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Choose the Most Versatile Backup Appliance on the Planet. Protect your hybrid infrastructure with a solution ready to perform out of the box. The Storware Backup Appliance is pre-configured for rapid deployment, allowing you to be up and running in minutes – no complex setup required.
Modern infrastructure demands modern protection
This all-in-one powerhouse streamlines your data protection strategy, delivering:
One console, full control
Monitor and manage every backup job across every platform from a single interface — no switching tools, no blind spots, no waiting for a report to know something went wrong.
Policy-driven efficiency
Scheduled, policy-based jobs paired with block-level deduplication and compression keep backup windows short and storage costs predictable — with far less manual work than platform-by-platform tooling.
Layered protection, backed by people
Immutable, air-gapped backups and encryption in transit and at rest protect the data itself — reinforced by a team that monitors the estate and steps in before a small issue becomes an incident.
Sized for your environment, not the other way around.
Every model shares the same platform, the same universal license and the same policy engine — only the compute, memory and storage scale. Start with what your environment needs today, and move up a tier without re-architecting anything when it grows.
SBA 1010
Starting with 10 TB of high-performance SSD storage—with the option to unlock an additional 5 TB—and supporting up to 50 TB of logical capacity, it combines 64 CPU cores, 512 GB of memory, and 10 GbE networking to deliver fast, reliable data protection.
SBA 1010E
Equipped with 10 TB of high-performance SSD storage, with the option to unlock an additional 5 TB, 64 CPU cores, and 512 GB of memory, it provides the performance needed to protect modern virtual and hybrid environments.
SBA 1020
Featuring 20 TB of ultra-fast NVMe storage, expandable to 100 TB of logical capacity, 64 CPU cores, and 768 GB of memory, it provides outstanding performance for modern virtual and hybrid infrastructures. 3-disk redundancy plus a hot spare.
SBA 2050
Equipped with 50 TB of ultra-fast NVMe storage, scalable to 250 TB of logical capacity, 64 CPU cores, and 768 GB of memory, it delivers exceptional backup and recovery performance. Built-in 3-disk redundancy with a hot spare, redundant power supplies, and high-speed 25 GbE networking ensure maximum reliability, availability, and data protection—all in a compact 2U rack-mount appliance.
SBA 2100
With 100 TB of ultra-fast NVMe storage, expandable to 500 TB of logical capacity, 64 high-performance CPU cores, and 1.15 TB of memory, it delivers exceptional backup, recovery, and data management performance for the largest enterprise environments. Built with 3-disk redundancy plus a hot spare, redundant power supplies, and 25 GbE networking, it provides continuous availability and enterprise-grade reliability—all in a compact 2U rack-mount appliance.
Storware Backup Appliance — Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Storware Backup Appliance?
The Storware Backup Appliance (SBA) is a pre-integrated hardware platform running Storware Backup and Recovery on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Hardware, software, and licensing arrive as a single unit — sized, configured, and tested before it reaches your rack. There is no operating system to build and no engine to install: you connect the appliance and start defining protection policies in the same session. One device, one license, full coverage across virtual, physical, and containerized workloads — protecting data at rest, in transit, and at scale.
Which SBA models are available, and how do I choose one?
The appliance ships in five configurations, sized by usable capacity and throughput. The SBA 1010 and 1010E are 1U entry models with 10 TB SSD (with an option to unlock a further 5 TB), suited to smaller or edge sites. The SBA 1020 (20 TB NVMe, 1U), SBA 2050 (50 TB NVMe, 2U), and SBA 2100 (100 TB NVMe, 2U) step up raw capacity, memory, and network throughput for larger estates. Model choice comes down to how much data you protect, your retention targets, and available network bandwidth — 10 GbE on the 1010 line, 2×25 GbE SFP28 from the 1020 upward. Full specifications are in the model section above and in the data sheets; sizing is also part of the pre-sales conversation.
What is the difference between storage capacity and logical capacity?
