Cristie as Gold Sponsor at the 15th GSE ISP Symposium 2021 –
Cristie Data GmbH is a proud sponsor of the 16th GSE IBM Spectrum Protect Symposium 2022 When: From 28. September to 01. October 2021What: 15. GSE ISP Symposium 2021Where: OnlineWhat is the ISP Symposium?It all began when some ADSM agnostics at the University of Karlsruhe organized and hosted the first three ADSM/TSM workshops.Oxford University has organized and hosted five events called the TSM Symposium, all held at St. Catherine's College, followed by the well-received TSM Symposium 2009 at the Grandhotel Petersberg near Bonn, the TSM Symposium 2011 Dresden, 2013 Berlin, 2015 Dresden, the ISP Symposium 2017 in Cologne, 2019 in Dresden and the latest ISP Symposium Online. The symposium will cover a variety of Spectrum Protect-related topics, with a particular focus on leveraging innovations for new and changing capabilities expected from ISPs in the coming years. Don’t miss the presentation by our colleagues Petra Kuhnert, Gerd Becker and Marco Vögele on the topic: I want to break out – transforming inactive backup data into secure long-term archive data. / Fight the ransomware battle. When? Thursday, 30/XNUMX September 4:50 to 5:20 a.m. Part 1: How IBM Spectrum Protect servers use less storage space to store more important data. Free your backup environment from old, inactive, and expensive data by moving it to a more cost-effective, efficient archiving solution. Part 2: Blocky for TSM on a Windows system with Spectrum Protect. It is necessary to protect the vulnerable objects from unwanted manipulation. These objects are the databases, the logs, the disk storage pools (disk, file, container). Also important is the instance directory with its files such as dsmserv.opt, dsmkeydb, volhist, devconfig, recovery plan files and DB backups. Blocky is a filter driver that prevents unauthorized access to these objects. Petra Kuhnert joined Cristie Data GmbH in 2004. Initially working primarily in the technical department, she is currently a Senior Consultant specializing in Storage and Data Management & Protection – in addition to Cristie Backup solutions such as TBMR and CBMR. Marco Vögele has been active in the global data management and protection software business for more than two decades. He joined Cristie Data GmbH in 2018 with a focus on partner business in Europe and as an expert for the metadata-driven data management solution StrongLink. Gerd Becker is Head of Solution Competence Center at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He has more than 25 years of experience with storage management products such as Tivoli Storage Manager. His areas of expertise include IBM Spectrum Protect implementation projects and on-site customer training. He has been chairman of the Storage User Group Guide Share Europe (GSE) for more than 17 years and is a member of the committee that organizes the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is the author of several IBM Redbooks and an IBM Champion 2021. More about the speakers: Petra Kühnert, Senior Consultant, Email: marco.voegele@cristie.partners; Marco Vögele, Partner Sales, Email: marco.voegele@cristie.partners; Gerd Becker, Head of Solution Competence Center, Email: gerd.becker@cristie.de. For more information and to register, click here.
DKRZ and StrongLink at ISC High Performance Digital
#isc21 kicked off yesterday, and starting Monday, June 28, you can visit us in the virtual exhibition: https://lnkd.in/eg7PrCu Together with StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc., our colleagues Marco Vögele and Jörg Vogel will present powerful and intelligent #datamanagement. We are particularly proud of the installation at Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH (DKZ). See for yourself the power and simplicity of our solution and register for the event:
Gerd Becker new Head of Solution Competence Center at Cristie Data
Cristie proudly welcomes new employee Gerd Becker as Head of Solution Competence Center (PresseBox) (Niedernberg, March 03, 30) Gerd Becker has taken over the position of Head of Solution Competence Center at Cristie Data on March 21st. The IBM Tivoli Certified Instructor previously worked for Empalis Consulting GmbH for almost 1 years, where he was responsible for innovation, cloud, and storage. The trainer developed successful storage courses for IBM Education Services in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. As an author, he has contributed to several Redbooks for IBM, such as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager as a data protection solution and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Practical Guidance for Deployment, Configuration, and Usage. Cristie has been a recognized IBM Solution Partner since 23 and already employs several certified experts and specialists. Volker Wester, Managing Director of Cristie Data GmbH, proudly welcomes the new team member and is delighted with his "enrichment for the company. Gerd is a recognized authority in the community. Both his colleagues in the team and, of course, especially our customers benefit from his experience and extensive knowledge. I am very pleased and wish Gerd much success and enjoyment with us." Gerd Becker has almost 2002 years of IT experience. His focus is on IBM storage management solutions and mainframe environments (OS/40®, VSE, VM, and Linux® for zSeries®). Gerd Becker has been involved with Guide-Share Europe (GSE) for over 390 years. Since 20, he has been the first chairman of the System Managed Storage working group and a member of the organizing committee of the TSM and ISP Symposium. In 2003, he was again awarded the title of IBM Champion. The 2021st conference of the Storage Management working group will take place virtually from April 61 to 13, 28. The preliminary agenda is available online. Interested parties can contact us informally via email to accredit Gerd Becker.
