InfiniGuard

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InfiniGuard is a disk backup system from the Israeli company Infinidat, designed to protect infrastructures ranging from hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of data. High availability and performance enable InfiniGuard customers to exceed their target service levels, drastically reducing the cost and complexity of their storage operations.

2022: Implementation of InfiniSafe technology

On February 9, 2022, Infinidat, a provider of enterprise-class storage solutions, announced an updated version of the InfiniGuard to optimize cyber resilience with InfiniSafe technology and double system performance for data protection, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

The updated version of the InfiniGuard provides organizations and service providers with protection against ransomware, malware, internal cyber threats, and other potential cyber attacks with a cyber-resilient enterprise storage solution. The updated InfiniGuard optimizes cyber resilience based on InfiniSafe technology, optimizes replication to other sites, and changes data protection and backup capabilities. told Phil Bullinger, CEO of Infinidat

According to the company, the threat of cyber attacks continues to grow. According to a survey of Fortune 500 executives conducted in mid-2021, 66% of participants said that cybersecurity has become the No. 1 problem for their business for the next three years. Similarly, in a March 2021 survey by CEO KPMG, executives also said that cybersecurity is issue# 1 for them. It is alarming that the average time to detect and prevent data leakage is up to 287 days. If the enterprise or service provider does not have a cyber-resilient storage system, the damage that cybercriminals can do is significant, and this is tantamount to leaving the door of the bank vault unprotected. Storing data, which is one of the most valuable assets, can no longer be considered separately from an integrated cybersecurity strategy .

Cyber attacks continue to pose an extremely serious challenge to companies around the world. In a recent study, IDC found that 87% of organizations affected by ransomware in 2021 had to pay a significant amount to recover the data. To protect against these attacks, companies need to implement comprehensive solutions with cyber-resilience capabilities. InfiniSafe from Infinidat contains fundamental elements for cyber stability, including immutable snapshots, logical air gaps, an isolated network for forensic analysis and fast recovery capabilities. reported by Phil Goodwin, IDC Vice President of Research

Infinidat expanded the functionality of the InfiniGuard platform to include logical local and remote air gaps, and isolated networks, for the first time doing this for the same platform. A logical air gap creates a gap between the source data and its unmodifiable snapshots, while a remote air gap sends the data to the remote system InfiniGuard. An isolated network provides a safe place for forensic analysis of backup data sets to identify a copy of data that is not affected by malware or ransomware and is subject to safe recovery. Once a backup is detected without malware or ransomware, the data can be recovered, regardless of size, in minutes and fully accessible to the software that is responsible for the backup.

Using unmodifiable snapshots, InfiniGuard ensures that copies of data cannot be modified, deleted, or edited in any way to ensure data integrity. At the same time, the recovery process takes minutes, not hours or days. Combined, immutable snapshots, air gaps, isolated network, and fast recovery times are made possible by InfiniSafe technology designed to deliver the next level of enterprise-level cyber resilience.

We have moved from the flagship InfiniBox from Infinidat to the backup and recovery device InfiniGuard. Since we are separated from the mainland, accessibility is absolutely necessary for our operational activities. told Gopala Bunga, Senior Manager, Technical Services and Infrastructure Operations, Medical Services Association of Hawaii (HMSA), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and the largest insurer in Hawaii

Infinidat optimized the InfiniGuard platform with InfiniSafe. Photo: softikbox.com.

As part of platform optimization, InfiniGuard Infinidat also increased system performance from 74 to 180 terabytes per hour. Backup windows can be reduced by 50%, reducing the impact of the backup process on applications, primary storage, and primary servers, and performance optimization can also reduce the time required for remote replication.

2021: Adding InfiniGuard CyberRecovery

April 7, 2021, a Infinidat provider of Data Storage enterprise-class solutions, announced improvements data in InfiniGuard recovery capabilities for enterprise users. This InfiniGuard CyberRecovery functionality provides high protection for the entire environment. backup This includes creating unmodifiable snapshots and almost instantaneous recovery of previous system states based on customer-defined policies. These changes are aimed at eliminating threats that cyber attacks ransomware occur on average every 14 seconds.

