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ARTESCA 3.0 Delivers New CORE5 Cyber Resilience

Taylor Graham — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:00:36 +0000

Scality has unveiled the latest version of ARTESCA, the industry’s exclusive S3 object storage software featuring CORE5 end-to-end cyber resilience, providing five distinct levels of protection from API to architecture. Now available for the Veeam® Data Platform, ARTESCA 3.0 tackles the increasing threats enterprises face as cybercriminals use AI to launch more sophisticated ransomware attacks.

“Every vendor selling immutable storage claims their solution will make your data ransomware-proof, but it’s clear — immutability is not enough to keep data 100% protected,” said Paul Speciale, chief marketing officer, Scality. “94% of IT leaders rely on immutable storage as a foundational aspect of their cybersecurity strategy. If immutable backups were the answer, then why did ransom payments double in 2023 to more than $1 billion? It’s time that the storage industry goes beyond immutability to deliver end-to-end cyber resilience.”

Beyond immutability with new ARTESCA CORE5 for Veeam
ARTESCA 3.0 is the first object storage software to provide such comprehensive data protection. Scality’s new CORE5 capabilities safeguard data at 5 critical levels from API-to-Architecture for end-to-end cyber resilience:

API-level: Immutability implemented via S3 object lock provides a powerful top-line defense by ensuring backups are immutable the instant they’re created. Strong multi-factor authentication (MFA) and access control help administrators prevent breaches on employees.
Data-level: Multiple layers of data-level security measures are employed to prevent attackers from accessing and exfiltrating stored data
Storage-level: Advanced encoding techniques prevent destruction or exfiltration of backups by rendering stored data indecipherable to attackers, even those using stolen access privileges to bypass higher-level protections.
Geographic-level: Simple and affordable multi-site data copies prevent data loss even if an entire data center is targeted in an attack.
Architecture-level: An intrinsically immutable core architecture ensures data is always preserved in its original form once stored, even if the attacker attains the necessary access privileges to bypass API-level immutability.

“ARTESCA’s CORE5 capabilities set the bar for a new standard of truly cyber-resilient storage in modern data centers. Windows of exposure are effectively eliminated by providing not only the strongest form of data immutability, but also cyber resilience at all levels of the system,” said Speciale. “Together with Veeam, our customers achieve unbreakable data protection.”

Fastest data recovery for Veeam with performance at scale
ARTESCA’s tight integration with Veeam Data Platform provides fast data recovery without suffering performance degradation as data grows.

ARTESCA 3.0 for Veeam is:

Veeam Ready validated for Veeam high-performance tier deployments on hybrid and all-flash storage servers at an affordable cost
VMware Instant Recovery Ready with ultra-high performance on all-flash servers
Simple-to-use compatibility with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Veeam Kasten in a single system
Quickly and effortlessly configured as a ransomware-hardened Veeam repository, thanks to its unique built-in Veeam Assistant tool
Offered as a turnkey hardware appliance for Veeam with a Quickstart Wizard to simplify integration into network environments

“As the #1 leader in data backup and ransomware recovery, Veeam works closely with our Technology Alliance Partners to advance our mission to keep businesses running,” said Andreas Neufert, vice president of product management, alliances at Veeam “This latest version of Scality ARTESCA enhances the capabilities of Veeam Data Platform, fortifying immutable backups and strengthening cyber resilience for our joint customers. When enterprises become the victim of cyber attacks, the ability to rapidly recover critical, clean data is paramount to ensure business continuity and minimal downtime. We’re excited to continue our partnership with Scality and extend this enhanced level of cyber resilience to enterprises.”

