Asigra claims to have the answer to the growing challenge of protecting virtualized server environments. They said that its agent-less Televaulting product is the first native 64-bit backup software for virtual machines which gives it an advantage in performance and scalability. The company also said that today's backup and recovery methods used to protect virtualized servers do not provide the same level of cap Asigra claims to have the answer to the growing challenge of protecting virtualized server environments. They said that its agent-less Televaulting product is the first native 64-bit backup software for virtual machines which gives it an advantage in performance and scalability.The company also said that today’s backup and recovery methods used to protect virtualized servers do not provide the same level of capabilities unless some compromises are made, such as backing up the entire physical machine versus the individual machines. Asigra said that some solutions offer parts of the overall solution needed for proper virtual machine backup. However, some backup at the VM level, but require users to purchase an agent for each virtual machine. Others lack support for backing up enterprise applications such as Oracle, SQL and Exchange. And others are just too CPU load intensive, resulting in degraded performance of the box. With 64-bit, agentless Televaulting, Asigra addresses the shortcomings of the current backup and recovery methods for protecting virtualized server environments by providing the following:Agentless backup optimized for virtualized server environments. This architecture enables users to restore individual VMs in a virtualized server set without having to restore the entire set of servers in the event of single-server data loss or corruption. The agentless design saves time in implementing the backup and recovery process, and provides much faster and more granular recovery in the event of a failure. A pro-virtualization pricing model that is based on the amount of data to be protected, not the number of servers. Whereas many competitive backup products charge per agent or per server in order to provide server-specific backup/recovery, Asigra allows independent backup and recovery of each virtual server to deliver the most granular protection available without the excessive licensing management and cost penalty pricing issues of other solutions. Any-to-any restore capability (P2P, P2V, V2V, V2P) gives users the ability to back up server data from one vendor and restore the data to hardware from another vendor – an important capability in mixed computing enterprise and managed service provider environments. This allows users to back up physical servers and quickly restore to virtual servers for recovery purposes. And, once the physical server is repaired, the virtual server can then be restored to the physical server. Any-to-any backup is an important capability in mixed computing enterprise and managed service provider environments. Live VM backup allows administrators to back up VMs in the midst of production operations without disruption to production windows. Asigra’s pre/post processors allow a smooth backup of a quiescent VM environment. Fast and simple implementation and management. Televaulting is an order of magnitude more efficient and faster than other backup solutions for virtual machines with native support for 32-bit and 64-bit environments. Centralized management of VM backup and recovery is essential in large distributed organizations that want to leverage the benefits of virtualized servers throughout the enterprise. Already the strongest remote office/branch office backup and recovery offering with centralized management a core offering, Asigra brings this capability to distributed virtual server environments whereby all backup and, more importantly, all restore operations can be managed from a single user interface without the need to physically be onsite to handle tapes. Compliance-ready VM backup that offers policy-based management, encryption and near-instant recovery features for compliance with corporate policies and government regulations. File-level recovery at the VM and guest OS level extends mainstream backup abilities to virtual server environments. Bare-metal recovery and backup of data and enterprise applications such as Exchange, SQL Server, and Oracle at the VM level support DR planning. Tom Dugan, co-founder of the VMware User Group in Philadelphia, said, “Asigra provides the most comprehensive backup offering for VMware.” Software Development