Ron Miller recently wrote an article on TechCrunch titled “It Really Does Take a Village to Keep you Secure in the Cloud” that struck a chord with me. In his article, Ron discussed the cloud shared responsibility model and the importance of us all taking steps to ensure the security and persistence of our data….
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ArticleAug 02, 2022Speaking as a Member of the Village
Ron Miller recently wrote an article on TechCrunch titled “It Really Does Take a Village to Keep you Secure in the Cloud” that struck a chord with me. In his article, Ron discussed the cloud shared responsibility model and the importance of us all taking steps to ensure the security and persistence of our data….
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IndustryAug 02, 2022Clumio Newsletter – August 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! We’re following up our build vs. buy discussion with an economic evaluation from an analyst to help you understand what’s best for your business when it comes to data protection strategies. Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help you get…
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UncategorizedJul 29, 2022Leveraging AWS API Gateway in Clumio
The need for an API Gateway In a microservices-based architecture for an enterprise-level system like Clumio, it is impractical to have a public endpoint per microservice. One of the major problems is the tight coupling this introduces between the client and the server. In addition, each microservice needs to implement and maintain the common pieces…
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UncategorizedJul 21, 2022See You at Black Hat USA 2022
Clumio takes security seriously. That’s why we’ll be at the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, August 10-11 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Come see us at booth 2700, right around the corner from CISA. Come meet our VP of Cloud Security, Glenn Mulvaney, and ask him about the architectural design principles upon which we…
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AWSJul 14, 2022Enhancing Clumio’s Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Feature
Don’t you love the beginning of the year when you come up with a resolution that gives a surge of motivation to achieve? But as new priorities emerge, your determined sprint inevitably becomes a leisurely walk. So long as you periodically remind yourself why you made the resolution in the first place, even slow progress…
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IndustryJul 12, 2022Clumio Newsletter – July 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! Ransomware protection for less, guaranteed! Don’t miss our lead story if you want to cut AWS costs by 30%. We also examine build vs. buy for data protection from the point of view of an analyst and a customer. Read on for a roundup of the…
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MicrosoftJul 08, 2022Microsoft 365: Ransomware vulnerabilities & shared responsibility model
In recent years, cloud services and SaaS offerings have revolutionized the speed at which a company can operate, and Microsoft 365’s suite of Exchange, Onedrive, Sharepoint, and Office 365 solutions has been at the forefront of this shift. Though as technology is making the upgrade from on-premise to cloud, bad actors and cyber threats are…
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BlogJul 01, 2022How BioPlus Simplified Ransomware Protection
Several weeks back, Clumio Systems Engineer Jeff Lackey had a discussion with one of our awesome customers, Fred Gagle, about his company’s journey to the cloud. Fred is the VP of Technology at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy, the nation’s largest non-payer specialty pharmacy. They have physical locations in six states and are licensed to fill prescriptions…
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PlatformJun 10, 2022Automating End-to-End Data Protection with Terraform
Clumio Partners with Terraform A fundamental principle in recent years for IT and DevOps has been to consider infrastructure as code. Similar to how application code has defined syntax and formatting as well as a reproducible binary, a company’s infrastructure should be managed and provisioned in analogous fashion. One of the most well-known infrastructure as…
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IndustryJun 10, 2022Clumio Newsletter – June 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! The innovation train keeps rolling, this time to make ransomware protection more affordable for all organizations. And compliance continues to grow in importance, with SOC 2 and HIPAA taking the spotlights this month. Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help…
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AWSJun 02, 2022Air Gap Protection for Amazon EC2 and EBS – Introducing Clumio SecureVault Lite
Businesses running in the public cloud are in a tough spot when it comes to data protection. They are faced with protecting their data to ensure business continuity and compliance, in addition to protecting their data from both internal and external cyber threats. Warnings, regulations, and compliance are bearing down on everyone. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…
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UncategorizedMay 26, 2022The Joys and Pitfalls of DIY
For most of my life, I’ve been a builder. As a young child, my imagination was consumed with a passion for cars. I’d stroll down the hobby aisle and see flashy scale models of American muscle cars with their custom flame paint, exotic European sports cars with amazing detail. I was mesmerized. I would mow yards…
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IndustryMay 20, 2022Demystifying SOC 2 Data Protection Requirements
Sign up for our upcoming Simplifying SOC 2 Compliance Webinar In a previous blog, I detailed how Clumio’s data protection platform for Amazon RDS was used in a SOC 2 audit to demonstrate that proper backup and restoration was implemented for a critical data source. In this blog, I’ll talk about the broader aspects of…
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PlatformMay 13, 2022Using Iterative Development to Release Protection Rules
Introduction Like many startups, the engineers at Clumio work relentlessly to design, develop, and innovate new and improved features to enhance our customers’ experience. While projects are developed under careful planning including capturing of requirements, writing a design doc, and other typical activities associated with software development, there can be no substitute for a good…
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AWSMay 05, 2022Snapshots and Replication and Backups, Oh my!