Cristie Data and Rubrik bring the cloud to power
Even though the demand for electricity is increasing less than feared a few years ago, it is still rising despite the construction of new and larger data centers. The fact that energy demand no longer grows proportionally to computing power is primarily due to technology. Modern computers are significantly more efficient than their power-hungry predecessors. New technologies such as cloud computing help to make better use of resources. But despite all their efficiency, operators are often far from CO2 neutrality. And there is still a lot to be done when it comes to optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO). Cristie Data GmbH has a solution for both. On 25. In November, the company, which specializes in data management and disaster recovery, presented its newest data center and introduced new managed cloud services. Together with its technology partner Rubrik, the innovative company offers backup and disaster recovery as a service (BaaS, DRaaS) with electricity directly from the producer. The square must become round Cristie Managing Director Volker Wester attaches great importance to particularly sustainable and cost-efficient services. In addition, its business partners demand a high level of security for their data with the greatest possible flexibility and minimal downtime. The busy entrepreneur also takes this into account when selecting his data centers (DC), which he operates, among others, at COMback GmbH and its high-security data center in a former nuclear bunker. The new data center also reflects his preference for unusual locations. It is located at the foot of a wind turbine tower. As a Paderborn native, Volker Wester knows the advantages of his homeland. The windy area is ideal for wind farms. A lot of wind generates a lot of green energy. This is a challenge for existing power grids. Is there a risk of overcapacity, e.g. B. Due to too much wind, the wind turbines are shut down by the grid operator. In order to better utilize its plants, the regional wind energy company WestfalenWIND has come up with an idea: It combines the electricity-intensive consumer with a sustainable generator. This idea gave rise to a data center certified according to Availability Class III in the tower of an Enercon E-115 wind turbine – the windCORES. The concept was awarded the German Data Center Prize in 2019. The windCORES are directly connected to the major internet exchanges in Frankfurt via dedicated dark fiber. A capacity of up to 6 Tbit/s not only enables almost any bandwidth in the data connection, but also with extremely short latency times. Reliability is ensured by the independent media of fiber optic and microwave radio. “In addition to the incredible performance, two things in particular convinced us: the security concept and the fact that we can offer our services at an incredibly affordable price. At least we save on the network charges for the electricity tariff. Of course, we are happy to pass this on to our customers,” says Volker Wester, who also appreciates the sustainability of the almost CO2-free data center in the wind turbine. Cloud backup and disaster recovery made in Germany By using the windCORES data center, Cristie offers its customers a wide range of options. Large organizations can use the new locations for their archives. It does not matter whether the data is to be stored on tape or disk. However, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are likely to benefit the most. Cristie has partnered with Rubrik to add ransomware damage protection and instant recovery capabilities to its managed cloud services. The service, based on the CLOUDBRIK product line, is now available as a cloud or hybrid cloud. Volker Wester helps companies focus on their core business. “Our customers have the certainty of being able to access their data at any time – no matter what happens. CLOUDBRIK and Rubrik intelligence protect companies from the consequences of ransomware attacks. We ensure minimal downtime for critical services and focus on efficiency, especially in terms of total costs. And with our approach we also protect the climate,” he adds proudly with a wink. About us WestfalenWIND IT: WestfalenWIND IT currently operates wind turbines (WEA) with a total output of approx. 350 MW in its group of companies. It deals with the development and expansion of the use of wind turbines for IT billing concepts along sustainable energy generation infrastructures. A symbiosis of conventional data centers (DC) and wind turbines was developed to meet future IT requirements and energy price developments. The innovative windCORES concept demonstrates new economic pathways for the sustainable, efficient and cost-effective operation of various IT applications and systems through a unique use of synergies.
