Guardian Desktop Offers Superior Business Continuity

Sept. 1, 2010 - PRLog -- Guardian Desktop http://www.mjcgroup.co.uk/guardian-data-recovery.php includes several recovery options that allow you to improve business continuity by reducing the time desktops and laptops are offline. Guardian gives you the flexibility of choosing granular recovery of files and folders or full bare metal recovery of a system in a matter of minutes. Hardware Independent Restore (HIR) technology makes it quick and easy to recover to the same system, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments. Guardian HIR feature also makes system migration to new desktops or consolidation to virtual environments a straightforward process.

“Today’s business world is very decentralised as many workers rely on laptops as their sole computing environment,” said Jon Rose, IT Sales Manager at MJC Group. “Some small businesses conduct all business from desktops and laptops, choosing not to centralise their data to a server environment. Businesses need a solution, such as Guardian Desktop, which can automate backups and restore systems very quickly in the event of a lost laptop, a drive failure on a desktop or some other disaster.”

Flexible Recovery

Guardian Desktop gives you several recovery options – bare metal recovery, recovery to dissimilar hardware and recovery to and from virtual environments for complete system restores – or simple granular recovery of files and folders in a matter of seconds.

Guardian Desktop’s virtualised technology features such as Hardware Independent Restore with new VirtualBoot technology to give administrators the ability to boot any Guardian backup image into a virtual machine using Sun VirtualBox. The backup image file can be booted into a .VMDK or .VHD format. In addition, Guardian Desktop can convert any Guardian backup image into a virtual machine without the need to use any third-party technology.
 
“VirtualBoot is an amazingly quick way to failover to a virtual machine,” said Richard Eagles Technical Manager at MJC Group. “There are several kinds of scenarios where VirtualBoot technology can be very helpful, including testing new applications, booting obsolete operating systems or recovering files from old systems.”

Backup Management

Guardian Desktop includes additional features which make it simpler to manage desktop and laptop backups across your system. Guardian Desktop includes a management console, at no additional cost, that allows IT Administrators to push install Guardian simultaneously to multiple desktops and laptops, group machines, import or export node information or check the status of Guardian backups.

Guardian ImageManager allows administrators to verify and re-verify Guardian backup image files as well as consolidate backup image files to minimise storage usage and streamline management. Guardian ImageManager is also included at no additional cost.

Additional Features    

Guardian Desktop also includes Resume on Interruption – the ability to continue a restore, even after it’s been halted by a power failure or other disruption. In addition, it has an updated user interface.

Guardian Desktop includes the following features:

•         Hardware Independent Restore (HIR)
•         Bare metal recovery
•         Granular recovery of files and folders in moments
•         Resume on interruption
•         Central management console
•         VirtualBoot
•         Virtual converter
•         Guardian ImageManager
•         Image verification and re-verification
•         Image consolidation

For additional information about Guardian Desktop please email guardian@mjcgroup.co.uk, call 0845 2718000 or visit: www.mjcgroup.co.uk .

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