“Every vendor selling immutable storage claims their solution will make your data ransomware-proof, but it’s clear — immutability is not enough to keep data 100% protected,” said Paul Speciale, chief marketing officer, Scality. “94% of IT leaders rely on immutable storage as a foundational aspect of their cybersecurity strategy. If immutable backups were the answer, then why did ransom payments double in 2023 to more than $1 billion? It’s time that the storage industry goes beyond immutability to deliver end-to-end cyber resilience.”

Beyond immutability with new ARTESCA CORE5 for Veeam
ARTESCA 3.0 is the first object storage software to provide such comprehensive data protection. Scality’s new CORE5 capabilities safeguard data at 5 critical levels from API-to-Architecture for end-to-end cyber resilience:

1. API-level: Immutability implemented via S3 object lock provides a powerful top-line defense by ensuring backups are immutable the instant they’re created. Strong multi-factor authentication (MFA) and access control help administrators prevent breaches on employees.
2. Data-level: Multiple layers of data-level security measures are employed to prevent attackers from accessing and exfiltrating stored data
3. Storage-level: Advanced encoding techniques prevent destruction or exfiltration of backups by rendering stored data indecipherable to attackers, even those using stolen access privileges to bypass higher-level protections.
4. Geographic-level: Simple and affordable multi-site data copies prevent data loss even if an entire data center is targeted in an attack.
5. Architecture-level: An intrinsically immutable core architecture ensures data is always preserved in its original form once stored, even if the attacker attains the necessary access privileges to bypass API-level immutability.

“ARTESCA’s CORE5 capabilities set the bar for a new standard of truly cyber-resilient storage in modern data centers. Windows of exposure are effectively eliminated by providing not only the strongest form of data immutability, but also cyber resilience at all levels of the system,” said Speciale. “Together with Veeam, our customers achieve unbreakable data protection.”

Fastest data recovery for Veeam with performance at scale
ARTESCA’s tight integration with Veeam Data Platform provides fast data recovery without suffering performance degradation as data grows.

ARTESCA 3.0 for Veeam is:

• Veeam Ready validated for Veeam high-performance tier deployments on hybrid and all-flash storage servers at an affordable cost
• VMware Instant Recovery Ready with ultra-high performance on all-flash servers
• Simple-to-use compatibility with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Veeam Kasten in a single system
• Quickly and effortlessly configured as a ransomware-hardened Veeam repository, thanks to its unique built-in Veeam Assistant tool
• Offered as a turnkey hardware appliance for Veeam with a Quickstart Wizard to simplify integration into network environments

“As the #1 leader in data backup and ransomware recovery, Veeam works closely with our Technology Alliance Partners to advance our mission to keep businesses running,” said Andreas Neufert, vice president of product management, alliances at Veeam “This latest version of Scality ARTESCA enhances the capabilities of Veeam Data Platform, fortifying immutable backups and strengthening cyber resilience for our joint customers. When enterprises become the victim of cyber attacks, the ability to rapidly recover critical, clean data is paramount to ensure business continuity and minimal downtime. We’re excited to continue our partnership with Scality and extend this enhanced level of cyber resilience to enterprises.”

New capabilities in ARTESCA 3.0 with CORE5 cyber resilience
CORE5 cyber resilience goes beyond baseline immutability to render backup storage truly unbreakable against ransomware and malware attacks. The latest version of ARTESCA includes:

• Design in accordance with US Executive Order 14028 Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and zero-trust architecture principles, including enforced authentication and end-to-end encryption of data.
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for admin users that can now be globally enforced to provide additional login protection for admins and data managers
• Integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD), configurable directly through the secure ARTESCA administrative UI.
• Center for Internet Security (CIS) compliance testing through OpenSCAP project tools for continual conformance with CIS cybersecurity recommendations, including password strength compliance based on length, complexity and history.
• Extended security-hardening of the integrated OS that disallows root access including remote shell or su as root; admin access is only granted through a system-defined artesca-os user identity adhering to the principle of least privileges.
• A software bill of materials (SBOM) of components and suppliers, scanned and continuously patched for CVEs, to provide customers with visibility into their software supply chain, and automated OS updates to quickly patch vulnerabilities.
• Increased growth to 8.5PB of usable capacity, with support for leading high-density servers from an even wider choice of storage hardware and broadened support for multiple types of flash drives.
• Assured high data durability for high-density flash drives and HDD with enhanced dual-level erasure-coding.

Easy deployment options
ARTESCA 3.0 object storage software is designed to be deployed quickly, with three on-premise solutions to suit your needs:

• Turnkey hardware appliance for Veeam built on Supermicro servers
• Software on your preferred industry-standard servers
• Virtual appliance for VMware-powered data centers

How to purchase ARTESCA
ARTESCA 3.0 will be available in Q3 2024 through a wide network of certified reseller partners globally.

