Whitewater Cloud Solutions

Whitewater

 

Whitewater Cloud Solutions For decades, organizations have relied on tape or local disk for their data protection needs. As accelerating data growth and strict SLAs reduce the appeal of these approaches, organizations have begun to turn to private clouds to consolidate and reduce the cost of storage. But private clouds still require extensive storage management and cost. Public cloud storage provides a compelling alternative.

The Public Cloud Storage Alternative

Public clouds offer a flexible, pay-as-you-go system for storage capacity that:

• Slashes storage cost per terabyte
• Reduces capital expenditures
• Reduces storage management overhead
• Offers compelling levels of availability
• Provides anywhere access for disaster recovery (DR)

But some IT managers still have concerns over using public cloud storage, such as:

• Will our data be secure?
• How reliable is cloud storage?
• What process and infrastructure changes are needed?
• What about performance?

Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateways Overcome Barriers to Cloud Adoption

The Riverbed® Whitewater™ public cloud storage gateway for data protection overcomes these concerns and makes public cloud storage a compelling option for backup and archiving. As an asymmetric solution (no hardware needed in the cloud), the Whitewater appliance is essentially a cloud storage gateway in a box, providing:

• Fast, drop-in access to public cloud storage services like Amazon S3, AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service (based on EMC Atmos), and Nirvanix, with local-like backup and restore performance.
• Built-in support for all major backup tool platforms, including Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec, IBM Tivoli (TSM), Quest vRanger, EMC NetWorker and CA ARCserve, requiring no change to existing backup infrastructure or rewrite of existing applications.
• Optimization and both network and storage deduplication to minimize data transfer bandwidth and storage capacity needed.
• SSL v3 and AES 256- bit encryption for dual-layer data security in motion and at rest.

Unlocking the benefits of cloud storage while addressing customer concerns, the Whitewater solution overcomes the barriers to making cloud storage, cloud backup, and cloud archive an integral part of an organization's data protection strategy.

Key Whitewater Benefits:

• Reduce data protection costs
• Meet accelerated recovery SLAs
• Simplify off-site data storage for DR
• Secure offsite data
• Deploy with no change to existing backup infrastructure