Asigra Single-Pass Backup and Recovery for Exchange

Asigra Inc. announced single-pass granular backup and recovery for Exchange.

The product update provides users with the added flexibility to recover at various levels of granularity, from single emails to complete databases. The Exchange enhancement also allows recovery operations across standalone email servers, server clusters or on VMs.

Business email is central to day-to-day business operations at enterprises. According to the email research firm, the Radicati Group, "there are over 929 million business email accounts the world over which send and receive over a 100 billion emails each day. In 2013, the majority of email traffic is coming from business email, which accounts for over 100 billion emails sent and received per day. Email remains the predominant form of communication in the business space. While the loss of a single critical email can have negative business consequences to organizations lack of access to entire email systems can result in lost productivity, business risk, and the crippling of business operations."

As part of Asigra Cloud Backup version 12.2, the company has architected its backup and recovery software to deliver data recovery for Exchange. This allows for specific, efficient, quick and granular recoveries of critical emails.

Enhancements include:

• Single-pass Exchange Backup: Recover data to the level of granularity needed from a single backup of the Exchange database.
• Granular recovery: Restore the database, individual accounts, or just a single email based on user requirements.
• Restore location flexibility: Have the ability to recover the information to the same location that the data was backed up from or to an alternate location of the user’s choosing.
• Non-disruptive backups: Backup large all important email repositories without affecting the performance of the application.
• Enterprise scalability: Protect everything from single instances to large Exchange clusters in physical and virtual implementations.
• Automated and efficient: Automate backup operations through features that include scheduling options and automated inclusions of new mailboxes, reducing the need for manual intervention.

"According to our research, 89% of all business professionals across all industry sectors rely on email as their primary method of communication and information sharing," noted Steve Brasen, managing research director, Enterprise Management Associates. "The ability to recover a single message or an entire Exchange database in a timely manner is essential to minimizing disruption to employee productivity in the event of an environment failure.  This valuable addition to Asigra’s cloud-based data recovery platform will greatly increase its attractiveness to organizations dependent on continuous access to IT to achieve business goals."

Asigra cloud-based data recovery software provides enterprise backup and recovery for any data across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Capabilities include:

• Single solution: By providing a single comprehensive solution for all backup and recovery needs, users can overcome the challenges of managing multiple point solutions in the enterprise.
• Recovery and restore assurance: Recovery and restore assurance features such as autonomic healing and validation restore ensure the consistency and accuracy of data so that users can recover from backups every time; removing uncertainties related to recovery.
• Resource efficiency: Perform both source and target based de-duplication and compression to ensure optimum use of storage and network resources.
• Security and compliance: Encrypts information at source using a NIST FIPS 140-2 certified algorithm that ensures that data is secure both in-flight and at rest, while ensuring that users are compliant with regulations such as HIPAA, European directive on protection of personal data, and SOX.

"For many of our clients, email is the lifeblood of their organizations. And the loss of even a single important email can have disastrous consequences," said Jennifer Walzer, CEO and founder, BUMI (Backup My Info!, Inc.). "With Asigra, we have the assurance that client data is always recoverable.  From a single email, contact record or calendar item to an entire Exchange database, we’re confident we can always restore our clients’ critical information. The cloud-based data recovery solution is a proven approach that our customers depend on for their businesses."

"The speed, efficiency, and certainty of email recoveries are essential in today’s business environments," said Helen Ching, senior product marketing manager, Asigra. "At Asigra, we understand this. This is why we have built a backup and recovery platform to support Exchange users in achieving fast and effective data recovery of critical emails at RTOs set by the user. The enhancement is expected to be well-received by both current and new users of our software."

Cloud Backup v12.2 with single-pass backup and recovery for Exchange is available. There are no additional license fees for existing Asigra users.