{"id":5623,"date":"2020-10-02T20:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=5623"},"modified":"2020-10-02T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:46:05","slug":"sme-backup-products-offer-diverse-routes-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/sme-backup-products-offer-diverse-routes-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"SME backup products offer diverse routes to the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

We take the temperature on cloud-era SME-focused backup products that come as \u201ctraditional\u201d software, replication-centric protection environments and hardware appliances.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Antony<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Antony Adshead<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Computer Weekly recently surveyed\u00a0the main backup software providers\u00a0and those that supply\u00a0a new breed of backup appliances, all built for the cloud era as a target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we look at the rest \u2013 all small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)\/mid-market products \u2013 and find a mixed set of suppliers and products that include Acronis, Druva, Nakivo, Zerto and Barracuda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first three of the five fit into the\u00a0backup\u00a0software model, although they differ significantly in terms of offer and origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acronis has the widest spread of source and target compatibility, including\u00a0cloud-to-cloud backup, and made its name with image-level backup that allows it to restore to any platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Druva\u2019s origins are in endpoint backup, but it has diversified to provide a broad platform that also includes cloud-to-cloud backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Nakivo offers specialised virtual machine backup and backup to public cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last two providers offer some diversity from regular backup products. There is Zerto, which builds around replication rather than \u201ctraditional\u201d backup, and then Barracuda, which concentrates on on-premise physical appliances with the cloud as a replication target.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Acronis<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Acronis Backup protects data on virtual, physical, cloud and mobile platforms and can use local capacity and the cloud as a backup target. It incorporates inline and global\u00a0data deduplication, and management is from a web management console.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acronis Backup includes backup for\u00a0Microsoft Azure\u00a0virtual machines (VMs) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, as well as cloud-to-cloud backup for\u00a0Microsoft Office 365.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workload migration between different clouds, virtual systems and physical machines is also possible, as is recovery to different systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acronis Cloud Storage\u00a0provides disaster recovery by storing backups in one of Acronis\u2019s datacentres. The Acronis Cloud supports the backup of disks,\u00a0partitions, servers, data and mobile devices and recovery of files, folders, applications or an entire system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The supplier bases many of its products on the Acronis AnyData Engine, which handles virtual and physical server protection and is compatible with many forms of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It supports several forms of data migration, including\u00a0virtual to virtual, virtual to physical, physical to virtual, and physical to physical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Druva<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Druva made its name providing backup for endpoint devices such as mobiles and laptops, but has broadened out to virtual and physical server backup,\u00a0cloud server backup\u00a0and archiving, and disaster recovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its original product, Druva inSync, backs up endpoint data and cloud applications, such as Microsoft Office 365 and\u00a0Salesforce. It also provides archiving, data compliance monitoring, legal hold management and\u00a0E-discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Druva Phoenix\u00a0is a software agent that backs up and restores data in the cloud. Use cases include cloud backup, recovery and archiving for\u00a0VMs\u00a0and physical servers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Druva CloudRanger provides protection and management of data in Amazon Web Services (AWS), with management of an organisation\u2019s complete AWS footprint from one dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nakivo<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nakivo Backup and Replication offers VMware and Hyper-V backup, including to public cloud. It had historically targeted SMEs, but in the past few years it has also aimed at enterprise customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other VM backup specialists, such as Veeam, have embraced physical machine backup, but Nakivo is yet to do so, and it also lacks support for tape as a target.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It offers backup to Amazon EC2 via\u00a0S3\u00a0and to Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On first deployment, Nakivo takes a full backup but after that, it only takes\u00a0incrementals. A self-backup feature automatically backs up the system configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zerto<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Zerto offers a multi-platform\u00a0hybrid cloud\u00a0data protection product centred on replication that includes bi-directional operations between on-premise virtualised datacentres and AWS, Azure and IBM clouds, as well as with more than 350 cloud service provider offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Core to the environment is Zerto Virtual Replication, a hardware-agnostic, hypervisor-based replication tool that\u00a0uses continuous replication\u00a0and automates failover and failback in VMware environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditional array-based replication requires homogeneous storage systems, but Zerto Virtual Replication allows for replication to any storage system, as well as hybrid and public clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can\u00a0perform\u00a0intercloud and intracloud\u00a0data movement, using AWS, Microsoft Azure and\u00a0IBM Cloud environments. Last year, Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 expanded its replication capability to protect applications and data to and from clouds and between multiple clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zerto aims to bypass traditional backup altogether with a single environment\u00a0across on-premise and the cloud\u00a0in which users can search for files and recover from any point in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barracuda<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Barracuda majors on backup appliances that replicate to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It offers 12 different appliances that range in local capacity from 1TB to 112TB. The option of encrypted appliances up to 96TB is also available to protect against physical theft of hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A virtual appliance, Backup Vx, is available for deployment as a VM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Barracuda appliances offer inline data deduplication and software replication to the Barracuda Cloud, a remote physical or virtual backup appliance, or AWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restores can be to bare-metal servers or image-based restores to virtual environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barracuda also offers cloud-to-cloud backup, with\u00a0protection for Microsoft Office 365, Exchange and Sharepoint Online, as well as Onedrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>We take the temperature on cloud-era SME-focused backup products that come as \u201ctraditional\u201d software, replication-centric protection environments and hardware appliances. By Antony Adshead Computer Weekly recently surveyed\u00a0the main backup software providers\u00a0and those that supply\u00a0a new breed of backup appliances, all built for the cloud era as a target. Here we look at the rest \u2013 all small and medium-sized enterprise<\/p>\n

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