Arcserve, the world's top ransomware protection and data resilience provider, has released Arcserve Backup 19, an improved version of its widely used tape air gapping solution. In comparison to prior releases, Arcserve Backup 19 improves performance, security, and reliability. Arcserve Backup 19 air gapping technology provides a key last line of defence by physically isolating digital assets from network connections as part of a complete data and ransomware protection strategy.
The Arcserve Backup 19 solution has been transferred to a newer development platform to improve performance and reliability. Enhancements have also been made to improve security, such as FIPS compliant secure communication updates and crypto libraries for customers who require military-grade encryption.
Arcserve Backup 19 now certifies and adds broad and deep support for the most popular platforms deployed in customer environments. This includes compatibility with Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V, SharePoint Server 2019, Oracle Database 19c on IBM AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX, AlmaLinux 8.x, Rocky Linux 8.x, FreeBSD 13.x, macOS Catalina (version 10.15.x), Debian 11.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x for IBM Z® (Mainframe), Default Arcserve Backup Database (ASDB) upgraded from Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Express to Microsoft® SQL Server® 2019 Express.
Florian Malecki, executive vice president of marketing at Arcserve, said, "Tape air gapping is emerging as the most important 'last line of defence' from ransomware attacks. While most vendors don't handle tape due to its complexity, Arcserve has been leading the market with this technology for decades. This gives us the unique ability to provide customers a complete 3-2-1-1 ransomware defence and recovery solution including on-prem, immutable storage, cloud services, and tape backup."