Axcient Unveils Bare Metal Restore Capabilities for Workstation Data Protection

Axcient, Inc., unveiled today the latest feature of its data protection platform – Bare Metal Restore for workstations. 

The new feature extends enterprise-like backup and restoration to end-user desktops and laptops.

With hundreds of thousands of laptops being lost, stolen, or corrupted each year, it is critical that SMBs have a clear protection and continuity strategy for workstations, the company said.

Axcient’s BMR for workstations allows administrators the ability to quickly and easily restore entire desktop and laptop images with all of the associated data, applications, and settings to a new device with minimal setup or administration, according to the company.

This saves IT Administrators days of manual recovery and lost productivity and helps ensure uptime for their end-user customers, the company adds.

“Over 60 percent of all critical customer data resides on workstations, and yet, most companies don’t protect their laptops and desktops with nearly the same vigilance that they protect their servers,” said Justin Moore, CEO of Axcient. “This powerful enhancement expands our data protection and business continuity features to cover all vital systems from the laptop to the server, and furthers our mission to provide seamless data and application uptime with unparalleled ease of use.”

Axcient’s Bare Metal Restore for laptops and desktops allows the administrator the flexibility to chose which files, drives, or systems to backup; determine the frequency of full, incremental, and refresh backups, and select from multiple recovery points for full image restoration or individual file recovery.

With Axcient’s adaptable BMR solution, administrators can also quickly reproduce a standard workstation configuration for a new employee, or perform a full restore for an existing employee to any compatible hardware using the latest system image.

This can be done through Axcient’s web-based console and without installing any software on the network, reducing setup and management time, the company said.

“Small- and medium-sized businesses require backup services that are reliable, reduce risk, minimize downtime, and make it painless to restore business critical data,” said Dave DiStefano of Advanced Micro Computer Specialists. “Axcient is at the forefront of the backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery market, and with the recent addition of Bare Metal Restore for workstations, continues to show why they are becoming the data protection vendor of choice for the SMB market. Axcient enables us to meet our objective to protect all of our customers’ data and keep them productive at all times.”

Axcient protects organizations in a wide range of industries, including legal, financial services, healthcare, design and creative industries, retail, credit card services, Web-based companies, and education.