Asigra Cloud Backup Recovery v11 for Private and Public Cloud



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Asigra Cloud Backup™ v11 is available as software or software-as-a-service powered by Data Storage Systems, Inc. For Mid-Range and Enterprise Data Centers looking for a comprehensive, cost-effective data protection platform, please ask DSS, Inc. Sales for a detailed "Webinar"! You can reach DSS, Inc. Sales by phone: (763) 416-0474, e-Mail: sales@datastoragesys.com, Skype: DSS.Sales or click on our "Live Help" tab located at the upper right hand corner.

Data Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS, Inc.) is a Managed Service Partner with Asigra delivering backup and recovery solutions to SMEs and large enterprises as a perpetual license (Private Cloud), term license (Private Cloud) or as an online (Public Cloud) backup service.
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The industry's first enterprise end-to-end cloud backup platform to protect servers, desktops, laptops, tablets and smart phones while aligning the value of data with the costs of protecting it
Asigra Cloud Backup v11
is the first enterprise class cloud backup platform to protect the data center's entire digital footprint. This includes: storage, servers, desktops, laptops on the enterprise LAN and this is big...remote tablets, smart phones and laptops!! Asigra Cloud Backup v11 along with DSS, Inc. provides data protection for IT constrained organizations and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model.

Asigra Cloud Backup v11 is the next generation software purpose-built for cloud computing environments and designed to deliver ultra reliable Cloud Backup and Recovery (BUR) services. Asigra transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering market leading cloud backup solutions that seamlessly and efficiently manage, scale and deliver data protection services.
Protect your private enterprise cloud environment using Asigra Cloud Backup v11 as an on-premise solution or rely on Data Storage Systems, Inc. to provide replication or disaster recovery protection in a hybrid cloud environment.
Designed to offer backup efficiencies unavailable with traditional backup architecture. The true benefit allows Data Centers to capture less, ingest less and store less data. Reducing the amount of backup assets to manage and maintain.

Asigra Cloud Backup is comprised of two main components:

DS-Client: Installed at the end customer’s premises to collect data from all servers, desktops, laptops, structured applications and raw/unstructured files that need protection. The DS-Client is the data collector.

DS-System: Installed at the off-site data center or core of the cloud where the protected data resides. The DS-System is the data aggregator.

This one-to-many architecture (one DS-System serving many DS-Clients) enables Asigra to support additional backup loads from multiple operating systems, servers, databases, applications and storage environments.
Asigra Cloud Backup v11 - Solutions
Data Protection for Remote Offices
Data Centers charged with remote offices are tasked with protecting data usually without IT resources at the remote location. Managing bandwidth costs and meeting shrinking backup windows typically accounts for 30 percent or more of the total IT expenditures of an enterprise.

Asigra Cloud Backup architecture is WAN-Optimized and built around copying data from remote locations to a centralized data repository by leveraging a Public and/or Private Cloud.

Asigra Cloud Backup is designed to protect remote office locations.

• Disk-based, block-level incremental client-side deduplication reduces backup bandwidth requirements

• Agentless architecture means no application-specific clients. Easing deployment of a backup and recovery software.
Desktop and Laptop Backup
In most organizations, data from mobile users (whether on the road or plugged into the LAN) does not reside in the company’s central data center. Thus, making it difficult for IT administrators to properly back up and safeguard this data.

In many cases, information stored on laptops is critical to a company’s business operations.

Asigra Cloud Backup solves this problem by introducing a mobile client that’s specifically built for laptops, enabling quick backup and recovery through intuitive wizards and options. It’s so efficient and easy to use that DS-Mobile Client users can backup and recover their own data anytime, anywhere!
Agentless technology eliminates the need to install software on every target desktop machine you need to protect. Pay only for the total amount of compressed data from across your enterprise – no matter how many desktop/laptop machines are protected. Restore critical data quickly from the local storage on the LAN or from the online vault in the enterprise data center. You can backup while restoring or restore while backing up.

• With Asigra Cloud Backup, IT staff can manage the online vault and data repository, track backup consumption for each user and perform other high-level administrative tasks. Web-based status reports assure accountability, verifying that all backups occurred as scheduled.
• The central hub has a complete view of the entire LAN from one interface that is easily integrated with existing SNMP-based monitoring and notification systems.
• Help Desk staff can connect to laptops over the network to schedule backup jobs and restore lost files.
Tablets and SmartPhone Support
In most organizations, data from tablet and smartphone users does not reside in the company's central data center. In many cases, information stored on non-traditional endpoint devices is critical to a company’s business operations, but it is often left up to end users to protect and safeguard this data. Adding to these challenges is the fact that, until now, backup applications for these devices via Cloud BURR platforms simply didn’t exist.

Asigra Cloud Backup v11 solves this problem by introducing a Cloud BURR-based mobile client that’s specifically built for tablets and smart phones, enabling quick backup and recovery through intuitive wizards and options. It’s so efficient and easy to use that DS-Mobile Client users can backup and recover their own data, anytime, anywhere!
Operating systems supported include:
1.Google Android (Tablets and Smart Phones)
2.Apple iOS (iPad, iPod, iPhone).
Mobile downloads of the Asigra app are available from:
1.Apple App Store
2.Android Market
3.Amazon Appstore
Cloud Backup
Asigra’s breakthrough Cloud Backup architecture combines a Cloud optimized scale-out architecture, a Cloud backup and recovery software platform and a Cloud API and management system. Easily manage, scale and deliver data protection services.

