NetJapan Presents ActiveImage Protector 2016 Software

NetJapan, Inc. Europe has launched ActiveImage Protector 2016, an update to its product, featuring a redesigned user interface, centralised image management, a boot repair utility and Windows 10 support.

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It features a new user interface that maintains continuity between both Windows and Linux products giving a unified cross-platform user experience. The improved task feedback and remote capabilities give administrators a detailed graphical view of task execution.

ActiveImage Protector 2016 includes company’s ImageCenter LE for configuring replication and consolidation tasks to on-site or off-site storage locations; offloading resource demands to dedicated management systems. ImageBoot is also included for booting ActiveImage Protector backup images as VMs in minutes; providing an interim availability solution to bridge the gap between disaster and recovery.

“Beyond just looks, it is apparent that NetJapan’s development team worked really hard to deliver something truly new,” said Bernhard Peter, Motum5 Systemhaus GmbH, Germany.

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Delivers higher performance and functionality, selection of key features listed below:

Backup scheduling and image management:

• Multi-scheduling – Create multiple schedules in a single backup task.

• Scheduled incremental backup tasks can be suspended and resumed while maintaining uninterrupted incremental change tracking; resulting in improved backup performance.

• Use ImageCenter LE to schedule replication and consolidation of backup image files, both onsite and offsite.

Recovery and instany availability:

• Boot Repair Utility to ensure a system will successfully boot after recovery.

• Restore multiple source images to multiple target disks in a single operation.

• ActiveImage Protector Boot environment: Create Linux or Windows PE-based recovery boot ISO files on optical and USB media or create a directly bootable Windows PE- based environment.

• Bootable bare metal GPT/EFI system recovery.

• Use ImageBoot to boot your ActiveImage Protector backup image as a VM in as little as two minutes in VMware WorkStation, Player/Player Pro and Hyper-V.

Virtualisation and user dashboard:

• Remote Console connects and controls agent installations of ActiveImage Protector 2016 on remote Linux and Windows machines.

• UI dashboard window that details task, log, schedule and disk information management.

• Revised configuration wizard for automated backup and recovery.

• Software update notifications can be configured for automatic or manual notification and download.

• Virtualisation: Specify target folders for VMDK files on an ESXi datastore.

• Create a standby VM directly from backup image files with the optional vStandby AIP instant DR solution.

Compared to competitors’ products ActiveImage Protector 2016 offers attractive pricing and licensing. For example, users pay £424 for the backup and recovery solution’s Windows Server Edition, while the Desktop Edition is available for under £36. Virtual environments are protected from £288 for a single VM to £1,151 for host plus an unlimited number of guests. All prices are end user prices exclusive of VAT.