At times we undervalue our many experiences in the data center (aka on-premises) world and how they translate directly into the Cloud. One such experience is understanding what’s behind the curtain when it comes to protecting your AWS data sources. Or, you think you understand your current strategy but are unaware of other options available to you. When…
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IndustryMay 03, 2022Clumio Newsletter – May 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! Two healthcare customers are showcased in this edition, along with a Healthcare Sector 2022 Look Ahead report. Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help you get backup and running. How BioPlus Simplified Their Ransomware Protection and HIPAA Compliance The…
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AWSApr 28, 2022Why you need Clumio Protect for backing up Amazon S3: Details and Best Practices
I want to share with you some important details to consider when thinking about protecting your data in Amazon S3. There are several factors to consider when thinking about backup vs. replication, data layout, versioning and restoring. Read on for my insights. Data Durability Does Not Eliminate The Need for Backup S3’s famous 11 9’s…
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UncategorizedApr 21, 2022TLDW: Former NSA Officer’s Advice on Preparing for Increased Cyberthreats
Top Takeaways on Cybersecurity and Ransomware Protection Did you miss your chance to tune in live for Clumio’s Coffee Talk featuring Rachel Wilson, Director of Cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Former Head of Counterterrorism Operations, National Security Agency (NSA)? Luckily, you can and should watch the recording, on-demand. Here’s a TLDW (too long,…
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PlatformApr 14, 2022Clumio recognized as the G2 Leader for AWS backup for the second year in a row
And the momentum continues! I’m so excited to share that for the second straight year, Clumio has been recognized as the Leader in the G2 Grid Report for AWS backup, Spring 2022. Clumio has experienced tremendous growth over the last year: quadrupling the number of cloud customers, tripling the number of supported AWS data sources,…
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AWSApr 12, 2022Introducing Clumio Protect for Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is one of the fastest growing and most widely adopted databases in the AWS cloud. Due to its support for very high transaction volumes (20 million requests per second), it has become an important function of mission critical workloads in the cloud. Several large enterprise customers like Lyft, Airbnb, Redfin and we (Clumio)…
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PlatformApr 08, 2022New Feature Friday – Discover adds Ransomware Assessment and Inventory Insights
In today’s cloud-centric world, enterprises are accelerating their cloud journeys to gain a competitive advantage over competitors which has led to exponential data growth. While developers yearn for the cloud operating model, it comes with its fair share of challenges for cloud operators; for instance storing and managing business-critical data, managing against malicious attacks, unpredictable…
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IndustryApr 07, 2022From 451 Research: Three Key Areas Often Overlooked for Cloud Data Protection
Author: Henry Baltazar, Research Director, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence Data protection has been a top concern for organizations for decades and remains a key area requiring modernization. With the rising importance of critical workloads residing on public cloud and SaaS environments, organizations need to evolve their data protection and data management. As…
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IndustryApr 05, 2022Clumio Newsletter – April 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! A summary of our feature releases over the last few months starts off this digest – and is a good way to catch up before a special announcement next week! Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help you get backup…
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IndustryMar 31, 2022World Backup Day 2022
I posted the above picture 2 years ago on World Backup Day. The pandemic had just begun. We were all figuring out how to work from home, little did we know that my then newborn would be 2 years old by the time I got back to the office– and that bonding of two years…
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PlatformMar 25, 2022New Feature Friday – Innovation Never Stops
The innovation train at Clumio continues at full steam with a bunch of new features driven by our customers’ data protection needs and requests. Over the last few months, we have focused our innovation on the continuation of various security enhancements such as access controls, risk analysis for ransomware, and expansion of our data source…
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IndustryMar 15, 2022Clumio Newsletter – March 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! Our next webinar focuses on how to prepare for increased cyberthreats with some exciting guest speakers. Plus we’re getting ready for the first of many AWS Summits in 2022. Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help you get backup and…
