IBM Storage Protect

Today, organizations are typically storing unstructured data in file systems and increasingly in object and cloud storage. Cloud and object storage have numerous advantages, particularly with regard to inactive data. This leads to the requirement to migrate or replicate files (e.g. from legacy NAS) to cloud or object storage. More and more data is stored in cloud and object storage. This has created an underestimated security risk. In most cases, data stored in the cloud or in on-premises object storage is not backed up, as it is believed to be secure. This assumption is negligent and risky. High availability and redundancy as offered by cloud services and object storage products do not protect against human error, ransomware, malware, or technology failure. Thus, also cloud and object data need backup or replication, most appropriately on a separate storage technology, at a different location and in the original format as stored in the cloud and object storage.