup process is quick and doesn’t impact the production environment. 
  • Application-Aware Backups: Veeam supports application-aware backups, ensuring that data from applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and Active Directory is backed up in a consistent state. This is crucial for successful application recovery. 
  • Instant VM Recovery: Veeam enables instant recovery of VMs, allowing users to run VMs directly from backup files in case of a failure. This minimizes downtime and ensures quick recovery. 
  • SureBackup and SureReplica: SureBackup allows for automatic verification of the recoverability of backups by starting VMs directly from backup files. SureReplica extends this capability to replication, ensuring that replicas are functional and can be quickly powered on if needed. 
  • Built-in Deduplication and Compression: Veeam includes built-in deduplication and compression technologies to optimize storage usage and reduce backup and replication times. 
  • Multi-Tenancy Support: For service providers and enterprises with multiple departments, Veeam supports multi-tenancy, allowing segregation and management of backup and replication tasks for different entities. 
  • Integration with Cloud Storage: Veeam integrates with various cloud storage providers, enabling users to store backups and replicas in the cloud. This supports offsite backup and disaster recovery strategies. 
  • Veeam Explorers: Veeam provides application-specific explorers for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Active Directory. These explorers allow for granular recovery of individual items within applications. 
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Veeam Backup & Replication includes RBAC features, allowing organizations to define roles and permissions for different users, ensuring secure and controlled access to backup and recovery tasks. 
  • Monitoring and Reporting: Veeam offers monitoring and reporting tools to keep administrators informed about the status of backup and replication jobs, storage usage, and overall system health. 
  • Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager: Enterprise Manager provides a centralized management interface for multiple Veeam Backup & Replication servers. It enables global search, reporting, and delegation of permissions.

Veeam Backup & Replication is known for its ease of use, scalability, and robust features, making it a popular choice for organizations looking to protect and manage their virtualized environments efficiently.

Barracuda Backup

Today's complex infrastructures and targeted cyber-attacks require a complete backup strategy — on-premises or in the cloud. Simple to configure and manage, Barracuda Backup is a secure, all-in-one solution that offers total peace of mind.

Protect data wherever it resides

User error, malicious deletion, natural disasters, and cyber-attacks can all threaten your business. Barracuda can securely backup and recover data including files located on physical and virtual environments including: 

  • Network Attached Storage 
  • Linux, MacOS, Microsoft Windows, SQL data, Microsoft Exchange 
  • Hyper-V and VMware 

Backed up data can be replicated to the offsite location of your choice, including to secure Barracuda cloud storage, or another physical location. 

Recover data fast

Backing up your data is only part of the story. Barracuda makes it simple to recover to a snapshot in time or just recover a set of affected files. We support physical and virtual restores, so you can recover data from anywhere. 

If your primary storage is lost or no longer available, you can easily access your data stored in Barracuda Backup and even spin up a virtual machine in minutes with a complete set of your data. Barracuda LiveBoot provides fast and easy recovery for on-premises VMware environments. Cloud LiveBoot allows you to boot VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) in the Barracuda Cloud for testing and file-based recovery. 

Simple and Flexible Deployment Options

Barracuda offers flexible backup including physical and virtual options. Choose what works best for your environment: 

  • Barracuda Backup Appliance. Purpose built, all-inclusive physical appliance for onsite data protection. Back up to the cloud, or another physical appliance. 
  • Barracuda Virtual Backup. Get all the advantage of Barracuda backup on your own equipment. 
  • Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup. Protect your Microsoft 365 environment including emails, attachments, calendars, contacts, and tasks as well as Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive including OneNote. 

ExaGrid

ExaGrid is a provider of backup storage solutions designed to address the unique challenges associated with data protection and backup storage. ExaGrid's solutions incorporate a scalable and grid-based architecture to enhance performance, reduce backup windows, and provide cost-effective data retention.

Here are key aspects of ExaGrid solutions:
  • Scalable Grid Architecture: ExaGrid employs a scalable grid architecture, where multiple appliances can be combined into a grid to provide linear scalability. This architecture allows organizations to easily scale their backup storage infrastructure as data volumes grow. 
  • Post-Process Deduplication: ExaGrid uses a post-process deduplication approach. After data is ingested, it is deduplicated and stored in a deduplicated format on the ExaGrid appliance. This helps optimize storage efficiency by eliminating redundant data. 
  • Unique Landing Zone: ExaGrid features a unique landing zone, where the most recent backups are stored in their full and undeduplicated form. This landing zone accelerates backup and restore performance, as there is no need for rehydration of data during these processes. 
  • Instant VM Recovery: ExaGrid supports instant recovery of virtual machines (VMs), enabling organizations to quickly recover and run VMs directly from the ExaGrid appliance in the event of a failure.  
  • Scale-Out Architecture: ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture allows organizations to add additional appliances to the grid to accommodate growing data volumes and to maintain performance levels. This scale-out approach provides flexibility and investment protection. 
  • Integration with Veeam, Commvault, and Other Backup Applications: ExaGrid solutions integrate with a variety of backup applications, including Veeam and Commvault. This integration ensures compatibility with existing backup workflows and applications commonly used in enterprise environments. 
  • Global Deduplication Across All Appliances: ExaGrid’s global deduplication spans across all appliances in a grid, providing a comprehensive and efficient deduplication process. This ensures that redundant data is eliminated across the entire infrastructure. 
  • WAN-Efficient Replication: ExaGrid supports WAN-efficient replication, allowing organizations to replicate backup data to offsite or remote locations for disaster recovery purposes. This replication is optimized for efficient use of wide-area network (WAN) bandwidth. 
  • Retention Timeframes: ExaGrid allows organizations to retain backup data for extended periods, providing flexibility in meeting regulatory compliance and data retention requirements. 
  • NFS and SMB Support: ExaGrid supports NFS (Network File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) protocols, making it compatible with various operating systems and environments. 
  • Automated Tiered Storage: ExaGrid provides automated tiered storage, allowing organizations to archive older and less frequently accessed backup data to cost-effective storage tiers. 
  • Scale-to-Fit Licensing: ExaGrid offers a scale-to-fit licensing model, allowing organizations to add capacity as needed without having to overprovision upfront. This flexibility aligns with the dynamic nature of data growth.

ExaGrid’s backup storage solutions are known for their scalability, performance optimization, and cost-effective approach to data deduplication. These features make them suitable for organizations with evolving backup and data protection needs.