Cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider Asigra, today introduced its vision for Asigra Software-Defined Data Protection (SDDP). The SDDP will leverage commoditized infrastructure and vendor agnostic technologies to provide scalable cloud backup storage capabilities. Supported by a dedicated program, Asigra seeks to increase controls for service providers and enterprises on a global scale with this first-to-market technology. The approach will counter expensive monolithic systems and is expected to speed deployment of cloud-ready storage for service providers.
Behind the company’s initiative is a new software-driven architecture which is being introduced for the first time at the Asigra Partner Summit in Toronto. Asigra SDDP architecture is focused on engineering cost reduction for today’s storage system complexities as they relate to backup and recovery. This includes the problems of integration, troubleshooting, fixes, patches, installation setup time and the requirements for highly skilled hardware and operating system staff. It will also tackle the inflexibility and costs of traditional storage systems, reducing the risks and costs related to hardware, software, file systems, operations and human capital.
“Our vision for a user-centric backup infrastructure is one that disintermediates expensive storage software stacks that are coupled tightly with expensive hardware. This provides a software defined option for service providers that helps to further control backup infrastructure costs and management concerns,” said David Farajun, CEO, Asigra. “From the standpoint of system flexibility, this is a fundamental shift away from traditional storage solutions as it directly addresses concerns around storage flexibility and efficiency. The idea will drive more than system redesign - it will expand our relationships with service providers as we help them to better deliver and serve their customers with cost effective, software defined data protection alternatives.”
Software Defined Data Protection shifts control of the backup environment from hardware to software to remove physical cost limitations. This creates a backup platform that is more flexible, efficient and application aware. Asigra’s software-defined data protection strategy complements its widely deployed cloud backup platform which has an installed base of more than one million customer sites. Forthcoming solutions will optimize deployments in public, private or hybrid cloud backup installations across physical, data center IaaS or 3rd party cloud environments. This approach will further disintermediate the entire software stack and file system configuration costs up to 50% and provide direct cost reduction advantages that include:
- Reductions in backup vault integration time from 3 to 4 days to 1 hour
