Asigra Televaulting 8.0 Certified with Parallels

Asigra, Inc., in agentless backup and recovery, announced that Asigra Televaulting 8.0 is certified for use with Parallels Server for Mac. Asigra Televaulting is a agentless information recovery platform optimized for advanced virtualized server data protection, significantly reducing hardware resources and overhead burden required by alternative backup and recovery solutions. Certification ensures interoperability with the industry’s only server virtualization solution for the Mac, enabling Parallels’ customers to reduce capital and operational expenses required for backup and recovery.

Financial resource constraints and IT efficiency are primary factors driving business adoption of server virtualization and Asigra moves the value proposition higher by providing a backup and recovery platform perfectly aligned with virtualized server environments. The Asigra Televaulting backup vault software for Parallels installs on a single Mac host with Mac OS X and a single copy of the client software running on Mac OS X is installed at each location targeted for protection – there is no need to install software on any virtualized server (or any physical machine) targeted for backup. The elimination of software agents on backup targets removes the performance, management, and security concerns of agent-based backup solutions, allowing more efficient and secure data protection.
 
"According to IDC, Parallels is one of the leading server virtualization software vendors. The company continues to make significant progress in its goal of optimizing computing for consumers, businesses and service providers," said Bryan Goode, VP of Business Development at Parallels. "Now that Asigra Televaulting 8.0 is certified to work with Parallels Server for Mac, customers of our product can benefit from agentless backup and recovery for advanced data protection."

Backup and Recovery
Built for Virtualized Server Environments
Asigra is a Parallels Silver Technology Partner with pro-virtualization agentless backup and recovery management software that allows virtual server environments to perform as promised while providing the industry’s most feature-rich information recovery for organizations using this popular virtual server OS. Asigra addresses the shortcomings of agent-based backup and recovery methods by providing the following:

• Agentless backup optimized for virtualized server environments (very low I/O, memory and management overhead);
• A pro-virtualization capacity-based pricing model;
• Any-to-any restore capability (P2P, P2V, V2V, V2P);
• Live VM backup;
• Automated mass deployment and single interface management;
• Compliant VM backup;
• File-level recovery at the VM and guest OS level
• Comprehensive enterprise application support;
• Extensive mixed physical/virtual OS interoperability, and
• Next generation features including global data de-duplication, CDP, grid-based scalability, intelligent data retention and more
• Enhanced security

This certification will mean customers using Parallels Server for Mac now have a best-of-breed backup and recovery solution for optimal performance and function. Users have the option of selecting an Asigra empowered managed service provider or deploying the software directly, which many larger organizations leverage for service-oriented data protection.

“Asigra’s strategic direction is in line with Parallel’s mission to optimize computing environments, where business automation is central to increasing efficiency and lowering the cost of IT,” said Jas Mann, Director of Product Marketing for Asigra. “Parallels is used to run many virtual servers on a single physical box and our backup and recovery platform architecture is ideal for these kinds of environments, providing each virtual server with protection against application and data loss. The resulting agent-free efficiency provides unmatched return on investment and business continuance.”