New capabilities in ARTESCA 3.0 with CORE5 cyber resilience
CORE5 cyber resilience goes beyond baseline immutability to render backup storage truly unbreakable against ransomware and malware attacks. The latest version of ARTESCA includes:

Design in accordance with US Executive Order 14028 Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and zero-trust architecture principles, including enforced authentication and end-to-end encryption of data.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for admin users that can now be globally enforced to provide additional login protection for admins and data managers
Integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD), configurable directly through the secure ARTESCA administrative UI.
Center for Internet Security (CIS) compliance testing through OpenSCAP project tools for continual conformance with CIS cybersecurity recommendations, including password strength compliance based on length, complexity and history.
Extended security-hardening of the integrated OS that disallows root access including remote shell or su as root; admin access is only granted through a system-defined artesca-os user identity adhering to the principle of least privileges.
A software bill of materials (SBOM) of components and suppliers, scanned and continuously patched for CVEs, to provide customers with visibility into their software supply chain, and automated OS updates to quickly patch vulnerabilities.
Increased growth to 8.5PB of usable capacity, with support for leading high-density servers from an even wider choice of storage hardware and broadened support for multiple types of flash drives.
Assured high data durability for high-density flash drives and HDD with enhanced dual-level erasure-coding.

Easy deployment options
ARTESCA 3.0 object storage software is designed to be deployed quickly, with three on-premise solutions to suit your needs:

Turnkey hardware appliance for Veeam built on Supermicro servers
Software on your preferred industry-standard servers
Virtual appliance for VMware-powered data centers

How to purchase ARTESCA
ARTESCA 3.0 will be available in Q3 2024 through a wide network of certified reseller partners globally.

To learn more about Scality Artesca 3.0 CORE5, visit the website here.

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Scality ARTESCA Expands New Channel-Friendly Appliance

Taylor Graham — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:45:09 +0000

Scality has revealed fresh investments in its product line, simplifying the path for Veeam® customers to enhance cyber resilience and safeguard against ransomware. This is achieved through a novel hardware appliance deployment model specifically designed for Veeam, a prominent figure in data protection and ransomware recovery.

A new channel-friendly hardware appliance will be available in the US by the end of November 2023 (and in other regions in January 2024). This extends deployment options for Scality ARTESCA beyond existing software and virtual appliance offerings. Available in three sizes (single- to 3-node configurations) ranging from 96 to 648 TB in storage capacity, the appliance offers customers an ultra-simple and efficient deployment experience with easy installation and improved performance.

Next-gen Scality ARTESCA revenue grows by 350% at the end of Q3 2023

Since its launch in 2021 and the 2.0 announcement this past May, ARTESCA has maintained a consistent growth trajectory. The momentum continues with what’s shaping up to be a record year.

ARTESCA is channel-friendly

The new hardware appliance provides a rapid “plug-and-play” deployment model for Veeam that is ideal for a high-velocity channel. Veeam and Scality resellers now have the opportunity to give customers:

Flexible deployment options: With the addition of a hardware appliance to existing software and virtual appliance offerings, Scality now provides a variety of deployment options to fit any customer need.
Fast and secure deployment: ARTESCA is the easiest immutable storage solution to get up and running quickly to protect large-scale unstructured data.

The hardware appliance is built, optimized and tested by a leading systems integrator and sold through certified distribution and VAR channels, giving partners an easy way to sell and deploy ARTESCA to a wider range of accounts.

Scality ARTESCA hardware appliance offers maximum cyber resilience for Veeam customers

The hardware appliance includes continued enhancements to ARTESCA software and a hardened operating system to provide customers with the most secure, immutable storage for Veeam in an easy-to-deploy solution.

Enhanced cyber-resiliency features in the new ARTESCA hardware appliance include:

Secure user access: Improved multi-factor authentication
Tighter OS/root access protections: Limited user privilege rights and increased root access protections with the introduction of a new ARTESCA-OS user profile
Improved compliance standards: Hardened Linux with Rocky Linux 8, compliant with CIS (Center for Internet Security) policy Level 2
Risk mitigation with reduced software updates: Tightened protections for installation with a preconfigured ARTESCA OS to reduce the number of required updates

“The ARTESCA appliance solutions build on Scality’s proven technology and empower customers who seek out a predictable and efficient cloud-native storage platform.” Dan Alonso; Business Development Manager and Senior Technologist at Cloud Service Solution Provider,Flagler.

“Scality’s focus on security with the new ARTESCA hardware appliance is critical for Veeam customers facing the constant threat of cyberattacks. Resellers will also gain the benefit of a hardened Scality appliance designed to ease deployment, at a time when greater data protection needs are a top driver for storage budget increases.” Carol Sliwa; Research Director at IDC Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group,IDC.

