User guide

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This chapter provides an introduction and overview of AppAssure 5. It describes the
features, functionality, and architecture, and consists of the following topics:
 About AppAssure 5 on page 17
 AppAssure 5 Core Technologies on page 18
 Product Features of AppAssure 5 on page 19
About AppAssure 5
AppAssure 5 sets a new standard for unified data protection by combining backup,
replication, and recovery in a single solution that is engineered to be the fastest and
most reliable backup for protecting virtual machines (VM), physical machines, and
cloud environments.
AppAssure 5 combines backup and replication into one integrated and unified data
protection product that also provides application awareness to ensure reliable
application data recovery from your backups. AppAssure 5 is built on the new,
patent-pending True Scale™ architecture which delivers the fastest backup
performance with very aggressive, near-zero recovery time objectives (RTO) and
recovery point objectives (RPO).
AppAssure 5 combines several unique, innovative, and breakthrough technologies:
 Live Recovery
 Recovery Assure
 Universal Recovery
 True Global Deduplication
These technologies are engineered with secure integration for cloud disaster
recovery and deliver fast and reliable recovery. With its scalable object store,
AppAssure 5 is uniquely capable of handling up to petabytes of data very rapidly with
built-in global deduplication, compression, encryption, and replication to any
private or public cloud infrastructure. Server applications and data can be recovered
in minutes for data retention and compliance purposes.
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