Version 10 of Asigra’s Cloud Backup Debuts
The backup and recovery solution adds tiered recovery options for mobile, desktop, server, data center and cloud computing environments.
Cloud backup and recovery software provider Asigra Inc. has announced the latest edition of its Cloud Backup product.
According to Asigra, Cloud Backup v10 adds comprehensive protection for laptops, desktops, servers, data centers, and cloud computing environments with tiered recovery options to meet recovery time objectives (RTOs).
“Traditional approaches to SMB backup have not kept up with exponential data growth, variances in information value, and complexities within the IT environment,” says Asigra in a statement to EH Publishing. For this reason, the company says, the Asigra Cloud Backup platform is a backup architecture “optimized for cloud computing and designed to offer backup and storage efficiencies unavailable with traditional backup architectures.”
With v10, users can create tiered backup policies that align the value of the data with the cost of protecting it. “The local backup sets option enables companies to replace their typical tape-based local backup solution–with all of its pain, cost, and complexity–with backup to a local disk-based private cloud,” the company says.
Cloud Backup v10 features:
- DS-Mobile support to back-up laptops in the field
- Tiered recovery (local-only backup to machines on end customer’s premises, offsite backup to a service provider or private cloud)
- Ability to be deployed as a virtual appliance within virtual infrastructures
- Advanced FIPS 140-2 NIST certified security and encryption of data in-flight and at-rest
- New backup sets for protection of applications, including MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, MS SQL, Windows Server Hyper-V, Oracle SBT, Sybase, and Local-Only backup
MOBILITY, SECURITY & VIRTUALIZATIONAsigra has also improved the functionality of its data protection software. Its DS-Mobile Client has been added to Asigra Cloud Backup v10. Designed to meet the bandwidth and technical requirements of laptop computers, the DS-Mobile client uses a simple GUI for backup and restoration of data anytime, anywhere.
In addition, all the data protected by the Asigra platform is encrypted in-flight and at-rest and certified to FIPS 140-2 NIST standards. Companies with extra security concerns for medical, financial, government and other highly confidential data can add another layer of protection with Asigra’s password rotation feature.
The growth server virtualization was reflected in the latest version of Cloud Backup as well. v10 can be deployed as a virtual appliance within virtual infrastructures. Along with its support for virtual machine backups at the host level, v10 now supports Hyper-V, VMware, and XenServer using the latest native APIs, enabling improved performance and usability to backup data to virtual or physical servers.
AVAILABILITY & PRICING
Asigra Cloud Backup v10 is available immediately through the Asigra partner network. Organizations can opt to deploy the software directly onsite or select an Asigra service provider for offsite backup or both. Pricing starts at $50 per month through cloud backup service providers.
