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Asigra Launches Enhanced Cloud Backup Software

Asigra has announced that the company has launched Asigra Cloud Backup v10 software, adding support for mobile devices, new levels of tiered recovery, and virtual server platforms and backup sets. According to the news report on InfoStor, new recovery tiers in the v10 release of its software include: Local-Only Backup and Backup Lifecycle Manager (BLM) Cloud Storage backup, which allows companies to back up to public clouds, including Amazon S3.

"The advantage of the Local-Only Backup option is LAN performance and a decrease in the amount of WAN bandwidth required for data protection, because the protected data resides on-site. The disadvantage is that users do not have offsite backups of the data for disaster recovery purposes, according to Baig.

"Asigra Cloud Backup also now supports the most recent native APIs for virtual server platforms, including VMware's VMware, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Citrix' XenServer. In the case of VMware, that includes support for vStorage APIs for Data Protection, or VADP, and Change Block Tracking, or CBT (see "Better backups for VMware: VADP + CBT")."