The data that your business collects needs to be managed and monitored for it be utilised properly. All data is valuable, but some information may not be as relevant to your current business goals. Therefore, inactive information needs to be securely stored and organized in case it is needed for the future. With Long-Term Archiving, your less frequently used business data is readily available when required, giving you greater control over information management.

Data that is not archived properly is harder to locate, secure and retrieve, while also becoming inaccessible to other users. Whether for compliance, backup, or regulatory reasons, your business needs to archive data and may eventually need to retrieve it. Having to find this hidden information with a non-intuitive system wastes time, energy, and resources, putting a dent in your business productivity.

The Challenge

Long-term archiving is not a new process, but newer technologies allow users to do more, and with that comes capacity-intensive file formats. Archiving this data on disk drives or Digital Linear Tapes (DLT) requires a lot of manual maintenance and management. Usually, DLTs are stored in a tape library with backup copies stored at an offsite location. When a file is required, a request would be made with the archive team, which would then take an average of 24 hours to identify, retrieve and deliver the needed files.

The Solution

Object storage-based archive can incorporate a hybrid cloud model for disaster recovery and capacity expansion. This storage model improves workflows with fast data delivery, improved search, and automated data management for disaster recovery purposes. A cost-effective hybrid cloud approach enables storage to be archived on-site with a backup in the cloud, capitalizing on the advantages of both public cloud and private datacenter resources. On-premises storage provides easy access to your data for production purposes, while the cloud offers a second tier that can be used to backup less frequently used content. This approach offers many benefits, but also requires users to ensure API compatibility across the entire system so that all applications are compatible.

How it works

Object storage systems employ a fully distributed, peer-to-peer architecture, with no single point of failure. The system is resilient to network and node failures with no data loss due to the automatic replication and recovery processes inherent in the architecture. A cluster can be deployed across multiple datacenters to provide redundancy and resilience in the event of a datacenter-scale disaster.  A recoverable copy of the data is available from the object storage system itself, and you can also connect the system to a tape backup system for an extra layer of protection.

Long-Term Archiving with Cloudian HyperStore

Cloudian HyperStore offers scalable and resilient object storage at a competitive price, allowing you to organize and archive your unstructured data with no hassle. Integrated disaster recovery, intuitive storage scalability, built-in security, guarantee that HyperStore can scale along with your business and match your data archiving needs, regardless of circumstance. In addition, the solution boasts a fully native S3 API, meaning that any S3-enabled applications that would work with Amazon AWS will be compatible with HyperStore and ensuring API compatibility across the entire solution. By bringing costs down to about ½ cent per GB per month with a highly efficient architecture and industry-standard components, HyperStore will also save you resources on CapEx, operational overhead, and even rack space. Whether kept on-premise or backed up to the cloud, your business data will be safe, secure, and easily manageable with Cloudian HyperStore.

Benefits of cloudOnsync’s Long-term Archiving Solution with Cloudian

• Fast access to data
• Near-limitless capacity
• Modular and easily-managed growth
• Public cloud integration with AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Metadata tagging for easy data searching
• Guaranteed compatibility with S3-enabled applications
• Low cost and high efficiency

Arcserve provides exceptional solutions to protect the priceless digital assets of its clients, their solutions portfolio includes back up, disaster recovery, high availability, email backup, archiving solutions for cloud, and virtual & physical environments. Arcserve has been a catalyst for IT transformation throughout the past 30 years, their experience allows them to bring decades of innovation and hours of iteration to the solutions they provide.

In the event of a disaster, Arcserve confidently and quickly brings companies back online so they can efficiently return to satisfying their customer’s needs. While Arcserve provides all the backup and recovery software, cloudOnsync delivers enterprise grade reliability and security with data protection and data copy management features needed by enterprise applications. cloudOnsync’s environment built on HPE hardware stack offers 100% Canadian data residency and an End-to-End encrypted VPN connection. With these combined benefits, this partnership is guaranteed to provide its customers with excellent solutions that:

Minimize and eliminate downtime, as well as prevent data loss from all IT platforms

Protect mission-critical systems from cyber-attacks, ransomware, and other unplanned disruptions

Detect and reverse ransomware encryption, recovering all your systems and data safely and securely

Facilitate digital transformation strategies with cross-cloud and multi-cloud data protection

Manage and protect every type of workload without juggling multiple tools or interfaces

Increase stakeholder transparency and manage legal compliance risk

Reduce IT complexity and costs by up to 50%

Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP), a reliable, all-in-one disaster recovery and backup for cloud, virtual and physical workloads. Powered by heterogeneous, image-based technology that protects to and from any target, it eliminates the need for discrete products. With UDP you can:

Safeguard IT systems and applications in cloud, virtual and physical environments from one interface

Reduce the risks of extended downtime by cutting RTOs and RPOs from days to minutes

Scale up, down & out to the cloud on-demand, turning capabilities on & off without forklift upgrades

Validate RTOs, RPOs, and SLAs with built-in Assured Recovery™ testing

Free up to 20x more storage with built-in global, source-side deduplication

Reclaim up to 50% more time to spend on strategic IT initiatives

Call 905-709-4900 and connect with a cloudOnsync reseller to learn about how you can get Arcserve’s UDP for your business. You can also visit www.Arcserve.com for more information on data protection solutions.

