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Arcserve Appliances 9,000 Series Secured by Sophos more than met the company ’ s needs and expectations , so much so that it led NAFFCO to also purchase the 9096DR for its Abu Dhabi branch . Having seen results within the first week of deployment , the company ’ s Hennawi is satisfied with how the solutions have helped in increasing productivity by 100 % as well as how it has led to 50 % more seamless application performance and 50 % savings in the cost of operations .
In the future , the company also aims to install Arcserve Appliances at its Qatar and Saudi Arabia branches . “ We need to plan for a backup solution which will be compatible with cloud solutions ,” said Hennawi of future plans for the company ’ s IT needs . p
The Arcserve 9,000 Appliance Series is the first and only means to neutralise ransomware attacks , deliver effective Disaster Recovery ( DR ) and restore data – an all-in-one data protection strategy that can be deployed in just 15 minutes . Arcserve Appliances 9,000 Series secured by Sophos Powered by awardwinning Arcserve Unified Data Protection ( UDP ) and Sophos Intercept X cybersecurity , Arcserve Appliances uniquely combine Deep Learning endpoint protection with on-site and offsite Business Continuity capabilities for a multilayered approach that delivers complete IT resiliency . Architected with cloud-native capabilities , Arcserve Appliances integrate your on- and off-site Disaster Recovery with built in cloud DR and backup to the Arcserve Cloud , as well as to private and public clouds , including Amazon AWS , Microsoft Azure , Nutanix Objects , Eucalyptus and Rackspace . and 9096DR
Ransomware prevention made simple
• Implement quick Disaster Recovery for physical servers and cloud Windows / Linux instances
• Protect VMware , Hyper-V , RHEV , KVM , Nutanix AHV , Citrix and Xen VMs with agentless and agent-based backup
• Back up and recover Microsoft Office 365 , UNIX , FreeBSD , AIX , HP-UX , Solaris , Oracle Database , SAP HANA and more , protecting your entire IT infrastructure from ransomware
• Spin up dozens of VMs on the appliance with up to 20 cores on Intel Xeon CPUs , up to 1,536GB DDR4 RAM , and optional SSD flash expansion kits
Secure your backups from any threat
• Keep your data and system backups safe with Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server , preloaded and shipped on Arcserve Appliances
• Stay protected against any threat , including unknown malware , with a Deep Learning neural network combined with signature-based protection from common threats
• Prevent major hacking techniques , including credential harvesting , lateral movement and privilege escalation with exploit prevention
• Stop ransomware attacks on backup data with CryptoGuard and master boot record attacks with WipeGuard
Scale without limitations
• Enable safe business and IT growth with 11 configuration options that range from 12TB to 504TB of effective capacity per appliance
• Keep up with data growth by expanding original capacity by up to four times with in-field , in-appliance Expansion Kits
• Seamlessly scale up and out to the cloud with fully integrated hybrid cloud services
• Reduce backup storage requirements up to 95 % with built-in SSD drives and hyper-efficient global deduplication
Eliminate ransomware-induced IT disruption
• Quickly install the only “ set it and forget it ,” multi-layered anti-ransomware solution , proven to be deployable in under 15 minutes
• Protect hundreds of systems with scalable , policy-based Disaster Recovery and backup management
• Reclaim up to 50 % more time to spend on strategic IT initiatives . Keep business and IT stakeholders informed with SLA reporting that includes recovery time objective ( RTO ) and recovery time actual ( RTA ) comparisons
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