Enterprise Data Protection for Medium or Large Networks

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Description

It is a basic principle that makes NovaBACKUP® DataCenter differ from other enterprise data protection software.

Once installed NovaBACKUP DataCenter simply works – without significant administrative effort, subsequent modification, training or follow-up licensing.

NovaBACKUP DataCenter is developed in Germany, stands out due to its fastness, reliability and extreme scalability. Our unique, simple and transparent licensing model with all-in-one prices guarantees our customers low and calculable costs. We refrain from follow-up licensing and thus reduce your financial and administrative efforts should changes in your IT infrastructure occur. Every customer with his individual requirements is an equal partner to us.

With NovaStor you turn away from solutions that

require comprehensive effort
are too complex and intransparent
do not grow with changing needs
or simply are too expensive

What’s new on version 4.5?

New Media Management

Efficient handling and better exploitation of media reduces costs and increases availability
Inclusion of media stored at other locations allows fast identification and availability of offsite media when needed for restore
Several backup servers can dynamically share media, libraries and tape drives, thereby reducing the number of required media and hardware
Option to use different drive types in one library allows inclusion of latest technology for a cost-saving operation
Fault-tolerant media management increases data availability

Enhanced Staging

Multi-tiered staging with disk and tape increases availability

Backups can be replicated to disk and tape across locations to increase availability.
Supports automatic D2D2Any staging
VTLs are supported but need not be acquired for elaborate staging and parallel backups and restores

Virtual Availability

Powerful protection for VMware and Hyper-V

Automatic identification
Filters enable automatic detection and backup of active virtual machines on VMware. Inactive virtual machines may be automatically excluded reducing the backup volume and the storage space needed
Reliable Backup Windows
Use of multithreading technology increases performance and ensures completion of backup within the scheduled time frame.
Hyper-V support
Easy, high-performance creation of images of virtual machines on Hyper-V servers.

Benefits

We meet you where you are.

Our achievement is a solution tailored to your needs. Whether your concerns are related to cost, scalability, or administration time – we listen to you and work side-by-side to develop the right solution.

Medium sized companies as well as large corporations need a reliable data protection solution for their data centers. At a closer look requirements, however, often differ considerably. 10 years of experience in the field of data protection provide us with the necessary expertise to develop tailor made solutions for customers of any size.

You are an equal partner to us

From negotiating the contract to operating the system we offer you qualified and individual service.
Our service comprises

individual trainings as well as webcasts including product demonstrations and consulting
offers are customized including flexible options
webinars or personal training on the spot held by technical engineers

Your running costs (TCO) are of concern to us

Instead of a complex system with oversized features you’ll receive an easy-to-use solution that just works. NovaBACKUP DataCenter reduces your costs and fulfills your requirements for data protection with very small administrative effort.

reliable performance, high fault tolerance reduces disruptions significantly
little administrative effort
in urgent cases call-back support is included in the price
transparent, calculable longterm costs, price per server license model (all options and plug-ins included)

We offer local support

NovaStor supports customers with setup, implementation and operation with defined contact persons and cooperates closely with the IT department of the customer. Callback support is local, at local time in German or English.

test installation on the spot or via remote control
installation and adaptation on the spot or via remote control
flexible support of the operational business (i.e. new requirements, temporary replacement)

We protect you data - safely

When it comes to large data volumes and high requirements NovaBACKUP DataCenter achieves a considerably higher stability and speed as other enterprise data protection systems. In addition to this, low costs and little administrative effort convince our customers – every day.

easy to handle, no expert knowledge needed, user errors are almost impossible
focus product for perfect Backup/Restore, no add-on features which harm handling and stability
product development according to the existing product logic, updates or upgrades require only minimum training

We develop our products in Germany

Based in Hamburg, Germany NovaStor stands out as a partner for small and medium sized companies being aware of their economic environment and knowing what counts.

support and development in Germany
customized product development
easy access to support, development and management

Features

Our features make your life easy.

Data backup simply has to work. Learn how NovaBACKUP DataCenter automatically assures that your data stays available, even when you forget to do your backup.

