HubStor announced new
cloud backup capabilities designed to give enterprise's better control and
protection of their information. First, HubStor unveiled continuous data
protection capabilities, empowering organizations to capture file changes as
they happen on network-based file systems and within virtual machines. HubStor
also added version-control policies to its cloud data management platform,
enabling organizations to reduce demand for cloud capacity by condensing the
number of file versions held in storage as data ages.
Continuous
Data Protection
HubStor's
continuous data protection supports monitoring of certain file system
directories in order to detect new files and dynamically capture them into
HubStor, either as a backup with a very short recovery point objective (RPO) or
as a WORM archive for compliance.
There
are various methods to monitor for changes on a file system. HubStor's current
approach is agentless. HubStor may add support for other methods based on
demand.
Starting
with the agentless approach is the simplest because it avoids adding new
software. When configuring a file system target in HubStor, enabling CDP is a
simple checkbox option. By default, HubStor detects and captures any changes
within 30 seconds. This change detection time can be adjusted as needed.
The
flexibility of HubStor supports some file connectors having CDP enabled while
perhaps others do not, allowing various workloads to be handled differently.
Version
Control
As
HubStor captures incremental changes, it builds out a version history for each
file and maintains point-in-time awareness in the cloud, allowing you to
restore data sets to a known healthy period as would be required in the case of
recovery from a ransomware attack.
The
challenge with aggressive RPOs and versioning is that you can end up with many
versions in your secondary storage for data that is active. For this reason,
HubStor now has version control settings that diminish the number of versions
held over time as data ages.
Projected growth of the data-protection-as-a-service
(DPaaS) market segment
Leveraging
public cloud infrastructure for backup, archiving, and disaster recovery is an everyday use case propelling the adoption of
cloud storage by enterprises. IDC forecasts the ‘data-protection-as-a-service (DPaaS)' market segment will
grow at a CAGR of 16.2% over the next five years.
"HubStor's
momentum continues to be driven by organizations that want a simple path to
leveraging cloud storage," said Brad Janes,
VP of Product Management, HubStor. "The advantages our customers are achieving
by switching to a software-based data management platform are significant in
the areas of business agility and data protection, especially when it means
moving away from old-style vendor contracts and hardware-centric products."
Office
365 Backup
If
you use HubStor to backup your Office 365 tenant, HubStor's new version control
settings are ideal to contain object count growth. For example, a contact in
someone's mailbox may be modified several times in a short period, but a year
from now, having only the latest version is probably sufficient.
HubStor's new data
protection enhancements are available now.