Announcing Data Protector 11.00

Data growth continues at an unrelenting pace and trying to ensure all aspects of managing that data can be accomplished is an increasing challenge.  Growth in data leads to performance concerns in trying to manipulate or move the data.  Storage usage needs to be monitored closely to ensure the right storage type is available in the right place. Deduplication of the data is an essential tool to help address these concerns and the new release of Micro Focus Data Protector introduces a new deduplication engine capable of handling the largest backup data set. 

Micro Focus has just released version 11.00 of Data Protector, its backup and recovery software product.  Part of the Information Management and Governance portfolio, it is an enterprise-scale backup and disaster recovery solution delivering full backup capabilities across the complete environment.  It protects data residing in heterogeneous, geographically distributed data centers, on-premise local stores, and multi-cloud hybrid environments. This enables a central IT organization to offer seamless protection and disaster recovery strategies while mitigating application and service outages or downtime due to data loss. These capabilities help organizations address security, compliance, and governance requirements across their full data environment.

The release of Data Protector 11.00 is a significant release for Data Protector as it completes a period of architectural updates and security improvements.  These updates have improved the stability and usability of the product, particularly for upgrades and installations. It has also brought in significant, new capabilities and functionality addressing performance, storage infrastructure, and application backup.

Enhanced Features and Benefits:

With the release of Data Protector 11.00 a new deduplication engine is introduced which will significantly expand the deduplication functionality of Data Protector up to PBs. It removes the dependency on the HPE StoreOnce deduplication feature and offers greater scope for much more substantial deduplication capability across all storage platforms. The deduplication capability can be hosted on multiple media including physical, virtual, and cloud, and be on-premises or remote. Supporting Linux and Windows for source or target side deduplication the deduplication functionality is similar to that normally found only on deduplication appliances.

With the increasing use of online applications, further enhancements have been applied to the Microsoft 365 Exchange Online backup function.  The increased flexibility of allowing full or incremental backup, and mailbox or folder level restores also boosts performance resulting in smaller RTO and lower capacity usage.  Better security and HA are available by allowing the backup media to be copied anywhere. The folder excludes option delivers improved flexibility and operational performance.

Further improvements are made to the upgrade and usability of Data Protector along with the ongoing security enhancements and updates. These serve to increase confidence in the stability and ease-of-use of the solution as well as further safeguarding critical data during increased cyber attacks.  Virtual Machine backup enhancements help improve usability options and performance while delivering gains in RTO reduction.  Other functionality incorporated include newer platform certifications, improved new install and upgrade operation, and roll-back plan documentation.

Data Protector 11.00 Release Highlights

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