On June 29th, Commvault, a global enterprise leader in intelligent data services across on premises, cloud and SaaS environments, announced it has expanded its strategic partnership to include MetallicDMaaS to Oracle Cloud
As hybrid cloud solutions became critical for customers, in 2019 Commvault created a venture called Metallic – its first SaaS offering to better provide Data Management-as-aService (DMaas) across multi-cloud environment
As part of Commvault’s continued support for customer’s hybrid and multi cloud journeys Metallic’s industry-leading services will now also be offered on OCI and available in all commercials OCI regions globally and be available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace
OCI coupled with Metallic data management as a service (DMaaS) enables enterprise customers to protect and secure their data against threats, adhere to local data residency laws, and ease data management and recovery
Together, Metallic and OCI will deliver superior price-performance, built-in enhanced security, and simplified recovery and management for enterprise customers looking to accelerate their OCI transition and protect critical data assets in the cloud while maintaining complete flexibility across customer-managed storage or a fully managed Metallic data protection service.
Metallic’s data protection now spans Oracle Cloud VMware virtual machines, Oracle Database, Oracle bare metal servers, Oracle Containers for Kubernetes, and Oracle Linux and becomes available to over 400,000 Oracle enterprise customers looking to leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for protecting their mission critical data.
In addition to the offering with Oracle, Metallic also delivers Backup-as-a-Service and Data Management-as-a-Service solutions for Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Metallic is the only DMaaS solution to protect across Azure, AWS and now OCI
Special Points of Note:
Expanded partnership is part of Commvault’s continued support for customer’s hybrid and multi cloud journeys
Metallic is the only DMaaS solution to protect across AWS, Azure and OCI to help enterprises’ multi-cloud journey
Benefits include:
Speeds cloud adoption for backup copies, driving data to OCI
It helps to ease data mobility, make it simpler to customers to securely move VMs and apps to OCI
Provides seamless protection of OCI workloads to OCI – with management across full data estate
Secure Backup from Ransomware and Malware
Secure – Air-gapped ransomware protection with encryption built-in
Flexible – Meet long and short-term data retention needs with OCI Standard and OCI Infrequent storage tier backup targets for Metallic DMaaS
Simple – Purchase. Add. Apply. Single pane of glass management makes administration easy
Commvault and Oracle: a 25-year history of integration
Commvault has long supported Oracle customers protecting the crown jewels of their enterprises – their Oracle data. We have more than 3,000 joint customers, which is increasing every year, and the amount of Oracle data we are protecting has grown by more than 30% year over year.
More than 400,000 customers rely on Oracle today to run their businesses. As many of those companies are accelerating their own cloud adoption and migrating to OCI – they have a natural need for agile cloud solutions to protect along that journey.
As Oracle accelerated its own cloud business, bringing the power of OCI to its customer base, Commvault kept pace. In 2017, Commvault underscored our support for Oracle customers moving to OCI, through our Commvault Complete software. Two years later, we introduced Metallic SaaS – which has quickly grown to become the gold standard in data management as a service. With today’s news, Oracle customers who need all the benefits of a SaaS-delivered solution, can now harness the power of Metallic with OCI to protect their data on premises and in the cloud. We’re excited for this natural evolution of our partnership to meet customers where they are with the most innovative and flexible SaaS solutions in our industry.
We’ve all seen how cloud adoption is accelerating, along with a need for multi-cloud solutions, with 89% of companies reporting a multi-cloud strategy. (1) Unfortunately, the timing of this cloud transformation comes at the same time as some unprecedented risks:
First, ransomware and new cyberattacks are quickly trending in the wrong direction. We’ve not only seen a massive spike in successful breaches, but also a growing sophistication in the nature of attacks. We’ve heard the adage before, it’s not “if,” it’s “when” — creating new risk around data and system protection.
Second, constrained resources. Successful digital transformation takes new and unique skills, to drive change and accelerate to the cloud. This complimented with the well-publicized skills gap leads many IT organizations hamstrung in an already do-more-with-less world.
