Introducing Asigra Cloud Backup™ v11
Asigra v11 is the industry’s first end-to-end cloud backup solution that is purpose-built to leverage physical and virtual environments, has built-in, scalable mobility support that includes support for tablets and smartphones, helping you meet regulatory compliance, while aligning the value of data with the costs of protecting it.
Tablet and Smartphone protection with V11
With the proliferation of non-traditional endpoint devices serving larger mobile workforces, employee tablets and smart phones often contain confidential customer data and corporate Intellectual Property (IP). It is no surprise that many companies today have elevated the status of data on these mobile devices to ‘mission critical’.
It follows that as mobile technology extends the workplace, a significant requirement for extended data protection strategies becomes a reality. Asigra’s Cloud Backup v11 meets that requirement. As the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise and mobile Cloud Backup enablement platform, it extends data protection from datacenters (servers) to mobile endpoints (tablets, smartphones and remote laptops).
To learn more about tablet and smartphone protection with v11, click here.
Business-class BURR for the rest of us
Consumer Backup Solutions available today do a great job of backing up data, but none provides the Recovery, Restore Assurance (R2A) found in the Asigra-powered v11 solution.
Consumers will benefit from Asigra’s One Click to the Cloud simplicity. And now, with more backend flexibility and innovation, Asigra providers can offer this service to consumers at affordable prices.
v11 delivers the same features enjoyed by enterprise customers—R2A, FIPS 140-2 certified solution, data reduction (de-dupe and compression) and more. Backups are sent to the Cloud while a local copy of the consumer’s data is stored on an internal hard drive or on any external media attached to the machine—i.e., an external hard drive or USB drive. And restores can go to the original location, an alternate location or another machine.
DS-Consumer Client patches and upgrades are done automatically and silently. Bandwidth is conserved with incremental backups of changed or new files only. Users have the option to utilize default-automated backup for backups to take place during the preset backup windows. However, if the user has made a lot of important changes to their data and do not want to wait until the normal backup window; they can simply click on the “Backup Now” button for an immediate backup. Consumers can also view activity logs, and edit their default backup policies, schedules and data-retention parameters in the DS-Consumer Client.
While DS-Consumer opens the door to more customers looking for simple, affordable and secure Cloud BURR, it actually promises much more than just increased TAM for Asigra providers. Many consumers now use two or three different BURR solutions in their personal life and at work. Strategically, DS-Consumer is an opportunity for providers to demonstrate to new customers that Asigra is the perfect unified platform for all of their Cloud BURR needs.
New Network Operations Center for Service Providers and Enterprise
The rapid growth of data and devices under protection requires improved visibility and better control for service providers over their total environment. Asigra Version 11 delivers a fast and easy way to see into every corner of your BURR environment.
The DS-NOC gives providers an intuitive, web-based interface for real-time visibility and control over all of their DS-Systems, DS-Clients, BLM Archivers and DS-Billing Centers. At a glance, BURR administrators can see the status of licenses, capacity usage and backup completion for every DS-Client.
From the console, service providers can also manage configurations across all of their DS-Systems. And they can drill down within each to browse for files and generations backed up, restore generations, and deactivate, reactivate, lock and unlock DS-Clients. As well, BLM Archivers can be managed from within the DS-NOC to browse Archive packages, search through packages, and create, write and download restorable images.
For operations struggling to keep up with more devices, more data and more elaborate configurations, and fluid Cloud environments, the monitoring and management capabilities of the DS-NOC will be invaluable for controlling support costs, and for ensuring faster response to emergency events and customer requests. In fact, providers can supply their enterprise customers with visibility into their environment via the DS-NOC to better manage and control their environment.
Turbo-Charged Backup, Recovery and Restore
Many data centers have invested in 10Gbps LAN technology or they plan to soon. With v11, Asigra exploits that multi-thread infrastructure to turbo-charge backup, recovery and restore performance.
Asigra’s new 10Gbps LAN support speeds BURR traffic. Because this support required changes to internal processes and algorithms, Asigra made the following enhancements to our internal processes to handle the faster flow of data:
- Multi-threaded delta processing and restores
- Multi-threaded browse activities for the DS-System
- Parallel processing for read I/O and data processing for backup
- Multiple overlapped I/O for large file backup and restores
- Delta algorithm performance improvement results in 3X improvement in the block cut speed.
The combination of the 10Gbps support and enhancements results in a 200% – 400% increase in performance.
