EVault Offers VMware Users Hot Backups and Faster Restores

EVault announces the availability of the EVault VMware Plug-in for customers of the EVault Protect Software as a Service (SaaS) and EVault InfoStage licensed software, and service providers offering data protection services powered by EVault technology.

This allows the company to offer comprehensive disaster recovery protection of VMware virtual machine environments, including all major operating systems, applications and files.

While virtualization technology continues to grow at a fairly rapid pace, data protection tools aren’t keeping up. According to the company, “The EVault VMware Plug-in is the only solution that reliably protects the entire VMware virtual environment – automating hot backups and faster restores of virtual machines, operating systems, applications and files, while keeping resource consumption to a minimum and meeting specific disaster recovery planning and regulatory compliance requirements.”

The EVault VMware Plug-in leverages and extends EVault’s DeltaPro technology to virtual environments by backing up and compressing only new and changed data at the block level, which enhances network performance, decreases the backup window and lowers the overall storage footprint.

It offers comprehensive data protection across the entire physical and virtual environment. Backups are policy-driven and scheduling, status monitoring and reporting are centrally managed via a web browser for all physical and virtual systems. Data is then securely sent offsite to one of EVault’s seven secure Tier III and IV datacenters, which are all SAS 70 Type II certified. In the event of a disaster, all recovery steps are executed and the user simply has to power up the recovered machine. No need for lengthy restores with multi-step, manual processes.

The EVault VMware Plug-in is available now as an add-on for EVault SaaS and software customers as well as through service providers offering data protection services based on EVault technology.