Clumio Adds Support Native AWS Services Including Amazon Elastic Block Store

Clumio, Inc. expanded its secure backup as a service to support native AWS services including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

With this announcement, the company is executing on its vision for a consolidated data protection service that can safeguard enterprise data in multiple public clouds, regions and cloud accounts with a single service.

Enterprises moving to the public cloud often rely solely on snapshots to protect data vs. loss, security, and compliance risks. While good for fast restoration of data to a specific point in time, this strategy opens vulnerabilities to bad actors, giving them access to both data and snapshots in the same cloud account. Longer term, snapshot retention is limited and costly, and they are useless for single file restore or search capabilities. Moreover, managing snapshots per account, per region and per cloud is left to the end user. The firm’s SaaS solves these challenges by securely protecting native AWS services, VMware Cloud on AWS and on-prem data center workloads with a single backup service.

“Copying the complexity of your on-prem backup infrastructure to the cloud becomes a difficult and very expensive task when you consider that the typical enterprise uses more than one public cloud and could have thousands of cloud accounts across multiple regions,” said Daniel Newman, principal analyst and founding partner, Futuruum Research. “Snapshot protection alone is not enough, yet who wants to spend precious IT resources building and maintaining backup software in the cloud. SaaS is being rapidly adopted to solve enterprise problems and backup is a very good candidate for that strategy.“

With the addition of EBS as a data source, the company’s customers can protect volumes in the AWS public cloud alongside their VMware on-prem and VMware Cloud on AWS VMs. Simplicity of data protection in the public cloud is critical to enterprises and with firm’s global policy management across all data assets, the complexity of account-based snapshot management is alleviated. To ensure data is secure and protected vs. ransomware and bad actors, all data is encrypted at rest and in-flight with backup data residing outside of the customer’s AWS account in an immutable format. The power of the company’s SaaS is instant scale, global search, and quick restores at a file, volume, or application level.

“Enterprises demand data protection built from the cloud up to ensure data is protected in a simple and scalable way, as they accelerate their journey to the public cloud,” said Chadd Kenney, VP and chief technologist, Clumio. “Traditional backup solutions retrofitted for the cloud burden the user with the same technical debt and complexity they are trying to get away from in the first place. Clumio SaaS transforms the enterprise backup experience optimizing for simplicity and security.“

The company’s SaaS provides a backup experience to enterprise customers, from proactive support to transparent over-the-air software upgrades. Unlike the ineffective ‘call home’ alerting provided by legacy hardware vendors, the firm’s experience includes continuous 24/7 monitoring of task and environmental issues and triggers for the creation of proactive support tickets. Users avoid the complexities of upgrading legacy backup products including planned downtime, on-call administrators, validation testing, and service downtime. The company patches, upgrades, and fixes are all delivered seamlessly over-the-air with no complicated upgrade planning required.

“As we continue to move aggressively to the cloud, it is important that we make sure that we are taking maximum advantage of the elasticity, economics and scale that the cloud has to offer,” said Jim Boyer, CIO, Rush Memorial Hospital. “When data is dispersed across regions and accounts and is expensive to move, a SaaS application like Clumio that is wholly focused on data protection will allow us to more quickly execute on strategic initiatives. My team also has tremendous appreciation for the simplicity and function of the Clumio service. The Clumio support experience is unique and prescriptive and they remediate issues in a timely manner.“

Resources:
Chadd Kenney’s Announcement Blog
#AWSbackup Crowdchat
Cloud Data Protection: Avoiding Cloud Data Loss (registration required)
Enterprise Backup as a Service for AWS Native Services      
How Clumio is Reimagining Enterprise Backup
Blogs

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