An air-gap or offline is a way of isolating your critical data by separating a copy either physically (removing the tape out of the drive) or not accessible from the network ( network ports or routes disabled). An immutable backup is a copy of data that has role-based access controls and other types of authentications …
Tag: Backup
Oct 25
Why backup directly to Object Storage?
Hello, I do expect the on-prem object storage adoption to go through the roof with backup solutions support for backing up directly to object storage. The ratio between the on-prem and cloud looks to be about 50/50. Thanks to S3 endpoint names often carrying a hint on the object storage device behind it, it is …
May 17
Protect your data with Veeam and Wasabi
Many organizations still view cloud storage as less secure than air-gapped, offline storage. These organizations feel that if data is connected to a network, it can be accidentally deleted or susceptible to ransomware. The traditional method of air gapping data for protection meant that an organization’s data was stored offline in an LTO tape cartridge …
May 16
Wasabi – Object Lock feature spotlight
Hi, I’m in Vegas this week for VeeamON 2022, just had a sneak peek of some of the content, and some very cool demos to look out for (a special session by Rick Vanover). Moving to S3-compatible object storage next. An interesting trend is the adoption of S3-compatible object storage by enterprises. If in 2021, …
May 15
Veeam and the S3-compatible object storage solutions
Talking about the 4 hyperscalers (Amazon/Azure/Google/IBM), as expected Amazon and Azure are unquestionable leaders leaving just a few percent of the Veeam backup market to IBM and Google. While among the last two, IBM seems to be laser-focused on larger customers as indicated by a few times higher average used space.