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AWSMar 10, 2022Join Clumio at AWS Summits Americas 2022
Clumio is getting backup and running in a big way! While we were able to connect with many of you at AWS re:Invent 2021, we’re looking forward to meeting many more of you as we make our way across North America with the AWS Summits. The top reasons that AWS professionals attend these summits are…
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IndustryMar 09, 2022Clumio Sponsors Women Impact Tech 2022
Clumio is proud to be a sponsor of the Women Impact Tech Conference this year! The 2022 Women Impact Tech Conference (or WIT) will be held in San Francisco on March 16 & 17 at Pier 27. Here, women are encouraged to discover new innovations from a multitude of companies, make meaningful connections with other…
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IndustryFeb 15, 2022Clumio Newsletter – February 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help you get backup and running. Clumio Rockets Through 2021 Over the past year, Clumio has made significant strides in growing our AWS customer base, cloud ARR, and other business milestones. Our CEO,…
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PlatformFeb 09, 2022Clumio Rockets through 2021
Clumio started in 2017 with the vision & mission to build a data protection company, built on the public cloud, for the public cloud. The biggest public cloud vendor and the pioneer in public cloud innovation, AWS, has grown from $3.1B in revenue in 2013 to an annualized run rate of $71B in the latest…
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PlatformFeb 03, 20222021 Clumio Innovation Look Back
Ever look back and smile at how much things have changed over the past year? I do this constantly with my kids. I love seeing how quickly they learn and master skills, but it takes rewatching old videos to truly realize how much they have progressed. Just as 1 year brings growth in my kids,…
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IndustryJan 25, 2022Clumio Newsletter – January 2022
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Clumio Point in Time newsletter! It’s a brand new year, and we’re excited to see what 2022 will bring. First up, we have a webinar with 451 Research to get their perspective on what’s ahead. Also, find out what executives around the world see as their biggest priorities…
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IndustryJan 19, 2022Why I Came Back to Clumio
Proud to be a Clumio Boomerang! I joined Clumio in mid-2019 as one of the early members of the Clumio India RnD center. I was fortunate to be part of a number of milestones – coming out of stealth mode, winning Best of Show at VMworld, getting Series-C funding, to name a few. In those…
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AWSJan 12, 20224 Key Capabilities You Need To Get Back Up and Running from A Cloud Outage
Many of the major consumer and enterprise services and businesses today run on the public cloud, and the smooth functioning of the cloud resources is critical for these services. However, last month many companies saw multiple cloud outages causing disruptions to their customer-facing services. These outages affected notable brands like Netflix, Disney Plus, Slack, Quora,…
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AWSDec 16, 2021Now Generally Available – Clumio Protect for Amazon S3
AWS Re:invent 2021 was a highly anticipated event this year that reminded all of us that the pandemic will end, and when it does the world will come back stronger than ever before. The look of excitement on everyone’s faces was absolutely infectious. The happiness of being out of their houses to meet face-to-face while…
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AWSNov 18, 2021Get Backup and Running with Clumio at AWS re:Invent 2021
To kick off the final month of 2021, some 20,000 cloud professionals will descend on Las Vegas for the industry event of the year, AWS re:Invent, a four-day showcase of keynote speakers, networking, learning, and training. I couldn’t be more excited to finally do normal(ish) things. We’ve weathered a lot these past months but we’re…
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AWSNov 17, 2021Meet Compliance and Be Audit-Ready for Your Critical S3 Data
Every organization has some needs around data protection. Sometimes they are governed by regulatory bodies like HIPAA and at other times they are driven by internal teams to ensure business continuity. Having complete visibility and control over what gets protected and what doesn’t and quickly proving compliance when an audit occurs has become a basic…
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AWSNov 10, 2021Introducing Clumio Protect for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2
With various services and innovations present in the cloud, many enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation and experimenting with database architectures as they move mission critical workloads into the cloud. The challenge becomes a decision between building Microsoft SQL on EC2 as IaaS, or running the Relational Database Service (RDS) inside of AWS as a…
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IndustryNov 02, 2021Growing and Making an Impact as a New College Grad at Clumio
