If you’re a large enterprise running business applications and databases on premises, you demand the highest-performance storage systems with the most secure data availability. You also require your on-premises storage solution to deliver on the promise of the hybrid multicloud environment when you need to scale for data tiering. And, of course, these business-critical systems require data protection.
Don’t you wish your storage could back itself up…. Well now it can with BlueXP backup and recovery.
NetApp® AFF storage systems feature NetApp BlueXP™ backup and recovery that provides efficient, secure, and cost-effective data protection for NetApp ONTAP® data, databases, applications, Kubernetes persistent volumes, and virtual machines, both on premises and in the cloud. BlueXP makes backup and recovery for AFF systems especially simple compared to storage systems from Pure and Dell that require extra backup hardware and software solutions from a third-party vendor. Backing up AFF storage with BlueXP doesn’t require any additional hardware or software and extremely simple to setup and manage.
BlueXP backup and recovery backs up on-premises and cloud-based data to an object store. The service performs block-level, incremental-forever replication and preserves all storage efficiencies, which significantly reduces the amount of data that’s replicated and stored.
This approach optimizes your bandwidth consumption, minimizes the performance impact on production, and makes it easy to meet the SLAs of your most demanding workloads. AFF backup gives you more control over how backups are created without adding overhead and complexity.
You can easily implement the full 3-2-1 backup spectrum from a single point of control with integrated management for primary, secondary, and backup to remote objects. You can restore entire volumes, directories, or single files by using a searchable indexed catalog.
Data is secured with end-to-end encryption: AES-256 bit encryption for data at rest and TLS/HTTPS encryption for data in flight. Data copies are independent and can’t be modified; backups are locked and monitored; alerts are raised if someone attempts to corrupt the data. You pay only for what’s protected and use the lowest-cost storage tiers available, which makes AFF backup very cost effective.
Simply put, the industry leader for backing up AFF is NetApp.
Here are the top 5 reasons for considering AFF systems with built-in backup and recovery:
- Performance. Back up on a block level, incrementally forever. Preserve ONTAP storage efficiencies, including deduplication, compression, and compaction.
- Reliability. Data copies are independent and immutable, and they cannot be modified. The object storage is designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability.
- Automation. Use a single control plane for all your data protection needs across the entire data estate. The control plane includes a single recovery console where you can view all your copies and decide how to best restore your data.
- Security. You get end-to-end encryption with customer-managed key support—AES-256 bit
encryption at rest and TLS/HTTPS encryption in flight. AFF systems also offer private network connectivity between source and destination, with proxy support. - Cost efficiency. Pay only for what’s protected, and use the lowest-cost storage tiers available.
See how simple it is to define your AFF backup strategy.
For more information, visit the BlueXP backup and recovery page and get started backing up systems today