Complex, multi-vendor storage environments don’t need complex, multi-vendor resiliency tools. In this short blog, we look at the benefits of unified Recovery Assurance with a centralised CleanRoom.
What is Recovery Assurance?
Put simply, Recovery Assurance is the process of validating that IT systems can be successfully restored following a data loss event.
By far, the most common type of significant data loss scenarios today are cyberattacks. That’s why there’s a new breed of Recovery Assurance technologies emerging, designed to verify that backups are recoverable and have not been compromised before they are used to restore production IT systems.
You can learn more about the different types of solutions in the Recovery Assurance Buyer’s Guide.
What is a Cyber Recovery Cleanroom?
Cyber Recovery Cleanrooms are an integral component of Recovery Assurance, and are quickly becoming seen as an essential tool for cyber resilience. Essentially, a cleanroom is a secure, isolated environment where potentially harmful data can be analysed and validated without putting other IT systems at risk.
Typically, cleanrooms are seen as reactive tools that are only utilised when a large scale recovery is required. Predatar is leading the way with a new generation of pre-emptive cleanroom technology that automates continuous recovery testing and advanced malware scanning on backups and snapshots. This means that when a cyber incident hits, Predatar users already know that their backups (and primary snapshots) are recoverable and free from malware.
What is Unified Recovery Assurance?
Many of the big backup and storage vendors offer data resilience solutions including cleanrooms, anomaly detection and more. In most cases these solutions are designed to work solely with the vendor’s own products. For example, Veeam’s SureBackup solution is designed to validate the recoverability of Virtual Machines backed up with Veeam’s Backup and Replication platform, IBM’s Storage Defender Cleanroom architecture is intended to validate IBM SafeGuarded Copies and IBM Defender Data Protect backups, while Rubrik’s Cyber Recovery toolset is built to orchestrate recoveries on data backed-up in the Rubrik Security Cloud.
Predatar’s Recovery Assurance technology is different. It has been designed to provide data validation across multiple workload types, on both primary storage and backup storage, and is vendor-agnostic. That means that Predatar users can run automated recovery testing and advanced malware scanning across complex storage environments in a single, centralised CleanRoom – with just one Predatar subscription.
What are the benefits of Unified Recovery Assurance?
Benefit 1. Simplicity
Fragmented storage, doesn’t have to mean fragmented recovery. By choosing a unified approach to Recovery Assurance, IT and Security teams can simplify day-to-day management of resiliency and gain greater observability though a holistic approach to data validation.
As well as daily operations, greater simplicity will really make a difference during incident response too. Coordinating high-stakes recoveries, with complex interdependencies is always going to be stressful, but with a unified Recovery Assurance solution, automated recovery sequences can be pre-defined and tested in preparation for a cyber incident.
Benefit 2. Cost
While some storage and backup vendors include data resilience features within their products, often they are not part of the core licensing/subscription plans. In many cases these features will only be available as upgrade options or to customers on premium plans.
It is worth contacting your backup and storage vendors to understand what tools are available to you, but
for organisations that have multiple storage and backup products in play, achieving resilience across all platforms could quickly become costly. You’ll also need to consider the additional training and resources required to learn, manage, and maintain multiple tools.
Predatar’s unified, vendor-agnostic approach to Recovery Assurance means Predatar customers can achieve parity of resilience across multiple platforms and technologies with a single solution.
Benefit 3. Future-proof
Technologies are always evolving. New storage products come to the market, while others are retired. Trends change. From tape storage, to mainframe, to Virtual Machines, to containers… How you store your data today might not be how you store it tomorrow.
With a unified, vendor-agnostic approach to recovery assurance, organisations can future-proof their investment, safe in the knowledge that if their storage solutions change, their CleanRoom won’t need to.
Predatar’s approach
Predatar is on a mission to give organisations complete recovery confidence. Our unique Recovery Assurance platform uses automation and AI to continually prove that your backups and snapshots are always recoverable and free from hidden malware. Here’s how:
With a single Predatar subscription, and one centralised Predatar CleanRoom, Predatar customers can validate Virtual Machines, Databases and files systems backed-up by Cohesity, IBM Storage Protect/Plus, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Rubrik, and Veeam. Immutable snapshots from IBM FlashSystem, and Pure Storage can be checked too.
Find out how Predatar can simplify Recovery Assurance in your organisation. Book a demo today.
