Delivering modern data protection with cloud scale backup from Cobalt Iron and IBM

Organizations are struggling to modernize their legacy data protection environments in the face of growing demands around new infrastructure, new applications, and budget consolidation. Virtualization and modern application development processes have significantly outgrown legacy backup architectures. In response, infrastructure teams have created multiple backup solution types to handle the varying SLAs (performance, scale, cost) required by their business sponsors. However, the sheer number and variety of solutions in this uncontrolled expansion creates huge amounts of work, threatening to overwhelm the IT team in many organizations. Today, developers may add new applications and virtual server instances by the hundreds per day without accounting for the restrictions of the existing backup infrastructure. They leverage the cloud for immediate compute and storage resources, yet rarely communicate succinctly with corporate IT to ensure that the appropriate data protection services are in place.

Based near Kansas City, Cobalt Iron has over 20 years’ experience with IBM® Spectrum Storage™ technologies. As a leading developer of cloud scale data protection solutions, Cobalt Iron has worked with IBM for three years to create and support its own software-defined enterprise cloud backup solution. The company has been IBM Spectrum Protect experts for more than 20 years. Cobalt Iron developed a hybrid cloud approach to data protection using IBM Spectrum Protect as a core embedded application.