Cristie Data wins exabyte data management project at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ)
The new hierarchical storage management system (HSM) with StrongLink will enable the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) to store and manage exabyte-scale data volumes. The annual storage rate is up to 120 PB. The installation will migrate 150 PB of existing data from the old to the new HSM system within just one week. The new system uses future-proof, open standards such as S3 and LTFS. In fall 2020, Cristie Data signed a five-year contract for the delivery and maintenance of a new hierarchical storage management system (HSM) at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ). The intelligence of the new platform is based on the powerful metadata-driven workflow engine StrongLink from StrongBox Data Solutions (SBDS), coupled with Huawei's OceanStor systems. StrongLink is deployed on a scale-out architecture. The storage management system designed by Cristie Data transfers 120 PB per year between the HPC storage and the new HSM system. For this purpose, StrongLink virtualizes the 1 PB high-performance cache and a total of nine tape archives. The conversion of the 9 PB of existing data to the new LTFS format occurs automatically in parallel with the reading and writing of new data and is transparent to users. The parallelization extends across approximately 150 tape drives in nine tape archives, which together provide over 90 media locations. Tape Library at the German Climate Computing Center – Image source & copyright: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH. "With this new archive system, the DKRZ can expand and modernize important data services for our research community while seamlessly transitioning to a new open-standard platform that can grow with our needs," explains Prof. Thomas Ludwig, Managing Director of the DKRZ, and continues: "The new HSM system provides a solid foundation to ensure researchers have continuous access to the critical data required for climate modeling and improved climate projections." Cristie Data is responsible for the installation, configuration, and project management of the new HSM system at DKRZ. The Niedernberg-based company also supplies all the hardware required for the project and is responsible for service and integration management. "DKRZ is an important partner in climate research. At Cristie, we take our environmental responsibility very seriously. With StrongLink, climate researchers around the world will be able to access all their data quickly and reliably, now and in the future." "With Huawei as one of the industry leaders in energy-efficient data center solutions, we are also contributing to more environmentally friendly solutions in the data center," says Volker Wester, Managing Director of Cristie Data. The project replaces the existing HPSS with a new system based on the open standards LTFS and S9.
Data also needs hygiene
As Dr. Schumacher Group protects itself against outages and data manipulation 2020 is the year of the pandemic: The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has arrived in Europe. In Germany, manufacturers of disinfectants have been classified as systemically important. One of these manufacturers is Dr. Schumacher GmbH – a German family business specializing in the development and production of disinfectants, hygiene and cleaning products. The company currently employs more than 1,850 people at nine locations worldwide and sells its products in over 70 countries. Location of Dr. Schumacher GmbHThe availability of its data and services around the clock and around the globe is business critical for the global company. The decision to outsource certain services to the cloud was therefore obvious. The migration itself was relatively easy. Software manufacturers today offer many options to support the move to the cloud. However, there were also unexpected challenges. Klaus-Jürgen Beckmann, CIO of Dr. Schumacher Group was surprised that “the well-known manufacturers of backup solutions were not able to back up all objects from the various clouds. It is very important that e.g. B. In MS Teams, not only the data but also the structures (e.g. B. the teams) are secured. When looking at the individual clouds from different manufacturers, it was clear that not all common cloud providers – e.g. B. SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft – are served equally by all backup providers.” Cloud and then? The security and availability requirement for the newly created hybrid on-premises multi-cloud environment was simply to restore the state the company was used to with its on-premises systems. In the various clouds, all objects from both the on-premise systems and the clouds should be backed up in such a way that the in-house 24/7 operation can be restored at short