Why MSPs Should Be Using A Cloud Based Archival Solution

About Your Speakers

Kevin Allan

• Former MSP Owner/Operator

• Founder and CTO of Probax

Email: kevin.allan@probax.io

Anthony Spiteri

Global Technologist, vExpert, VCIX-NX and VCAP-DCV working in the Product Strategy Team at Veeam

Blog: http://anthonyspiteri.net

Twitter: @anthonyspiteri

Email: anthony.spiteri@veeam.com

People needCONFIDENCE

in theirDIGITAL LIVES

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According to Forbes, the digital economy will add $1.36 trillion by 2020. This growth requires the enterprise to evolve and provide customers,

employees and partners the digital life experience they demand!

DATA ENABLES THE DIGITAL LIFE

DATA IS HYPER-CRITICAL

Structured

NoSQL

Unstructured

Applications Internet of Things

HYPER-GROWTH OF DATA

HYPER-SPRAWL OF DATA

Smart Business Continuity

Backup as a Service (BaaS)

High performance backup and

replication cloud storage in our local

or international Data Centres.

Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)

Fast and reliable cloud DR

solution with partial and full

failover capability. Achieve low

recovery time and point

objectives (RTPO).

Honeycomb VTL(AaaS)

Low cost virtual tape storage

solution. Air-gapped from high

performance storage and resilient

to malicious or accidental

deletions.

ScoutAutomated deployment, verification,

error fixing and remote management

of backups.

ControlMulti-tenant, multi-vendor portal to

manage your client’s backup,

business continuity and disaster

recovery requirements – all in one

place.

Backup for Office365

Effortlessly backup and archive

your critical MS Office 365

data securely to the Probax

Cloud.

Probax provides a multi-tenant, multi-vendor Platform as a Service (PaaS) for MSPs and System Integrators to service their client’s backup, business continuity and disaster recovery requirements – all in one place

DropboxBackup & Archive

Reliable backup, archive and

Cryptoware recovery solution for

users of Dropbox.

LicensingAccess discounted backup licensing,

direct from our portal.

Smart Business Continuity

Backup as a Service (BaaS)

High performance backup and

replication cloud storage in our local

or international Data Centres.

Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)

Fast and reliable cloud DR

solution with partial and full

failover capability. Achieve low

recovery time and point

objectives (RTPO).

Honeycomb VTL(AaaS)

Low cost virtual tape storage

solution. Air-gapped from high

performance storage and resilient

to malicious or accidental

deletions.

ScoutAutomated deployment, verification,

error fixing and remote management

of backups.

ControlMulti-tenant, multi-vendor portal to

manage your client’s backup,

business continuity and disaster

recovery requirements – all in one

place.

Backup for Office365

Effortlessly backup and archive

your critical MS Office 365

data securely to the Probax

Cloud.

Probax provides a multi-tenant, multi-vendor Platform as a Service (PaaS) for MSPs and System Integrators to service their client’s backup, business continuity and disaster recovery requirements – all in one place

DropboxBackup & Archive

Reliable backup, archive and

Cryptoware recovery solution for

users of Dropbox.

LicensingAccess discounted backup licensing,

direct from our portal.

More than 30% growth year on year for the past 3 years

30%+ GrowthMore than 200 MSPs in Probax’s partner community worldwide

200+ MSPsMore than 5 PB of managed storage on our platform in 4 countries

5+ Petabytes

Our Numbers

Our Net Promotor Score is on the rise and is currently at 50, which is 1.6x the industry average (30)

NPS Growth

50

Founded in 2007, Probax has over 10 years experience in cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions

10+ Years

• Rumors of the death of tape having been circulating for about 30 years!

• Tape became the standard for long-term storage due to the relatively high price of hard disk drives.

Is Tape Really On The Way Out?

2007• LTO-4 was released with 800GB raw data capacity• 1TB hard drive was produced by Hitachi

2010

• LTO-5 was released with 1.5TB raw data capacity• 3TB hard drive was produced by Seagate and Western Digital• Frist hard drive manufactured with 4K bytes a block instead

of 512 bytes a block.

2011

• 4TB hard drive was produced by Seagate

2012

• LTO-6 was released with 2.5TB raw data capacity• Western Digital announces the first 2.5in, 5mm thick drive,

and first 2.5in, 7mm thick drive with two platters• TDK demonstrates 2TB on a single 3.5in platter

A SnapShot Of The Last 10 Years*

2013• Seagate announces 5TB hard drive using Shingled Magnetic

Recording (SMR)• HGST announces 6TB helium-filled hard drive for enterprise

2014

• Seagate introduces 6TB hard drives that do not use helium, improving power consumption and lowering costs

• Seagate ships world’s first 8TB disks

2015

• LTO-7 was released with 6TB raw data capacity• HGST introduces SMR & conventional PMR 10TB hard drives

2017

• LTO-8 was released with 12TB raw data capacity• Western Digital announces 12TB helium hard drive• Toshiba announces 14TB PMR hard drive, due early 2018

*Source: Wikipedia

• Rumors of the death of tape having been circulating for about 30 years!

• Tape became the standard for long-term storage due to the relatively high price of hard disk drives.

• The price war between tape and cloud storage began over 6 years ago. Cloud storage prices are currently in the cents per GB range. Honeycomb archival storage from Probax is as low as 0.9c per GB!

• Now, instead of buying tapes every month and tape libraries and maintenance every few years, organisations can get a backup and archiving solution on a pay-as-you-go basis.

• But clould storage is still not as cheap as tape?

Is Tape Really On The Way Out?

The True Cost of Tape

Cost per TB

Cost of the tape library

Labour to handle tapes

Cost of tape storage

Cost of restoration

Cost of replica charges

Yes. It’s not dead (yet), but it’s dying

Is Tape Really On The Way Out?

Source: Infrascale: The Surprising Affordability of Today’s Cloud ArchiveSource: IDG Research Survey, 2016

53%

52%

47%

46%

Scalability

Efficiency (less time spent on data location and retrieval

Cost Savings

Data available on demand

What are the top motivators for moving to the Cloud?86%68%

Find it challenging to locate andrestore legacy data from tape

Say it takes from 1 – 5 days to locate a single document or piece of information from legacy tape

Ransomware Timeline

Source: F-Secure State of Cyber Security 2017

New ransomware families by year of discovery

• Satan was flagged on 17th January by security researcher Xylitol.

• This service allows anyone to register an account (for free) and create their very own customised version of the Satan Ransomware (in less than a minute).

• A user can specify the ransom amount, how much it goes up after a certain amount of days, and the amount of days that the ransom payment should increase.

• This particular RaaS is the first to offer the user help with distributing the ransomware via SPAM or other means.

• When the Satan Ransomware is deployed it will begin to encrypt data on the computer.

• Through the RaaS website, registered users can see how many of the ransomware instances they sent out were successful, and the amount they’ve earned so far.

Satan: A New RaaS

1. Without air gapped backups, businesses are no longer protected.

Air gapped backups: “offline” backups that cannot be manipulated or deleted remotely

2. The threat of an employee creating and deploying RaaS in their workplace is more real than ever.

What Are The Risks?

Introducing Honeycomb VTL

Honeycomb VTL: Preparing Veeam

Honeycomb VTL: Turning it on

• Honeycomb availability already shown in Control• One click to enable

Honeycomb VTL: What it looks like

• Hyperformance repository size stays the same• Not visible by local software - totally air-gapped for added protection

Honeycomb VTL: Restore Point details

• Minimum expiry as well as air-gapping• Restore keeps original point in Honeycomb

kevin.allan@probax.io

anthony.spiteri@veeam.com