Seamless Data Protection with Carbonite

Ensure uninterrupted business operations with Carbonite. Keep critical systems online 24/7 with Carbonite Availability, swiftly recover from disasters with Carbonite Recover, and migrate workloads effortlessly with Carbonite Migrate. Protect your revenue, productivity, and brand with continuous data replication and secure cloud solutions.

54%

of small and medium businesses have lost customers or revenue because of downtime.

Source: TechRadar, June 15, 2020

Benefits

With Carbonite Availability, you can:

Why Carbonite Availability?

Downtime can impact your business annually, leading to direct revenue and productivity losses, as well as indirect effects on customer loyalty and satisfaction. Carbonite Availability helps you avoid these setbacks by ensuring continuous protection and availability for your critical systems.

Minimize Business Interruptions and Data Loss

With real-time, byte-level replication, achieve a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of just seconds, reducing interruptions and protecting your data.

Reduce Infrastructure Costs

Maintain platform independence with support for physical, virtual, or cloud systems, reducing overall infrastructure costs.

Reduce downtime

Combat malware and data loss by recovering from corruption and ransomware with reliable snapshots.

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Features

Carbonite Availability helps your business maximize productivity by safeguarding your Linux and Windows servers against downtime and revenue loss.

Ensure secure data transmission with encryption between the source and target systems

Enjoy seamless automatic failover with continuous server heartbeat monitoring for enhanced reliability.

Streamline your operations with built-in DNS management for efficient and reliable domain handling.

Minimize network impact with three levels of compression for efficient data transfer.

Control and optimize data transfer with available bandwidth throttling options.

Seamlessly integrate with other software applications using our robust API.

How It Works

Seamless automation

Effortlessly automate the setup and configuration of each environment with Carbonite Availability. Its intuitive design eliminates the need for administrators to have detailed knowledge of applications or server setups.

Real-time, byte-level replication

Carbonite Availability synchronizes data between any source and target environment—physical, virtual, or cloud—by capturing changes at the byte level. It replicates files, applications, or entire servers, including system settings.

Secure seeding

Configure target secondary environments with secure seeding, utilizing AES 256-bit encryption and three tiers of bandwidth-saving mechanisms. Data is replicated securely, and the target is kept up-to-date with real-time changes.

Quick failovers

In case of an outage, Carbonite Availability enables swift corrective action or failover to a replacement server within minutes. Choose a recovery point that is current or pre-error, set up automated failover and failback processes, and minimize downtime efficiently.

Supported platforms

Operating systems

CentOS
CloudLinux
Debian Linux
Microsoft Windows Server
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Rocky Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Ubuntu
Any hypervisor,
with additional integration for:
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- VMware ESXi and vSphere

Any cloud platform, including:

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Outposts
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Azure Stack Hub
VMware vCloud Director

Availability FAQs

High availability ensures that systems and components remain accessible to users and applications. It is crucial for managing and maintaining critical systems and applications online, preventing downtime and revenue loss, especially for high-traffic sites.

Real-time replication software continuously mirrors server data. In the event of a server outage, the secondary or replicated server takes over, allowing users to failover with minimal disruption. Recovery time is typically measured in seconds, and the process can be automated or triggered by specific events, ensuring that workloads continue to run smoothly until the primary server is restored.

Carbonite ensures data security during replication by using AES 256-bit encryption and multiple tiers of bandwidth-saving mechanisms. This approach safeguards data while it’s being transferred and stored, maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of your information.

If your primary server fails, Carbonite Availability automatically initiates failover to the secondary server. This process ensures minimal disruption by allowing you to continue operations from the backup system. Recovery points can be set to the most recent data or a pre-error state, and failback to the original server is managed seamlessly.

Need to Prevent Downtime and Keep Critical Systems Online?

Boost your business productivity and eliminate revenue loss by ensuring your critical systems remain operational and uninterrupted.

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76%

respondents experienced an incident in the past two years that necessitated an IT Disaster Recovery plan, with over 50% reporting at least two such incidents.

