Igneous Backup
Fast, Easy Backup and Restore
High-performance protection for your massive file systems
Legacy Backup Often Means No Backup at All
When enterprises backup their files the traditional way, extended backup windows often result in end user
complaints. That’s because performance suffers and users can tell that IT is backing up files. The result? Many IT
teams cancel backups, putting their enterprises at risk in cases of data loss. Legacy backup catalogs were not
designed to handle billions of files so when IT administrators do backups, they often segment their backup
environment by file count. Legacy backup techniques tax IT teams, who must deploy, manage and protect catalogs.
The confusing mix of storage technologies doesn’t help. To backup their data and maximize protection, enterprises
juggle multiple primary storage systems and multiple vendors – each with its own software and secondary storage
systems. Multiple vendors means multiple purchases of the same software functionality. Searching for – and
restoring – data is a frustratingly long process.
Modern Backup Means Backups for All Files
With Igneous Backup, end users don’t even realize that Igneous is backing up their files. The backup process
seamlessly runs while end users work. IT avoids backup scheduling challenges as well as the frustration and cost
of managing software and sizing infrastructure (such as catalog servers) to backup files. Built for massive file
systems, Igneous Backup handles all appliance availability and remediation so you don’t have to do anything after
deciding what data to backup. And restoring data takes just a click.
Backing up your data is critical. Also important? Gaining valuable insights into that data. Igneous Backup provides
data analytics and insights into system performance and the types of data that end users most frequently update.
These analytics help you decide what data is most dynamic – and perhaps most important – so you can make more
informed decisions about what to backup.
What Does Igneous Backup Mean for You?
Efficient
backup
Optimized
search
Continuous
updates
Easy
restore
Valuable
insights
How Does Igneous Backup Work?
Features
Search &
Retrieval
Insights
• Automatic throttling via dynamic
backup
• Fast discovery of shares
Public Cloud
End user
• Highlights protected data vs.
unprotected data
• Point-and-click backups
Primary
Storage
Igneous Hybrid
Storage Cloud
• Baseline and then Incremental
Forever
IT Admin management
• Virtual Full incremental views
• Search to recover
• Scan 100M files per hour
• Optional Network Attached
Storage snapshot integration
• Continuous incrementals
High-performance Igneous Backup scans and moves data from your file server to
Igneous Hybrid Storage Cloud. Simply give backup access of your NFS and SMB
file shares to Igneous Backup, and select the shares to backup. Igneous Backup
then runs continuously to backup your data, with incremental scan rates of
hundreds of millions of files per hour.
The Incremental Forever feature of Igneous Backup runs continuously. Igneous
Backup scales parallelization based on protocol latency. Built-in throttling ensures
that end users won’t detect any difference in system performance. Permission
enforcement through LDAP and Active Directory enables those end users to find –
and recover – their own data.
Your Igneous Backup subscription includes:
• Effortless backup: Backup as-a-Service means Igneous handles all
About Igneous Systems
Igneous Systems is a Seattle-
appliances, updates and remediation for your backups. Simply point at a file
server – no agents or complex integration necessary. We deploy new
enhancements all the time so you don’t have to update anything to benefit
from the latest capabilities.
based, venture-backed company
• High performance: Our latency-aware data movement operation – as well as
that designed the industry’s first
our converged technology of hardware and software that eliminates
bottlenecks at scale – means no-impact backups. Igneous Backup doesn’t
disrupt primary storage.
secondary storage to handle
massive file systems. Our hybrid
cloud solutions offer the best of
both worlds — the on-premises
data of enterprise datacenters and
the agility of public cloud. To learn
more, visit www.igneous.io.
• Data analytics: Search the data you backup by name, user, group or
extension. Gain insights on system performance and the types of data most
often modified by end users. IT and business users alike can access valuable
data insights.
• Simple restore: The value of a backup solution hinges on how easily and
quickly users can restore files. With Igneous Backup, both IT and end users
can restore data directly from the search interface.
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4-14-2017