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StorONE Eliminates Ransomware Concerns with Flexible Software Defined Backup Storage

The leaders in backup software have remained hardware independent but backup storage is an inflexible bundle of hardware and software. As a result, backup storage software offers limited innovations. StorONE is delivering a unique software-defined backup storage solution, S1:Backup, that delivers innovations like ransomware immutability and production-class performance and availability. Its software-defined flexibility provides cost-saving features like high-density hard disk support and seamless addition of higher density drives within the same volume.

“StorONE’s S1:Backup solution is the first software-defined backup storage solution that succeeds in separating the logical and physical, the hardware from the software.” said Gal Naor, StorONE’s CEO, “Our technology enables storage managers to determine the preferred RTO, RPO and TCO based on their organization’s needs without compromising on the quality of the hardware. StorONE has partnered with the industry’s best storage hardware manufacturers — HP, Dell, Intel, Seagate, SuperMicro and more — to deliver the best, most-affordable and future-proof solution on the market”

Most Flexible Ransomware Resiliency

Backup data is a primary target of ransomware, and legacy backup storage systems expose their customer’s last line of defense to the attack. StorONE’s new S1:Backup works with Veeam, Rubrik, HYCU, Commvault, and others to ensure backup data is immutable to ransomware attacks and extends the value to backup infrastructures while lowering the total cost of backup storage ownership.

If they offer it, legacy solutions force customers to use S3 for immutability. S1:Backup is the industry’s only solution that delivers immutability across all its protocols, including NFS, SMB, S3, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and NVMe-oF. S1:Backup delivers 100% ransomware resiliency:

  • Captures every backup job into an immutable state
  • Retains immutable copies indefinitely without impacting performance
  • If attacked by malware, rollback to a 30-second old immutable copy

Most Flexible Ransomware Resiliency

If they offer it, legacy solutions force customers to use S3 for immutability. S1:Backup is the industry’s only solution that delivers immutability across all its protocols, including NFS, SMB, S3, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and NVMe-oF. S1:Backup delivers 100% ransomware resiliency:

  • Captures every backup job into an immutable state
  • Retains immutable copies indefinitely without impacting performance
  • If attacked by malware, rollback to a 30-second old immutable copy

Most Flexible Long-Term Data Retention

Modern backup software supports decade-plus data retention, but modern backup storage can’t scale to meet this capability. The lack of scale and flexibility forces customers to add yet another storage silo, an archive.

S1:Backup delivers built-to-last backup storage supporting the highest-density hard disk drives (HDD) without compromising availability. It can scale to 15+PBs in a single cluster for long-term data retention while delivering high-performance backup and recovery.

S1:Backup provides genuine support of high-density HDD

  • Fastest RAID rebuilds, recovering from 18TB drive failure in two hours (competing solutions take days)
  • Unique bit-error-rot protection, critical for long-term retention
  • Ultimate flexibility, mix new drive densities without creating new volumes or reconfiguring backup jobs

Flexible Auto-Tiering for Affordable Recovery Point Objectives

Capabilities like block-level incremental (change block tracking) backups enable customers to reduce their exposure to a ransomware attack or other failure. However, a high frequency of backup jobs puts too much strain on hard drive only backup storage technology, and All-Flash-Only backup storage is too expensive for the use case.

S1:Backup solves the problem by flexibly auto-tiering between a generous flash tier and up to a 15PB+ hard-disk tier to deliver:

  • Supports hundreds of simultaneous backup jobs per hour for low RPO
  • The lowest possible backup costs thanks to maximum performance from a small number of flash drives and 90% utilization of high-density hard disk drives

Flexible Backup Storage Elevates Instant-Recovery to Instant-Production

Modern backup-server software’s instant or live recovery features provide a dramatic reduction in recovery times. The problem is that the overhead of legacy backup-storage software makes the performance of that instantly recovered VM or application unusable and risky.

S1:Backup is the first backup storage solution that has the flexibility to be standby-production storage. IT can now take the time required to investigate the ransomware attack, software bug, or hardware failure that instigated recovery without impacting users or applications.

S1:Backup is the first to deliver a production-class experience

  • Highly-Available backup cluster
  • Supports FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB and S3 protocols
  • Enterprise-class performance and features
  • At backup storage prices!

S1:Backup is the first backup storage solution designed to complement modern backup server software, delivering complete ransomware protection and recovery while extending the value of the backup storage investment and dramatically lowering the upfront and long-term costs of storage.

S1:Backup – Modern Backup Storage for Modern Backup Software

  • Most flexible Ransomware Resilient Backup Storage
  • First to elevate Instant Recovery to Instant-Production
  • Lowers total cost of backup infrastructure

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