Gartner, IT Disaster Recovery Trends and Benchmarks, April 30, 2020

Benefits

Utilize Carbonite Recover to minimize the impact of disasters, such as large-scale cyber attacks, and swiftly restore operations if your primary system is compromised.

Why Carbonite Recover?

Trust in your system’s performance with non-disruptive, self-service tests, failover reports, and expert support.

Flexible backup and recovery for your systems
Always-on data protection with asynchronous, byte-level, and real-time replication, plus push-button failover and failback.
Regularly test your disaster recovery plan with unlimited, non-disruptive self-service testing, ensuring production activities remain unaffected.

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Features

Carbonite Recover securely replicates critical systems to the cloud. In the event of a disaster affecting your primary systems, your business can swiftly failover to a secondary environment, ensuring minimal disruption and continuous operations.

Automatically discovers and integrates systems within your environment.

Replicates data across various physical, virtual, and cloud-based systems.

Supports and automates failover scripting for complex multi-tier applications..

Enhances network efficiency by minimizing impact with optimized bandwidth usage.

Ensures secure data transfers with encryption both in transit and at rest

Provides various recovery points using historical snapshots for flexible restoration.

Two flexible deployment options

Self-service

    Ideal for organizations seeking a hands-on approach with Carbonite Recover:

  • Continuously replicates data in real-time for constant protection.
  • Offers recovery points just seconds old, with outages measured in minutes, minimizing lost productivity and revenue.
  • Simplifies workload movement to and from the cloud with push-button failover and failback.
  • Optional professional support available for initial deployment, testing, failover, and failback.
Managed Disaster Recovery Service

    Perfect for businesses needing a managed-service approach with remote monitoring and management:

  • Includes initial setup and deployment of Carbonite Recover.
  • Daily scans ensure your systems are online and protected.
  • Manages and verifies system readiness for disaster recovery.
  • Quarterly testing with weekly uptime and protection reports, plus a bi-annual summary.
  • On-demand testing without impacting your environment.
  • Handles disaster response and failover execution.
  • Maintains and upgrades Carbonite Recover software.

Up-to-Date Secondary Copy

Carbonite Recover securely replicates critical systems from your primary environment to the cloud, ensuring an always-current secondary copy is available for failover. This eliminates the need for a secondary data center, as Carbonite Recover manages all infrastructure and maintenance.

Continuous Byte-Level Replication

Data is replicated continuously at the byte level from the primary server to the cloud-based secondary location, using network resources efficiently. This ensures that the replica remains synchronized and current with the source data.

Immediate Failover

In the event of an outage that exceeds the pre-set threshold, Carbonite Recover performs an immediate failover to the cloud-based replica. Downtime is minimized to minutes, with recovery points just seconds old, significantly reducing the impact on your business.

Easy Failback

When you're ready to revert to your primary systems, failback is straightforward. Our expert technical team ensures your primary systems are operational and provides support throughout the outage recovery process.

Supported platforms

Operating systems

Operating systems:
Microsoft Windows Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
CentOS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Ubuntu
VMware
Microsoft Hyper-V

Recover FAQs

Disaster recovery involves securely replicating your critical systems to the cloud, reducing the risk of unplanned downtime. It encompasses the policies and procedures necessary to restore access to systems and data after a major interruption, such as a natural disaster or cyberattack. Effective disaster recovery ensures that businesses can meet their Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), helping to mitigate the impact of disasters on operations.

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers several advantages for businesses:

  • Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensures your organization meets required SLAs.
  • Cost-Effectiveness: Eliminates the need for a secondary physical site, reducing associated costs.
  • Efficiency: Frees up staff time by removing the need to manage on-premises infrastructure.

Historically, disaster recovery required expensive offsite locations with redundant hardware and software, typically accessible only to large enterprises. Advances in technology and affordable cloud solutions now allow small and medium-sized businesses to achieve robust protection through DRaaS. This approach eliminates the need for a physical secondary DR site, along with its high costs and maintenance requirements.

