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Sebastian Moosreiner, SEPSebastian Moosreiner
Since 1992, SEP has been the data backup solutions provider of choice for many large enterprises, small and medium businesses (SMBs) in retail, healthcare, finance, public sector and universities. SEP differentiates itself in the market with its flagship offering, SEP sesam, a hybrid backup and disaster recovery solutions suite for the protection of cross-platform, heterogeneous IT environments. SEP sesam is an easy-to-use and centrally managed solution suite that covers the complete IT needs of an organisation. Unlike other data storage solutions that focus only on a subset of IT environments, SEP sesam secures several virtual environments, operating systems, applications, and databases, including hardware snapshots.

Data Deduplication, Data Replication, and Business Continuity

SEP sesam deduplicates business-critical data that reduces the backup storage up to 90 per cent and keeps it available at all times. The efficient Si3 inline deduplication uses variable block lengths, is high-performance and is performed simultaneously with the backup processes. There is no staging area for buffering the data. Deduplicated data consists of two elements: a pool of data blocks and a catalogue that references the pool of data blocks. This catalogue knows the original file name and the reference to the data blocks it contains. When an identical file is backed up repeatedly, only one entry is written to the file catalogue with reference to the blocks which are already stored in the pool. The deduplication solution divides the data blocks within the file like a template. SEP sesam Si3 deduplication is the basis for bandwidth-saving replication of data between distributed company locations or data centres. The underlying multi-streaming technology of the solution suite enables superfast and simultaneous backups of an unlimited number of servers on different backup media such as disk, tape, and the cloud.

In case of a disaster, SEP sesam’s Si3 replication technology offers quick and location-independent recovery of single files up to the complete system. With the SEP sesam Si3 replication solution, every IT infrastructure is ready for a variety of recovery scenarios. This makes cross-site disaster recovery in the event of loss or failure of a site just as easy as a practice with the provision of standby servers on a cloud site. With block-based Si3 replication, it is possible to transfer the required data in any combination between the SEP sesam Backup Server or a Remote Device Server and a large number of other Remote Device Servers (RDS) across locations. “With this process, the risk of data loss is considerably reduced through data outsourcing, and at the same time the recovery of production data in the event of loss of a site is made possible in the first place,” says Georg Moosreiner, CEO, SEP. In an emergency, the outsourced backups can be accessed and made available for productive operation again in the shortest possible time. SEP sesam Si3 deduplication technology is the prerequisite for this high-performance replication. This not only shortens the backup process but also considerably reduces the required bandwidth between the locations.

Moreover, SEP sesam users do not have to rely on particular hardware or software for their data security. This flexibility is achieved through the consolidation of multiple backup systems to form a centrally administrable hybrid backup solution available 24/7.
Georg Moosreiner, CEO
With such agility, IT managers can customise their infrastructure to meet the changing client requirements while the decision-makers can keep time and operational cost in check. Importantly, the solution suite works reliably and consistently follows EU-GDPR and other compliance requirements. Another important feature is that scheduled and automatic restores can be performed on standby systems to verify backups, which can also be used for audits. So SEP sesam uses the highest standards to ensure business continuity – the life insurance for enterprises and organisations. “Our hybrid backup solution, SEP sesam protects eight hypervisors and a market-leading portfolio of operating systems, applications, groupware and databases based on a variety of processor architectures from Intel to IBM Z,” says Moosreiner.

Data Recovery and Backup for SAP Users

A comprehensive portfolio of modules embedded into SEP sesam ensures uninterrupted data protection for SAP. These solutions are the centrepiece of IT environments for companies and organisations worldwide. SAP systems manage all types of information from sales and customer relationships to finance and business operations. SAP systems require a comprehensive business continuity management strategy, focusing on Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), which are essential in a disaster scenario. Therefore reliable and scalable data protection for the complete SAP environment is important. It is also important that the backup solution is certified by SAP to receive SAP support. SEP is working very closely with SAP and has passed all the necessary certifications. So SEP's certified hybrid backup and bare metal recovery solution provide reliable and scalable data protection for all SAP environments. SEP can quickly recover an entire SAP environment in the event of a disaster. SEP also covers the SAP solutions running in the cloud. “An SAP partner since 2002, SEP offers backup and recovery software solutions for the complete SAP solution stack, including SAP HANA on Intel and IBM powered platforms, SAP Business One, SAP NetWeaver on various databases and SAP ASE,” says Moosreiner.

Our hybrid backup solution, SEP sesam protects eight hypervisors and a market-leading portfolio of operating systems, applications, groupware and databases based on a variety of processor architectures from Intel to IBM Z.