Growing customer demand for flexible IT provisioning and pricing, due to advances in cloud computing, is driving adoption of consumption based or ‘as-a-service’ delivery models. How could this new model work for your business?
As mindsets change from emphasizing ownership to focusing on performance and access, consumption-based delivery is replacing large capital investments in IT infrastructure. Market intelligence provider IDC (International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that, by 2020, “consumption-based procurement will account for as much as 40% of enterprises’ IT infrastructure spending”.

How does the consumption-based model work?

Instead of paying a fixed cost and investing in your own IT resources, the consumption-based model lets you pay a third party for the resources you use. Think of it as pay-as-you-go for your IT infrastructure and services.

The value proposition of this approach has obvious benefits for enterprises, as they do not have to acquire or manage hardware. Similarly, managed service providers do not have to build their infrastructure to support deployment – which allows them to prioritize service delivery and customer support.

The business case for consumption-based IT services

If you need to build a business case for adopting a consumption-based approach for your enterprise, consider these benefits:

• Agility and flexibility to respond to changing needs of your business
• Access scalable resources with an elastic IT resource that allows you to deploy and scale quickly
• Reduce or eliminate the up-front costs of purchasing physical IT assets
• Projects can be initiated without worrying about infrastructure costs
• You get access to the latest technology and capabilities without any major capital investment
• Adopted enterprise-wide, a consumption-based approach can simplify the management of your IT resources
• The efficiency and speed offered can give your enterprise a distinct competitive advantage
• If you cannot predict capacity demand pay-per-usage gives you the flexibility to deal with this scenario
• For IT managers a consumption-based approach takes acquisition out of the equation, as the resources can be accessed immediately
• It eliminates lengthy purchasing cycles that impact your ability to respond to market trends
• Consumption-based payments can help reduce over-provisioning of IT resources

Implementing consumption-based IT: key features

If you intend on implementing a consumption-based model for your enterprise ensure it has all the features you need, specifically:

• Hardware and software support
• Capacity management
• Metering
• Resource planning
• Patch management
• Access to leading enterprise software
• 24×7 remote monitoring and management

For practical business, legal or technical reasons, businesses often take a hybrid approach to implementation, using a mix of public cloud and on-premises infrastructure. HPE’s GreenLake offering is a hybrid cloud on-premise offering that delivers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack, with the flexibility and ability to scale IT resources with business demands – all on a pay-per-use basis. Here the offering features on-demand capacity and the agility of public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises IT.

A consumption-based delivery model allows your business to scale quickly to accommodate growth by accessing IT resources when required while reducing or eliminating expensive capital costs. It’s the way of the future – and its here right now.

In today’s technology landscape, your data is your capital. cloudOnsync’s data protection services deliver peace of mind for your critical systems and data without the high costs of traditional methods.

Best Practice Today

The 3-2-1 backup rule outlines a common approach to keeping your data safe in almost any failure scenario. The rule is: keep at least three (3) copies of your data, and store two (2) backup copies on different storage media, with one (1) of them located offsite. Clients requiring the ability to recover data or workloads can look to cloudOnsync’s (cOs) Nimble Native Replication & Disaster Recovery as a Service.

cloudOnsync’s Nimble Native Replication & Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Our DRaaS solution ensures that you can recover your data and workloads either on-premises or in our data center. Nimble Native Replication allows you to store a secondary copy of your data offsite with an option to restore to your environment. cloudOnsync can customize a solution to meet your business needs, Recovery Time (RTO) and Recovery Point (RPO) objectives while also providing compliance reports.

• No additional software or hardware required if both sites have a Nimble storage appliance (Off-site copy only)
• 256-bit encryption for storage volumes
• InfoSight Predictive Analytics and Resiliency to help manage uptime
• All data resides in Canada

cloudOnsync’s managed backup and DR service provides reliable, customizable solutions along with offsite replication and recoverability in our highly secure private cloud based on your RTO and RPO.

Learn about Cloud Volumes, Cloud Adjacent Storage, built on HPE technology, and how you can avoid egress fees and vendor lock-in. Protect and store your data with a Canadian cloud provider such as cloudOnsync and utilize our complimentary Cloud assessment, discovery, data migration and on-going support.

What is Cloud Adjacent Storage (CAS)?

Cloud adjacent storage is a hybrid cloud strategy which utilizes enterprise-grade private cloud storage provisioned to compute instances hosted by the major public cloud providers. Our cloud adjacent architecture enables Direct Connect to AWS and Express Route to Microsoft Azure high performance compute with low latency access to data in the storage at our data centre. Public cloud based applications can attach cloud adjacent volumes and access them via traditional file and block protocols such as NFS or iSCSI.

How can CAS support your business?

