Scality is the Best Object Storage
for Veeam v12 Backups
The #1 Gartner-ranked object store for backup* joins forces with Veeam for bulletproof ransomware protection, data immutability and operational efficiency, without sacrificing flexibility or performance.
Learn how Scality, the best object storage solution for Veeam v12 and the only software-defined object storage partner selected for the v12 release, can help you master the 3-2-1-1 backup rule.
*2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage
Never-fail restores with
100% system uptime
The reality is 58% of backups fail.* To maintain business continuity and operations, backup restores must be fast, predictable and reliable.
When your organization’s data is on the line, your backup solution must be incredibly resilient and fault-tolerant. Uptime is everything.
Tape, appliances, and the cloud all have serious disadvantages for Veeam backups.
Tape troubles
*2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage
Appliance ailments
The cloud conundrum
No-SPOF
Availability
Care Services
4 to 8x faster restores
than traditional backup solutions
Every stat on downtime tells one simple story: Avoid it at all costs — or it’ll cost you.
When you’re evaluating backup storage solutions, performance is a critical measure of effectiveness and value.
Performance of Scality for Veeam backups
Backup/restore throughput of 80 TB/ hour over S3
The same throughput for backup and restores
Easily scaled out throughput
1 platform for many workloads
With Scality, your most critical services can be restored in less than 5 minutes
How do you figure?
Let’s say, for example, Veeam needs to restore 100 VMs of 30GB each, 50% dedupe/compression ratio…
With a Scality system configured to achieve 6GB/sec restore throughput, Veeam can restore the 100 VMs in < 5 minutes
Even with a smaller system that achieves 3GB/sec restore throughput, Veeam can restore the 100 VMs in < 10 minutes
How much does downtime cost enterprises per hour?*
$ for 91% of enterprises
$ for 44% of enterprises
higher costs for companies with frequent downtime
The faster the backups, the more data can be backed up in limited time — and when restores are required, the faster the throughput, the faster operations are back up and running.
*2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage
The result?
4 to 8x faster restore than traditional solutions
Scality can do 80 TB/hour, for both backups and restores — that’s 4x faster than a leading backup vendor’s largest appliance and 8x faster than their small and medium-sized appliances.
And, unlike appliance solutions, Scality doesn’t suffer a restore performance penalty.
Here’s how the math works…
Backup appliance vendors quote peak throughput numbers up to 20-30 TB/hour for their largest and most expensive configurations. They claim even higher levels of performance through data reduction (compression and deduplication) at the source of the backups, which ultimately sends less data to the storage solution.
Reassembling deduplicated data in backup appliances causes major overhead and negative impact on restore performance — as little as 10% but up to 75% lower restore vs. backup performance.
Given this, the largest appliance solutions commonly restore data at speeds under 20 TB/hour (and less than half of that for smaller solutions). This reality gives Scality a clear 4 to 8x performance advantage for critical restore operations.
Multi-level, immutable ransomware protection
for zero data loss
Immutability is widely recognized as a must-have in the fight against ransomware because it effectively safeguards data from any deletion or modification (whether it be malicious or accidental). And it also provides the best “last line of defense” protection in your overall cyber-security infrastructure.
A note of caution: Not all object storage vendors support true immutability. As you’re vetting solutions, ensure that S3 Object Lock is supported, with data retention policies and a compliance mode to prevent unauthorized changes.
By partnering with Veeam, Scality solutions provide for truly air-gapped, tamper-proof backup data that stays immune to ransomware — offering a robust and quick recovery path in the event you are attacked.
Scality is the only software-defined object storage partner supporting the complete set of Veeam v12 features:
- Direct-to-object storage: Take full advantage of the trusted immutability and unlimited scalability of object storage without sacrificing backup performance.
- Smart Object Storage API: Streamline the most demanding data environments with increased ease of use, visibility and manageability of data. Simplified storage tiering is optimized for both performance and capacity without compromise.
Scality protects data against ransomware with 5 levels of unbreakable cyber resilience
Application-level resilience
- Amazon S3 object locking immutability with configurable data retention policies and compliance mode
- Veeam v12 “Direct to object” backups and SOSAPI support, plus automated enforcement of validated IAM access control policies
Network & data resilience
- Secure HTTPS/TLS S3 connections and AES 256-bit data encryption-at-rest (with KMS support)
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for secure UI logins, plus automated firewall rules on deployment
Storage resilience
- Distributed erasure coding renders data indecipherable to low-level and data exfiltration attacks; metadata in secure repository and data on intrinsically immutable object storage layer
- Scale-out from TB to 100PB+ with 14 nines data protection and self-healing
Geographic replication resilience
- Async replication to separate security and management domain for “air-gapped” offsite storage
- Eliminates the “all data in one place” problem
Core architecture-level resilience
- Integrated, security-hardened Linux operating system precludes root access, reduces exposure to CVEs to limit a wide range of attack threats
Master the 3-2-1-1 rule
with a single-vendor object storage backup solution
Three different copies of data (primary)
Store copies on two different media (backup)
Keep one backup copy offsite
Keep one backup copy offline or on immutable data storage
The upgraded 3-2-1 backup rule helps you confidently address any failure scenario or ransomware attack
and, thanks to Scality, it just got far easier to master.
Scality simplifies the backup tiers of 3-2-1-1 with a single-vendor solution for performance, capacity and offsite copies.
By leveraging Scality’s scale-out capabilities for each tier, silos are a thing of the past.
Scality object storage is the only solution validated with Veeam v12 for each backup tier in 3-2-1-1
Immutable performance tier
Immutable capacity tier
Immutable offsite long-term retention tier
50% faster and more efficient Microsoft 365 backups
for zero data loss
Veeam officially recommends S3 object storage for Microsoft 365 backups. Why?
Because far less storage capacity is required on S3 object storage than on simple block-based storage — this is due to Veeam data
block sizes and more effective use of compression on the backups sent to object storage, which also has a commensurate impact on performance.
Benefits of Scality S3
object storage for Microsoft 365 backups
Increased efficiency
Increased performance
Unlimited scale
Freed-up workload
IDC reports that Scality customers enjoy 59% TCO savings
and much more…
IDC interviewed real-world customers about the impact of Scality of their storage costs, IT operations, and business activities. The results revealed transformational benefits.
%
reduction in total cost of ownership
%
reduced cost of storage capacity
%
5-year return on investment
%
faster IT agility to deploy
%
more efficient IT infrastructure staff
%
more productive analytics teams
%
more storage capacity available
%
more productive end users
Your data is invaluable.
Backup to the best.
Protect your backup data with confidence using Scality’s time-tested immutable architecture to eliminate silos and simplify management.
Zero downtime
Unbreakable ransomware protection
No data loss
Flexible hardware + software integrations
Lightning-fast performance
Cost-effective disaster recovery solutions