And lastly, hybrid cloud data sprawl. As companies drive to digital transformation faster than ever, business data is increasingly spread across every application, device, on-prem, and cloud environment. This multi-generational data sprawl is challenging to manage and safeguard, even more so now as hybrid cloud strategies take hold.
By adding support for protecting OCI workloads and writing to OCI Storage, Metallic’s data protection now spans OCI VMs; Oracle Databases; and Oracle Container Engine. Additionally, Oracle Linux is available to over 400,000 Oracle enterprise customers and the more than 100,000 customers who have relied on Commvault technology and are looking to leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to protect their mission-critical data.
New Data Protection Solution Strengthens StorCentric’s Data-Centric Security Portfolio
Walnut Creek, Calif.— February 15, 2022 — Retrospect™, a StorCentric company, today announced the general availability (GA) of Retrospect Backup 18.5, featuring new anomaly detection, customizable filtering and thresholds, and enhanced ransomware protection to help businesses quickly detect and protect against malicious attacks. With deeper Microsoft Azure Blob integration for Immutable Backups and integrated cloud bucket creation, Retrospect Backup 18.5’s anomaly detection and ransomware protect bolsters StorCentric’s data-centric security approach to organizations’ critical infrastructure.
Ransomware is a huge global threat to businesses around the world. Beyond the high-profile attacks, including Colonial Pipeline, JBS, Garmin, and Acer, many people now personally know a colleague whose business was attacked. According to Coveware, most corporate targets are small and medium businesses. 72% of targeted businesses have fewer than 1,000 employees, and 37% have fewer than 100. Businesses are projected to have paid out $20B in 2021, a 100% Y-o-Y increase for the last four years, and it’s only going to get worse with new business models like RaaS: ransomware-as-a-service. With Retrospect Backup 18, businesses can protect their infrastructure with immutable backups for ransomware protection.
Beyond protection, organizations need to detect ransomware as early as possible to stop the threat and remediate those resources. Retrospect Backup 18.5 includes anomaly detection to identify changes in an environment that warrants the attention of IT. Administrators can tailor anomaly detection to their business’s specific systems using customizable filtering and thresholds for each of their backup policies, and those anomalies are aggregated on Retrospect Management Console across the entire business’s Retrospect Backup instances or a partner’s client base with a notification area for responding to those anomalies.
“As ransomware continues to grow in prevalence, businesses can leverage Retrospect’s new anomaly detection to quickly identify when ransomware has infected their infrastructure and rely on their immutable backups to restore any lost data,” said JG Heithcock, General Manager, Retrospect, a StorCentric Company. “Anomaly detection is integrated into Retrospect’s policy-based workflow and with our hosted service, Retrospect Management Console, to ensure customers and partners are notified about anomalies as soon as they happen.”
Retrospect Backup 18.5
Included in Retrospect Backup 18.5:
* Anomaly Detection: Detect anomalies in systems based on customizable filters and thresholds tailored to individual environments. * Retrospect Management Console Integration: View anomalies across a business or partner’s entire client base in a single pane of glass. * Improved Microsoft Azure Blob Integration: Set individual immutable retention policies for different backup sets within the same Azure Storage Container. * Streamlined Immutable Backup User Experience: Automatically create cloud buckets with immutable backups supported by default. * LTO-9 Support: Includes support for LTO-9, with capacities up to 18TB (45TB compressed).
Channel Partner Validation
“Ransomware comes up so frequently now that companies need tools like anomaly detection and immutable backups to detect and defend their core data from threats, and enabling IT admins to adjust the filtering and alert thresholds helps companies tailor the detection algorithm to their needs,” said Reuben Herfindahl, Owner of Digital Brigade.
“Retrospect’s new anomaly detection can help businesses proactively identify threats as soon as their backup runs. With Retrospect’s immutable backups, they know they can restore their backups if ransomware has infiltrated their network,” said Terry Noonan, License My Software LLC.