“With persistent cyberattacks increasing, the question is no longer if or when, but how often an organization will be impacted, making it more critical than ever for organizations to have the right data protection and recovery capabilities in place. As the #1 global leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, Veeam collaborates closely with our partners, including Scality, to keep businesses running. The new ARTESCA hardware appliance provides our joint customers with secure immutable storage in an easy-to-deploy solution, further strengthening their ability to bounce forward from a cybersecurity incident.” Larissa Crandall; Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances,Veeam.

“The growth we’ve seen in the ARTESCA backup solution for Veeam inspired us to double down on our commitment by giving more options for VARs to monetize strong interest from the Veeam community. The ARTESCA hardware appliance gives Veeam customers an unbreakable backup and recovery solution that can withstand any threat. Adding a hardware option to virtual and software appliance options also empowers our partners to deploy the most secure immutable storage offering while keeping the customer’s preference front and center.” Peter Brennan, Chief Revenue Officer, Scality.

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Kasten K10 Announces Support for AWS for Containers Anywhere

Taylor Graham — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:29:54 +0000

Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, announced the availability of the Kasten K10 Kubernetes data management platform in AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere. AWS Marketplace customers can now seamlessly purchase and license Kasten K10. Enterprises will be able to extend the same protection offered by Kasten K10 for Kubernetes applications on AWS to their Kubernetes clusters on-premises to better protect and optimize their Kubernetes investments.

“Veeam, a member of the AWS Partner Network, has expanded its relationship with AWS by launching the Kasten by Veeam well-architected backup and disaster recovery products for AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere,” said Chris Grusz, Director of AWS Marketplace, AWS. “Now, AWS customers can find Kasten by Veeam in AWS Marketplace and deploy on any Kubernetes cluster in any environment, in AWS or on-premises Kubernetes clusters, creating simple and secure protection for growing Kubernetes application deployments regardless of physical location.”

More than 90% of organizations used Kubernetes in 2020 — an increase of 33% over the previous two years, according to a recent report by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).[i] To address the Kubernetes data protection needs of enterprises adopting hybrid cloud strategies, the benefits of Kasten K10’s availability in AWS Marketplace include:

Easy procurement and flexible license management in AWS Marketplace: Flexible procurement options include contract options, where customers subscribe to the application for a term of one month, one year, two years, or three years. With the support of AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere, Kasten K10’s AWS Marketplace listing for hybrid deployments includes support for on-premises clusters with upstream Kubernetes in addition to clusters on AWS.
Simple, reliable, AWS-integrated backup and recovery: Purpose-built for Kubernetes, Kasten K10 can be deployed in minutes within Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) or Amazon EKS Anywhere. The solution’s application-centric approach and deep integrations with the most popular relational and NoSQL databases, and storage systems provide backup/restore of entire Kubernetes applications. In addition, the solution provides support of several AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) for exceptional operational simplicity.
Enhanced ransomware protection with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Object Lock: A common Amazon S3 target can be used as reliable target storage for all on-premises and cloud-native Amazon EKS backups. Using Amazon S3 Object Lock, Kasten K10 delivers a Kubernetes data protection solution against ransomware and insider-threats.
Application mobility and disaster recovery (DR) across Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Anywhere: Moving applications across Amazon EKS clusters on premises, on cloud infrastructure, and across AWS Regions is an extremely powerful capability made easy by Kasten K10. The solution supports a variety of use cases, including test/dev, performance and scalability testing, and even full cluster DR.

“Availability in AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere will bring the benefits of the hardened Kubernetes backup and DR capabilities offered by Kasten K10 by Veeam to a wider range of users,” said Andy Langsam, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Public Cloud Solutions and Kasten by Veeam. “With more than 90% of organizations worldwide planning to rely on a mix of on-premises/dedicated private clouds, multiple public clouds, and legacy platforms to meet their infrastructure needs by 2022, [Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2020 Predictions, Doc # US44640719, Oct 2019] accelerating Kasten’s capabilities will be beneficial to many of our customers and prospects. This further strengthens our commitment to support our customers’ business transformation efforts to future-ready architectures and procurement options.”

