EXPERT OPINION
past year, with over a quarter (27%)
suffering data loss in the last six months.
The research also uncovered issues
around the budget and complexity of
IT infrastructure, which will add to the
challenge of ransomware preparedness.
• Nearly half (46%) of respondents
reported that they do not have the
budget to manage their data and
recover from a failure adequately.
• Again, nearly half (49%) of
respondents reported they have
between three and five different types
of systems to manage and protect
data. And 33% have six or more
different types of systems.
StorageCraft data protection, data
management and Business Continuity
solutions allow organisations to keep
their critical information always
safe, accessible and optimised with
StorageCraft’s powerful data protection
offerings delivering instant, reliable and
complete data recovery and eliminate
downtime. Our innovative converged
secondary scale-out storage platform,
with integrated data protection, solves
data growth challenges, is efficient and
easy to use.
How does StorageCraft offer
a simple but robust data
protection offering?
ShadowXafe is StorageCraft’s nextgeneration
data protection solution. It
gives customers affordable access to a
simple, comprehensive and cost-effective
solution that meets the highest of backup
and recovery metrics attainable.
It is easy to manage, affordable and
robust, ensuring constant data availability
and uptime for businesses. Benefits
include complete data protection. By
making all data 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
Florian Malecki, International
Product Marketing Senior Director
of StorageCraft
by replicating data to a public cloud,
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. ◊
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