Protecting Your Data From The Dark Side

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]T[/mk_dropcaps]he Galactic Empire needed a way to squash the rebellion manifesting across its galaxies. It decided to design the Death Star, which conveniently wipes out planets one at a time, striking terror into the hearts of those thinking of raising their hands with the Rebel Alliance against the Empire. When the Galactic Empire needed a secure way to store the schematics for the Death Star, it turned to a technology that transcends both time and space—the tape drive. Tape offers the Empire an offline backup copy for protection against both ransomware and rebels with the added ability to physically store it at a data center on an offsite planet. Unfortunately for the Empire, too much faith in the dark side and too little faith in IT security resulted in the tape being stolen and the Death Star being exploited for its minor design flaw.

Stars Wars is more than just a space opera that pits good vs. evil; it is really a lesson on the importance of data management and security. This popular blockbuster serves to highlight the exposures in data. While rebels can physically disrupt data, digital attacks such as ransomware occur more frequently. When ransomware enters your systems, it begins to encrypt data and can target network-attached storage (NAS), virtualization, online collaboration tools, and more. Offline and offsite copies are the best means to mitigate this risk. Large enterprises such as a Galactic Empire spanning many galaxies can protect data from data loss, localized disasters (such as rebels exploiting your offsite data center), and ransomware by the 3-2-1 Data Protection best practice that has proven to be more reliable than any storm trooper.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Quantum became an industry leader in tape automation and continues to provide a time tested solution to protect against ransomware attacks using the 3-2-1 Data Protection best practice.

3-2-1 Data Protection can be broken down simply as follows:

• 3 copies of your data
• 2 different types of media (tape, disk, and deduplication)
• 1 air-gapped copy (offline and offsite)

A Star Wars fan? Coming to VMworld 2017? Visit us in booth 1201 to learn more about data storage made famous not only in Star Wars, but other Hollywood blockbusters as well.

If you’d like to talk to us about how you can protect your data from the dark side, please request an appointment. We have a special Star Wars Funko Pop! bobblehead gift for you.

Not attending VMworld? Join us at our upcoming ransomware webinar with Veeam—register here.

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• Ransomware white paper and recorded webinar
• Discover options for the newest tape technology to add air-gapped backup in your data center
• Look at the latest Quantum Scalar® iBlade™ integration with Veeam—allowing you to integrate tape in your Veeam environment without a physical server

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