To learn more about Scality Artesca 3.0 CORE5, visit the website here.

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“Data security considerations have always been top of mind for our customers, but in 2023, IT leaders will evaluate every solution, including data storage, by its ability to protect data from the multiplicity of threat vectors. In 2022 the data storage industry evolved to embrace advances in AI/ML, hybrid clouds and edge computing that enabled greater data sovereignty and flexibility. In 2023, the pace will accelerate so IT teams will obtain long-promised features that deliver a significant uptick in efficiency.” said Paul Speciale; Scality Chief Marketing Officer.

Data Security:

• Security will dominate IT buying criteria, including for data storage.  Supply chain issues and economic challenges will continue to impact storage projects in 2023 — the exception being those that can show tangible ROI on ransomware protection initiatives. This will present an opportunity for big data storage solutions with the intelligence to address current gaps in multi-level security, detection and data immutability for ransomware protection and fast business recoverability. Moreover, solutions that can provide AI-based anomaly-detection capabilities for detecting ransomware attacks will become more mainstream in the near future.

Intelligence:

Unstructured search gets smart with multi-cloud capabilities and rich feature sets.

• Customers need intelligent data search methods to optimize data analytics and mining of the trillions of unstructured data objects they have aggregated in object storage solutions. In 2022 cloud vendors such as Amazon and others made a step in the right direction by introducing a myriad of search tools and services. But there remains an unmet need for intelligence that allows the all-important “aha!” moment to arrive far faster.
• We predict that in 2023 search and query capabilities for unstructured data storage solutions will mature, and vendors will integrate them with standard access methods, while still guaranteeing enterprise-class security and auditing. This will prove doubly advantageous in simplifying application development and allowing object storage resources to serve as the single solution for unstructured data storage and query.

Malicious software supply chain attacks will slow open-source adoption.

• Malware and ransomware attacks have ballooned such that intrusions now occur every few minutes across the globe, costing businesses millions of dollars per incident and consuming untold IT cycles. We have already witnessed compromised security in commercial software solutions as seen in recent high profile attacks. Open-source software dependencies will become an increasing threat vector, causing enterprises to more carefully evaluate and vet these technologies before employing them at scale.

Innovation:

As recession concerns loom, green storage innovation will rise in importance.

• We are experiencing a convergence of increased awareness on climate change and an extended economic downturn. These forces will cause enterprises to refocus their IT budgets on solutions that can deliver savings and ROI in operational costs through reduced power consumption.
• The data storage industry has already focused attention in this area, as witnessed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative that aims at standards for lower power consumption from large-scale data storage systems. Vendor offerings will emerge with innovations that reduce power consumption through smart resource utilization and use of the latest low-power and high storage density platforms. This will provide measurable savings in power consumption and cooling to reduce environmental impact from storage.

Integration:

Tighter integration of managed cloud services and object storage will emerge.

• Application vendors will publish their own extended storage APIs for enhanced monitoring, reporting, performance acceleration and optimal data placement. This will be embraced by leading object storage solutions to deliver even more compelling solutions and ROI for enterprise and mid-market customers in data protection (backup and ransomware protection), big data analytics and AI/ML.In addition, because customers value cloud-like storage services but show a preference for them from the comfort of their own data center infrastructure, we will see increasing partnerships between object storage vendors and large OEMs or managed service providers (MSPs) to provide fully integrated, private-cloud S3 storage-as-a-service offerings.

For a deeper dive into these 2023 predictions, read Scality CMO Paul Speciale’s blog here.

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With focus on the channel, Scality is doubling down on efforts in this area in 2022. Melissa Lyons comes to the company with extensive experience in the channel, including her most recent role as regional channel manager at OutSystems. She also served as global channel manager for Sophos, following the company’s acquisition of Astaro, and as senior manager of Turbonomic, where she grew the company’s partner program to more than 400 partners worldwide.

She brings experience in the security space that will be key to her work at Scality as the company strengthens its unbreakable cloud storage solution to help companies defend against ransomware and other data threats. With unbreakable cloud storage, Scality provides multiple layers of detection to keep data safe from becoming unavailable, lost, corrupted, unintentionally modified, deleted or overwritten or — as with ransomware attacks — encrypted.

Melissa Lyons, senior director of channels, Scality, said: “Scality has storage solutions organizations need now to scale and secure their data, and their robust partner growth underscores their value to the market. Scality’s commitment to growing the channel, coupled with the company’s unique culture, drew me to this position. I look forward to being part of the Scality team and furthering momentum for the channel program.”

Greg Difraia, general manager, Americas, Scality, said: “Melissa brings key relationships within the partner ecosystem and knows exactly what our partners need to succeed. She has a keen ability to not just strategize, but execute. At Scality, we’re 100% focused on empowering our channel partners to help extend their business and solve customers’ data management problems. I look forward to our joint progress as we expand our channel investment this year.”

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