Infrascale Cloud-Native Backup Solution for VMware Environment

Infrascale, Inc. a provider of cloud-native data protection, announced itsVMware Backup.

This VMware hypervisor-level backup solution extends Infrascale’s DP platform to protect virtual environments across any OS or device. The solution, which includes cloud backup, DR, file sharing and cloud archiving, provides an integrated data-protection platform that allows MSPs to reduce the cost and complexity of operating multiple technologies from multiple vendors to protect their customer’s data.

“Many backup vendors offer specialized solutions that only backup certain environments. They often backup Windows but not Linux, or servers but not endpoints, or virtual environments only, which requires users to purchase, deploy and maintain multiple solutions,” said Eric Tewey, Infrascale partner, MatrixOneSource. “Infrascale already provided an intuitive, comprehensive backup solution, and the new VMware capabilities have added further value.“

Gartner estimates that 50% of business-server workloads are currently virtualized and expects that number to grow to 86% within 18 months. Traditional backup approaches that require the installation of a backup agent on each VM are unable to scale with this rapid growth of VMs in the enterprise. Manually installing a backup agent on each VM is inefficient, time consuming and expensive. It also increases the risk of data loss because newly spun-up VMs often go undetected by the system administrator.

VMware Backup installs at the hypervisor level and automatically detects and backups every VM in the environment. Going beyond VMware’s native data protection capabilities, Infrascale applies its data de-duplication technology to further compress the backup size by as much as 90%. It then encrypts that data with a double-blind encryption system of military-grade security. VMware Backup also protects environments not addressed by VMware’s native backup tools, including ESXi free hosts and hosts that use VMware’s Physical Compatibility Mode/Raw Device Mapping. Infrascale provides highly efficient, secure and comprehensive data protection across all types of virtual-machine deployments.

“Infrascale looks to provide organizations with a complete, one-stop solution that covers both virtualized and bare-metal systems and that still goes deep by enabling single-item recovery for enterprise systems,” said Scott Lowe, co-founder and analyst, ActualTechMedia. “The company also touts its ‘any cloud’ target – while also providing its own turnkey appliance/cloud combination at very accessible, very simple prices – making it a fit for customers from the smallest SMB to the enterprise.“

Infrascale simplifies the process of buying and deploying a flexible VMware backup solution. The VMware Backup is available to MSPs and authorized resellers for a simple, all-inclusive and low monthly subscription fee. There are no per-socket, per-CPU, restore request or data transfer fees. In addition to Infrascale’s cloud storage, customers have the flexibility to backup data onto on any public cloud of their choice, including Amazon Web Services and Azure.

Infrascale Data Protection Platform
The Infrascale platform offers a set of data protection functions, across a range of different devices and OSs, resulting in a comprehensive backup and data recovery solution. The platform reduces the cost and complexity of data protection by combining cloud backup, DR, file sharing, and cloud archiving in one platform with a unified management dashboard. Whether utilizing a private, public or hybrid cloud, Infrascale’s cloud-native data protection platform is capable of backing up virtually any environment. The company’s recent integration of a data protection appliance into its cloud-based offerings provides on-premise backup and recovery to the cloud while reducing RTO from days to minutes.

Infrascale VMware Backup is available for MSPs. Infrascale provides flexible pricing for VMware Backup starting at $99 per monthper VMware host, allowing an unlimited number of VM guests, after purchase of the Infrascale DP platform.