JetStream DR Cloud-Based Data Protection for Continuous Data Replication for Near-Zero RPO and RTO and Recovery From Object Storage

JetStream Software Inc. announced the availability of JetStream DR, a software solution for enabling CSPs and MSPs to deliver cloud-based services to enterprise customers with:

CDP: immediate data replication to a recovery service
BC: VM failover to a ‘warm cloud’ environment
DR: VM and data recovery from cloud object stores

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JetStream DR provides a software foundation for real-time replication to a ready failover environment for immediate recovery and resumed operations. Unlike traditional backup offerings that rely on intermittent snapshots, it replicates data at the moment it’s written to local storage, for near-zero RPO and RTO. Additionally, the near-synchronous data replication can be directed to an S3-compatible object store, providing an economical solution for CDP, with full VM and data recovery through rehydration from an object store bucket.

“In their quest for a higher level of data protection and BC, management often present their IT organizations with conflicting mandates, such as lower RPO and RTO, reduced costs, and increased use of public cloud,” said Tom Critser, CEO and co-founder, JetStream. “This dilemma is actually due to the technology that’s currently available. With JetStream Software, organizations can achieve better metrics in their public cloud DR services, while taking advantage of object storage and thin-provisioned, on-demand failover resources for economic advantage.“

New partnerships with object storage vendors including Cloudian, Inc. and MinIO, Inc. join the company’s partner network with VMware, Inc., Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp.

JetStream DR joins JetStream Accelerate and JetStream Migrate as part of the firm’s Cross-Cloud Data Management Platform.

2019 tectonic shift in data protection
Enterprises already spend billions of dollars annually on DRaaS and cloud backup, signaling the beginning of a disruption to an industry worth tens of billions of dollars.

There are two key drivers for this disruption:

First is a shift in the demand side: In response to new and more varied threat vectors, the mandate for the technology has shifted from just backing up data to protecting business operations and maintaining BC.
Second driver is from the supply side: CSPs can now deliver more advanced data protection services and realize greater economies of scale, while reducing complexity for enterprise customers.

Together, these forces are driving a massive change for enterprise IT – the adoption of cloud services to enable BC capabilities, replacing on-premises storage management technologies.

“We are seeing a tectonic shift in the space that used to be called ‘backup and recovery,’” explained Rich Petersen, president and co-founder, JetStream. “The mission of this technology has shifted from backups that ‘protect the data’ to BC solutions that ‘protect the business.’ Also, the technology partner deploying and managing these solutions has shifted from the enterprise end user to the cloud service provider.“

Advantages that simplify data protection
Using the same on-premises software infrastructure for continuous data capture, JetStream DR provides two models for data protection and BC. For business-critical workloads with the stringent availability requirements, VMs can fail over to a ‘warm’ VMware recovery environment maintained by the service provider. Alternatively, data can be continuously replicated to an S3-compatible object store. In the event of a failover, the VMs and their data can be re-hydrated on demand into a temporary VMware recovery environment, enabling a more economical DR solution.

With goal of enabling DR as true cloud service, JetStream DR delivers technical advantages:

Continuous data capture for near-zero RPO
In contrast to snapshot-based backups, it continuously captures and replicates data as it is written to local storage through VMware IO Filters. The result is near-zero RPO and minimal impact on application performance.
Hardware and storage system agnostic
It runs within vSphere to protect VMs on any type of infrastructure: SAN, NAS, vSAN, HCI, etc. The recovery environment can be any VMware-compatible infrastructure, regardless of customers’ architectures.
High throughput, fault tolerant connectivity
It is designed for data center-to-data center DR services. The crash-consistent data pipe is optimized for high throughput, fault-tolerant data replication across network connections of varying quality, with seamless failover.
Leveraging object storage for economies of scale
It takes cloud data protection ‘beyond backup’ by delivering real-time data replication into any S3-compatible object store, including AWS S3, as well as solutions from vendors including Cloudian, MinIO and others.
Policy-based administration
It supports multiple, concurrent availability policies, assigned per VM recovery group, for cost-efficient SLA management, minimizing manual effort and risk of human error.