My Background In June 2016 I obtained my Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Nirma University in India. My undergraduate studies helped me develop a passion for learning about computer technology and software. This motivated me to pursue postgraduate studies in engineering. I came to the United States in January 2018 to attend San…
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AWSOct 20, 2021S3 Data Recovery using Global Search
A backup is only as good as its recovery! If you can’t recover at any time or to any location of your choice, then the backup solution is not great. In my previous post for Protection Group, I jotted down several advantages including capabilities to classify data inside your S3 buckets and only protecting data…
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AWSOct 07, 2021Amazon S3 Data Protection using Protection Groups
As highlighted in one of the recent posts for Clumio Protect for Amazon S3, customers face several challenges in order to successfully differentiate between critical and non-critical data and be able to only protect critical data. This data classification challenge is solved by Clumio using an innovative concept called Protection Groups. I’ll dive deeper into…
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AWSOct 05, 2021Porting Backup Solutions from the Data Center to the Cloud: Why It Doesn’t Work
So, you’ve decided to migrate your applications from a data center to the cloud with AWS. But what about the old backup solution you’ve been running in your data center? Wouldn’t it be easier to use the cloud version of the same product in the cloud as well? Not so fast. Your old backup solution…
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AWSOct 01, 2021Feature Friday – Clumio Protect for Amazon S3, VMC, and M365 – October 01, 2021
Welcome to another round of our New feature Friday! It has been an action-packed week at Clumio and we are excited to announce that we have added AWS VMware Cloud (VMC) and Microsoft 365 (M365) to our AWS Marketplace offerings, as well as added the largest service from AWS, S3, to Clumio Protect! Let’s start…
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AWSSep 29, 2021Introducing Clumio Protect for Amazon S3
The public cloud is constantly evolving, Amazon S3, for example, has evolved from cost effective storage where data was dumped and forgotten, to a persistent data store for some of their most critical applications. As AWS customers adopted microservice-based modern applications and analytics, developers and data scientists were driven to find a persistent data store,…
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AWSSep 22, 2021How To Meet Compliance Requirements for Applications in AWS
Today’s compliance landscape is more complicated than it’s ever been—and it’s full of liabilities for any organization that retains user or customer data, whether workloads are hosted on-premises or in the cloud with providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS). An organization’s compliance with regulatory standards for application usage and data storage must remain in accordance…
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IndustrySep 17, 2021My First Year At Clumio
When I first joined Clumio as a starry-eyed recent graduate, I had no idea what to expect in my first year here. Starting my first job in the middle of a pandemic, with limited opportunities for social interaction, certainly didn’t help my nerves. However, a year later, I have already led one major project to…
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AWSSep 15, 2021Data Protection Essentials: RTO vs. RPO
Business continuity plans are more important than ever in today’s risk-filled environment, especially with the rise of threats like malware and ransomware. Determining your organization’s tolerance for data loss and recovery time can minimize or even fully mitigate the impact of a potential disruption to its mission-critical applications and databases. This should also include periodic…
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AWSSep 09, 2021Role Based Access Control (RBAC) vs Entity Based Access Control (EBAC) for Data Compliance
Today, as Enterprise Administrative teams are being asked to do more with less, the push for self-service has never been greater. Off-loading mundane tasks like user requested backups and file restores frees up time on the Core IT team to focus on more mission critical tasks. However, granting access to these powerful tools which house…
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AWSAug 27, 2021Feature Friday – August 27, 2021
The pace of innovation is inspiring! It is so much fun to hear customer’s challenges and quickly deliver a solution that changes the customer experience. A customer was laughing yesterday saying, “I feel like if I blink, I might have a good chance of missing some new innovation from Clumio.” To ensure no innovation is…
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PlatformAug 10, 2021New Innovation Series – Clumio Innovation Never Stops
Sometimes when you are moving so fast, you forget how much amazing stuff is going on around you. It is like when you are driving fast on a road trip and cannot remember passing a city or landmark, but when you get to your destination you reflect back at how truly amazing the experience was….