“As customers migrate more of their environments to cloud and container environments, they are looking for the ability to easily flex their subscription licenses as their resource requirements change, to improve cost efficiency,” said Krista Macomber, Senior Analyst Data Protection and Multi-cloud Data Management at Evaluator Group. “The new availability of Kasten by Veeam in AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere increases flexibility and convenience for customers when it comes to licensing and procurement for container solutions, wherever they might reside.”

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Veeam Expands Google Cloud Partnership and Increases Public Cloud Support

Taylor Graham — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:25:18 +0000

Veeam ^® Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, announced its expansion of public cloud support with the general availability of NEW Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform – completing Veeam’s support for all three major public cloud providers. With the majority of organizations now running hybrid or multi-cloud environments and 72% of those using public cloud currently having more than one vendor in place^[i], Google Cloud is one of the top five-largest public cloud infrastructure providers worldwide.^[ii] With this new offering, Veeam delivers a single platform to protect, secure and manage all applications and data – cloud, virtual and physical – enabling organizations to accelerate hybrid-cloud adoption.

“Veeam recognizes the strategic importance of the cloud to our 400,000+ global customers and we are committed to providing broad platform support and choice,” said Danny Allan, chief technology officer and senior vice president of product strategy at Veeam. “As we now expand public cloud support even further with the general availability of Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, we have simultaneously expanded our partnership with Google Cloud, enabling Veeam to jointly engage customers through the Google Cloud Marketplace. Additionally, with Veeam recently acquiring Kasten, customers can also acquire Kasten’s K10 datamanagement platform, purpose-built for Kubernetes, through the Google Cloud Marketplace.”

Veeam helps customers address security and data protection responsibilities by delivering Google Cloud backup and recovery to protect and secure applications and data, utilizing and automating Google Cloud-native technologies to quickly and reliably overcome any cloud data loss.

New functionality of Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform includes:

Google Cloud-Native: Simple yet powerful web UI, deployable from the Google Cloud Marketplace starts protecting data in minutes; Policy-Based Automation of Google Cloud-native snapshots for fast and frequent recovery points, and rapid full- and file-level recovery options to overcome any cloud data loss.
Cost Optimization: Industry-first cost calculation to align service-level objectives (SLOs) with budgets while avoiding cloud overspend; back up to Google Cloud object storage for cost-effective long-term retention and compliance.
Security: Overcome security threats including ransomware as well as insider threats by isolating backup data from production (cross-project/cross-region); layered security to protect against brute force attacks with multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Hybrid-Ready: Portable data format and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication external repositories enables easy recovery outside of Google Cloud; utilizes flexible Veeam Universal Licensing (VUL) to simplify license management and enable Cloud Mobility.

New Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform FREE edition (up to 10 Google Cloud workloads can be backed up with unlimited restore options and best effort support) and BYOL edition (VUL with flexible Cloud Data Management and production 24/7 support) is available now in the Google Cloud Marketplace.

For more information, please visit www.veeam.com.

Supporting Quotes

“As customers migrate their most business-critical workloads to the cloud, data protection and management are top of mind. With the expanded availability of Veeam’s data backup solutions on Google Cloud, customers can quickly deploy and manage these applications at global scale, while benefiting from Veeam’s capabilities in data protection.” – Manvinder Singh, Director, Partnerships at Google Cloud

“Organizations leveraging hybrid cloud infrastructure can increase both the value and performance of their workloads by taking advantage of data movement across on-premises and cloud environments. However, this environment requires complex data protection solutions to meet customer demands for data recovery and resilience. While solving this problem has historically been the responsibility of the enterprise, providers like Veeam can help by adding granular levels of automation and data protection which allow organizations to ensure they are prepared in the event of data loss or downtime. Veeam can also provide organizations with abstracted tools to help better understand their resource usage and cost in hybrid cloud environments. When it comes to cloud infrastructure deployment, cost and data resilience remain two of the most difficult challenges facing organizations. Veeam’s updates show it is dedicated to helping organizations understand and overcome these challenges.” – Andrew Smith, Research Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Services at IDC

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