Virtual infrastructure and data storage solutions provider VeriStor Systems has publicly released its VeriStor Cloud Backup service. It is offered to SMBs as a means of eliminating some of the costs associated with traditional backup infrastructure and alleviating management tasks relating to data protection.
Through a combination of secure cloud storage infrastructure, end-to-end managed services, data protection software, VeriStor Cloud Backup provides “data protection flexibility, assurance and reliability for a simple and convenient capacity-based monthly fee,” states a VeriStor press release submitted to ChannelPro-SMB.
VeriStor Cloud Backup is powered by the CommVault Simpana data protection platform. It offers customers features for both physical and virtual servers. Traditional, complex per-agent licensing fees are eliminated, providing support for a wide range of hypervisors, operating systems, applications, and storage products through a per-TB monthly service fee structure.
“VeriStor’s core mission is to deliver customized private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions that meet the specific data protection and virtualization needs of our customers,” says Omar Torres, VeriStor’s director of cloud services architecture and operations. “By combining the cloud with a customizable backup architecture, we have crafted a data protection solution that offers the ease-of-use and efficiencies of a cloud service, but with the enterprise features and flexibility our customers require.”†
The new VeriStor Cloud Backup service can be delivered in one of two models, depending upon the infrastructure needs of the customer:
- On-Site Backup + Cloud Replication, Retention & Archive – Ideal for environments with large data sets, this delivery model provides high-speed local backup and recovery through a fully-managed on-premise appliance with de-duplication and secure, encrypted replication to a secondary offsite VeriStor Cloud facility for long-term retention and archive.
- Cloud Backup + Cloud Retention and Archive – Optimized for environments with smaller data sets, this model transfers de-duplicated, encrypted backup data directly to the cloud with multiple copies stored in geographically dispersed VeriStor Cloud facilities for long-term retention and archive.
Both delivery models support the full complement of CommVault advanced data management features, including source- and target-side de-duplication and encryption as well as Simpana OnePass to provide efficient, integrated support for archiving, e-discovery, and compliance. VeriStor also provides off-site replication target capacity for customers with existing CommVault Simpana installations. All offerings can be integrated with VeriStor Cloud Continuity ‘Disaster Recovery as a Service’ (DRaaS).
VeriStor Cloud Backup operates from secure SAS-70/SSAE16-certified datacenters across the U.S. and is fully managed and monitored by VeriStor’s 24×7 Network Operations Center. VeriStor also operates its award-winning VeriStor Cloud Continuity and VeriStor Cloud Secure Archive services from these secure data centers.