Pricing and Free 30-Day Trial
Retrospect Backup 18.5 is a free upgrade to Retrospect Backup 18, the award-winning ransomware protection solution. For Retrospect Backup pricing details, please visit: https://www.retrospect.com/store. To request a free 30-day trial, please visit: https://www.retrospect.com/try.
About Retrospect
Protecting 100 Petabytes in over 500,000 homes and businesses in over 100 countries, Retrospect provides reliable backup and recovery tools for professionals and small- to- midsize businesses with Retrospect Backup and Retrospect Virtual, covering physical servers and endpoints, virtual environments, and business applications. With three decades of field- tested expertise, Retrospect meets the needs of organizations that require the highest level of recoverability. Retrospect is a proud member of the StorCentric family of brands. For further information, please visit: www.retrospect.com.
About StorCentric
StorCentric provides world-class and award-winning storage solutions. Between its Drobo, Nexsan, Retrospect and Vexata divisions, the company has shipped over 1M storage solutions and has won over 100 awards for technology innovation and service excellence. StorCentric innovation is centered around customers and their specific data requirements, and delivers quality solutions with unprecedented flexibility, data protection, performance and expandability. For further information, please visit: www.storcentric.com.
Zerto Customers Lead DR-to-Cloud Trend with Rapid Adoption of Azure
Global Azure Adoption Doubles in 1H 2020 Across Several Verticals; Zerto Triples IT Resilience Footprint Across Federal Government and Public Sectors with New Customer Acquisitions
BOSTON – September 1, 2020 – Zerto, an industry leader for IT resilience, today announced cloud technology trends and positive growth among its customer base for the first half of 2020. Zerto’s customers are pursuing the disaster recovery (DR)-to-cloud trend with rapid global adoption of Microsoft Azure. Additionally, Zerto has tripled its global IT Resilience footprint across the federal government and public sectors with new customer acquisitions.
Azure Adoption Ascends
During the first half of 2020, global adoption of Microsoft Azure doubled across several verticals. Virtual machines protected to Azure using Zerto has doubled year-over-year with half of the consumption driven by the education, financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors.
According to Gartner, Inc., “Cloud DR costs can be a fraction of the total costs for traditional DR sites.” In the 2019 Security and Risk survey, for more than 300 IT organizations worldwide, cloud-based recovery is the most popular choice across all levels of system availability.*
Innovation in the Public Cloud
Zerto customers also expanded their adoption among other public cloud providers. Earlier this year, Zerto announced integrations with AWS Storage Gateway and introduced support for Oracle and Google Cloud. The company also continues to make it easier for customers to adopt public clouds. A joint customer, QAD, a premier supplier of ERP software took advantage of the new Google Cloud and Zerto integration.
“With Google Cloud VMware Engine, we are able to quickly extend the enterprise class disaster recovery capabilities we have become accustomed to with Zerto to the Google Cloud,” says Scott Lawson, Director, IT architecture at QAD.
IT Resilience Footprint Grows
Zerto expanded its IT Resilience Platform footprint by more than 200% with new customers in the federal government and public sector in the first half of 2020. Additionally, Zerto experienced more than 200% increase in customer project implementation sizes among the legal, software and internet, and telecommunications sectors.
Key growth highlights include:
New customers in the federal government sector increased by more than 250%.
New customers in the public sector increased by 225%.
New customers in the insurance industry increased by 18% with the average customer project implementation size increasing by 20%.
The average new customer project implementation size in the legal and telecommunications industries nearly doubled.
The average new customer project implementation size in the software and internet industry more than tripled.
The average new customer project implementation size in financial services increased by 30%.
Customer Successes and Wins
In the 1H 2020, Zerto customers continued to build IT resilience and achieve results across multiple sectors and use cases:
Ritchie Bros., a global asset management and disposition company, leveraged Zerto to simplify DR, gain more control, and support data center migrations. To learn more, read the Ritchie Bros. case study here.
