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Quest Software Offers Better Data Protection Suite For VMware

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Quest Software has announced the latest release of vRanger Pro, with three key data protection capabilities added:

– Integrated backup and replication, one console with flexible deployment and licensing
– Native cataloging, with integrated restore to easily locate and restore individual files
– Fibre restore: to speed recovery and eliminate LAN traffic by using Fibre Channel infrastructure

vRanger Pro also now includes all of the capabilities of Quest Software vReplicator, which gives organizations VMware protection in one easy-to-use console.

The new version of vRanger Pro features patent-pending cataloging capability that provides a native, full catalog of every image in the backup repository so administrators can quickly and easily find and restore files, even among large amounts of virtual data. vRanger Pro also now features one-step catalog-based recovery, including advanced search options and right-click recovery selection directly from the management console.

vRanger Pro 5.0 is currently available. Also available from Quest Software is vRanger Standard Edition.

Vizioncore Enhances vEssentials Software Bundle

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Vizioncore earlier this week announced that its vEssentials bundle, that previously included vFoglight Pro, vRanger Pro and vReplicator, is newly improved and can be purchased with a choice of any three Vizioncore software solutions.

Designed to provide ultimate flexibility, the new vEssentials bundle allows the freedom to select a set of Vizioncore’s industry-leading virtualization management solutions at an affordable economic-friendly price – a savings of up to 40% off list prices. Customers can choose from any of the following products to benefit from the savings: vConverter DR, vFoglight Pro, vOptimizer Pro, vRanger Pro, and vReplicator. The new vEssentials bundle helps companies save money while achieving new levels of productivity in allowing them to extend, enhance, control and improve their IT systems and virtual environments.

ExaGrid Teams Up With Vizioncore for VMware Backup Solution

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ExaGrid Systems today announced support for Vizioncore’s backup and recovery solution, vRanger Pro (which recently got an upgrade). Both ExaGrid and Vizioncore offer products and solutions that streamline the management of data backup and recovery processes for VMware users.

Vizioncore is a provider of a comprehensive set of solutions that extend and enhance the capabilities of virtualized environments. ExaGrid offers VMware customers using Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro with the industry’s fastest backups and restores, along with high data de-duplication ratios.

Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro solution offers full image level and differential backups of virtual machines to enable faster, more efficient storage and recovery of virtual machines. ExaGrid’s Disk-based Backup systems serve as the backup target for these virtual machine images, using high-performance, post-process data de-duplication to dramatically reduce the disk storage capacity required for backups versus standard disk storage.

Vizioncore Updates vRanger and vCharter Pro

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Vizioncore has released an upgrade to its backup and restore solution for virtualization environments, vRanger Pro 3.2.4. With vRanger Pro, administrators can schedule regular image-level backups of virtual or physical machines – while the machine is still running.  Images can be stored either locally in the SAN or sent as compressed files over a WAN to remote locations to support disaster recovery strategies. vRanger Pro also enables restore of individual files efficiently with an explorer tree through which users can easily identify and “grab” needed files.

vRanger Pro 3.2.4 is a minor update to the core 3.2 functionality.  There are two key components of this release: VCB Differential Backups and Support for FIPS encryption. Also included in this release are several bug fixes.

In addition, Vizioncore has released a minor dot release to its enterprise-level virtualization monitoring solution, vCharter Pro 3.0.1.  Key improvements include support for external Oracle databases (versions 9i or 10g) and a significant number of bug fixes. The 3.0.1 version of vCharter Pro now also supports installation on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003.