Backup and Replication Solutions
Akzium's Backup and Recovery Solutions team works with all of the major backup software vendors such as IBM's TSM (now called Spectrum Protect), CommVault, EMC Networker, EMC Avamar, HP Data Protector, Veritas Netbackup, Veeam, Unitrends, Cohesity, Rubrik, and many more.  In addition, pairing Enterprise Backup solutions with both tape library systems and virtual tape storage devices such as those from IBM, ExaGrid, Data Domain, FalconStor and Cybernetics can dramatically improve both backup times and efficiency.  Having worked with petabyte-scale backup systems in datacenters for Fortune 100 companies, Akzium knows a thing to two about enterprise-scale backup solutions.  Contact an Akzium team member to get started with transforming your backup environment.
Akzium has partnered with companies like MSP360 (formerly CloudberryLab), Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and more to bring secure, highly available offsite storage to enable offsite backup and archival of mission critical data.

MSP360 offers an agent-based backup solution that can provide both onsite backup as well as fully integrating with offsite storage solutions such as Amazon's S3 cloud storage.  With agents for Exchange and SQL as well as system state backups and support for Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022 as well as Window 10 and Windows 11 workstations, MSP360 enables Microsoft-centric shops to cost effectively and securely move data to a safe offsite location.  
Using Microsoft's Azure Platform, Azure Backup Server and Hyper-V's Azure integration (both with VMM and Azure Site Recovery),  Akzium can create a full recovery solution for your Windows Server, Hyper-V, and Azure Stack HCI environments.  Using the Hyper-V and Azure Stack HCI Replicate to Azure feature and Azure Backup Server, backups and replicas of Hyper-V VMs can be saved to the Azure platform.  With the Incremental Forever option, a full server backup is done once and then only changes are backed up or replicated thereafter, making the push to Azure cloud storage more bandwidth friendly.  Point-in-time restores from cloud hosted storage can facilitate a disaster recovery plan that is both cloud-friendly and usable to restore to local hardware after a disaster event.  Akzium engineers can also assist with full recovery of replica and backup VMs into Azure hosting.
Zerto’s award winning hypervisor-based replication software enables alignment of your Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan with your IT strategy. By using hypervisor-based data replication, you can reduce DR complexity and hardware costs and still protect your mission-critical virtualized applications, servers, and databases whether you’re using VMware’s vSphere hypervisor or Microsoft’s Hyper-V..
  • Protect entire applications by selecting the VMs that are part of the application and let Zerto do the rest.
  • Ensure consistent application protection and recovery with Zerto’s Virtual Protection Group, with or without Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support.
  • Test failover with the click of a button, while maintaining protection of your production application.
  • Recover from logical errors with ‘point-in-time’ recovery, enabling you to failover to a previous point in time.
Akzium has implemented Veeam's Backup and Replication solution for VMware and Hyper-V environments for many customers.  Now, with the release of Veeam v12 customers can use Veeam for onsite backups of their VMware or Hyper-V based virtual machines, and then securely store those backups to a cloud storage provider using AES 256-bit encryption.
Akzium can assist with the pre-implementation project scoping, implementation, testing and training of VMware's vCenter Site Recovery Manager and Microsoft's Hyper-V Replica solutions.  VMware's SRM can utilize VMware's own Replication feature or leverage storage-based replication for site-to-site data protection.  Microsoft's Hyper-V Replica and Hyper-V Extended Replication (both in 2012r2) provide a way to replicate Hyper-v VMs to a local or remote server for rudimentary data protection and ease of failover in case of a disaster.
Precisely (formerly Vision Solutions) High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions have been trusted for more than twenty years and were among the first replication software products ever created.  DoubleTake for Windows, Linux, AIX, VMware and Hyper-V assist with real-time data replication, while Mimix and iTera products help protect your IBM System i (AS/400) platform data and system state information, all with automated role swapping and integrated data integrity checking.  In addition, Precisely's DoubleTake Share assists with replication of database data changes even between different vendor databases.
Cybernetics' Virtual Tape Libraries are designed to eliminate the challenges you face in archiving and protecting your valuable data. Our units are incredibly easy to install, manage, scale and will adapt as your network changes.

What is a Virtual Tape Library? A VTL is a storage device that emulates one or multiple tape drives/libraries. It's designed to greatly reduce your backup window and increase your restore speeds, especially when compared to tape drives. They can also reduce the amount of disk storage you need for long term data retention and minimize the bandwidth required for site-to-site replication.

Why emulate tape? By appearing as tape, you have 100% compatibility with any backup software that supports tape without any operational learning curve. This includes BackupExec, ARCserve, CommVault, Tivoli, DPM, native i5/OS backup commands, BRMS, Robot/SAVE, IPL and many more. There are no additional software/agents required. Whether you're running Windows, IBM AS400/OS or any Unix derivative, a single VTL can protect your entire data center easily.

A well engineered VTL does not format the disk drives with a file system, thereby eliminating the need for virus scanning and defragmenting overhead; increasing your read/write performance. This is traditionally faster than using DAS, NAS and SAN for a backup repository.

By emulating tape at the block level on disk, any off-line copies sent off-site via physical tape will remain compatible with your backup software. In an emergency situation, restores can be done without access to the virtual tape library.
Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape is still one of the most cost-effective ways to air-gap your backups. Akzium resells both Cybernetics and IBM LTO Tape drives and tape libraries. With options for a single tape drive attached via SAS or Fiber Channel scaling all the way up to hundres of petabytes of storage with expandable tape library chassis.
In addition to the open standard LTO tape drives, we also resell IBM's TS1170, the 3592 Generation 7 tape drive from IBM with a native tape capacity of 50TB and 150TB potential with hardware compression.
LaserVault is a virtual tape emulation software that turns a Windows server into a virtual IBM System i (AS/400) recognized tape drive.  Data can then be replicated to an offsite storage container via several different methods including mirroring to cloud-hosted object storage.
Storix Software has backup, bare metal and data replication software for Unix (Solaris and AIX) and Linux.
Built for virtualization, NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a unified solution to protect and recover VMware VMs and data onsite, offsite, and to the cloud.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a complete data protection feature set for virtualized environments, including local and offsite VM backup and replication, support for live applications & databases, instant granular recovery, network acceleration, data deduplication and compression, Web UI, AES-256 encryption, advanced reporting, and vCloud Director support.
Contact your Akzium rep today to find out more about our secure onsite and cloud backup solutions.