CIO Bulletin

An expert redefining data protection for Amazon S3: Clumio

Clumio is relentlessly focused on taking the complexity out of cloud backup and delivering an experience that is easy, flexible, and secure. Take a stroll through some of the significant achievements that have put us at the forefront of data protection and ransomware solutions. Enterprises want to use VMC to move their VMs to the cloud, and they need a secure, easy to manage data protection solution. Current solutions require separate backup applications to run on-prem and in the cloud. Capacity planning for these solutions is complicated and time-consuming. It is also challenging to deal with complicated, capacity-based licensing models. Managing backup compliance is also a challenge due to multiple or fragmented management consoles. Further, current solutions often spawn fragmented security solutions that increase management complexity and adversely impact security. A single, secure backup service that protects VMs that runs on VMC, in your data centers, or any remote sites.

There is no hardware or software to size, configure, manage, or buy. Scale on-demand as resources are automatically activated to meet requirements. This approach means that capacity planning is no longer required. Predictable Costs – pricing is based on the number of VMs protected, regardless of how large they grow. Always-On Security – all backups are encrypted in-transit, and at rest. Built on AWS, Clumio benefits from AWS’s investments in physical and environmental security, compliance, data governance, and data durability.

SecureVault Lite for Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS

Clumio SecureVault Lite for Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS delivers fast backups and data recovery in seconds, to provide customers with quick ransomware protection and lower recovery time objectives (RTO) for business continuity SLAs at 30% less cost Clumio SecureVault Lite for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Enterprises today demand data protection solutions which protect application data outside of the organization’s access control domain to ensure business continuity. While the cloud operating model enables customers to innovate at a pace never seen before, it can also result in unbridled usage and additional complexity for the customer to manage. Organizations are continuously faced with the daunting task of doing more with less which can lead to balancing trade-offs between cost savings and meeting key security and compliance objectives.

Today with SecureVault Lite, enterprises are no longer faced with the choice between ransomware protection and cost reduction. Clumio’s continued innovation and integration with AWS native services, has resulted in a 30% savings compared to SecureVault, allowing air gap protection at a similar cost as local in-account snapshots. This makes achieving air gap ransomware protection more affordable, to ensure all data is securely protected, no matter what security challenges arise. Clumio’s rapid recovery capabilities has helped numerous organizations remediate ransomware attacks, avoid paying the ransom, and get backup in running in a matter of hours. Clumio’s intuitive centralized management system with global backup policies seeks to eliminate operational complexities, helps ensure compliance needs are met, and enables a secure yet cost-effective cloud operating model.

“With the increased threat of ransomware and insider attacks to organizations’ business-critical data in the cloud, implementing a cloud data protection strategy that delivers air-gapped, immutable backups has become table-stakes. In fact, cyber insurance companies now assess risk based on whether organizations have saved backups outside of their access domain” said Poojan Kumar, Chief Executive Officer at Clumio. “However, in their effort to get this done, many organizations were invariably faced with the tough task of selecting between security and reducing cloud spend. With the addition of Clumio SecureVault Lite to its platform, Clumio is eliminating the need to make this choice and truly making air-gapped backups in AWS effortless and accessible to all.”

Clumio SecureVault Lite for Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS key benefits include:

30% cost reduction: Clumio SecureVault Lite backups are affordably priced at $0.035 per GB per month, reducing the cost of protecting critical application data by up to 30% compared to SecureVault. This cost optimization enables air gap protection at similar cost as in account snapshots. SecureVault backups can be protected in Clumio’s out of the production region and recovered to any AWS account.
Ransomware and bad actor protection: Clumio SecureVault Lite backups are stored outside of the customer’s AWS account, completely separated from the production environment. Customer data is stored on immutable storage, and is encrypted both at-rest and in-flight, with the ability for customers to bring their own keys. In addition, Clumio provides multi-factor authentication (MFA) with Single Sign-On (SSO) integration, access controls for assets and roles, and no delete button.
Compliance made easy: Simple and intuitive reports in Clumio Protect and Clumio Discover ensure compliance requirements are met. Additionally, the platform and underlying controls are compliant with HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, AICPA SOC
Rapid recovery: Clumio SecureVault is optimized for both backup and recovery leveraging deep integrations with AWS native services which are optimized for scale and provides a simple calendar view to find all recovery points. Clumio SecureVault Lite enables enterprises rapid recovery of Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon EBS volumes to any AWS account

Meet the leader behind the success of Clumio

Poojan Kumar is the CEO and Co-Founder at Clumio. Poojan brings 18 years of experience in cloud computing and storage and is known for seeing an opportunity for change, innovating and capitalizing on it. Poojan founded and built PernixData that was acquired by Nutanix in 2016; he then served as Vice President of Engineering and Products. Earlier in his career, he was Head of Data Products at VMware and founder at Oracle Exadata.