Backup solutions are essential for data protection but do not offer the rapid RPO and RTO required for true disaster recovery. Unlike traditional backups, which handle data snapshots, disaster recovery provides a secondary site to continue operations during significant disruptions, such as network outages, human error, or cyberattacks. It ensures business continuity and minimizes downtime while primary systems are restored.

Need to Restore Critical Systems Quickly When Disaster Strikes?

Secure the protection and rapid recovery you need if your primary systems go down. Minimize lost productivity and revenue with swift, reliable restoration.

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Alleviate migration issues

Whether due to mergers, application upgrades, cloud transitions, or relocations, data migration can be challenging. Carbonite Migrate addresses common migration problems like data loss, IT resource allocation, operational disruptions, and compatibility issues. Simplify your migration process, streamline operations, and minimize downtime with Carbonite Migrate.

Benefits

With Carbonite Migrate, you can:

Why Carbonite Migrate?

Carbonite Migrate simplifies the migration process by automating and consolidating complex, error-prone tasks into a few straightforward steps. Reduce manual effort and minimize errors with Carbonite Migrate for a more efficient and streamlined migration experience.

Keep users and systems active and fully productive while your data is being migrated.
Eliminate vendor lock-in.
Eliminate risk with pre-flight checks, automation, and non-disruptive testing.
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Features

Carbonite Migrate offers simplicity and repeatability with the following features:

Full-server or data-only migrations that are hardware and platform agnostic.

Migrate data and systems to, from, or between physical, virtual, and cloud-based platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Automated migration configuration and management through an easy-to-use console, reducing common issues and simplifying the process.

Scalable replication with minimal impact on performance or bandwidth.

Data protection with AES 256-bit encryption during transfer.

Automatic virtual machine provisioning for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere.

How It Works?

Real-Time, Byte-Level Replication

Carbonite Migrate duplicates your source system to the target using real-time, byte-level replication. It maximizes bandwidth efficiency by sending small data chunks with multiple compression levels and bandwidth throttling, all while ensuring data security with AES 256-bit encryption.

Easy and Quick Cutover

Experience minimal cutover downtime, typically seconds or minutes. Reverting to the original system is straightforward and repeatable, whether managed through the unified console, automated scripting, or third-party tools.

Non-Disruptive Testing

Perform cutover tests anytime without impacting production systems or business operations. End users can continue working on the source system until the final cutover is complete.

Supported platforms

Operating systems

CentOS
CloudLinux
Debian Linux
Microsoft Windows Server
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Rocky Linux
SUSE Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu

Target environments

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure Resource Manager
Microsoft Azure Stack
Microsoft Hyper-V
VMware vSphere
VMware vCloud Director
VMware ESXi

Migrate FAQs

Cloud migration is the process of moving applications, workloads, or data to a cloud environment. It often involves transferring applications from an on-premise setup to a cloud-based virtual machine to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. This is commonly known as "lift and shift," where applications and data are moved with minimal changes.

Cloud migration automation streamlines the process of migrating physical, virtual, and cloud workloads to the cloud. By automating migration tasks, businesses can accelerate the migration process, minimize downtime, and reduce risks associated with transitioning to a new environment.

Cloud migration can be challenging due to potential downtime and data loss. Common obstacles include:

  • High investment in IT resources
  • Project complexity
  • Downtime risks
  • Data loss or corruption
  • Performance issues Fortunately, these challenges can be managed with proper tools, planning, and processes.

Businesses migrate to the cloud to leverage cost-saving innovations and improve resource efficiency with platforms like AWS and Microsoft Azure. Efficient migration is crucial to avoid vendor lock-in, adapt to new technologies, and address needs such as mergers, relocations, and upgrades. Without efficient migration, businesses risk being stuck on outdated or unsupported platforms.

Need to streamline and automate data migration?

Effortlessly migrate across platforms, storage types, and operating systems with minimal risk and downtime.

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