Storage capacity is the raw NVMe or SSD installed in the appliance. Logical capacity is how much protected data that represents after deduplication and compression — for example, up to 100 TB of logical capacity on 20 TB of raw NVMe (SBA 1020). The achievable ratio depends on your data: virtual machine images and databases with repeated blocks deduplicate well, while already-compressed or encrypted data does not. Treat the logical figures as planning guidance rather than a fixed guarantee — real ratios follow your workload mix.
Which platforms and workloads can the appliance protect?
Because the appliance runs the full Storware Backup and Recovery engine, it protects the same range of environments from one console: VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift, Nutanix AHV, VergeOS, KVM, and Citrix Hypervisor, alongside physical machines, containers, and cloud targets. Virtual, physical, and containerized workloads sit under one set of protection policies, rather than a separate tool for each platform.
Does the appliance require agents inside my machines?
For supported virtualization platforms, Storware works agentlessly — it operates through the hypervisor or platform API, so there are no in-guest agents to deploy or maintain across your VMs. The one documented exception is Microsoft Hyper-V, which uses a lightweight host-level agent. Agent-based protection remains available where it is the right fit, such as file-level backup for specific Windows or Linux hosts. In practice: agentless by default, agent-based where you need it.
How is the appliance licensed?
One license covers both the device and the software, with every feature included — no per-platform fees, no feature tiers, no extra charge for adding a new environment, and no per-ticket support costs. When your estate changes — a new hypervisor, a migration to OpenStack, more workloads to protect — the licensing model stays the same. It is the “one license, full coverage” model behind Storware Backup and Recovery, delivered as a single hardware-and-software contract.
How does the appliance keep protected data safe from ransomware and tampering?
Recovery copies only help if an attacker cannot reach them. The appliance provides immutable backups, air-gapped copies, and encryption for data at rest and in transit. Access to backup operations is governed by RBAC and multi-factor authentication, keeping control scoped to the right people. Together, these mean a compromised production environment does not automatically compromise your recovery points.
Can the appliance scale as our data grows?
In two ways. Within a model, capacity headroom — and, on the 1010 line, a 5 TB unlock option — gives room to grow. Across the range, the SBA line steps from 10 TB to 100 TB of raw capacity, so you can size for current needs and move up as retention windows or workload counts increase. Because the appliance is dedicated hardware, protection and production run independently: backup load does not compete with production systems for resources.
Does it fit a hybrid or cloud strategy?
Yes. The appliance protects on-premises workloads and can extend copies to public or private cloud for offsite retention, supporting a hybrid data-protection strategy. Deduplication reduces what you transfer and store off-site, keeping bandwidth and cloud storage costs predictable.
What support is included, and how do we get pricing?
Support is part of the single license — expert help from the team that builds the platform, plus monitoring to surface issues early, backed by the Storware support portal and community forum. Because hardware and software come from one vendor, there is no finger-pointing between a server supplier and a software vendor when you need assistance. For pricing, use the Price Request form on this page with your preferred model, or email sales@storware.eu — model sizing is part of that conversation.
Protect the infrastructure you use
Storware Backup and Recovery is a proven, enterprise-ready platform that delivers data continuity across multi-vendor environments, protects workloads at every stage – at rest, in transit, and at scale – and empowers businesses with the freedom of flexible licensing.
VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, RHV, oVirt and more
Agentless backup across 15+ hypervisors — VMware, VergeOS, Nutanix, Red Hat Virtualization, XCP-ng and more. Hyper-V uses a lightweight host agent, the one documented exception.
OpenStack, Kubernetes, Proxmox
Crash-consistent, agentless backup of container workloads and persistent volumes — no agents running inside the cluster.
Openstack, Canonical, Virtuozzo, Platform9, Red Hat and more
No 1 for OpenStack backup. Protect cloud instances with the same policies and console you use on-prem. One platform, from the data center to the cloud.
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