Arcserve N Series Hyperconverged Data Protection Appliances Built on UDP Technology, Powered by Nutanix and Secured by Sophos

Arcserve LLC announced N Series appliances, which deliver integrated hyperscale backup, recovery, and ransomware protection to enterprise infrastructures.

The N Series appliances, built on the company’s UDP technology, are powered by Nutanix, Inc., a provider in private, hybrid, and multicloud computing, and secured by Sophos Group plc. The integration of globally unsurpassed technologies in a single solution delivers unmatched unified data protection, scale, and security to hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI), as well as radical simplicity in deployment, management, and support.

Triple-protection from Arcserve, Nutanix, and Sophos
The N Series appliances comprise the Unified Data Protection (UDP), Nutanix Mine platform, which leverages the core Nutanix HCI software, and Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server. Together they deliver an all-in-one solution that extends the benefits of HCI, including scale-out capacity, performance, and HA for data protection environments.

Value for customer and partners
Companies and VARs that supply them can solve their data center protection and recovery needs with a single, purpose-built solution that delivers performance while eliminating complexity and cost of management to deliver ROI.

Jonathan Berger, VP, digital strategy, Virtual Graffitii, Inc., said: “Our customers expect us to deliver best-in-value as well as best-in-class solutions. The Arcserve N Series falls right in this sweet spot. This is going to be a powerful offering for us as the hybrid cloud market grows in importance for our existing customers and our prospect base.“

Said Shridar Subramanian, CMO, Arcserve: “Our partnership with Nutanix and the resulting Arcserve N Series data protection appliances are perfect examples of the value-add we bring to partners. We have built in the best value while eliminating all complexity and unnecessary overhead in management, maintenance, and support. Arcserve’s ability to offer the broadest set of best-in-class BC solutions as well as ensure access to unsurpassed next-gen solutions brings important differentiation and market opportunity to our channel partners.“

Said Prasad Athawale, VP, business development, Nutanix: “The Arcserve solution, powered by Nutanix, helps deliver simplicity, resilience, and peace of mind to our customers by helping them to stay ahead of security vulnerabilities and ransomware in a hybrid multi-cloud era. The combination of our industry-leading HCI, with cutting-edge cybersecurity and trusted backup and DR in a simple cloud-scale data protection turnkey appliance is an extremely powerful solution for our partners and customers.“

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N Series Appliances Pack a Punch of features
The N Series appliances combine security controls, ransomware detection, and data protection to ensure protection across private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS-based workloads. Additionally, they provide an unified management console to manage and provision all backup and DR services, including physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.

These appliances protect physical Windows and Linux hosts, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix Files, VMware and Hyper-V workloads, AWS EC2, and Azure VM from a single user interface. They provide SLA reporting, built-in, fully automated non-disruptive recovery testing, and support for tiering to disk, tape, and cloud storage, as well as cross-hypervisor recovery and flexible licensing.

Integrated solution features:

• Nutanix Mine data platform delivering security features such as data-at-rest encryption, a hardened architecture, and comprehensive access controls built into the system

• Cybersecurity that detects known and unknown malware to defend the backup environment

• Data security to rapidly respond and remove threats, including never-before-seen ransomware and boot-record attacks

• Data protection across all platforms that safeguards data from external threats, including ransomware, natural disasters, human error, or other unplanned outages

• Deployment automation to eliminate risks during installation and configuration

• Integration with Nutanix Prism management console for simplified management

The N Series appliances will be available in September worldwide through the company’s network of authorized resellers and distributors.

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