Using CloudArray for Offsite Backup to Cloud Storage

Traditional Offsite Backup and Tape Backup Challenges

The traditional approach to offsite data protection is tape backup, but tape backup procedures are complex, costly and error-prone, which can leave you exposed to data loss. Plus, it can take days or weeks to restore data from tapes stored offsite. To make matters worse, tape backup operations are challenging to scale as the number of IT systems and the amount of data grows.

Frictionless “Disk-to-Cloud” Offsite Cloud Backup

Available in both software and hardware appliance configurations, TwinStrata CloudArray enables IT organizations of all sizes to frictionlessly expand their storage capacity without limits into the cloud and escape the maintenance costs and data center overhead associated with traditional data storage and tape backups.

diagram of CloudArray offsite backup to the Cloud

CloudArray seamlessly integrates with and connects your existing storage and backup infrastructure to your choice of cloud storage provider. It offers award-winning and patent-pending cloud storage gateway features such as dynamic caching, in-flight/at-rest data encryption, de-duplication, bandwidth optimization, in-cloud snapshots, and high availability, and ability to access restored data from anywhere make it possible for IT organizations to make their data protection infrastructure more economic and responsive to the organization.

It usually takes just 30 minutes to download and configure CloudArray. Once CloudArray is set up, backup to the cloud is performed automatically to infinitely scalable cloud storage. And data can be recovered instantly to your site, to another site or to the cloud for access anywhere.

Benefits of Offsite Backup with CloudArray

  • Reclaim primary storage and improve utilization
  • Eliminate the need for burdensome backup to tape operations
  • Reduced onsite and zero off-site CapEx/Opex
  • Rapid virtual appliance or hardware deployment
  • Faster data restores
  • Protect investments in existing backup software

 

CloudArray integrates with:

Symantec Backup-Exec
CA ARCserve
Quest vRanger
Veeam Backup & Replication
Oracle RMAN
PHD Virtual esXpress
AppAssure Replay
VMware VDR
 
Cloud Backup Solution Brief