Nexsan and Veeam
All three of Nexsan’s traditional storage platforms; the E-Series, Unity, and BEAST Elite have been qualified as Veeam Ready, which means they have exceeded Veeam’s functional and performance tests for backup and restore operations.
Veeam is the leading backup solution for cloud data management, providing one platform for a modern backup solution incorporating the hybrid cloud and keeping data secure. They fit into any environment and are consistently reliable.
The Nexsan storage solutions integration tools such as the vCenter Plugin provide easy monitoring, configuration, and provisioning of your E-Series, and BEAST Elite storage systems in VMware environments
We rely on data to run our businesses. Losing access for a few hours or days can have a significant impact on productivity and profitability. As security and ransomware threats increase year after year, organizations need a robust backup strategy.
Nine million data records are compromised each day. While we must make every effort to keep this data secure, it must also be available. With each passing year, more and more data is created. It is estimated that the amount of data created in 2023 will surpass one trillion gigabytes, over ten times the amount of data created in 2014. And through this increasing data creation, there is also an increased risk of data loss.
How so?
- Ransomware and other malicious attacks: Cybercrime is on the rise. It’s estimated that there will be a ransomware attack on a business every 11 seconds in 2021, up dramatically from every 40 seconds in 2016.
- Fires, floods, and natural disasters: The California wildfires in 2020 showed us the extent of damage an out-of-control wildfire can do, and businesses are taking notice. More S&P 500 companies are flagging wildfires as a risk. Only 9 S&P companies noted the risk of wildfires in 2010, and by 2019, 37 companies had chosen to do so.
- Other reasons: Machine failure and audits or archives are important reasons to consider backups. Also, a fast backup plan can give you a competitive edge. In the event of a disaster, the first businesses that are up and running will be able to take on the business of all the competitors who have not recovered yet.
Essentially? It pays to be prepared.
Some organizations rely on archives to do this, but archives frequently are not enough. Archives capture snapshots of data that is not actively used and stores it for retrieval. Backups are copies of data and applications that are actively used. They can restore data that is lost, corrupted, or damaged.
The main difference here is that backups can be used to restore data; archives are there just to retrieve data; they cannot be used to restore operations in the same way backups can.