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The need for companies to balance the costs, performance and capacity of their data storage resources has resulted in a complex mix of storage tiers, which also limits the benefits that can be derived from the faster access and analysis of data.

However, software-defined storage solutions can help to manage the complexity and, thereby, make data available when and where it is needed in business processes. This type of solution improves data management and stewardship, which also facilitates data protection compliance and improves security, says enterprise storage multinational Infinidat South Africa country manager Hayden Sadler.

Gartner's magical square: NetApp, HPE still winning, Infinidat joins leader's box

INFINIDAT, the market’s leading independent provider of enterprise-class data storage solutions, today announced that it was named by Gartner Inc. as a Leader in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays. Recognizing INFINIDAT’s completeness of vision and ability to execute, Gartner analysts this year placed INFINIDAT further along on the Completeness of Vision axis and higher on the Ability to Execute axis, moving it into the Leaders quadrant. According to Gartner’s research methodology, “Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.”* INFINIDAT has also achieved high ratings in Gartner Peer Insights, garnering 136 reviews and an average 4.9 rating out of 5 as of November 10, 2018.

Eran Brown, INFINIDAT EMEA CTO, outlines how, whilst data breaches are a key concern for businesses under GDPR, the loss of data from a ransomware attack is also a fundamental concern and is punishable under the regulation for non-compliance.

With a record number of highly publicized career-ending data breaches, it has been a difficult time to be a CIO / CISO over the past 12 months, and there are no signs of things getting easier in the near future. The industry is facing the coming together of two key trends in data security: stronger regulatory requirements from authorities across the globe, and increasing levels of sophistication shown in the tactics of malicious hackers. Regulations such as GDPR in the EU and HIPAA in the US healthcare industry have redefined what is considered a data breach, and the threats to businesses are increasingly involving human targeting and social engineering to gain access to valuable personal data.

Encryption must be applied much further up the business and more comprehensively across the technology stack

InfiniGuard from Waltham, Mass.-based Infinidat is an application-aware business continuity offering that provides effective capacity of over 20 PB with fast restores. InfiniGuard combines the technology and features of its InfiniBox appliance with industry-hardened deduplication technology. InfiniGuard is powered by the same Neural Cache software architecture that powers InfiniBox to help boost restore performance and deliver high-performance reliability, availability, and service expected for data protection and business continuity.

The rapidly increasing number of businesses storing data in the virtual space has propelled a revolution in backup and recovery. While nearly every enterprise is embracing modernization, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. In order to help every customer find their right-sized data storage strategy, Infinidat Inc. takes a collaborative, adaptable approach to business, according to Brian Carmody (pictured, left), chief technology officer of Infinidat Inc.

Add Infinidat Inc. to the collection of storage companies pivoting toward data protection. Rather than viewing their storage legacy as baggage, the company says it provides a wrought iron foundation for its end-to-end data backup and protection services. Infinidat designed its architecture for mixed flash and non-flash workloads (with speeds actually beating all-flash) from the beginning. It has integrated its storage architecture with software from backup and protection from companies like Veeam Software Inc. and Veritas Technologies LLC. For example, its InfiniBox storage array is integrated with backup apps from Veeam and Commvault Systems Inc. for super-fast snapshots and deduplication in a simple, end-to-end solution, according to Neville Yates (pictured, right), senior director of data protection solutions at Infinidat.

Now that we have Commvault Version 11 and the blazing fast INFINIDAT infrastructure in place, the issues we experienced with our old infrastructure have disappeared. Backup windows have shrunk dramatically. Restore times are faster. We are even seeing benefits we did not expect. For example, data deduplication is much more effective, allowing us to get more “bang for our buck” from our storage hardware. Overall, the improved performance and capacity have made our backup activities very, very boring – just how I like it.