A leading chemical corporation leveraged Zerto to move DR operations to the Azure cloud and achieved new operational efficiencies. To learn more, click here.
A regional credit union strengthened its IT resilience by adopting a multi-cloud DR strategy using Zerto with both Azure and AWS. To learn more, click here.
New global customers using Zerto with Azure include Cairn Energy PLC, City of SeaTac, Grey County, and KIK Custom Products.
“We serve the people of Grey County, and because data serves the people, it needs to be available 24/7,” said Evan Davis of Grey County. “Zerto enabled us to easily make the move to Azure for more resilience. Now we have peace of mind that we can recover our data easily even in the midst of a disruption.”
ZertoCON was all About the Customer!
During ZertoCON 2020 Virtual Event in June, several customers spoke about their experiences and success with Zerto. Click here to access the following on-demand speaker sessions:
Rich Bailey, VP of IT operations, PruittHealth discusses “A Customer’s Guide to DR in the Cloud with Zerto and Microsoft Azure.”
Rodney Carlson, systems analyst, Horizon Bank shares his experience in “Modernize Your Backup with Zerto.”
Kent Pollard, senior technical architect, IFDS discusses “IT Resilience for Kubernetes and Containers.”
Jayme Williams, senior systems engineer, TenCate shares “A Tale of Two Ransomware Attacks: TenCate Uses Zerto to Recover from Ransomware in Minutes.”
In June, Zerto also honored KIND Snacks as the inaugural IT Resilience Innovator , a program that highlights IT leaders in disaster recovery, data protection, and cloud that are striving to protect their business from disruption.
“Organizations are increasingly recognizing that building IT resilience and leveraging the cloud for DR is critical not only for IT operations and business continuity but also for simplicity, greater efficiencies, and control,” said Coley Burke, CRO of Zerto. “We’re excited to see the momentum for our IT Resilience Platform across federal and public sectors and look forward to bolstering IT resilience across all customers for the second half of 2020.”
* Gartner, What I&O Leaders Need to Know About Disaster Recovery to the Cloud, Nik Simpson, 27 November 2019
About Zerto
Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by reducing the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto is changing the way disaster recovery, data protection and cloud are managed. With enterprise scale, Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds. Zerto is trusted globally by over 8,000 customers, works with more than 1,500 partners and is powering resiliency offerings for 450 managed services providers. Learn more at Zerto.com.
Last year, Veeam released Veeam Backup for Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company’s first cloud-native solution. A month ago, Veeam was hitting the cloud data protection market once again, announcing the general availability of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. Veeam, with this new integration, keeps expanding on the hybrid cloud realms, claiming to overcome any cloud data loss. The service, deployed as an appliance, delivers native Azure backup for Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs). Furthermore, Veeam enables its users to cost-effectively and securely protect their cloud data; through new features and neat policy-based protection.
Zerto Announces Partnership with Google Cloud and Deeper Integration with Azure, AWS and VMware
Boston, March 24, 2020 – Zerto, an industry leader for IT resilience, today announced the general availability of Zerto 8.0, expanding disaster recovery, data protection, and mobility for hybrid and multi-cloud environments with strategic partners. Zerto 8.0 introduces new integration with Google Cloud, deeper integrations with Azure, AWS public cloud platforms, and new innovations with VMware.
“With Zerto 8.0, our mission is to deliver IT resilience everywhere, by introducing a range of new and powerful features along with deeper integration with market-leading public cloud providers. We give customers the protection they want, wherever they need it,” explained Ziv Kedem, CEO of Zerto. “Zerto has been moving the dial on resilience for the past decade, and the ongoing development and wider integration of our platform shows the importance of technology leadership in an era where businesses can never stand still on data protection and recovery.”
