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Actiphy Backup & Disaster Recovery Solutions

Founded in 2007, Actiphy is a global leader in backup, disaster recovery, and virtualization software, specializing in providing robust image-based backup solutions through its flagship product, ActiveImage Protector™, to ensure business continuity.

  • Provides comprehensive system image backups for physical and virtual
  • Windows/Linux environments.
  • Unique Inline Data Deduplication Compression (IDDC) technology significantly reduces storage requirements during backup.
  • Supports Hot Imaging (live backup) to perform backups while the system is running without service interruption.
  • Offers various advanced recovery options, including Bare Metal Restore (BMR), Instant Boot (HyperBoot), and Seamless Hot Restore (SHR) for Hyper-V.
  • Provides centralized management through ActiveVisor, simplifying backup monitoring and scheduling for multiple systems.
  • Emphasizes security, offering isolated backups, encryption, and ImageIsolate™ features to defend against ransomware.

Actiphy Backup & Disaster Recovery Solutions

Founded in 2007, Actiphy is a global leader in backup, disaster recovery, and virtualization software, specializing in providing robust image-based backup solutions through its flagship product, ActiveImage Protector™, to ensure business continuity.

  • Provides comprehensive system image backups for physical and virtual
  • Windows/Linux environments.
  • Unique Inline Data Deduplication Compression (IDDC) technology significantly reduces storage requirements during backup.
  • Supports Hot Imaging (live backup) to perform backups while the system is running without service interruption.
  • Offers various advanced recovery options, including Bare Metal Restore (BMR), Instant Boot (HyperBoot), and Seamless Hot Restore (SHR) for Hyper-V.
  • Provides centralized management through ActiveVisor, simplifying backup monitoring and scheduling for multiple systems.
  • Emphasizes security, offering isolated backups, encryption, and ImageIsolate™ features to defend against ransomware.

Keepit SaaS Data Protection-as-a-Service (BaaS)

Keepit is a Danish company (founded around 2007) specializing in SaaS data protection, offering backup and recovery services for major SaaS applications like Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Salesforce, Google Workspace, etc. Its unique aspect is using its own independently operated cloud infrastructure (12+ private data centers globally).

  • Offers the Keepit platform designed specifically for SaaS applications, performing cloud-to-cloud backup and restore.
  • Supports the full Microsoft 365 suite, Entra ID, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure DevOps, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Zendesk, and more.
  • Core features include automatic daily backups, long-term data retention, granular search and restore, and point-in-time recovery.
  • Utilizes a private cloud infrastructure independent of SaaS vendors, ensuring data storage independence and sovereignty.
  • Uses blockchain-verified immutable storage technology to ensure backup data cannot be tampered with.
  • Provides data encryption at rest and in transit.
  • Emphasizes the reliability, security (blockchain immutability), and data sovereignty control offered by its independent cloud architecture.

Storware Enterprise-Grade Backup & Recovery

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, Storware provides enterprise-grade data backup and recovery systems, focusing on protecting virtual machines, containers, cloud environments (including Microsoft 365), applications, and storage providers.

  • Offers the Storware Backup and Recovery platform, supporting various open source and commercial virtualization platforms (like VMware, Hyper-V, oVirt/RHV, KVM, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE), containers (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Proxmox VE), Microsoft 365, cloud instances, databases, and storage providers.
  • Supports multiple backup targets, including file systems, object storage, tape, and can act as a proxy for enterprise backup software.
  • Emphasizes broad platform support under a single license, simplified management, automation, improved storage efficiency, robust security, and proactive support.
  • Specifically highlights support for oVirt/RHV, offering Changed Block Tracking (CBT) backup strategies.