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Understanding AppAssure APIs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .386
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Introduction to AppAssure
This chapter provides an introduction and overview of Dell AppAssure. It describes the features, functionality, 
and architecture, and consists of the following topics:
•AppAssure core technologies
•Product features of AppAssure
AppAssure 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...

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AppAssure core technologies
Details about the core technologies of AppAssure are described in the following topics.
Live Recovery
Live Recovery is instant recovery technology for VMs or servers. It gives you near-continuous access to data 
volumes on virtual or physical servers. You can recover an entire volume with near-zero RTO and an RPO of 
minutes.
AppAssure backup and replication technology records concurrent snapshots of multiple VMs or servers,...

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Product features of AppAssure
Using AppAssure, you can manage all aspects of protection and recovery of critical data through the following 
features and functionality. They include:
•Repository
•True Global Deduplication
•Encryption
•Replication
•Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS)
•Retention and archiving
•Virtualization and cloud
•Alerts and event management
•License Portal
•Web consol e
•Service management APIs
•White labeling
•AppAssure wizards...

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across the environment.
Figure 1. True global deduplication
AppAssure performs target-based inline data deduplication. This method transmits the snapshot data to the 
Core before it is deduplicated. Inline data deduplication simply means that the data is deduplicated before it is 
committed to disk. This is very different from at-source or...

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only the owner of the keys can see, access, or use the data. In a multi-tenant scenario, data is partitioned and 
deduplicated within the encryption domains.
In replication scenarios, AppAssure uses SSL 3.0 to secure the connections between the two cores in a 
replication topology to prevent eavesdropping and tampering.
Replication
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Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS)
Managed service providers (MSPs) can fully leverage AppAssure as a platform for delivering recovery as a service 
(RaaS). RaaS facilitates complete recovery-in-the-cloud by replicating customers physical and virtual servers 
along with their data to the service providers cloud as virtual machines to support recovery testing or actual 
recovery operations. Customers wanting to perform recovery-in-the-cloud can configure...