Modern Backup Monitoring
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Modern Backup Monitoring
Alternatives for Complex
IT Environments
BACKUP EAGLE®
Centralized Transparency for Modern Backup and Storage Environments
Centralized Transparency for Modern Backup and Storage Environments
Many companies are currently modernizing their backup monitoring to reduce reporting burdens, manage growing legacy structures, and address a lack of transparency. BACKUP EAGLE® provides a centralized overview of hybrid backup and storage environments—across vendors, audit-ready, and without the need to completely rebuild or modify existing backup systems.
- Cross-vendor backup monitoring
- Centralized reporting and dashboard view
- Support for hybrid backup and storage environments
- Less manual effort and greater transparency
Our customers often find themselves in the following situations:
Our customers often find themselves in the following situations:
IBM Storage Protect / TSM Manager
Many companies use TSM Manager for reporting and monitoring in IBM Storage Protect environments. With the announced end of support, the question arises as to how transparency and reporting will be ensured in the long term.
Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor
Historically, DPA has been integrated into reporting and audit processes in many companies. In end-of-life or modernization scenarios, a solution is needed for centralized reports, dashboards, and transparency.
Servergraph
Servergraph was frequently used for backup monitoring and reporting. When a solution is no longer being developed, the need for a future-proof alternative for modern backup and storage environments increases.
Audit and Compliance Effort
Backup documentation for audits, management, or compliance is often created manually from multiple sources. This takes time, makes it difficult to track changes, and increases the risk of errors.
Hybrid Backup Environments
Cloud, on-premises, and storage environments are difficult to centrally monitor, analyze, and document in a traceable manner using legacy tooling or scripting frameworks.
Custom Scripts
Custom scripts often integrate well with the existing environment. In the long run, however, they can lead to additional effort due to version updates, documentation, reliance on specific expertise, and security or compliance issues.
BACKUP EAGLE®
Why Many Companies Are Looking for Alternatives to Backup Monitoring
Why Many Companies Are Looking for Alternatives to Backup Monitoring
As the number of backup systems increases, so do the effort and complexity associated with monitoring, reporting, and transparency in many companies. Different vendors provide different analyses, reports, and status updates—and a centralized view of backup quality, error trends, or compliance requirements is often lacking.
At the same time, many reporting processes have evolved over the years. As a result, status messages, error analyses, management reports, and audit evidence are often compiled and maintained manually. Consistent monitoring is becoming increasingly difficult, especially in hybrid backup environments that combine cloud, on-premises, and solutions from different vendors.
Many companies are therefore looking for backup monitoring alternatives that can simplify reporting processes, centralize transparency, and effectively modernize established legacy structures
Common Starting Points for Modernizing Backup Reporting
Common Starting Points for Modernizing Backup Reporting
Why Many Companies Choose BACKUP EAGLE®
Companies comparing backup monitoring alternatives look beyond individual reports. Key factors include future-proofing, vendor independence, supported platforms, storage transparency, open interfaces, and the ability to automate reporting processes in a sustainable manner.
| BACKUP EAGLE® | |
|---|---|
| Active Development | ✓ |
| Cross-Vendor Monitoring | ✓ |
| Modern Backup Platforms | ✓ |
| Cloud & On-Prem | ✓ |
| Central Dashboards | ✓ |
| Audit & Compliance | ✓ |
| Trend Analyses | ✓ |
| Storage Monitoring | ✓ |
| Open Interfaces | ✓ |
| Individual Reports | ✓ |
| Activity Allocation | ✓ |
| Future-proofing | ✓ |
| TSM Manager | |
|---|---|
| Active Development | until EOL 2028 |
| Cross-Vendor Monitoring | partially |
| Modern Backup Platforms | partially |
| Cloud & On-Prem | partially |
| Central Dashboards | yes |
| Audit & Compliance | partially |
| Trend Analyses | yes |
| Storage Monitoring | no |
| Open Interfaces | no |
| Individual Reports | partially |
| Cost Allocation | no |
| Future-proofing | limited |
| DPA | |
|---|---|
| Active Development | no |
| Cross-Vendor Monitoring | partially |
| Modern Backup Platforms | teilweise |
| Cloud & On-Prem | partially |
| Central Dashboards | yes |
| Audit & Compliance | yes |
| Trend Analyses | yes |
| Storage Monitoring | partially |
| Open Interfaces | no |
| Individual Reports | partially |
| Cost Allocation | no |
| Future-proofing | no |
| Servergraph | |
|---|---|
| Active Development | no |
| Cross-Vendor Monitoring | partially |
| Modern Backup Platforms | no |
| Cloud & On-Prem | partially |
| Central Dashboard | yes |
| Audit & Compliance | partially |
| Trend Analyses | partially |
| Storage Monitoring | partially |
| Open Interfaces | no |
| Individual Reports | partially |
| Cost Allocation | no |
| Future-proofing | no |
| BACKUP EAGLE® | TSM Manager | DPA | Servergraph | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active Development | ✓ | until EOL 2028 | no | no |
| Cross-Vendor Monitoring | ✓ | partially | partially | partially |
| Support for modern backup platforms | ✓ | partially | partially | no |
| Support for Cloud- & On-Prem | ✓ | partially | partially | partially |
| Central Dashboards | ✓ | yes | yes | yes |
| Audit & Compliance Reporting | ✓ | partially | yes | partially |
| Historical Trend Analyses | ✓ | yes | yes | partially |
| Storage Monitoring | ✓ | no | partially | partially |
| Open Interfaces | ✓ | no | no | no |
| Individual Reports | ✓ | partially | partially | partially |
| Automated Cost Allocation | ✓ | no | no | no |
| Future-proofing | ✓ | limited | no | no |
Centralized transparency instead of established reporting silos
BACKUP EAGLE® consolidates information from various backup systems into a single, centralized platform. This provides companies with a unified view of backup status, error trends, compliance requirements, storage information, and historical trends—regardless of the specific vendor or infrastructure.
Multi-Tool Monitoring
A centralized view of backup, cloud, storage, and hybrid IT environments.
Dashboards & Reports
Standardized reports for IT, management, audits, and compliance.
Flexible Integration
Integration of established backup solutions, interfaces, and custom sources.
Less work involved
Automated reports reduce manual work and lead to better decisions.
What Our Customers Say
40,000 backups a day—and everything under control.
“We manage 30,000 to 40,000 backups every day using various backup tools. With BACKUP EAGLE, we’ve centralized all our processes and reports, can identify errors at a glance, and are ready for an audit at any time—even for our customers.”
– Ralf Scheerhorn, Senior Consultant, Axians
“For us, the advantage of BACKUP EAGLE is that it provides a collaborative platform for customers, service providers, and for auditing the company and its management.”
– Alex Alexej, Product Owner, Rewe Digital
BACKUP EAGLE® – Here’s What Happens During The Initial Analysis
Creating transparency—without adding unnecessary project overhead
1. Understanding the Environment
We analyze existing backup and storage systems, reporting structures, monitoring processes, and common challenges.
2. Evaluating Requirements
We identify what information is missing, where manual work is required, and what reports are needed for IT, management, audits, or processes.
3. Checking Integrations
We assess which existing systems can be integrated and how reporting and monitoring can be modernized in a meaningful way.
4. Defining the next steps
You will receive a concrete assessment of how transparency, reporting, storage overview, and monitoring can be improved step by step.
Find out if BACKUP EAGLE® is the right choice for you
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