Nebulon, Inc. unveiled Nebulon TimeJump,
a solution architected to address key ransomware mitigation challenges
faced by CIOs and CISOs. Nebulon TimeJump is the first and only combined
server and storage solution architected to offer complete ransomware
recovery in less than four minutes.
According
to pro-consumer technology website Comparitech, an investigation of 186
ransomware attacks on U.S. businesses in 2020 found that downtime costs
alone totaled $20.9B, averaging a staggering $112M per attack. Bringing
application data back online quickly, reliably, and at scale is
imperative. Ransomware recovery solutions offered by traditional 3-tier
and hyperconverged infrastructure vendors can address part of the
problem with a "snapshot" of customer data. However, when ransomware
strikes, the attack can infect operating systems and disable critical
infrastructure, preventing immediate recovery from data snapshots. The
resulting infrastructure recovery can take hours-or even days-and lead
to unnecessary downtime costs.
Nebulon TimeJump provides four-minute restore capabilities not only for critical application data but also infected
operating systems, so application infrastructure can be brought back
online near-instantly. With the debut of TimeJump, IT organizations no
longer have to suffer through a lengthy manual recovery of critical
infrastructure. They can instead reduce application infrastructure
recovery from hours or days to under four minutes.
"A
ransomware attack on your business is more a case of when, not if.
Therefore, any ransomware protection strategy must go beyond prevention
tactics and incorporate rapid recovery to mitigate downtime and related
costs," said David Floyer, CTO and Cofounder, Wikibon. "The recovery
solution from Nebulon is independent of the servers and allows the
restoration of both data and the underlying operating systems. This
capability means IT can restore whole application clusters online in
minutes."
"Minimizing
the impact of ransomware attacks is critical for the continuous service
delivery demanded by our clients. Therefore, naturally we implement
preventative measures. Being able to recover quickly is imperative
when-not if-ransomware strikes, but recovery tools aren't accessible
when their supporting infrastructure is infected." said Damon Dance,
Director of Sales, Inca Cloud. "Nebulon is our antidote to the paradox
of management tools depending on the infrastructure they manage. If/when
our infrastructure is ever compromised, Nebulon TimeJump will get our
infrastructure back up and running so we can restore operations in
minutes. No other combined server and storage solution on the market can
do this that quickly."
Not
only does Nebulon provide a breakthrough ransomware recovery solution,
the company's smartInfrastructure offering also protects against
ransomware attacks due to a day-one design decision. All critical
enterprise data services, such as erasure coding, encryption and
snapshots, are enabled by Nebulon's PCIe-based services processing unit
(SPU). The SPU connects to the server's internal solid-state disks
(SSDs) and operates in a separate security domain from the server's CPU,
memory, network, and operating system. Isolated compute and storage
security domains prevent ransomware from infecting the data protection
software that enables reliable recovery of the operating system and
application data. Alternative solutions like hyperconverged
infrastructure share server and storage security domains, so a
ransomware attack on the server easily infects storage resources and
protection software. This is particularly problematic when
infrastructure management tools used for recovery depend on a healthy
hypervisor, operating system, and software defined storage (SDS) data
services.
Beyond
rapid ransomware recovery and an architected security domain within the
server, Nebulon further immunizes the infrastructure against the
persistent threat of cyber criminals. Nebulon ON, the company's cloud
control plane, employs end-to-end hardware-based cryptographic
authentication, and all communications are protected by always-on,
end-to-end encryption.
"CIOs
and CISOs are squarely focused on protecting their organizations from
hackers on the lookout for the most vulnerable infrastructure attack
vectors," said Nebulon CEO Siamak Nazari. "Nebulon can help them sleep a
little better at night knowing that our solution can both minimize the
data services attack surface for ransomware, as well as help simply and
quickly recover in under four minutes-an industry first we a proud to be
a part of."