Datrium announced that the company is extending its
Datrium DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS solution to support Edge environments.
Datrium DRaaS for Edge is a new, easy to use, cost-effective SaaS solution for
data protection and disaster recovery (DR) for VMware workloads in Edge
environments and remote office/branch office (ROBO) implementations. With
Datrium DRaaS for Edge, in the event of a ransomware attack or other disaster,
enterprises can quickly recover locally or failover on demand to Datrium DRaaS
with VMware Cloud on AWS with instant Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). Datrium
also announced the general availability of Datrium DRaaS Connect for VMware
workloads running on HCI, SAN and NAS systems. A modern approach to DR, Datrium
DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS provides VMware users, both on premises and in
the cloud, with access to reliable, cost-effective, cloud-based DR with instant
RTO. Like DRaaS Connect, DRaaS for Edge is downloadable to third party
on-premises systems and can be managed from a central location, simplifying the
management of remote sites and making it ideal for ROBO deployments.
Research on "Ransomware and Disaster Recovery During COVID-19,"
also announced
today, found that ransomware is plaguing the enterprise now more than ever,
with 100% of respondents reporting that their company has experienced a
ransomware attack in the last 12 months. The research also revealed heightened concern
from businesses during the period of remote work resulting from the global
COVID-19 pandemic: DR is a top priority for businesses right now, with 92.1% of
respondents saying it has increased in importance at their company.
The increasing importance of DR within enterprises has resulted in
a 450% increase in Datrium's DR customers during the second half of 2019
through the first half of 2020, and expanded the company's global reach. This
underscores the need for DR transformation and better data protection at a time
where cyber threats like ransomware and other disasters are on the rise.
"IT organizations must deal with data spread across on-premises
locations, cloud and edge locations. The challenge companies are grappling with
is how to secure all that data," said Phil Goodwin, research director at IDC.
"Only about 38% of applications are protected by a disaster recovery plan; it
needs to be more of a priority for businesses. The cloud has emerged as a key
solution for data protection and disaster recovery. Datrium has leveraged the
flexibility of the cloud to transform disaster recovery from what used to be a
costly and manual process to something that's much simpler and available on
demand."
Meeting the growing global demand for affordable and fast DR,
Datrium DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS is a cloud-native DRaaS (disaster
recovery as a service) solution offering pay-per-use cloud economics, built-in
backup, instant RTO and instant compliance checks to enable DR plan efficiency
when a disaster strikes.
"Business resiliency is predicated on combining rapid access to
mission-critical cloud resources with rock-solid disaster recovery and IT
security technology," said Mark Lohmeyer, senior vice president and general
manager, Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware. "By leveraging Datrium DRaaS
with VMware Cloud on AWS, enterprises have a great option to effectively
mitigate risk and better secure their organizations to help prevent major
business disruptions."
Built on ControlShift, Datrium's workload orchestrator, Datrium
DRaaS provides fully automated failover to VMware Cloud on AWS based on live
mounts of VM snapshots held in AWS S3.
Datrium offers DRaaS Connect for two different vSphere
deployments: DRaaS Connect for VMware vSphere On Prem and DRaaS Connect for
VMware Cloud on AWS. DRaaS Connect for VMware vSphere On Prem extends Datrium
DRaaS to any VMware vSphere on-premises infrastructure and provides efficient
replication of VMware vSphere snapshots into DRaaS deduplicated, compressed, encrypted
snapshot storage on Amazon S3. It is managed by a DRaaS cloud-based control
plane to define VM protection groups and their frequency, replication and
retention policies. On failback, DRaaS will return only changed blocks back to
VMware vSphere and the local on-premises infrastructure through DRaaS Connect.
"Datrium makes the cloud-native future of data center protection a
reality today," said Datrium CEO Tim Page. "With DRaaS, we've entirely reshaped
how modern enterprises approach DR and have addressed the clear demand for DR
solutions that ensure rapid recovery without breaking the bank. Datrium enables
organizations to make the cloud their DR data center, delivering 10x or greater
cost savings."
According to the "Ransomware and Disaster Recovery During
COVID-19" research, the cloud was identified as a viable and accessible option
for DR with 67.5% of respondents' companies currently leveraging the cloud as
part of their DR strategy. Almost all respondents (93.7%) said their company
would be willing to adopt cloud DR if they could pay for it on demand and it
would protect all of their data, including Edge environments.
DRaaS Connect for VMware Cloud on AWS enables DRaaS to orchestrate
failover from a VMware Cloud SDDC in one AWS Availability Zone (AZ) to another
AWS AZ. Snapshots of running VMs in the active AZ will be stored in the DRaaS
repository on AWS S3. In the event of a disaster, these snapshots can be
instantly restarted on ESX hosts in a different AZ, all based on well-defined
runbook policies.
Availability
DRaaS Connect for VMware vSphere On Prem will be generally
available later this month and DRaaS Connect for VMware Cloud on AWS will be
generally available in Q2 2020. DRaaS for Edge will be available to customers
globally in Q4 2020.