Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Some directions for Wasabi
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
HYCU restores data everywhere
Friday, October 11, 2024
ExaGrid, a leader a bit confidential
- +150 new customers for a total of 4,400+ and 48 of these new ones passing the 6 and 7-figure deals,
- New major product release with ExaGrid 7.0.0,
- Support of Commvault Metallic in addition to the top 3 Veeam, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault classic product,
- 95% net customer retention,
- NPS score of +81.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Wasabi, the cloud storage gem
We had the privilege to be with David Friend, CEO and co-founder, to present and discuss with us. The company, founded in 2015, has raised more then $500 million and is of course included in the Storage Unicorn Club published bi-annually by Coldago Research for several years.
With more 100,000 customers attached to 14 storage regions and 15,000+ partners of all kind, several exabyte are stored with for example more of 1EB of Veeam pushed data. Wasabi is used by various industries with a real partnership effort pushing a channel first approach. All storage sites are co-located with local internet, data centers and cloud service providers.
The Wasabi offering is pretty simple in its concept with of course a real complexity in its deployment but it is completely masked to users and consumers. The idea was to leverage S3 API as the de-facto standard for universal data access to cost effective cloud storage. In other words, build a 100% compatible solution with AWS S3 storage that invites users to select or switch in favor of Wasabi at an attractive cost, 805 less than Amazon. Of course users continue to own their data in a very secure way and can predict cost. With AWS S3 and other similar services, traffic costs increase the final bill and it is very difficult to anticipate the real final cost. With Wasabi this traffic is reduced to zero so users pay only for capacity per month.
Performance is also pretty good and data is immutable, protected by erasure coding in each site and replicated across regions projected 11 9's of durability. Encryption is done in-flight and at-rest with strong identity and access management (IAM), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and multi-user authorization (MUA).
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
R-Cloud covers the highest number of applications
Launched with the tour last year, R-Cloud has radically changed how users approach SaaS applications data protection. It was clear yesterday that the product team has significantly increased the number of applications supported with 80+ applications. As the IT companies landscape has been highly modified if you compare with the last 10-20 years, the vast majority of applications used by enterprises are SaaS-based.
It is good for HYCU to be listed in some analysts reports even if Gartner has lost its credibility for several years confirmed by recent crazy MQs. I invite the readers to check my various comments and analysis of these Gartner strange documents.
The recent SaaS survey was an interesting source of informations that illustrate that SaaS service feed a scandal without a real serious protection while users don't really know what they use.
R-Cloud has made real progress while competition still focus on classic SaaS applications with an average of 9 supported. And the idea for HYCU is to cover the entire stack to be really considered as a universal or horizontal solution. The last news shared yesterday is related to new applications. In the domain, HYCU now adds:
- Protected infrastructure services with AWS S3 Express Zone, Cloud Formation, Lambda and Google Cloud Run,
- ITSM: ClickUp, Docusign and iManage,
- DevOps: GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Terraform, CircleCI, Jira Product Discovery and Google Artifact Registry,
- IAM: Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Customer Identity Cloud, AWS IAM, VPC, WAF, KMS, Parameter Store and Route 53,
- Data Management & Analytics: Google Big Table, Cloud Functions, Artifact Registry, Firestore, Redis and Pinecone,
- Collaborative Work Management: Box, Monday, Podio and Wrike.
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Boston, The IT Press Tour #58 is coming
- Congruity360, a leader in unstructured data management,
- HYCU, a reference in SaaS backup,
- Hydrolix, key player in log-intensive data platform,
- iRODS, the open source key solution for data management,
- Swissbit, the European leader in flash media storage,
- and Wasabi Technologies, the pioneer of hot cloud storage.
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
Recap of the 57th IT Press Tour in Istanbul, Turkey
Friday, September 20, 2024
Advanced ransomware protection for NetApp by Cleondris
The company's mission is to offer advanced solutions to complement NetApp installed base and prevent cyber attacks to impact seriously business operations. The idea is not only to protect, detect but also prevent cyber threats with some new resilience models.
The product named Cleondris ONE couples 3 key services into one unified solution, it is about backup + security and compliance. It works in 3 phases with some proactive detection, rapid recovery when a attack is real and stay aligned with some compliance rules.
The control server leverages NetApp's Fpolicy, from ONTAP 9, 10 and up, to control behavior of the Filer and other scale-out servers can be added to control large configurations. It supports on-premises systems but also Amazon FSx for NetApp and Cloud Volumes ONTAP. Beyond AI based ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection, the Cleondris solution adds some other methods around filename patterns, behavior analysis and file verification. Clearly backup is not enough as the threat can be also included in the backup image and therefore will infect again the system. Cleondris ONE is doing this with considering clean and safe images restoring only good data. The granularity is the file with a very simple status, good or bad, clean or infected I mean safe or encrypted. All is controlled by the Granular Cyber Restore.
The audit of filers made by Cleondris ONE via Fpolicy is secured with a blockchain model being protected by design. The solution analyzes behavior patterns and brand new attacks .
Obviously, the product leverages immutable backups and air-gapped snapshots. It is deployed as an OVA image on a dedicated appliance and offers a rich GUI to monitor all filers audits.
Cleondris ONE complements NetApp solution and provides advanced techniques, able to be sold by selected partners.
I will meet again Christian in a few days in Las Vegas and plan to record a specific episode for The French Storage Podcast to learn more about Cleondris ONE.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
The 57th IT Press Tour in Istanbul is around the corner
Back to the old continent with the 57th edition of The IT Press Tour in Istanbul, Turkey, next week.
- Cleondris, a key partner for NetApp in cyber resiliency and data protection
- Datashelter, a emerging player in SaaS backup,
- European Union eArchiving Initiative, illustrating some work by country members,
- Hopsworks, a fast growing player in AI lakehouse,
- MooseFS, a confidential pioneer in distributed file system,
- and ZeroPoint Technologies, promoting a new compressed approach for RAM.