notice if necessary. As a realist, Klaus-Jürgen Beckmann knows: “With cloud services, hardware defects are no longer an issue, but statistically speaking, the probability that an attack, e.g. with an encryption Trojan, is successful doubles with every user in the cloud. Therefore, the system should also be immune to such attacks. The probability that someone will accidentally break something in self-service that we hadn't previously considered also increases significantly. The bottom line is that we fear that we will occasionally need our backup in the future as well.” The hygiene and care specialist faced a major challenge. Technically, securing clouds is only possible via a backup in the cloud. However, the overall solution also had to cover all on-premise topics (SAP, DMS, other subsystems). Even without extensive specialist knowledge or the support of a service provider, restorations should be quick and easy. “Of course, the core task of our IT is not to be a backup service provider. We are the business partner of the departments, supporting the company's core business digitally in value creation," the CIO emphasizes. A hybrid local multi-cloud environment requires a comprehensive backup solution that secures all objects with sufficient depth. Equally important is the efficient and easy recovery of data and systems in the event of a disaster. For a company that produces around the clock, every minute of downtime means major financial losses. For the IT managers at Dr. In addition to the rapid recovery of data, the Schumacher Group also considered protection against attacks to be important. A modern and, above all, easy-to-use solution was a given. Once again, those in charge were amazed at "how few established solutions can do all of this at the same time". Klaus-Jürgen Beckmann, CIO of Dr. Schumacher Group Modern structures require modern solutions Together with the experts from Dr. Schumacher IT developed a complete solution for Cristie Data. Two backup products and one storage solution form a holistic concept that fully meets the requirements. The Rubrik/AvePoint duo made an important contribution to the implementation. Even demanding SLAs with aggressive recovery point and time targets in hybrid on-premises and multi-cloud environments are no problem for software manufacturers. Klaus-Jürgen Beckmann is enthusiastic: “Plug it in and you’re done! Data backup can be that simple.” The initial uncertainty of the IT managers at Dr. Schumacher Group, the specialists from Cristie Data were able to quickly clarify whether the overall solution consisting of various products would function like an orchestra. In a Proof of Concept (PoC), the developed overall solution was put through its paces on-site for several weeks. At the end of the test phase, the system was already so well constructed that the test position could be transferred to a new device with very little service effort. Volker Wester, Managing Director of Cristie Data GmbHVolker Wester, Managing Director of Cristie Data GmbH, welcomes the prudent approach of Dr. Schumacher Group. But he also knows that “unfortunately, very few companies understand the importance of a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery strategy. Many IT managers are surprised when they learn that cloud and services such as... B. Office 365 does not automatically mean high availability or invulnerability. Of course, the data in SharePoint, Exchange and OneDrive must also be secured and protected from manipulation and ransomware attacks.” He is all the more pleased that “Dr. Schumacher Group has understood this. It's no coincidence that they are among the market leaders in their industry.” You can find the full press release with all the pictures in our press box.
What is the difference between SPFS and Spectrum Scale?
We have added the SPFS file system as an option to the Cristie backup solution. In IBM’s enterprise backup solution Spectrum Protect we can support even more workloads – e.g. B. in MySQL, PostgreSQL and Casandra. But what is the difference between Spectrum Scale and SPFS? Can SPFS be used instead of Spectrum Scale? Or should you have both? To understand the differences, in this article we explain the basics of Spectrum Scale and SPFS. What is spectrum scale? IBM Spectrum Scale is a global file system with a single namespace. This allows files to be shared between different servers, clients and applications. This allows everyone to read and edit the same file simultaneously at any time without interfering with each other.Spectrum Scale is one of the cluster file systems that can be distributed across multiple nodes. This makes the file system large enough for most of us, even if the amount of data is one yottabyte – which is truly an incredible amount of data. At Cristie, we don't currently know of any company that manages a