London-Based Managed Service Provider (MSP) Autodata Products has opted for scality artesca object storage through Pay-Aas-You-Go Purchasing optionWhich it uses to supply on-love backup against raansomware for customers.
Benefits of the Scsp Licensing Model Include Being able Recovery time objectives (RTOS, And at the same cost per terabyte (TB) Whather IT's for 25TB or 2.5PB (Petabytes).
Autodata Products Provides It Solutions focused on Backup, Storage and Security via its cloudlake offer, predominantly based on wasabi cloud, Veeam Backup and Scality Storage. It has Around 500 customers on Rolling Monthly Contracts and Has Offices in the Us and the Netherlands.
Within its core offer it has cloudlake ransomware recoverry vault (RRV), and it is here that it decided to offer services using scality artsca and scsp. It was already a customer of veeam's pay-raou-ga program.
RRV is based Around the provision of On-Site Immutable Storage For customers. Here, Autodata Deploys Scality Artesca Object Storage as a Backup Target and pays only for what is used by its customers.
Scality launched version 2.0 of its artesca platform in 2023, and Built in a big emphasis on the ransomware protection inharet to object storge. Artesca is scality's object storage product aimed at single application use cases and is hevily targeted at data protection.
According to head of datacentre and cloud services Ant bucknorAutodata recommends customers keep a workable Amount of Critical Data on-Site so they can restore very very quickly should a raansomware attack or Outage Occur.
He said: “Our clients were restoring their data from the cloud. But that would often break their rto policy because of the length of time it would take take to get everything back up and run, then they would connect to the cloud location and the cloud Take TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE WOLD CHEM LONGEGER THE DATA Back. “
So, how much data does autodata recommend customers store on-Site?
“I would sugged probally the last 30 days,” said bucknor. “That would be my base guide, but obvious every client's different. We've got clients where they have data they need to recover qiytly from the last six months and others where IF it's over 48 hours 48 hours old the data is complete
“The cloud will provide you with a full copy, and it will be immutable. But it isn’t Necessarily going to be Quick Enough. ”
Key to the benefits for autodata are that it can supply ransomware recovery solutions that would have been out of raach of raach of raach of Sme and mid-middle customers previous, and that as it buys more evys more evys more. Scality prices should decrease.
Bucknor said: “Traditionally, these solutions were in the hundreds of thirds of pounds. Whereas, because of the flexibility we have scality, we now have solutions that are suitable for SMB, Mid-MARKET, Education, Local Government, Etc, Whrees theses these alses these alses these als Been accessible to that market before.
“There's a benefits from a profitability at scale point of view, as in the more of these we do over time, the bigger the benefits there is to autodata as a business, with a knocker Terms for our customers. “
Pay-raou-ou-Go is relatively new in Storage PurchasingBut it's a rising trend. HPE offers pay-raou-ga storage as part of its greenlake offer Netapp, meanwhile, offers keystone storage as-a-service, while pure storage has its evern storage programs.
“Pay-aas-you-Go is the future,” said bucknor. “The reason is, people want to have a Cloud-Like Purchasing Model Where They want to know what their costs are. Not have boughbht something over five years and suddenly they want to buy an extra few terabytes of data and it's three times the price, the price, they're locked in. People want a more flexible solution. “