Cleondris, a hidden player from Switzerland

NetApp Insight was also the opportunity to discover Cleondris, a swiss software company founded in 2006 by Christina Plattner, dedicated to the NetApp environment with specific add-ons built for ONTAP and HCI.

The company develops three products:

1. Cleondris Data Manager (CDM) is a backup, restore and indexing solution specifically designed for ONTAP.
2. SnapGuard is related to AIM - Access and Identity Management - existing in 2 flavors Enterprise and Light Editions, focusing on malicious access. The EE leverages fpolicy and EVTX monitoring.
3. HCI Control Center, the last product of the portfolio in beta now, targets NetApp HCI and offers storage failover with VMware integration and orchestrate backup intra HCI, to ONTAP and to Cloud/S3 destinations.

Interesting solutions with the difficulty for the vendor to maintain enough advance with its own competition or even NetApp internal developments. We'll see how this solution will evolve as the company is very confidential.