N2WS: Availability of Backup and Recovery V.4.1 in AWS Marketplace

N2W Software, Inc. (N2WS) announces the availability of Backup and Recovery version 4.1.

This release includes enhancements and integrations to further protect workloads running on AWS, including SAP HANA and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

The company supports BC by providing a backup and recovery solution that leverages cloud-native technologies to ensure that cloud workloads are available and recoverable. Customers further benefit by always maintaining complete sovereignty and control of their data.

“We’ve been using N2WS to meet and exceed customer requirements for the past several years,” said Lee Blakely, Reliable Penguin, a MSP and firm’s and AWS customer. “Now that N2WS has released immutable backup support, among other key features, we’ve been able to add another layer of critical data protection for our customers, especially when it comes to ransomware concerns.“

“Since 2012, our goal at N2WS has been to provide peace of mind by offering our customers the easiest way to backup and recover their AWS workloads and data,” saidUri Wolloch, CTO, N2WS. “That means we’re very responsive to the needs of our customers. And the new features of this release, like SAP HANA backup and copy Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), were developed to support our customers who use those technologies on AWS and want a simple, streamlined solution to ensure 100% availability.“

“Customers are increasingly running business-critical workloads on AWS to gain benefits of scale, accessibility, and security,” said Mona Chadha, director, AWS marketplace, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). “Workloads like SAP HANA or native AWS services like Amazon RDS and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP are essential to business operations and require comprehensive backup and recovery solutions like N2WS to better ensure business continuity and data protection. With exclusive availability in AWS Marketplace, N2WS also makes it easy for customers to adopt and deploy their solution on AWS.”

V.4.1 features include:

Enhanced in data protection
Ensure resiliency and protection of data backups with immutable backups stored in Amazon S3. This adds another layer of protection against ransomware, malicious attacks, and accidental deletions of critical customer data stored in Amazon S3. Use N2WS to ensure that these immutable backups cannot be deleted until the specified governance period ends. Even in the case of an account-level compromise, backup data will remain immutable from change or deletion.
Database backup
The firm announces native support to protect SAP HANA running on AWS. Customers that deploy SAP HANA on AWS can streamline backup orchestration of SAP HANA in-memory database to Amazon S3. With the solution, SAP administrators can recover SAP HANA instances and databases to a production state within minutes. Administrators can meet organizational data protection goals by automating cross-region DR for SAP HANA and create immutable SAP HANA backups using the company’s support of Amazon S3 Object Lock. This benefits customers that run SAP HANA on AWS with an easy-to-implement and backup and recovery tool.

Data lifecycle management
Customers are continuing to adopt Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for critical workloads within an organization. Often these workloads come with strict mandates for data retention that could be cost-prohibitive without a data lifecycle plan in place. The company offers backup, DR and data lifecycle management for Amazon RDS databases running the MySQL or PostgreSQL engines. With the solution, user can archive Amazon RDS databases to Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier, or Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive and rehydrate archived databases back to a production state within minutes.
Enhanced Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) capture and clone
The firm focuses on making sure that customer workloads are always available and accessible. But, to guarantee availability of data, network infrastructure needs to be protected and recoverable as well. With Backup & Recovery V.4.1, customers can protect additional VPC entities, including Transit Gateway, Customer Gateway, VPN Gateway, site-to-site VPN connections. Restore VPC entities, security groups, and network settings to previous states and clone to other AWS regions or AWS accounts – ensuring that data and network infrastructure is always protected from downtime or outages.
Support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
The company announces BR support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in addition to existing support for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre. Administrators can automate backups and easily monitor backup status for Amazon FSx services along with their other AWS services. With it, admins can also orchestrate recovery of Amazon FSx along with other workload components like Amazon Transit Gateway and Amazon VPC settings as well as any other supporting servers, data, and metadata.

Available in AWS Marketplace. The version 4.1 is available for upgrades and POC testing. Existing customers can get access to all the latest enhancements by upgrading their existing N2WS instance.

Resources:
V 4.1 release notes
Blog: The top 6 game-changing new features of N2WS Backup & Recovery v4.1
Blog : How to Backup and Recover SAP HANA Data on AWS
Install trial of V.4.1 via AWS Marketplace
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