CDSA

The amount of data organizations are generating now is exploding, and these days it’s not just the backup of that data that is important, but also the fast recovery and restoration of that data too, Rob Callaghan, senior product marketing manager at Wasabi Technologies, said July 11, during the Wasabi-sponsored webinar “Get Peace of Mind for Managing and Protecting Your Data with Wasabi and Arcserve.”

The solution provided by Wasabi and Arcserve provides “peace of mind” that a company has a top-notch data resilience strategy combined with a cost-effective and secure hot storage solution, he said.

During the webinar, Callaghan and Stacey Budd, sales engineer at Arcserve, explained how to stop ransomware in its tracks and recover your organization’s precious data quickly.

Explained during the webinar were: how to further strengthen your data resilience in this accelerating data-driven economy; how to protect your continuously growing data from cyberattacks; meeting compliance requirements; and the importance of backup/recovery and cloud storage.

“Wasabi provides predictable, simple, affordable, hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world,” Callaghan noted. “We enable organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at about a fifth the price of the traditional hyperscalers. And there’s no complex tiers … or unpredictable egress fees. So the bill that you think you’re going to get is the bill you get. We’re trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide. And have been recognized as one of technology’s fastest growing and most visionary companies.”

Wasabi covers many verticals, he noted. In addition to media and entertainment, they include “archive, surveillance, scientific research, healthcare, law enforcement [and] some cool sports teams,” he said.

Wasabi partners with Arcservce to “help our mutual customers secure their data and mitigate the threat of ransomware,” he said.

Wasabi is, meanwhile, “significantly faster than traditional S3 object storage that you get from the bookseller … so when you do go get your data, you can be assured that the data’s going to be there and with no issues with it. And then finally, we have the ability to scale to your needs in the capacity and the regions” you need.

Arcserve, meanwhile, has “progressed since” its start in 1983, Budd said. “We’ve modernized.”

He added: “Whether it be SaaS data, whether it be on-prem data, whether it be virtual, physical, whatever it might be. Being able to have the right solutions to kind of handle those different environments that you have from that perspective, all of that wrapped up, of course, in affordable ways where you can license it in ways that kind of make sense for you.”

Returning to speak, Callaghan, warned: “There’s a lot of bad actors out there.” He pointed to data showing that 76% of ransomware attacks started outside business hours. There are also phishing attempts, the attacking of remote servers, and then attacks by third-party contractors, he noted.

An attack can be as simple as, “I want to plug my laptop in your network. And the IT person says, ‘oh, you have an amplifiers. Yes.’ And all of a sudden now you are at risk because they had something either on purpose or they didn’t know on their computer. And now it just bypassed all your security,” he said.