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Dell AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery Software Selected as 2009 Backup & Recovery Software Product of the Year
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While only five years old, AppAssure is poised to make some waves in the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) backup market with its low-cost yet full-featured AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery near-continuous data protection (CDP) suite. With an entry-level price of $1,079 per server, AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery provides sophisticated features that are well within the reach of many smaller businesses. One judge called it “highly innovative” and said it “competes very effectively with [Symantec Corp.'s] Backup Exec, Acronis Inc.’s Backup & Recovery and other SMB products.”
AppAssure touts the speed of AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery, which it says has been ramped up in this release, and the quick initial installation that requires only a few mouse clicks. AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery is for Windows Server environments where it leverages Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for its near-CDP capability and full-image capture feature. AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery replication option allows sending compressed, deduplicated backup copies to a remote location or cloud storage service.
The company offers a variety of AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery versions, including those tailored specifically for three key Microsoft apps: Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint. Version 4 adds support for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX virtualization platforms, in addition to Windows Server 2008 R2. AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery for Windows Desktops was also released with the Version 4 rollout. The desktop product can be managed centrally and will automatically copy changes and create bare-metal images for full system recoveries. Backups can be scheduled based on policies, and end users can recover their own backed up files.
RAppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery is available on a long-term license or by subscription starting at $59 per month per server. A try-before-you-buy option lets users road test AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery and other AppAssure products with free downloads of 14-day trial versions available on the company’s site.
Dell AppAssure Software for Exchange continuously protects and monitors the health of your Exchange data stores and allows administrators to quickly search, recover, and analyze mailbox content. With Dell AppAssure Software for Exchange you can backup and restore individual email messages, folders, or mailboxes to a live Exchange server or directly to a PST, thereby solving some of your most costly and time consuming challenges.
Dell AppAssure Software for SQL is an enterprise SQL server backup and disaster recovery software solution developed to assure comprehensive protection - including system and user databases, SQL binaries and the server - making it possible to restore both servers and databases in just minutes.
Dell AppAssure Software for Hyper-V is an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery software solution designed for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environments. Dell AppAssure Software for Hyper-V supports both host and guest level backup methodologies while delivering accelerated backups, fast local recoveries and disaster recovery, all-in-one solution.
Dell AppAssure Software for SharePoint is an enterprise backup and disaster recovery software solution developed to assure comprehensive protection - including front-end servers, SQL servers and the web servers - making it possible to restore both the entire SharePoint environment, individual SharePoint servers and databases and individual SharePoint objects in just minutes.
Dell AppAssure Software for Windows Servers is an application-aware, server-based backup and disaster recovery software solution that delivers fast application backups, fast local recoveries and off-site disaster recovery, all-in-one solution.
Dell Small businesses typically have limited IT resources and smaller staffs than large enterprises, but with Dell AppAssure Software for Windows Small Business Server they have full access to the same powerful server backup and recovery software tools found in larger organizations.
Dell AppAssure Software for VMware is an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery software solution designed for Windows workloads running VMware virtual environments. With one price for an unlimited number of guests, Dell AppAssure Software delivers accelerated backups, fast local recoveries and disaster recovery, all-in-one solution.
Dell AppAssure Software for Windows Desktops (VDI) simplifies and automates backup and disaster recovery processes, while giving an administrator the ability to remotely monitor and manage large VDI deployments or geographically distributed machines from a single console.
DocRetriever for SharePoint dramatically simplifies the process of restoring individual documents, sites, sub-sites and folders. SharePoint Administrators no longer need to spend countless hours rebuilding your entire production database, or worry about deploying a temporary SharePoint recovery farm, just to recover an individual document or list item.
MailRetriever for Exchange is an affordable and easy-to-use e-mail recovery software package for browsing, recovering, searching, exporting, and analyzing e-mail and mailbox content directly from any unmounted Microsoft Exchange Data Store (EDB). MailRetriever for Exchange can even open and repair corrupted EDB files. With MailRetriever for Exchange, you are never more than just a few clicks away from recovering a message or mailbox. MailRetriever for Exchange eliminates the need for time-consuming full-server and EDB restores for message recovery.
For individual message or mailbox recovery, Dell AppAssure Software and Microsoft Storage Solutions have partnered together to deliver MailRetriever for DPM, enabling Microsoft Exchange administrators around the world to gain efficient and economical access to message-level recovery.
Dell AppAssure´s Backup software for Kaseya lets you recover from any server failure to physical or virtual machines in minutes, backup and recover either locally or offsite, and provide offsite DR to customers with low bandwidth through integrated deduplication and replication.
Dell AppAssure Backup & Disaster Recovery Software is best way to back up and protect your VMware virtual machines. It doesn´t just support your virtual environment - rather; it leverages VMware ESX, ESXi and vSphere to provide a whole new level of protection for all your virtualized applications, services and desktops. Dell AppAssure Software lets you meet your VMware backup RTO and RPO objectives for less.
