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Now that cloud services are a key to the “new normal” way enterprises are doing business, backing up data in safe, accessible cloud storage is the most common use case for new-gen IT systems.
For IT managers looking for an alternative method of cloud backup, cloud data platform provider SoftNAS Jan. 10 announced that its Cloud Essentials v3.7, optimized for use alongside Veeam’s Availability Suite, becomes available later this month.
Houston-based SoftNAS describes itself as a cloud-native, software-defined cloud data platform for enterprise control of any data, any cloud, in any location. Switzerland-based Veeam develops software for backing up and managing vSphere and Hyper-V virtual environments.
With this package, SoftNAS and Veeam users now have access to cost-effective, multi-cloud storage options while simultaneously improving RTPO (recovery time and point objectives) for data archival, backup and storage jobs, SoftNAS said.
Enterprises Still Struggling with Vast Amounts of Data
To the surprise of no one, enterprises continue to struggle with managing vast amounts of data, including backups. Research conducted by the Taneja Group found that 41 percent of planned public cloud workloads target backups. Cloud backup remains one of the fastest-growing use cases being adopted.
According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Storage Technology, 2017, “backup of data generated natively in public cloud is an emerging requirement as cloud providers only offer infrastructure high availability and disaster recovery, but are not responsible for application or user data loss.”
SoftNAS claims that its patent-pending ObjFast software accelerates object storage I/O performance to near the levels of native cloud block storage, but at a significantly lower cost. Enterprises can deploy SoftNAS either on-premises or via public cloud providers for secondary data in cloud backup, disaster recovery and cloud archive repositories, the company said.
“What’s really innovative is how this solution enables mounting a cloud-based NFS backup repository from on-premises, overcoming the usual performance gaps with slow cloud gateways and making Veeam synthetic full merges fly in the cloud,” said Rick Braddy, CEO, CTO and founder of SoftNAS.
On-Premises Combined with Cloud
Veeam and SoftNAS enable customers to protect cloud deployments and extend the benefits of on-premises storage to the public cloud. SoftNAS Cloud Essentials customers can use Veeam to create an always-on enterprise NAS that achieves near block storage performance using object storage.
SoftNAS claims that thousands of businesses globally–including many of the Fortune 2000–use SoftNAS Cloud to migrate business and SaaS applications to the cloud, consolidate file servers and for backup storage.
A free 30-day trial version of SoftNAS Cloud is available for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and VMware. For more information, go here.