septillion bytes. Even analysts at IDC predict a total volume of "only" 163 zettabytes worldwide by 2025. A major advantage of cluster file systems is the ability to share them with different clients. This means that an application or a single user has unlimited storage space available. The data to be backed up can be written to the Spectrum Scale File System via a local mount point, via shares (NFS / CIFS), or as an object (S3). Data is managed using policies. This also allows data to be automatically moved to different storage levels. This so-called auto-tiering ensures optimal use of the available media. Hot data – data that needs to be accessed quickly and frequently – ends up on SSDs, and cold data ends up on cheaper but slower hard drives or tapes. Data can also be backed up or outsourced to the cloud via the S3 interface. Spectrum Scale supports both private and public cloud computing platforms. One of the storage tiers can also be IBM Spectrum Protect. Spectrum Scale is a scale-out file system. What is SPFS? Our SPFS stands for Spectrum Protect Filesystem and has nothing to do with the Russian SWIFT clone. SPFS is a virtual file system that provides useful features as a backup and archive file system such as WORM (Write Once Read Many), versioning, encryption, data redundancy, data reduction techniques and data filtering. In fact, SPFS is just a small binary file that translates file system operations into API calls for Spectrum Protect. SPFS does not require any local storage, even temporary. All I/O operations are sent directly to the Spectrum Protect server. In this way, the backup and recovery tools currently in use in the company can be used as usual. This saves time and money.SPFS is very easy to use and behaves like a normal Linux file system. Backups can be created using the “ls” commands or with small scripts such as: pg_dump> /backup/pg.dmp, automate. All other commands like “cp”, “rm”, “mkdir”, “rmdir” etc. also work as usual. This makes it easy to integrate SPFS into any application. In addition, SPFS caches metadata and has read-ahead technology. This saves valuable time when querying or restoring. Data is transferred, deduplicated, and compressed asynchronously. The file system can be provided as a backup or archive. No special agents need to be used to protect databases. Versioning provides additional security: If a file is overwritten, SPFS automatically renames the old file to Spectrum Protect. So what is the difference between SPFS and Spectrum Scale? SPFS uses the Spectrum Protect Backup Archive Client API to log in. The little helper can read and write to a file area of the Spectrum Protect node. However, this only works 1:1. Each SPFS installation requires its own node in Spectrum Protect, unlike Spectrum Scale, which is shared across multiple hosts. Each SPFS installation requires its own node in Spectrum Protect. #at your service
Erasure Coding 101
In the product data sheets of almost all storage vendors, the term Erasure Coding (EC) appears more and more frequently in connection with storage management. In particular, all-flash arrays no longer offer RAID. Erasure coding is much better suited for SSDs than conventional RAID-5 or RAID-6. In this article, we explain the basic concepts of erasure coding, explain its basic function, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of erasure coding. Erasure coding is motivated by two different developments in corporate IT. As the capacity of the hard drives increases, rebuilding a defective RAID takes longer and longer. It takes approximately 20 hours to completely rewrite a current 16 TB hard drive. In order not to disrupt productive I/O through RAID rebuilds, these rebuilds usually run in the background with low priority. This extends the recovery time accordingly. Conversion times of 1-2 days are no longer uncommon. In addition, due to the function of RAID-5 or RAID-6, the conversion of a single disk also means a lot of mechanical stress for all disks in the RAID array. It is quite possible that additional disks will fail during a rebuild. In environments with many hard disks, people often move away from RAID-6 and towards multiple replication. The complete data set is therefore stored redundantly (often 3 times). This requires a correspondingly large amount of storage media and complicates file management. Another challenge is the increasing prevalence of virtual environments and hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). File systems no longer only include hard drives or SSDs within a system. Distributed file systems provide a consistent namespace across multiple systems. This makes it very easy, e.g. B. to start a virtual machine on any host within the HCI. RAID only works within a system. This limitation can be removed by erasure coding. Erasure coding. What is it? Erasure coding belongs to