decrypting myths
Florian Malecki, International Product
Marketing Senior Director of StorageCraft
retroactively restorable within seconds,
ransomware is no longer a threat.
Customers can scale at speed and with
ease because ShadowXafe can restore
any device or an entire IT infrastructure
from a single console.
ShadowXafe ensures total Disaster
Recovery and Business Continuity
by replicating data to a public cloud,
Companies without
a robust data
protection scheme
should look to
implement one as a
matter of urgency.
a StorageCraft Cloud for a complete
Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service or
an off-premises location, all with
uncompromising reliability, speed and
simplicity. In addition to ShadowXafe,
OneXafe is a converged data platform
that unifies enterprise-class data
protection with scale-out storage in
an easy-to-use, configurable solution.
For businesses looking to protect and
manage their data in heterogeneous
environments, OneXafe eliminates
complexity and provides flexible
deployment to accommodate various
workload requirements.
It significantly reduces costs associated
with secondary storage as well as data
protection software. By providing a
converged solution, OneXafe removes
the need for siloed point solutions
and minimises costs incurred from
standalone hardware and software
offerings. Data protection services are
directly integrated into the distributed
object store, delivering powerful
backup and recovery, with a workflow
optimised for simplified management.
OneXafe integrates with StorageCraft
Cloud Services, with a single click it
provides Business Continuity of data,
network and application recovery in
StorageCraft’s cloud.
What trends or emerging
trends are you seeing in the
data protection area?
As data volumes continue to grow at an
exponential rate, companies must not
only store their data;
they must approach
data management
expertly and look to
new approaches. These
may include:
• The ‘prevention era’ will be
overtaken by the ‘recovery era’:
While data protection remains
crucial, in the data recovery era,
the sooner organisations adopt
a restore and recover mentality,
the more they will be able to
benefit from successful Business
Continuity strategies.
• The repatriation of cloud data:
Many organisations are embracing
the notion of cloud data repatriation.
They’re increasingly deploying a
hybrid infrastructure in which some
data and applications remain in the
cloud, while more critical data and
applications come back to an onpremises
storage infrastructure.
• A data-centric approach to
storage: Today companies are
generating oceans of data, not all
of which is of equal importance.
Organisations that recognise this
and implement storage policies
based on the value of their data,
will be in a stronger position when it
comes to data storage, management
and leverage. As such, it’s likely that
we will start to see businesses match
their most critical servers with their
most important data.
• Immutable storage for businesses
of all sizes: Ransomware will
continue to be a scourge to all
businesses. It’s more important than
ever to protect data with immutable
object storage and continuous
data protection. Organisations will
increasingly look for a storage
solution that protects information
continuously by taking snapshots as
frequently as possible.
Companies that capitalise on these new
trends and take new approaches to data
management and protection will be able
to thrive in the digital economy. u
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