Asigra's secure, encrypted, offsite cloud backup solution is agentless, thereby significantly
reducing administrative overhead in ongoing maintenance. This agentless
architecture only requires a single dedicated port on firewall devices for
communication, so has a hugely reduced attack surface area. In addition, the solution
does not require expensive Vendor supplied appliances to be deployed
meaning that there isn’t a high upfront cost to implement the solution.
Experience has shown that a significant amount of backup failures
can be traced back to agent failure, whether this be an interoperability
issue with an installed application, addition of a recent patch,
or an agent that needs updating. As our solution is agentless, this
potential for failure is significantly reduced. In addition to this
though, the solution automatically and continually ‘heals’ itself
by verifying the logical and physical integrity of the data written
to the storage systems, ensuring that the data is actually restorable
by simulating real recoveries without the need to deploy expensive
DR/Sandbox equipment.
Asigra's solution is highly secure, with data encrypted both in-flight
and at-rest with the highest levels of security and compliance:
- AES265-bit encryption
- Government approved NIST FIPS 140-2 security certification
- Customer Controlled encryption key and authentication
Our solution allows us to provide your business with a vastly
consolidated backup system with no limits regarding the number
of geographically dispersed branch office locations you need to
securely backup data from. DR Technologies Cloud Backup is designed to
grow with you, so the usual headaches and associated risks of
requiring backups for new offices following acquisitions etc. will
now be a thing of the past even for the most complex disaster
recovery and business continuity strategies.
FACT: Enterprises using Asigra
technology have achieved 100% recovery of all data, regardless
of where it resides.
Any cloud based service will generally operate at a speed determined
by the lowest common denominator – usually this is the connectivity
to the cloud service. Our solution reduces the requirement for
high cost, super fast connectivity by utilising the following
technologies:
- De-duplication - our technology supports local/client-side
deduplication at Local Area Network (LAN) level as well as
global deduplication (known as Common File Elimination) across
all protected sites. Our solution identifies duplicate data
by looking for the same data selected for backup more than
once. All data is compared based on its content, so it does
not matter if the files are on different servers or have different
names. Common data is stored to the appropriate repository
and a pointer/stub is used to point from the data’s original
location to the library location. This is a continuous
process, as common data can appear at any time.
- Data compression – the ratio achieved with data
compression is dependent on data type. Higher compression
ratios can be achieved for databases than for image or audio
files. Since, compressing already compressed data can increase
the file size, Asigra technology has the intelligence to detect
compressed files and it skips re-compression of such files
Of course any prospective change to an existing backup solution
has to deliver real benefits to the business, but critically, we
understand that this also needs to represent cost savings. With
our solution, you will only pay for the data you actually back
up so this alleviates the need to budget for unused white space sat
on overprovisioned hard disks/storage arrays.
Forgive us repeating this but although we appreciate that text
on a website makes for compelling reading, we firmly believe
that, to coin a phrase, “the proof is in the pudding”! With
this in mind, our preference is to demonstrate our solutions
in a real world ‘live’ environment, not a carefully engineered,
sanitised and quarantined demonstration rig. We can perform live
demonstrations, on your equipment, in your environment with your
systems, safely and securely. This also gives you the opportunity
to experience our ongoing support of our solutions, and Disaster
Recovery Technologies service centric ethos.
Contact us for more information.