the area of so-called error correction codes, sometimes also referred to as forward error correction (FEC). Erasure coding has its scientific background in the mathematical field of linear algebra. These codes have been intensively researched since the 1960s. Such codes were used early on for long-distance digital data transmission. Erasure coding on data storage media was first used commercially in 1982 with the introduction of audio CDs. Erasure codes are also used on DVDs and in DVB-S. The best known algorithm is the Reed-Solomon algorithm, named after its two inventors (both mathematicians). There are also a number of other algorithms with various advantages and disadvantages. Research is far from complete, and the intensive use of erasure coding raises new questions and problems that are worth examining more closely. However, the basic principle of these codes is always the same: data entering a system is divided into a fixed number of equally sized chunks (data chunks). These chunks are then supplemented with redundancy information using mathematical methods (redundancy chunks). Finally, data blocks and redundancy blocks are stored on a storage medium. Separate disks can be provided for redundancy blocks (horizontal codes), or the redundancy information can be written to the same disks together with data blocks (vertical codes). The latter is the far more common method. Terminology and Notation A typical notation for erasure coding would be something like EC(20,16) or EC(12,9). Mathematically and generally expressed, this is EC(n,k). Where n is the total number of hard disks in a system and k is the number of data disks. The difference n–k is the number of disks used for redundancy. At the same time, this is also the number of hard drives that can fail in such a network without violating data integrity. In practice, the much more understandable term Erasure Coding 9+3 is increasingly being used. In this example, the erasure coding 9+3 is identical to EC(12,9). A total of 12 disks rotate in this array, 3 of which can fail without data being lost. Partitioning of hard disks for erasure coding using the notation EC(20,16). The ratio of data to redundancy chunks can be individually adjusted within limits depending on the algorithm used. The ratio affects performance, the number of hard drives that can fail, and the CPU and network power required in the event of a recovery. In practice, the storage administrator rarely can or needs to set the ratio individually. In the administration interface, the manufacturers offer iie R. several preconfigured erasure codings. The administrator then only has to choose between speed optimization, capacity optimization or reliability optimization and leaves it to the firmware to select the appropriate erasure coding. Advantages of Erasure Coding Erasure coding can provide more and more flexible redundancy than RAID-5 and RAID-6. We have already briefly outlined this. In addition to the technical advantages, the hardware purchase is generally much cheaper with erasure coding, as significantly fewer hard disks are required compared to RAID with the same or better redundancy. A calculation example: We assume that a storage system offers the erasure coding EC(12,9) or 9+3. In a setup with a total of 12 hard drives, 3 hard drives can fail and data integrity is maintained. This redundancy is not possible with conventional RAID. To achieve redundancy greater than two disks, one would, for example, use a RAID-5 with three branches. We continue to assume that we are using modern 16 TB hard drives. These plates currently cost (September 2020) around €400 each. The EC(12,9) has nine data disks, i.e. 9 x 16 TB = 144 TB usable for the file system. A total of 12 disks must be purchased, i.e. 12 x €400 = €4,800. The calculation looks quite different with the same usable capacity but triple replication of a RAID-5. For 144 TB of usable capacity, you also need 9 disks. Additionally, a tenth disk for redundancy in a RAID-5. But since we write triple redundantly, you ultimately need 3 x 10 disks = 30 disks. Using the same 16 TB hard drives as above, you get 30 x €400 = €12,000 acquisition cost. In this example, RAID-5 with replication is two and a half times more expensive to purchase than an equally redundant system based on erasure coding. Further savings result from the smaller space requirements (volume and footprint) in the data center (12 disks vs. 30 plates). This involves a reduction in power consumption and air conditioning of the server room. However, the latter plays only a marginal role in the TCO analysis of the overall operation. Every coin has two sides. If a hard drive or storage node fails, the data must be reconstructed. For this purpose, various intact data fragments as well as intact redundancy fragments are read out and used to construct a system.
