Cloud Storage Solutions for Data Backup: Asigra.

Asigra is the industry-leading, agentless network-based data backup solutionfor SaaS ompanies. It helps you to store data locally or at an off-site central repository; alternatively, you can opt for data storage on the public or private cloud. At the last count, Asigra is protecting over 550,000 sites worldwide.

Asigra saves more than 90% of time and reduces costs substantially; and, it provides the most robust security for your data. It is available as software and also on SaaS- software as a service model.

Data backup, the art and science of making a copy of data and preserving it safely is indispensable for every business. And, in fact, the crux of the exercise lies in being able to retrieve the data immediately on demand.

Many Issues and Storing Data in the Cloud:

You need earlier data for audit, taxation, and mandatory reasons. Further, you need data analysis to identify factors that contributed to success, failures and to plan future. Given the importance, the chief elements and issues concerning data backup are:

• Ø  Protecting data at central office, remote offices, and individual laptops/desktops.
  
  
• Ø  Technology
• Ø  Infrastructure
• Ø  Staff
• Ø  Security
• Ø  Mandatory regulations
• Ø  Cost

The data backup costs seem to be rising relentlessly, harassing even wealthy companies. And, the security appears to be menaced from more and newer quarters. And the irony is that, senior IT professionals are compelled to devote excessive attention to what should but be a routine process.

Single Solution:

As an economical and efficient Cloud storage solution  Asigra is a truly ‘one stop’ solution that addresses all

the issues involved in data backup. You do not need different technologies and expensive infrastructure; or fritter senior talent away on a crucial but mechanical task.

Endless Possibilities

You can deploy on Windows, Linux or MAC platforms; and back up data, operating systems, applications, and file systems from Servers, Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, and smart phones. Asigra is the effective answer in grid configuration for failover protection and increased performance.

The Cloud Backup is vendor and hardware  independent.

Asigra has an impeccable record in data storage solutions.

1. Robust Security: in over 26 years, no company that has deployed Asigra for data backup has suffered a breach.
2. Significant Time saver: It has proven track record of having reduced data backup time by as much as 97% for some clients.
3. Agentless: Asigra is an automatic data backup solution that performs independently; it does not wait for people to send commands.

As can be easily seen, these advantages boost each other and produce substantial savings of costs, time, and effort. How does Asigra achieve these benefits for you?

Single Point Installation:

Asigra needs to be installed only on the local sever; it uses industry standard programming interfaces to backup data, operating systems, file systems, and applications from all the individual client stations through the network.

The advantages are immense. All potential security risks are eliminated since there is no open port.

The backup mode is asynchronous; the data is back up happens each time a change is made and copies are available in real time. This helps you to restore data to any point of time immediately, in case of a crash.

Since you are not deploying Asigra on each desktop or laptop, you save installation and maintenance costs.

Remote and Agentless:

Asigra Cloud solution is independent in every sense and in every situation. At your head office or at remote offices, IT staff need not set schedules and manually operate any systems and disks for taking a data backup.

It will copy and protect the data even from laptops carried by the field personnel, the notorious weak links in the data chain. Wide area network connection is all that is needed for this process.

Data Compression: Making it Cloud Ready:

A matchless Deduplication method helps Asigra to score over traditional data backup techniques. It saves only unique instances of each piece of data. Each time a data change takes place, the software checks the changed data against the stored data and saves only the fresh change. All this happens in real-time leaving only the barest minimum and fresh data to be transmitted or stored.

The net effect of such data compression is incredible; time to transmit data is reduced drastically and you would need far lesser data storage space.

The savings on WAN bandwidth costs will be significant for service providers; they can improve profitability and serve the customers better.

In Flight Encryption and Security in the Cloud:

Trademarked Asigra Cloud Backup and Recovery (BUR) is the most secure agentless data protection platform in the industry for cloud storage and onsite data protection.

Asigra encrypts the data in-flight and data at-rest and provides Key escrow management, and Password rotation support.

There is a broad range of encryption strengths, from triple DES 56-bit with an 8-character key, to AES 256-bit with a 32-character key.

Finally, when data completes the mandatory or storage time limits set by you, it is destroyed, with certificate of destruction.

Your data is decisively protected against SQL injection, packet sniffing, router vulnerability, unauthorized copying of data and other breaches.

What do these rigorous security measures mean; they ensure that you can comply with:

·         Sarbanes Oxley (SOX),

·         U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

·         Gram-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA),

·         Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS),

·         Basel II,

·         Safe Harbor,

·         Patriot Act

·         American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

·         and other data protection directives

Asigra is a versatile Cloud storage solution ; it works best whether you have 2.8 terabytes of information on a database or 129 remote offices working 24x7 or a SOHO. It is the solution for service providers to improve profitability; and it is the cost-effective answer for enterprise data backup.