Virtual machine protection and recoverySimplified and efficient data protection solutions to safeguard your virtual environments no matter what happens. Talk to an expert Watch the video Why virtual machines need to be backed up As businesses nowadays deploy virtual machines to run workloads, companies must be ready for challenges associated with securing and maintaining virtual machines. Safeguard your virtual machines today in order to prevent data loss, ransomware attacks, and more.
65% of organizations admitted to experiencing data loss often in virtual environments.
55% of organizations lack confidence in restoring their virtual machines.
Safeguard your virtual machines on one platform Protect large quantities of business virtual environments, such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V®, on a single platform so that you can scale as your company grows.
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Maximize your storage capacity Eliminate duplicate data to optimize storage capacity.
80% data reduction.
Speed up your backups Reduce backup sizes and time by only transferring modified data.
Over 2 times faster.
Secure your VMs with powerful backup and recovery capabilities
Deploy with ease Perform agentless backups with application awareness to prevent data loss and maintain data consistency.
Detect, protect, and archive Streamline virtual machine lifecycle operations by automatically detecting, backing up, and archiving VMs.
Data resiliency With built-in immutability everywhere, prevent your data from being modified, changed, or deleted for a certain period of time.
Restore data instantly Restore your VMs within minutes by authorizing the hypervisor to access and mount the target to minimize downtime and data loss.
Cross-hypervisor restoration Restore virtual machines across hypervisors without being tied down to one console, in case of sudden data loss or malware.
Meet long-term data retention needs Set retention policies to store data for a period of time and move data to a remote storage location to meet compliance.
Guaranteed data recovery Detect and repair corrupt data Leverage Btrfs checksums to detect data corruption and automatically restore the corrupt data with RAID volumes. Verify your backups To ensure that an accurate copy of your data is preserved, your virtual machines will automatically be checked to see if it runs. Test your backups on a regular basis Perform disaster recovery drills in a sandboxed environment with built-in virtual machines to test out data recovery operations and be ready to prevent sudden data loss.
Shield against ransomware attacks Store a clean copy of your backups Lock down and isolate your backups immediately with air-gapped backups and prevent data from being modified or deleted by anyone, with built-in immutability. Ensure your backups are always available Create backup copies to ensure that you can always recover a copy of your data, in case of sudden data loss or ransomware attack.
Boost operational efficiency by reducing IT efforts View all your virtual machines in one place Keep track of all your virtual environments by viewing all virtual machines on a central console. Manage your data at scale Create custom protection plans to manage and automatically protect new workloads as your business needs evolve. Delegate admin privileges to select users Recover files, folders, and manage virtual machines autonomously, as long as permission has been granted by IT admins. ActiveProtect Appliance A secure and resilient all-in-one backup solution to centrally manage, monitor, back up, and recover all your virtual machines in one place.
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