With Public Cloud, many organizations face digital vendor lock-in; where the public cloud hosting providers make it difficult to shift workloads away from their platform through variables cost and contracts. cloudOnsync’s Cloud Adjacent Storage offers clients the independence to pick and choose the best cloud provider for their organization’s compute requirements due to the nature of our highly-available storage. This offering reduces public cloud data egress fees by 70-80%. Data egress fees are hidden charges that most organizations face with public cloud providers for attempting to retrieve data outside the cloud infrastructure. These public cloud providers draw clients in with no fees to upload their data, then charge incredibly high fees when clients want to retrieve their data. Since our Cloud Adjacent Storage is vendor-agnostic, clients can avoid vendor lock-in.

CAS is also ideal for an organization that doesn’t have multiple datacenter-class locations and wants to keep storage as a backup replication target for disaster recovery. The cloud-adjacent nature of CAS makes it easy for clients to access their backups in the public cloud for restoration and reduces the time it takes to recover their data to the public cloud following a disaster. These replicated backups could also be used as the basis for a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution following a disaster, including offering a fully-managed solution.

Clients who want to leverage public cloud but have legislative compliance issues will certainly see the advantage of utilizing cloudOnsync’s Cloud Adjacent Storage. cloudOnsync has 100% Canadian Data residency to ensure PIPEDA compliance. This means that the data you store within Cloud Adjacent Storage remains in Canada and never leaves; you are able to avoid exposing your data to foreign regulatory burdens and legislation that could affect your ability to guarantee the security and privacy of your data.

Protect and store you data with a Canadian Data Residency such as cloudOnsync and utilize our complimentary Cloud assessment, discovery, data migration and on-going support.

Learn more about a new Cloud28+ Partner, cloudOnsync. As a Canadian Cloud Provider, cloudOnsync offers end-to-end Cloud solutions built on HPE Technology, while ensuring Canadian Data Residency.

Who we are and what we do

Begin your journey with cloudOnsync, built on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) reliable technology. Our platform is resilient and highly customizable with automated provisioning capabilities for a complete private cloud solution. Regardless of the size of your company, cloudOnsync (cOs) has the following features,

Platform Features:-

• 100% Canadian Data Residency with PIPEDA compliance
• Data Migration & Ongoing Support
• Complimentary Cloud Assessment
• Fully managed or Self-Serve
• No Costly Egress/ Hidden fees

Our cloud capabilities include self-serve or fully managed cloud services, DRaaS and the ability to manage cloud-native application architectures while providing an expanded portfolio of automation functionality that facilitates DevOps methodologies.

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Our Cloud Adjacent Storage service, also known as, Sync Cloud Volumes is very similar to HPE Cloud Volumes in the USA. Built on Nimble Storage, it can be accessed by any public cloud compute instance providing vendor-agnostic, highly-available, fast storage.

Nimble Native Replication & Recovery, which requires no additional software, delivers a simple and fast secondary copy protecting against, disaster, attack or error. cloudOnsync offers customers an offsite replication target for you Nimble backups to ensure that you have a secure and available copy of your data. We can recover you in our data center for business continuity and restore your data to the original site directly from the remote copy, ensuring no loss of data.

Customer Satisfaction

CloudOnSync is committed to the success of our customers. We offer an Onboarding Package estimated to be worth $10-20,000 to most companies with on-premises infrastructure at no cost to our customers.

Our Cloud Discovery Assessment analyzes your current environment and creates a custom roadmap for your digital transformation, identifies legacy applications and provides solutions. Following the initial assessment and preparation, our engineers walk the customer through the transformation process focusing on minimizing downtime and interruption.

Our rewarding Partner Program

CloudOnSync’s hardware partnership with HPE (HPE Gold Partner) reflects our commitment to reliability, scalability and industry leading performance. HPE, recognized as the best in class for Hyperconverged Infrastructure in the Gartner Magic Quadrant’s 2018 selection, leads the enterprise server market with innovations such as InfoSight, Nimble and SimpliVity. InfoSight provides hardware analytics and a unique Machine Learning (ML) approach to uptime maximization. Going beyond simple heuristic alerts, InfoSight is capable of identifying points of failure before they happen and proactively executing solutions, if given permission. cloudOnsync uses all this technology within the solutions that we provide to our valuable customers. Leveraging industry leading Cloud security practices and full DevOps methodology allows cOs to provide a secure and fully automated cloud solution.
Let us make the connections for you.
The three plans in our Partnership Program are White Label/OEM, Partnership, and Advisory Model. Depending on your partnership status you either become a Platinum, Silver or Gold Partner and you may have access to:
Online demo sessions with the presales team.

• Access to POC environment and onboarding assistance with the technical team.
• Sales support with pre-sales and post-sales assistance.
• Marketing collaterals (brochures, NDA, presentations, service level agreement).
• Simple deal registration process to register prospects.
• CloudOnsync (CoS Care) provides Level 1, 2, 3 support.
• Sales and technical training.
• Partner-first mentality with generous margins!

Allow cloudOnsync to simplify your operations, mitigate risk and enable flexibility for your business transformation.