The latest Predatar release, R18.3, has been designed to help customers avoid the most common pitfalls of CleanRoom setup, so they can achieve recovery confidence sooner.
At Predatar, we operate in a world of complexity. Enterprise IT and infrastructure are a jungle of legacy systems, siloed tools, hidden dependencies, detailed information security policies and ever-changing regulations. Taking this complexity away for our customers is one of the most important drivers for our R&D team.
You want certainty that your organisation can recover its critical systems quickly and safely when you need to – without having to manage all the complexity that underpins that assurance.
With a focus on deployment and setup, the latest Predatar release R18.3 takes even more of that complexity away. The result? Predatar customers can get to ‘live’ faster – which means they can achieve recovery confidence sooner.
Building on CleanRoom 3
Back in 2024 Predatar launched CleanRoom 3. Our third generation Recovery Assurance CleanRoom significantly simplified the deployment process and shortened the time required to get a Predatar CleanRoom up and running from several days down to just a few hours.
It was – and still is – an impressive piece of engineering. Our CleanRoom remains the most advanced Recovery Assurance CleanRoom available today. And while our own engineers can – and regularly do – deploy CleanRooms before unpacking their lunch – we found the reality in the field was often different.
Customer installations would sometimes hit bottlenecks. The time-to-value would get extended, and it would take longer than expected for customers to achieve the resilience they needed.
R18.3 tackles three common obstacles that have been slowing down deployments.
Obstacle 1: The Security Checkpoint
A CleanRoom needs controlled outbound access to be built, stay current, and stay protected. Until now, this required a dynamic list of shifting destinations sitting behind CDNs and rotating IPs. It’s the kind of moving target that tends to prompt scrutiny from security teams – and rightly so – but all too often reviews would stall. The deployment would stop – for days – sometimes weeks.
R18.3 fixes this. The new Easy Networking process now connects your CleanRoom via a short, clearly documented set of fixed destinations. Security teams get something they can easily understand, review, and approve.
The security checkpoint stops being the delay.
Obstacle 2: Hidden Errors
CleanRoom installation used to run in one continuous automated workflow. You would enter your networking configuration details and the setup requirements up front, the build would begin, then let you know when it was done. Sounds easy, right?
The delay would come if there was an error in the details that were entered. Something as simple as a single digit typo would cause a deployment to fail, and it wasn’t always easy to work out where the error was.
R18.3 includes a new Admin Console, which guides you through the install, validating each stage as it happens. If something’s off, it’s flagged immediately.
Obstacle 3: Wasted Cycles
There’s another time-saving benefit of splitting the installation into a step-by-step process. Before R18.3, even once an issue had been identified and fixed, the whole install cycle would need to be started again. Not only was this time-consuming, but engineers told us that this could be pretty frustrating – and even more so if another error was found the next time around. Every small configuration mistake would cost a full cycle.
With R18.3 issues can be fixed along the way and the build carries on from that point. If the process is interrupted, it simply resumes where it left off.
The point: less friction, faster resilience
At Predatar we will never stop looking for ways to make our Recovery Assurance technology better. R18.3 is proof of our commitment to continuous improvement. Today Predatar is easier and faster to deploy than it was yesterday. That means customers achieve the resilience they need faster – and get value out of their investment sooner.
Get started with Predatar
Start your journey to recovery confidence. Contact us to a talk with member of the friendly and knowledgeable Predatar team, or book a demo to see R18.3 in action.
