{"id":8738,"date":"2023-07-28T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oberig-it.com\/uncategorized\/elevating-excellence-arcserve-udp-updates-bolster-ransomware-resilience-availability-and-recovery\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:15:06","slug":"elevating-excellence-arcserve-udp-updates-bolster-ransomware-resilience-availability-and-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oberig-it.com\/en\/news\/elevating-excellence-arcserve-udp-updates-bolster-ransomware-resilience-availability-and-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevating Excellence: Arcserve UDP Updates Bolster Ransomware Resilience, Availability, and Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently shared the highlights of a review<\/span><\/a> by industry analyst DCIG calling Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) \u201cThe Obvious Solution to Simplify Data Backup and Defeat Ransomware<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

That recognition speaks directly to our focus on offering cost-effective, agile, and massively scalable best-in-class solutions that eliminate the complexities of managing, protecting, and recovering all data workloads across all data environments.<\/p>\n

Safeguarded by Sophos Intercept X Advanced cybersecurity, Arcserve UDP uniquely combines deep learning server protection, immutable storage, and scalable onsite and off-site business continuity to support your data resilience strategy.<\/p>\n

A critical component of Arcserve\u2019s Unified Data Resilience Platform, Arcserve UDP delivers complete ransomware resilience for protected data and multilayered protection for priceless digital assets.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you can expect from Arcserve UDP, including recent updates and improvements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cloud-Based Management Console Adds Flexibility<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Based on your needs, you can now manage Arcserve UDP with either the on-premises private management console or the cloud-based management console<\/strong>. Long used on-premises by IT pros, the private management console is a good choice if your environment requires a private setting. The cloud-based management console is perfect if you need more flexible controls, such as multitenancy.<\/p>\n

Multitenant management is simplified with the cloud-based management console. You can easily configure sub-organizations and manage them like different tenants as well as separate workloads into different domains for easier management.<\/p>\n

Enhanced Security<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Cloud Console protects data with a robust authentication system that uses Okta user authentication services. Okta\u2019s zero trust implementation employs multifactor authentication (MFA), adding strong restrictions for countering account takeovers during ransomware attacks<\/strong>. Centralized user account management using Arcserve Identity Services also greatly simplifies authentication and access control.<\/p>\n

With Google and Microsoft having deprecated and no longer offering support for basic authentication, Arcserve UDP now offers improved security via Open Authorization (OAuth). And Arcserve UDP\u2019s email alerts can now secure communications using the recommended authentication type by providing you the option to use OAuth for Microsoft 365 and Google Cloud. Arcserve has also further tightened security with upgrades to newer versions of critical third-party components.<\/p>\n

Amplified Availability, Durability, and Scalability<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Arcserve UDP delivers availability-oriented protection to support always-on businesses, and a recent update now boosts data availability with support for generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) on Microsoft Azure, which are purported to deliver higher performance with much-improved security. And Virtual Standby support lets you quickly spin up these VMs, offering immediate access to your data and applications.<\/p>\n

With Arcserve UDP, you can store deduplicated backups directly on cloud object storage, including AWS, S3, Wasabi, or Google Cloud Storage. You\u2019ll also realize lower TCO and enhanced disaster recovery support with cloud-based offsite safe stores.<\/strong> New functions include the ability to copy data to another data store and virtual standby, which converts recovery points to virtual machine formats and prepares a snapshot to make data recovery easy. Both are available for use from datastores configured in AWS S3 or other object storage systems. Virtual standby also provides high availability capabilities so the virtual machine can take over immediately when the source machine fails. Both are available for use from datastores configured in AWS S3 or other object storage systems.<\/p>\n

Reliable Recovery and Improved Backup Efficiency<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Arcserve UDP offers fully automated and nondisruptive disaster recovery (DR) testing that is secure and reliable<\/strong>, so you can be confident you can recover your data. It\u2019s simple to schedule automated disaster recovery tests and provide advanced reporting for stakeholders. And you can save backup storage space by removing unnecessary recovery points created for tests or other cases that used manual jobs and are no longer relevant.<\/p>\n

You can also count on reliable backup job processing, with jobs marked incomplete if the execution encounters relevant warnings that require your attention but aren\u2019t critical enough to cause the job to fail.<\/p>\n

Easy-to-Use Interface, Detailed Reporting, and Improved Compliance Support<\/strong><\/h3>\n

With Arcserve UDP, no extended configuration is required<\/strong>. The intuitive interface\u2014with an informative dashboard viewable at a super admin or tenant level\u2014also offers multilingual support for Cloud Console so you can provide a localized user experience.<\/p>\n

The one-view dashboard offers per-tenant reporting, detailed information, and insightful reports regarding protection status. Retention compliance is supported by the ability to label a manual job as \u2018Daily,\u2019 \u2018Weekly, or \u2018Monthly\u2019 in case the scheduled job can\u2019t create a retention point. And a Backup Success Rate Report offers critical insights, with protection status depicted at a source level or policy level, with more options for daily, weekly, and monthly backups.<\/p>\n

Strengthened Enterprise Application Support<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Arcserve UDP delivers strong application-aware protection for enterprise applications such as Oracle Databases and Microsoft SQL Server. You may store petabytes of data critical to your business in these applications. Arcserve UDP uses agentless backup methodologies specific to applications, eliminating stress on your production systems and allowing unfettered access to source systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Other enterprise application support enhancements include:<\/p>\n

Oracle Pluggable Database (PDB) Restore<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Oracle PDBs present themselves as fully functional Oracle DB to client applications. Multiple PDBs can be consolidated into a single CDB to achieve economies of scale. You can quickly recover terabytes of Oracle PDBs backed up using Oracle RMAN<\/strong> with the ability to restore the entire Oracle PDB (including all tablespaces and control files) and Oracle PDB Tablespaces to their original locations.<\/p>\n

Other additions, enhancements, and improvements for Oracle DB Protection via RMAN include:<\/p>\n