Fewer errors, fewer interruptions ...less time spent ensuring data availability

System Reliability

Fault tolerant architecture ensures high data availability: NovaBACKUP

DataCenter’s modular architecture protects all important components by using redundant backup strategies. Restores can be carried out on a client, even if individual components have failed.

Robust Communication

Improved data availability: Backups and restores are possible even if the central database is not available. Simple administration of backup processes from one central management console, even across distributed locations (using WAN).

Support of failover media pools

Less manual intervention, better availability: If a storage medium, local drive or backup server is not available, backups are automatically sent to alternative storage media.

Cluster Support

Less downtime: Support of cluster configuration ensures optimal availability of productive applications.

ATAP Restore

Any Time Any Place Restores: A direct restore is possible offline on the client using only the backup medium and a drive. No central database is required.

High flexibility, better planning...more alternatives for safe data

Disk 2 Disk

Efficient use of storage: Fast, parallel backups and restores to and from inexpensive disk systems.

Disk 2 Disk 2 Tape

Time saving and efficient: Backing up data to a disk staging area before moving the information to tape enables fast backups and restores – without re-staging. Replaces and spares investments for virtual tape libraries.

File System, Raw, Image and Pipe Backup

Unlimited flexibility: NovaBACKUP DataCenter supports the backup method best suited for protecting individual files, whole disk partitions or applications.

Virtual Systems

Optimal use of resources: Flexible Support of physical and virtual server environments without confinements to particular manufacturers.

Logical Cloning

Cost efficient protection if individual backups are lost: Single selected backups can be logically copied to different backup servers and locations.

Synthetic Backups / Incremental Forever

Faster backup, reduced data volumes: Several incremental backups can be used to create a synthetic full backup.

Accounting

Integrated accounting functionality to allow invoicing for data availability as a service: All relevant data is captured and logged. Accounting IDs can be assigned when individual backups are set up for easy and clear allocation of resources.

Better performance, fewer resources...reduced costs for data availability

High Performance Data Movers

Minimized system load: Optimized data compression distributes system load on the clients and the backup servers.

LAN-less / Serverless Backups

Faster backups and restores: The client writes directly to the storage media – without going to a backup server. This increases the backup speed and avoids unnecessary network traffic.

Multiplexer

Optimal use of the fastest tape drive: Powerful and efficient data multiplexer can write up to 128 parallel data streams to one drive. And a parallel restore is possible as well.

Dynamic Tape Drive Sharing

Efficient storage use: Clients and servers can optionally use a shared pool of tape drives thus optimizing the resource usage.

NDMP Support

Storage consolidation: Backup and restore windows are minimized and libraries used efficiently due to client connections via Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP).

Inline Cloning

Low cost protection in case of loss of individual backups: Data can be written to two or more mirrored tape drives in parallel, even on separate backup servers in different geographical locations.

Architecture

Your Plan – our Architecture.

Not everybody wants to buy a castle, or even needs one. We offer you a solid architecture with exactly the features your require.

NovaBACKUP Datacenter’s unique open architecture comprises.

active backup clients/passive backup servers
redundant meta-data architecture
asynchronous communication between central management and backup system

Unlimited scalability

NovaBACKUP DataCenter’s architecture supports easily the central management of heterogeneous IT-environments with several thousands of servers and many Petabytes of information.The speed of the backup and especially of the restore process is neither influenced by the number of administered systems, the number of executed/accomplished backups nor by ongoing backups and restores. The speed only depends on the performance of the clients, on the connection and on the backup device. Thus, continuous and predictable backup and restore periods are guaranteed even when your IT environment is expanding.

Fault tolerant backup solution

This architecture based on active clients and passive backup servers enables the easy setup of fault tolerant backup environments at a competitive price. In case of malfunction/failure a client can automatically at any time access another backup server. As meta data is kept separately the restore ability of the backup is always guaranteed.

Highest restore ability "any time any place" restore

Due to the fact that meta data is kept separately and the specific backup format, a restore of data is possible any time any place even without central management or the backup server which performed the backup. The medium itself (tape, disc) is sufficient. Even in case of failure of components (central management database, backup clients, backup server) the redundancy of meta data ensures a restore and localization of the backup.

NovaBACKUP® DataCenter

Data Protection for Enterprise Storage Environments