De-Dupe and Compression on Backup Software From AppAssure

AppAssure Software, Inc. released
version 4.3 of Replay,
a backup and disaster recovery software solution.

Because Replay performs a single application-aware snapshot spanning the
entire host machine and an unlimited number of guest machines in a
Hyper-V environment, customers experience the fastest backup and restore
process of the entire host, individual virtual machines or specific
files within virtual machines compared to traditional backup and
disaster recovery technologies.

"Other backup and recovery solutions simply didn’t scale as well as
AppAssure’s Replay," said Brendan Hourihan, technology services
network engineer at Flagler College in St. Augustine FL. "Before
we switched to Replay, we were consuming 9.6TB of backup storage space
every two weeks. Now with Replay, we’ve used just over 1.5TB in the same
time period, saving 84% storage space due to Replay’s advanced
de-duplication and compression. That translated into a savings of
several thousand dollars per year to our organization. That’s a very
real ROI."

“While there’s undeniable movement away from agent-based backup in
virtual machines, people are expanding their view of backup to encompass
data protection as a whole, whether that means recovering an individual
file or mailbox message, to replicating entire hosts at an disaster
recovery site,” said Chris Wolf, a senior analyst at the Burton
Group.

Because traditional backup and recovery solutions require separate
backup and recovery processes for Hyper-V host machines and each
individual guest server, restoring a server or the entire environment
can take several hours.

In contrast, AppAssure’s Replay 4 performs a single application-aware
snapshot spanning the entire host machine and an unlimited number of
guest machines, enabling a much faster backup and restore. In addition,
companies can implement Replay 4 on a host machine and all guests
through a single license, dramatically reducing backup and recovery
costs in Hyper-V environments.

“AppAssure’s approach to backup and disaster recovery of virtual
machines running Hyper-V is extremely innovative,” said Greg
Shields, Founding Partner, Concentrated Technology and Microsoft MVP. “Any
organization leveraging Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology
can benefit greatly from implementing Replay 4 as their backup and
disaster recovery solution.”

Customers using AppAssure’s Replay
in Hyper-V environments
experience the following benefits:

• Recover anything on the Hyper-V host machine, any guest virtual
  machine, files within guests, or the entire environment, from a single
  snapshot.
• Reducing disk space by 80% or more with built-in data
  de-duplication and compression,
• Eliminate backup windows entirely
• Reducing server down-time allowing users to access applications
  (including e-mail) during a live recovery
• Reduce the recovery point objective to 15 minutes or less
• Recover any object or restore the entire machine in 5 minutes or
  less
• Reducing bandwidth requirements by up to 80% for offsite disaster
  recovery