For effective client engagement with SAP users, SEP focuses on understanding their unique business needs. In many cases, its team prepares a proof of concept based on the clients' business environment before implementing the best-of-breed solution. For instance, one of the largest and most prestigious SAP consultancy services, UNIORG Consulting GmbH, approached SEP to protect its data centres with SEP sesam. UNIORG's previous solution could secure only the hosting environment, not the managed services for customers. They looked for a powerful and universally applicable backup solution that was certified, especially for the SAP environment. By implementing SEP's solution, the client could secure all of their data centre systems that ensured considerable savings in time and cost.

Universal Support to Complex System Environments

Team SEP’s continuous interaction with clients and technology partners serves as a good source of firsthand information for further product improvement. Besides supporting both the mainstream hypervisor solutions like VMware and the newer ones, SEP continuously invests in enhancing the qualifications of its employees as well as partners for enhanced solutions and services delivery. The universal support to complex system environments makes SEP a go-to partner for data protection needs. “SEP offers solutions for on-premise and in the cloud, cloud app protection services (for Office 365, Salesforce, G-Suite) and for service providers, who are running Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) based on the SEP sesam technology,” says Moosreiner.

As emerging technologies like IoT, Industry 4.0, and artificial intelligence (AI) are influencing data storage and security, team SEP strives to further enhance SEP sesam with flexible and reliable data protection capability in the near future. “Staying true to our motto of ‘we support the systems no one else can,’ we support not only the market leaders but also less widespread and new technologies and, help users to consistently protect and quickly restore their diverse IT environments,” concludes the CEO.

SEP News

SEP sesam Beefalo V2 - more performance and expanding diversity

Holzkirchen - SEP has released the latest release of SEP sesam Beefalo in in version 2. The focus is on performance and variety of the data backup solution "Made in Germany", as well as data protection and user friendliness. The manufacturer of platform-independent hybrid backup and disaster recovery solutions enables its customers to natively address and secure nine hypervisors with the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM). Further highlights are the Single File Restore for almost all supported hypervisors, an optimized HPE StoreOnce and Catalyst support, improved LTO tape handling, extended parallelism for Oracle and SAP HANA, VMware Sandbox Restore, backups of MS SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AOAG), a new restore wizard and the new SEP sesam WebUI. SEP sesam Beefalo V2 is available now and can be downloaded as a 30 day full version, including German language support, at www.sep.de/download.


With HPE Catalyst Copy and Cloud Bank Storage, Catalyst Stores can now be replicated from one StoreOnce to another StoreOnce. The Cloud Bank Storage feature allows data to be stored on public or private cloud storage, making it ideal for long-term retention and archiving of backups and offsite backup copies for disaster recovery. Single File Restore is now available for all hypervisors supported by SEP, except Proxmox. This increases the ease of use and saves enormously time, bandwidth and storage space during the restore, because an agent in the VM is no longer necessary. Through parallel backup processes for Oracle and SAP HANA Backup and Restore, even very large databases can be backed up even faster. The considerably increased performance and scalability in all areas up to complex enterprise environments is very advantageous here. For backup on LTO tapes, the standard write density can be changed in the new version to achieve better tape performance. In addition, the tape block size can be increased if LTO Ultrium tape drives are used and the backup 2 / 6 environment supports larger tape blocks. With SAP HANA housekeeping can now be used to clean up SEP sesam backups that are no longer needed or cannot be used for recovery.


SEP sesam introduces in the new version the online recovery of the VMware Sandbox, which can be done via a restore wizard. The Sandbox-Restore for VMware is carried out in an isolated environment in which one or more virtual machines (VMs) can be restored and started. This is useful for reviewing the VM environment, testing backups, and troubleshooting problems.


The WebUI and the restore wizard have been completely redesigned to provide a detailed overview and improved monitoring of the SEP sesam environment. Furthermore it is now also possible to check via the SEP sesam GUI if an update is available for the clients and it can be chosen if an update should be done automatically or manually. An automatic remote installation for Windows clients is also available. The GUI improvements are rounded off by a user-friendly and intuitive calendar. This offers even more flexible planning functions.


Georg Moosreiner, CEO and co-founder of SEP AG, says about the new SEP sesam Beefalo V2: "Protection, diversity and performance are the basic points of a data backup solution. Our customers appreciate to secure their mostly heterogeneous IT environment with only one backup solution. By enabling Single File Restore for almost all hypervisors we support, we were able to take another step towards user-friendliness and speed. The flexible handling of LTO tape drives or SAP HANA Housekeeping also benefits the different deployment scenarios"


The name "Beefalo", a hybrid animal out of bison with cattle, refers to the hybrid possibilities and strengths of the data backup solution. SEP sesam is "Made in Germany" - from development to support. The universal support of complex system environments strongly distinguishes SEP's solution from those of its competitors, which has been proven many times by customer surveys. The consistent implementation of the specifications by the EU-DSGVO also gives companies a secure solution for their data backup, if they place special emphasis on quality, availability of support and no backdoors.


The license model starts at SEP sesam Beefalo with one stream and the backup of one terabyte on hard disk and an unlimited number of removable media including 12 months maintenance.