Cloud backup is quickly becoming a very appealing data protection option for many IT organizations. Asigra’s cloud backup solution is an end-to-end solution that is purpose-built to leverage virtualized environments. Asigra Cloud Backup has built-in mobility support with scale, meets security standards and aligns the value of data with the costs of protecting it.

Backup for Private Cloud Environments.
Asigra Cloud Backup can be implemented with an organization’s existing corporate network (private cloud). Asigra technology is built to capture less, ingest less, and store less data thus reducing the amount of backup software and storage hardware you buy and maintain.
Backup for Public Cloud Environments.
Companies can turn to a managed cloud backup solution (public cloud) powered by Asigra technology. It can be implemented exclusively at a cloud-connected remote location or deployed with the addition of a local cached copy of the latest backup data for quick and reliable ad-hoc recoveries.

Hybrid Cloud Backup.
You do not have to choose whether to exclusively manage the corporate backups by maintaining your own infrastructure or completely outsource them by leveraging SaaS. Now you can adopt a Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Strategy as Asigra Cloud Backup allows alternating seamless migration between the two without reinstalling the Data Collector Client software at each protected site. Also, you can easily migrate your backup data from your internal data center to Data Storage Systems, Inc. facility or vice-versa using the Asigra migration tool. As your backup strategy evolves you elect to retain your data or outsource to Data Storage Systems, Inc. Asigra ensures that you always maintain control over your backup data.
Virtualized Environments
Not only can Asigra’s Cloud Backup solution reside on both physical and virtual machines but it also supports backup/restore in Hyper-V, VMware and XenServer environments. Using their latest APIs, agentlessly!

Traditional backup and recovery strategies are not adequate to deliver the granular recovery demanded by the business. More important the cost associated with traditional or agent based technologies essentially negates many of the cost advantages of virtualization.

Agents in virtual environments
Traditional agent-based backup and recovery force the enterprise into a series of unattractive choices. Agent based technologies pollute the virtual environment. Agents, by their nature lack cohesion.
The need to physically install and manage agents on each application within the virtual server and each machine on the LAN is time and labor intensive. A single agent adds as much as 16% server overhead to each application. Add to that the security risk and cost of each agent and it becomes quite clear that agent-based backup and recovery dramatically impacts the TCO and performance of the virtual environment.

Asigra Cloud Backup provides a robust feature set ideal for virtual environments. Asigra Cloud Backup enables the enterprise to maximize their virtualization strategy while achieving superior information protection and recovery management without performance degradation.

• In virtual environments, the DS-Client and the DS-System can both run as virtual appliances
• Simple to implement, operate, & manage

Asigra’s agentless backup/recovery solution has been tested and certified on a very wide range of virtualization platforms including:

• VMware VSphere 4, ESX 3.5, ESX 3.0, ESXi, Workstation and Server
• Citrix XenServer
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Parallels and Virtual Containers
• VADP

VM Data Protection.Asigra Cloud Backup removes many of the traditional hassles associated with the protection and recovery of VMs. It meets new data protection requirements that VMware ESX creates by:

• Discovering new guest VMs
• Centralizing backup configuration and management
• Minimizing initial backup job configuration and ongoing management
• Providing support for multiple backup sets. E.g. VSS aware backup sets such as SQL, Exchange, SharePoint etc
• Broad application and operating system support

Further, by delivering the means to auto-discover guest VMs on individual virtual servers and coupling that with the agentless backup of guest VMs using CDP, incremental or VMDK-based forms of backups, Asigra fundamentally changes how companies can protect their virtual environments going forward.
Tiered Recovery
Asigra and Data Storage Systems, Inc. understand that organizations do not prioritize their data the same way. Some organizations don’t value older data the same as more recent data, more critical data. When formulating a backup and recovery strategy, organizations would need to establish different Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives (RPOs and RTOs) for different data sets.

Organizations demand the ability to implement their backup and recovery solution to meet their own data availability requirements.nAsigra Cloud Backup offers the option of multiple tiers of recovery.

With Asigra and Data Storage Systems, Inc. we continue to assist the users of our technology. Establishing the right mix between having the fastest and the most cost-effective recovery capabilities for their data.
Data Storage Systems, Inc. - Data Centers
Cornerstone Virtual Private Data Center (vPDC)
In order to deliver the most secure platform, we've built our infrastructure on best of breed enterprise grade hardware. All servers and data are stored in multiple SAS-70 certified data centers for maximum security and regulatory compliance. As your business continues to grow, so does your vPDC solution. Our infrastructure provides you with unmatched flexibility and management that gives you the edge over other traditional cloud computing providers. With Artisan, you have the complete freedom to maintain native control of your infrastructure and clients. The Cornerstone, vPDC platform is connected through multiple tier 1 internet backbones. This affords you complete peace of mind from a fully redundant system running at a 99.99% uptime. Other platform features include load balancing, fault tolerance, and full site replication with instant failover in ‘disaster’ situations.
Asigra Cloud Backup Software v11 Datasheet
Mpls, Mn. Data Center
Austin, Tx. Data Center
2 X SAS70 Data Centers
Each of our data centers are certified to meet the highest standards and regulatory compliances such as HIPAA, PCI, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
24 X 7 Support
With native controls, it is highly unlikely you will need support, but in case you do we have support offices located throughout the world.
Native Controls
Each partner has complete native access within their vPDC environment for maximum visibility and management.
Multi-Tiered Storage
With multiple tiers of storage, each partner can customize a solution that meets the needs of their client.
Multiple Backbones
Each of our data centers boasts multiple network carriers for redundancy and high availability.
NetApp vFilers
For mission critical data, partners have the ability to execute snapshots and restores at the file level.
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