AWSBackup

We understand this problem at Clumio. We’ve designed our services to help protect applications and data wherever they reside. Today’s announcement extends this coverage to the large number of apps running on AWS with EC2 and EBS volumes.

No matter where your workload is running there has to be a single place to protect and manage your data.

We find a lot of customers are making compromises with their data protection requirements when they move applications to the cloud due to unpredictable costs and hard to manage solutions. This is preventing customers from moving their business critical applications to the cloud.

Using a solution like Clumio it is very easy to backup from on-prem VMW and restore it back to VMC (vmware on AWS)

Data Residence is such a massive challenge in modern architecture. Where the data lives should not be a concern, but it always is causing challenges for applications and of course security and data protection and backup. #AWSBackup

Lack of comprehensive, unified, on-demand backup-and-restore across on-prem and public clouds probably slows down the move toward these hybrid cloud environments, due to the risks of moving too fast.

hybrid apps can run on-prem or in your public cloud account, so you need to have a single way to manage all of your data together in order to provide seamless data access across your disparate environments and have the ease of same policy-driven management everywhere.

Finally, you can better understand how Clumio addresses complex infrastructure like hybrids.
https://clumio.com/why-clumio/

Yes! Compliance is a key element of our SaaS services. We have completed ISO and will be complete on PCI and HIPAA by year end. Other services in progress are GDPR/CCPA and FEDRAMP scheduled for next year.

To tackle the Security aspects, we made sure from day one that the customer's backup data never leaves their environment in an unencrypted fashion. Further, customers can also bring their own encryption keys to control the lifecycle of the backup data.

There are risks in vendor solutions that take a classic datacenter approach and mindset to the problem. There are inherent benefits and investments in physical, environmental and data security of the public cloud.

simply put you can't have your primary workload running in the public cloud and have your data protection designed for the appliances.

In a world where enterprises have workloads in different clouds the data protection solution must seamlessly cover all the providers and allow customers to manage all of them using a single solution, rather than multiple.

An on-demand pay-as-you-go approach is essential for doing continuous data backup/restore out of opex in a multicloud world.

Cloud Native SaaS is the only way to go once you have hybridized your workloads. Appliance management becomes untenable at cloud scale.

Customers are continually defining and redefining their cloud strategies, and that requires a massive amount of flexibility, scalability, and agility to protect these workloads no matter where they live. You can't do that effectively if you're technology is rooted in HW

In today's hybrid #multicloud environment, private cloud and even on-prem increasingly follows cloud architectures - having a cloud-native approach is essential to maintaining enterprise-wide, data-wide security & integrity. #awsbackup

Whether or not the on-demand data protection service is "cloud-native" (ie., containerized), that's probably going to be a growing trend, but it's not essentially to the justification for doing this on a SaaS basis.

It's all about agility and scale! Clumio's native cloud solution is architected to ensure cloud workloads are secure. The platform addresses data fragmentation (On prem, Public Cloud, SaaS) that no other solution can meet!

discussing this at #kubecon - if being #cloudnative means putting the solution into Kubernetes, you can move your application and bring the data along between clouds.

I love that quote about shipping service.

AWS is a great platform for running applications in the cloud. But a lot of companies are finding challenges with protecting these applications, or maybe taking a risk by trying to protect these EC2/EBS apps with snapshots alone.

I'm not sure what we mean by "traditional tech vendors" in this context, but SaaS is a key means for addressing key tech requirements on a pay-as-you-go basis when an enterprise lacks internal IT resources to do something--eg cloud data backup/protection--adequately.

EBS snapshots alone are not sufficient when it comes to data protection. And we see a lot of our users implementing one off solutions/scripts to workaround this issue

@jameskobielus We see many customers looking at #backup as an ideal workload for #SaaS. It offloads the burden of backup so they can move faster on more strategic initiatives. And improves security and compliance in the process.

I don't think it's an issue of "tech vendors can't keep up," so much as it's an issue of traditional software-release cycles can't keep pace with dynamic requirements. SaaS enables a versionless, continuous-refresh cycle for feature enhancements.

@jameskobielus SaaS is not just an opex model for procuring traditional hardware/software. We are finding customers want to first look at SaaS (no hw/sw to procure) such as Workday, ServiceNow and Salesforce to fill a business need. Clumio is doing the same for data protection.

@jameskobielus the traditional vendors are also stuck with the old model where it is impossible to ship features without shipping the extra management complexity along with the feature.
Think about it google adds new features in gmail all the time without adding complexity.