NEW: Multi-cloud data management with Cristie CLOUDBRIK
CLOUDBRIK is a turnkey solution for managing all data in the company. A user-friendly management interface (GUI) simplifies administration and control. The instant recovery mode ensures uninterrupted work even in an emergency. Data protection as a service CLOUDBRIK enables tiering for data storage. At CLOUDBRIK, data is stored encrypted in a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Airgap, media breaks and WORM functionality protect data from ransomware attacks. The file system is based on erasure coding. Enterprise search mechanisms ensure that files can be found quickly. Depending on the use case, the data is stored in one of three available storage levels: CLOUDBRIK T1 for backup and disaster recovery CLOUDBRIK T2 for long-term archiving CLOUDBRIK T3 as an interface to the cloud All CLOUDBRIKs are part of Cristie Managed Services. Cristie Care Packs offer a high degree of flexibility and are available in three SLA variants: Basic, Advanced and Premium. All SLAs can optionally be extended with the “Plus” package for 7 x 24. From proactive monitoring and reporting to troubleshooting across the entire environment, the Care Packs also include configuration adjustments and support with administrative issues. Cristie CLOUDBRIK can be deployed anywhere: in your own data center, in branch offices or in multi-cloud environments. Using Cristie CLOUDBRIK significantly reduces total cost of ownership (TCO), radically simplifies administration, and protects business-critical data, including against ransomware attacks. Tier 1: BACKUP & RECOVERY The TIER 1 CLOUDBRIK is the backup recovery engine with all the necessary features to protect business-critical data. Installation takes place on-site in the central data center or in a branch or external location. Tier 2: ARCHIVE STORAGE The Tier 2 Brik is designed to reduce the costs of long-term storage (archiving). Erasure coding and a native S3 interface ensure maximum security and reliability. CLOUDBRIK Tier 2 already includes free tiering for CLOUDBRIK T3 (optional public cloud tiering) and can be combined with any S3-compatible application, local storage (on-premises), or custom volumes. Tier 3: CLOUD SERVICES The third tier is cloud storage, including for increased data intelligence and to secure Office 365 or other cloud-native applications and services delivered as SaaS. CLOUBRIK T3 can optionally transfer data to any other cloud provider (S3). Every CLOUDBRIK is hyperconverged. Based on HCI technology, the appliances consist of 4 servers and are equipped with fast SSDs, high-performance HDDs for backup storage, and Cristie's Backup & Recovery software. For operation at remote locations, we recommend using the smaller version CLOUDBRIK AIR. OPEX instead of CAPEX Every solution is tailored to individual requirements. In addition to the basic configuration, additional functions and services can be added. All CLOUDBRIKs are available as a monthly subscription with or without upfront payment. The CLOUDBRIK T3 can also store data with a pay-as-you-go option. Of course, combinations of all available billing models are also possible. Each CLOUDBRIK can be rented with or without advance payment. The CLOUDBRIK T3 is also equipped with a pay-as-you-go option.
Cristie Data is the first Rubrik Authorized Support Partner (RASP) in Germany
Rubrik offers simple and fast next-generation data management. Data availability anytime, anywhere is Cristie's top priority. Rubrik's portfolio of unified cloud, edge, and on-premises data management and protection solutions complements our existing solutions. In Germany, we were the first company to achieve Rubrik Authorized Support Partner (RASP) status. Partner status (RASP) means our technical specialists have completed Rubrik's highest level of training and are now fully accredited. Effective immediately, we are available to our customers as a single point of contact with even greater expertise. Rubrik's unique software platform enables companies to unlock the full value of their data—data that is increasingly distributed across data centers and clouds. Volker Wester, Managing Director of Cristie-Data GmbH, is enthusiastic: "Most backup solutions available on the market aren't designed to manage data in cloud environments. They can't keep pace with the speed or complexity of the demands of modern IT architectures. With Rubric, backup is no longer just a cost. From the very beginning, we were won over by the user-first mentality and a deep understanding of customer requirements." Customers around the world choose Rubrik to automate self-service at scale and eliminate the complexity of legacy backups while maintaining governance, compliance, and security. This enables companies to flexibly manage their business hours, accelerate the development of their core business, and leverage the cloud for digital transformation. The classifieds platform offers data protection for modern workloads and is designed for simplicity and automation," confirms Pernilla Arensparr, CEO of Cristie Nordic. "The easy-to-understand system guarantees a quick start to your backups with minimal manual effort." For both Cristie Data and Cristie Nordic, the Rubrik platform is a sensible addition to their portfolio of existing data protection solutions and is specifically aimed at companies that quickly need an on-premises solution for all or part of their environment. "Rubrik is a good choice for companies with more than 200 VMs, on-premises and hybrid environments," says Pernilla Arensparr. "We believe the platform will be beneficial for both medium and large companies in the private and public sectors." The Rubrik platform is available through Cristie Data GmbH and Cristie Nordic and is already being successfully deployed in several large organizations in the Nordic and DACH regions.