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Q-Cloud® Protect is now available as a cloud-based appliance running on top of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace infrastructure. Q-Cloud Protect™ is a virtual deduplication appliance that works with Quantum DXi
® systems to provide a hybrid-cloud backup and disaster recovery (DR) solution, and is designed for companies with single sites looking to protect their business against localised disasters, organisations eliminating tape for off-site protection and companies seeking a hybrid-cloud approach to backup and DR. Q-Cloud Protect is available today in the Amazon Public Marketplace, and will soon be available in the AWS GovCloud and C2S environments.
Disaster Recovery — a practical first step toward cloud adoption
Companies of all sizes need to protect data from the threat of disasters. A best practice for data protection is to keep one copy of data off-site, but many companies struggle with the expense. Sending tapes off-site, or purchasing hardware for DR sites or hosted data centres requires additional capital expense and can be difficult to manage.
Off-site storage for disaster recovery as part of a hybrid approach to data protection is a practical place to start using the cloud. Cloud can make it economically viable for companies to follow the best practice of storing critical data off-site to protect against localised disasters, without capital investment.
Q-Cloud Protect benefits
Q-Cloud Protect offers some key advantages to make DR simple, providing an easy option to protect data against localised disasters and replacing upfront costs with a pay-as-you-go OPEX model:
- Protect critical data in an Amazon Data Centre: A best practice for data protection is to store a copy of data 100 miles from the primary data centre. With Q-Cloud Protect, data can be stored in deduplicated form in one of Amazon’s Availability Zone data centres and recovered in the event of a disaster.
- Cut capital expenses with predictable, metered pricing: Q-Cloud Protect is the first purpose-built virtual deduplication appliance available in AWS Marketplace. It is licensed on an hourly basis, enabling customers to pay only for the cloud resources they use as their system grows, cutting capital expenses.
- Reduce cloud storage and data transmission costs: Q-Cloud Protect uses Quantum’s patented variable-length deduplication and replication engine to replicate data from an
on-premise deduplication appliance to Q-Cloud Protect, cutting both storage costs and data transmission costs by 90 percent or more. The result is fast replication at a low TCO, and customers gain the ability to restore their data straight from the cloud in a DR scenario. - Eliminate off-site tape vaulting and improve restore times: Q-Cloud Protect provides deduplicated off-site storage in Amazon’s cloud, protecting businesses against localised disasters, and offers a simple alternative to sending tapes off-site for DR.
