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NetApp Challenges The Status Quo with New AltaVault Cloud-Integrated Backup and Restore Solutions
May 2015 by Marc Jacob
In today’s business environment, traditional backup is slow, risky, expensive, and complex. Users expect instant recovery and minimal data loss, but IT struggles to keep pace using legacy backup and recovery strategies. To meet these demands, today NetApp, Inc. introduced NetApp® AltaVault®, previously SteelStore, cloud-integrated storage solutions and services, which will provide customers with the ability to quickly backup data to any cloud at up to 90 percent less cost than on-premises solutions.
The enterprise backup storage footprint is growing, yet budgets and acquisition costs remain flat and bandwidth costs and constraints become more acute with larger datasets. Adding to these challenges, many organizations still rely on tape, increasing the risk of lost media in transport and leading to increased downtime, data loss and the inability to adequately test disaster recovery procedures.
The new AltaVault solution, which includes physical, virtual (VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V), and cloud-based (AWS and Azure) appliances, addresses the customers challenges while integrating with existing backup software to preserve prior investments. Benefits include:
• Industry-Leading Data Reduction: inline deduplication and compression, resulting in up to a 30:1 data reduction ratio, which means less data is stored in the cloud allowing the customer to send it there more quickly.
• Extended Choice: AltaVault now offers the flexibility to choose the scalable offering that is right for you: physical, virtual, or cloud-based appliances in the AWS or Azure clouds. AltaVault appliances are more than six times more scalable than those of any other competitor in the cloud-integrated storage market, meaning organizations can store more critical data, and get it back more quickly when needed.
• Seamless integration: AltaVault integrates easily with NetApp SnapProtect® and the backup software of the customer’s choosing. AltaVault solutions and services can send backup data to all leading public and private cloud storage providers.
Our new AltaVault solutions will include an extended services offering and help optimize IT operations by providing performance support for the backup and archive environment throughout knowledge transfer, on-site and remote troubleshooting and customized proactive care. In addition, NetApp experts will help customers’ build a roadmap for data protection that aligns to their business needs and requirements and identify and prioritize data that is suitable for the cloud. The outcome is a solution-based proposal with actionable recommendations tied to an overall cloud strategy.
Services from NetApp and its partners help customers take advantage of AltaVault’s cloud capabilities, which include cloud strategy workshops, along with design, implementation and support services to simplify overall data protection processes and optimize backup and archive performance.
Availability
NetApp AltaVault AVA400 physical appliances and AVA-8, AVA-16, and AVA-32 virtual appliances on ESX and Hyper-V are currently available for purchase from NetApp and NetApp resellers. AltaVault cloud-based appliances are currently available for purchase on the AWS and Azure marketplaces, respectively. The AVA800 physical appliances are planned to be available in Q3 2015.
