As students are returning to classrooms all over the country, hackers are coming back as well. A string of ransomware attacks just recently hit several schools, which makes for a reasonable question of what to do to prevent such danger. In this article by Anthony Cusimano, you can find out how object storage as a primary backup can keep schools’ data safer.
David Bennet, CEO at Object First, described ransomware as the modern-day version of “hostage taking” in a bank robbery to facilitate an outcome. “Now you can essentially expand ‘bank robbing’ to a wide market with the click of a mouse,” Bennet said.
Anthony Cusimano, director of technical marketing, reveals the details about Object First’s S3-compatible object storage. The two Veeam founders, Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov announced the in June. Anthony explains that the system delivers more than 1GBps of throughput and uses S3-compatible object storage, with object lock for immutability, and the public cloud for longer-term retention.
Object First’s vice president of product marketing, Tony Liau describes how critical it is for organizations to invest in data protection in a world where data is constantly evolving. Data protection used to be a director or vice president-level decision, and with the exponential rise of ransomware, data protection has become a C-level or board-level discussion for every business. While the best-case scenario is stopping a ransomware attack before it hits production environments, that’s not always possible. Therefore, organizations must back up their data.
Here’s a different spin on old tech to add faster bounce to your bounce-back plans for dealing with a cloud outage. While object storage itself has been around for 20+ years, only now are we seeing the consideration and optimization of object storage for backup and recovery, explains Tony Liau, vice president of product marketing at Object First, a provider of object-based storage. The optimized performance enables the ability to run failed workloads directly from backup, ensuring companies are business as usual within minutes during any outages.
