With your backups under attack from cybercriminals, you need to know that your data is clean and recoverable before a crisis hits. But the complexity and disjointed nature of modern storage environments can make meaningful data validation almost impossible.
Predatar has been pioneering cyber recovery cleanroom technology for almost five years, and with the release of CleanRoom 3, we’ve changed the game again. Our third-generation CleanRoom has been redesigned from the ground up for simplicity and flexibility.
Because, if you’ve got a complex and disjointed storage environment, the last thing you need is complex and disjointed data resiliency solutions.
Unified Recovery Assurance
Large organisations often have multiple storage and backup technologies in play. It’s not unusual for a large business to store data in the Cloud and on-premise. As well as backups, they might also use immutable snapshots for their most critical data. It’s likely they’ll leverage technologies from Mainframe to VMs and newer technologies like Kubernetes too.
Holistic resilience is a fundamental principle at Predatar. It’s our ambition to create technology that can validate the cleanliness and recoverability of your critical data, regardless of what it is and how it’s stored.
Predatar already supports proactive recovery testing and advanced malware interrogation across backup and primary storage products – from vendors including IBM, Veeam, Pure, Cohesity and Rubrik – and now with CleanRoom 3, we‘ve made it even more flexible.
Flexible deployment
Until now, a Predatar CleanRoom could only be deployed as a Virtual Machine running on VMware, meaning that only organisations running VMware environments could benefit from Predatar’s unique recovery assurance capabilities.
With the launch of CleanRoom 3, Predatar is no longer VMware-dependent. Predatar customers can now deploy a Cleanroom as a Virtual Machine using other hypervisors too, for example in a Hyper V environment. This will become increasingly important as organisations reconsider their choices following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware last year and the subsequent price hikes.
In fact, the new CleanRoom architecture means that for the first time, a CleanRoom can be deployed directly onto bare metal, removing the need for a hypervisor entirely.
Where previously, customers would need to acquire new hardware or cloud infrastructure to deploy a CleanRoom, the new levels of flexibility mean that in many cases new customers are able to build CleanRoom 3 on hardware they already have.
Deployment simplicity
Not only is the operating system built-in, but the EDR (Endpoint Detection & Response) software that Predatar uses for malware interrogation and cleaning is too. Previously, Predatar customers would need to buy VMware and third-party XDR licences, and configure their cleanroom to recognise the licence keys – now it’s all baked in.
CleanRoom 3 is supplied as a single, downloadable ISO image which can be configured via an easy-to-use setup wizard and installed quickly. A Predatar CleanRoom can be up and running in under an hour.
Everyday simplicity
Regardless of whether you’re using Cleanroom 3 or a previous version, you’ll use the same Predatar CRO (Cyber Recovery Orchestrator) software to manage it. That means you’ll benefit from the intuitive GUI and all of the user-friendly features that customers have come to expect from Predatar.
But in addition, CleanRoom 3 leverages continuous updates to ensure the platform remains secure, up-to-date, and optimised without requiring manual intervention. The system continuously downloads updates and enhancements from Predatar’s repositories to ensure that CleanRoom 3 is always equipped with the latest security improvements, malware definitions, and performance optimisations.
By automating the update process, CleanRoom 3 eliminates the need for manual updates by engineers, reducing the risk of human error, saving time, and making day-to-day admin and maintenance easier than ever.
Think again about Cleanrooms
If you think that cyber recovery cleanrooms are complicated and expensive, think again! To find out how a Predatar CleanRoom can make recovery confidence a reality in your organisation, join our next webcast.
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