Zerto 8.0 brings unrivalled data protection and mobility for hybrid, multi-cloud environments with a range of new, innovative features and capabilities:
New support for Google Cloud by bringing its leading Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology to Google Cloud’s VMware-as-a-Service offering. Zerto 8.0 will support VMware on Google Cloud, enabling users to protect and migrate native VMware workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Zerto’s leading RTOs, RPOs and workload mobility.
New cost savings, operational efficiencies and visibility with support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols).
Expanded VMware vCloud Director (vCD) connection with Zerto’s self-service recovery portal for Managed Service Providers (MSP).
Deeper integration with Microsoft Azure for increased simplicity and scalability of large deployments, which includes support for Microsoft Hyper-V Gen 2 VMs, users leveraging UEFI for VMs running in their on-premises environments can now use Microsoft Azure as a target for disaster recovery, without a need to convert the VMs to legacy formats.
AWS Storage Gateway to be used as a target site for inexpensive and efficient cloud archive and data protection.
New data protection capabilities, extending the value of Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs) to data protection, delivering application consistency from seconds to years.
A single pane of glass for data protection reporting with status performance and capacity reporting of protected workloads.
Zerto’s failback functionality as part of the cost-effective incremental snapshots of Azure managed disks is now available across ALL regions.
New unified alert management with prioritized views of critical alerts and customization for users to receive the alerts exactly when needed for critical operations.
New impact analysis capability to mitigate risk to an organization’s protected and unprotected environment for on-premises or cloud.
New resource planning view of Unprotected VM’s for better insight into an organizations’ unprotected VMs.
Additional features to automate and streamline the processes for failover and configuration in the public cloud with automated OS configuration, automatic failback configuration and more.
Additionally, Zerto 8.0 lays the foundation for the future of data protection, replacing traditional snapshot-based backup with low RPO journal-based “operational recovery,” enabling enterprises to perform day-to-day granular recovery quickly.
“We’re excited to partner with Zerto and to integrate its capabilities in disaster recovery and backup with Google Cloud,” said Manvinder Singh, Director, Partnerships at Google Cloud. “Zerto’s expertise in supporting and securing VMware workloads in the cloud will be a benefit to organizations that are increasingly running mission-critical workloads on Google Cloud.”
“Zerto support for VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) helps our mutual customers protect their digital infrastructure,” said Lee Caswell, VP Marketing, HCI BU, VMware. “As an Advanced tier Technology Alliance Partner, Zerto is helping customers realize the unique VMware ability to offer consistent storage policy-based management across traditional storage and hyperconverged infrastructure.”
“At Coyote, the security and protection of our customers’ data is our top priority,” said Brian Work, Chief Technology Officer, Coyote. “We take every precaution to keep their information safe, and our work with Zerto is a perfect example of this. Our mutual focus on data protection allows us to offer our customers the innovative tech solutions they need with the security they require.”
Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by reducing the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto is changing the way disaster recovery, data protection and cloud are managed. With enterprise scale, Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds. Zerto is trusted globally by over 8,000 customers, works with more than 1,500 partners and is powering resiliency offerings for 450 managed services providers. Learn more at Zerto.com.
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It’s day three here at Netapp Insight. And we are gearing up for our second keynote shortly.
Below I will do a live blog as I can of the keynote.
Today’s focus is netapp’s data fabric.
On the stage Henri Richard.
He talks about leveraging you data. He likes the concept of speed is the new scale. Stresses the importance of not just a business strategy but a data driven strategy.
France is not for sale… haha
Henri discussing customers and approach.
Dreamworks will come talk from a technical standpoint.
We will here from our business leaders.
Dave hits will give a small preso.
Scott dawkinds and Jeff wike take the stage.
Jeff talks about the need to burst out past the data center, into the public cloud.
Scott talks about the customer needs and trying to align the business offerings to meet the needs with data fabric.
Jeff talks about his public cloud journey. What he really wants is to start with a cloud native way, ( they use micro services ) he wants to be able to control where the process goes based on latency and cost. The artist shouldn’t care where the data is.
