The Data Protection Solution for Desktops
Many challenges face IT executives and managers. Even though you back up your LAN servers regularly, you know that users still store missioncritical data on their desktop hard drives. Often this is information that is crucial for your day-today operations, as well as legal compliance. Yet, because it isn’t on the server, it isn’t backed up systematically. In fact, it probably isn’t backed up at all.

If you lose this vital information, it could take days, even weeks to rebuild it. Downtime could seriously affect your organization’s profitability.

You could back up all the data from every desktop machine on the network to tape, every day, manually. Good in theory, but managing that task is virtually impossible.

Besides, traditional tape backup requires an everincreasing investment in time, training, technology and supplies. Managing tape storage offsite is a chore, and restoring data lost between storage periods is difficult. Other so-called solutions exist, but they’re complex, costly, inefficient and bandwidth intensive.

A more effective solution for LAN-wide backup
AsigraTM TelevaultingTM for Desktops is a backup/restore solution that lets you back up all your corporate data to an online storage vault. Protecting every machine on your LAN, including desktops, laptops, and file and print servers. Reliably, consistently and efficiently.

It includes all the tools you need to manage distributed data. Along with the option of storing backed up data onsite, or, for added security, transmitting it offsite to a remote repository over a WAN.

You control the backup functions and the storage media. You decide which information to store online and which to archive offsite. And you avoid costly downtime. Your IT administrator, or users themselves, can quickly restore lost data.

There are no prohibitively expensive license fees. Thanks to Asigra’s agentless technology, you pay only for the total amount of compressed data stored online.

Centralized Control
The DS-System software, installed at the central data center, makes it easy for IT staff to manage the online vault and data repository. It incorporates a full range of powerful administrative features.

Web-based Status Reports assure accountability, verifying that all backups occurred as scheduled. The central hub has a complete view of the entire LAN from one interface that is easily integrated with existing SNMP-based monitoring and notification systems.

Easy Deployment Across the Enterprise
Thanks to Asigra’s agentless architecture, you only install one free software application, the DS-Client, on your main LAN server. That eliminates the cost of installing an agent or client on every machine you want to protect. It also makes your backup highly scalable.

Automate client installations across a variety of operating systems and network configurations. The DS-Client can protect data from most operating environments, such as Windows, Unix, Linux, including “hot” backup of Oracle, MS-SQL and MSExchange. It integrates fully with NT domains, Trusts and Novell NDS trees, and otherwise adopts your LAN’s existing security settings.

Lower Backup/Restore Costs
Unlike other backup solutions, Asigra’s unlimitedseat licensing model means that you pay only for the aggregate amount of compressed data from across your enterprise network. There’s no charge for the DS-Client software installed on your LAN server.

Your backup cost per machine is minimized, because duplicate data that appears on networked computers – such as system files and registry settings – is sent only once to the online vault. As you add machines to your LAN, the average cost actually goes down.

Many of the costs associated with tape backup will be eliminated. Your local expenses drop dramatically as you eliminate software license fees, tape technology upgrades or replacements, new and replacement tapes, offsite tape storage, recruiting, training and supporting staff.

Faster Backup, Faster Recovery
Asigra Televaulting automates and simplifies as much of the backup process as possible. Backups can occur as often as required, and only new, unique data is backed up, saving bandwidth and storage space. You can backup while restoring, restore while backing up.

To speed recovery, data is initially stored on disk at your central data center, or, if you choose, a remote location. There, the system automatically stores critical data (used for day-to-day operations) and important data (legal and regulatory) to the appropriate media – critical on disk for fast access and recovery, important on tape for offsite storage. A marked improvement over traditional tape backup methods that treat both types the same.

Hardware requirements
The DS-System application installed at the central hub runs on Solaris, Windows 2000 or higher or Linux Red Hat and Suse. Storage architecture can be DAS, SAN or NAS.