Almost instant data recovery with a InfiniGuard solution after cyber attacks allows Infinidat to significantly increase the bar for ransomware protection, "says Phil Bullinger, CEO of Infinidat. - Noticeable improvements to our platform InfiniGuard greatly improve the data protection process. We enable enterprise customers to create a line of protection for data backup, which will play a significant role both in 2021 and in the future.

InfiniGuard CyberRecovery is struggling with a growing number of ransomware threats and malicious intrusions into the data centers of large companies, as well as cloud service providers. Having captured the data, ransomware destroy backups, steal credentials and transfer stolen information. This leads to the fact that enterprises of absolutely any size have to stop operating overnight. And there is nothing unusual in the fact that companies pay large amounts of money to restore business.

With ransomware attacks already costing large organizations $20 billion a year, Chief information officers must go beyond simple backups to implement a comprehensive and highly robust cybersecurity strategy, "adds Eric Burgener, vice president of research for the IDC Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technology Group. - This strategy should ensure transparency in policy-based backup processes using unmodifiable snapshots, as well as flexible, granular, and high-performance data recovery. And all this implies the need to implement the next-generation data protection architecture.

Discovering exactly how extortionists penetrate the IT infrastructure is extremely difficult and often happens after damage has already been done. The potential for attacks has increased significantly over the past year due to the increase in the number of employees working from home. The traditional line of defense was data backup, but cyberterrorists are now attacking the backups and storage systems in which they are located. That's why backing up data is no longer sufficient protection in itself.

InfiniGuard CyberRecovery protects the backup solution itself with transparent and understandable functionality, which is the latest generation approach to protecting against ransomware and other cyber threats. InfiniGuard Creates unmodifiable snapshots using WORM (write once read many) technology to ensure that copies of data cannot be deleted, encrypted, or modified.

The updated Infinidat Cyber Recovery solution also leverages the ability to recover data to its previous states according to policies. This enables near-instantaneous recovery to any point in data history to ensure data integrity and consistency. For companies that want to validate data before they return to the operational business environment, InfiniGuard provides an isolated test environment that is very easy to use.

Protecting your entire backup environment is now an integral part of any organization's cyber defense strategy, "said Greg Harrison, vice president of global projects at CBTS. - InfiniGuard CyberRecovery offers our customers a powerful way to protect against growing threats.

2020: Description of the InfiniGuard

According to 2020 information, the system supports all major backup software, including Veeam, Commvault, Veritas Netbackup and others. Supported storage protocols - NFS, SMB, VTL, OST and NetBoost, access ports - Fibre Channel and Ethernet, up to 24 pieces per system.

Systems are delivered under the All Inclusive model. The basic package includes a complete set of licenses for all current functionality and its future updates, technical support 24x7x365 with the processing of all service calls by a senior support engineer (L3), System Installation and Basic Configuration Service, Customer System Training, and Dedicated Technical Advisor Service for the entire warranty period to consult on equipment operation and escalate service calls.

The range consists of two systems: B4260N with a useful storage capacity of 1 petabyte and B4212N with a capacity of 2 petabytes. Using compression and deduplication, the effective capacity within one server rack is 25 and 50 petabytes, respectively.

Like storage InfiniBox, InfiniGuard systems offer 3 consumption models: the purchase of full storage at once; delivery of the system in full, but with its license limitation and the possibility of instant expansion (COD, Capacity On Demand); OPEX model with full system delivery and monthly consumption payment (FLX).

InfiniGuard uses three-controller as the basis for storage, SHD InfiniBox which allows solving the traditional problem of low recovery speed of deduplicated data from backups (data rehydration). By using the organization of data in the form of a prefix tree Trie, machine learning and processing operations in RAM, the InfiniGuard system allows you to perform not only backup, but also restore data at a speed of up to 48 TB/h without using source deduplication and up to 74 TB/h - using it.

The NetBoost protocol or NetBoostFS file system can be used to reduce the amount of data transferred by media servers and backup agents. To speed up backup and recovery of Oracle databases, Oracle offers a InfiniMerge solution that integrates Oracle Recovery Manager protection mechanisms with hardware-based InfiniGuard snapshots. With this solution, it is possible to restore databases in several tens of terabytes in a matter of minutes. You can also use database snapshots created with this solution to develop and validate backup copies.