Scott talks about how netapp envisions one way to orchestrate the work, and set how scheduling is done with your own resources and public cloud. The next phase is around analytics.
Jeff stresses the importance of not having the budget to move the entire data center into the cloud, but just the working set. Cost is important, but so is performance.
Scott talks about the impressive workload is, Jeff jokes about him wanting his job. Then goes into flash and tiering.
Wrapping up this segment.
Anthony Lye.
He talks about how netapp has been a pioneer in the field.
INSPIRE
Innovation with cloud
Netapp Cloud Data services, deploy, run , monitor, maintain and manage services on the biggest public clouds so costumers don’t have to.
Cloud Analytics
Orchestrations , integrations, controls
Data services
Cloud Storage
A Year Of Innovation.
Tad Brockway, GM Azure storage.
Tad talks about the deep engineering project, and the two teams and how they have worked together. Leading to a real solution for real piratical workloads.
They discuss how they are delivering storage as a service, and on demand. Allowing a Application developer to have access to ontap on the public cloud.
Azure NetApp files can deliver.
100k IOPS @ sub-millisecound latency,
Unprecedented Cloud Performance.
Brad Clark. Director, McKesson.
Brad talks about the impressive latency, and predictable throughput.
He talks about how he was able to provision storage in under 60 minutes.
He talks about how he can shorten the time to delivery on the public cloud with SAP.
Netapp talks about the data management challenge, and new certifications.
next segment
Netapp Kubernetes, ISTIO, and Trident.
Kubernetes is the clear winner in container orchestration.
However, Containers need world class storage solutions.
Netapp Kubernetes Services ( NKS )
The Control Plane.
You can deploy clusters of containers on all clouds, and private cloud. ( HCI)
The Industry’s first complete multi-cloud kubernetes control plane.
James Holden
Cloud Insights
Giving a demo of the product. It allows you to monitoring both public and on-prem.
next segment
Brad Anderson.
He talks about the bar, and expectations, and how the bar is only going to get higher.
BUILD
Clouds to Accelerate New Services.
We promised and we’re delivering.
After last conference we launched HCI. He talks about the new services and business models and how that is his mission. to power a hybrid multi-cloud experience.
HCI – Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure.
Simplify , Automate, Deliver..
Benjamin Molloy,
Rachael Hedges.
Case Study : Consultel Cloud.
Adam Carter
Netapp delivers a data fabric built for the data driven world.
He is going to show us a example of a service. a Demo.
segment end
Joel Reich
Modernize.
Digital transformation requires IT Transformation.
He discuses the Value of flash. Cost savings, and how you can simplify your IT.
Thank you to our customers, and partners.
Kim
Talking about ontop, the journey, MQTT-Broker.
IBM Cloud
Discussing moving to the cloud. The journey.
Talking both the on-prem and cloud partnership. HCI / And Flexpod.
netapp ontap AI. with Nvidia and Netapp.
Accelerate your AI data pipeline for deep learning.
Introducing Netapp Max Data.
Max Data gives you SPEED!
Intel collaboration, with OPTANE DC Persistent memory.
11X in mongodb.
on-prem and in the future in the cloud.
Dave Hitz
Cloud first customers.
Cloud it? Should it?
He believes it’s the golden age of AI.
He shows how a actual cloud developer would run a .rg file.
He shows a example of the future of the data center, multi-cloud.
With the cloud , the goal is to inspire innovation.
In close, please us work with you to build your data fabric.
Big congratulations to Avere Systems, who recently announced their acquisition by Microsoft. Avere is a company I’ve followed since inception in 2008. Their technology started as an edge NAS filer, extending data centre content to branch offices. Over time, the platform became virtual and moved to the public cloud. Today, vFXT (the cloud instance of the filer), enables customers to present their data to cloud resources and use the benefit of public cloud analytics and processing, without having to commit to the wholesale migration of data to public cloud storage.
Interesting blog post over at architecting.it and shows Microsoft’s commitment to developing the hybrid cloud and its applications, check it out!