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AWSAug 05, 2021Backups vs. Snapshots—they are not the same, you really need both
After 20 years of helping customers design well architected primary and secondary storage solutions, I’ve witnessed and participated in countless discussions around the value of backups vs. snapshots, though I’ll say that over time, the conversation seemed to evolve into settled law—Backups and Snapshots are complementary features but are fundamentally too different to compete for…
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AWSJul 27, 2021Best Practices to Protect your Organization Against Ransomware Threats
Organizations around the world are making headlines after falling victim to ransomware attacks. Ransomware is malicious code designed to gain unauthorized access to systems and data and encrypt that data to block access by legitimate users. Once ransomware has locked users out of their systems and encrypted their sensitive data, cyber criminals demand a ransom…
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AWSJun 22, 2021Finding the Right Tool for the Job
One of the roles of the Cloud SE at Clumio is to help customers model their current AWS data protection strategy and the cost of utilizing this strategy. Most of the info required to build a model is familiar: How much data do you protect? How often do you back it up? How long do…
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PlatformJun 10, 2021How Clumio’s Cloud-Native Architecture Utilizes Kubernetes Ingress to Reduce Resource Utilization and Cost
For the Clumio Protect Backup Service, we use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to manage our Kubernetes clusters. The main benefit of using a managed Kubernetes is that you have tight integration with other services from your cloud provider. Specifically, when you create a new Kubernetes Service, a service controller, which is provided by AWS…
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AWSMay 27, 2021Cloud Backup: Why We Need Cloud-Native Data Protection
All enterprises were already using cloud computing in one way or the other when the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly accelerated the migration of additional workloads to the public cloud. There are multiple reasons for this. From the technical point of view the flexibility and agility provided by the cloud can’t be matched by an on-premises infrastructure,…
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AWSMay 27, 2021Introducing Clumio Discover
Logging into the AWS console is like walking into an IKEA superstore. There is everything you need for your house somewhere in there, but it is time-consuming to navigate, and when you have finally reached the right aisle for a component, you spend even more time navigating across a plethora of choices in front of…
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AWSMay 24, 2021A Satellite View of Your Cloud Data Footprint
In the world of increasing data privacy and security regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, enterprises must start with a data mapping visualization framework and build search capabilities for objects/records across time and space dimensions of its data footprint. Oftentimes, it is complex and cost prohibitive to do this retroactively on legacy systems. The good…
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AWSMay 19, 2021AWS Backup and Snapshots – Your journey into the world of cloud backup
After countless conversations with customers about backups, there is a similar journey that they have all taken from using AWS snapshots to third-party snapshot managers to custom scripts, and then ultimately to their final destination: Clumio Protect. This journey started with many bumps and bruises but our customers learned a heck of a lot along…
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IndustryMay 14, 2021Best Place to Work, 2 years running!
We have always believed that meaningful core values are the foundation of a strong culture – and the most important pillar is that our employees carry the flag at Clumio. That means we are all responsible for building this community on our mission to simplify data protection in AWS. It also means we all get…
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AWSMay 12, 2021Top 5 Things You Need to Know about Your AWS Backup Bill
Having trouble understanding your AWS backup costs? You definitely aren’t the first. One of the many conversations we have with customers has to do with even just understanding what their existing backup-related costs are. We have realized this is a very common mystery that our customers are trying to solve. Here are the top five…
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AWSApr 29, 2021Introducing Clumio Protect on AWS Marketplace: Backup as a Service for Amazon EC2, EBS, and RDS
Customers tell us everyday that they are moving so fast to the cloud that it is becoming overwhelming to rationalize all the changes a cloud-first methodology brings to the business. To make matters worse, the pandemic further increased the urgency of a cloud-first methodology – from being an option for staying competitive to becoming table…
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PlatformApr 28, 2021Clumio recognized as the Leader in G2 Grid Report for SaaS driven AWS backup
Clumio’s mission has been to ensure our customer’s data in the cloud is protected at all times. Equally important for us, is to simplify the entire process of cloud data protection and deliver an experience that delights our customers. As a validation of our core values, we are proud and thrilled to announce that Clumio…
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AWSApr 21, 2021Clumio Backup for AWS RDS and SOC 2 compliance
SOC 2 Compliance Audits Most enterprises today are accustomed to performing yearly compliance audits. Typically, these include annual audits to the ISO/IEC 27001 information security standard and/or the Trust Services Criteria for SOC 2. These programs ensure that a 3rd party auditor has examined an organization’s controls and has tested them for alignment with the…
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AWSApr 13, 2021Backup Headache Medicine
We at Clumio pride ourselves on our culture of customer obsession. Our engineers and product teams work with creativity and grit to deliver an authentic SaaS solution for AWS backup that customers love. Our go-to-market teams passionately partner with and advocate for our customers, treating customer wins as their own. And our team of Cloud…
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Data ManagementApr 08, 2021Top 5 Confessions of a CloudOps Engineer about Backup
Our favorite part of being Clumians is the opportunities we get to sit with numerous customers in learning about AWS backup needs in the cloud. Of course, we have all become Zoomers during this pandemic. Now we are sitting with them even though they are miles away physically, and we are pleasantly surprised to see…
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IndustryMar 31, 2021World Backup Day 2021
World Backup Day is the yearly reminder that all organizations should be prepared for those unexpected moments when it hits the fan. We know that data is your most valuable asset. At Clumio we are 100% focused on helping our customers focus on the 99 other problems that they have. At Clumio, we obviously take…
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PlatformJan 28, 2021Three Basic Data Protection and Security Principles: What You Need to Know
In the current climate of ransomware and near-daily reports of data breaches, many organizations are scrambling to review the robustness of their internal controls and processes. In many cases, weaknesses have crept in over time to some of the most basic and fundamental procedures, even in organizations that are well-run and festooned with compliance certifications…
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PlatformJan 26, 2021New Clumio Splunk App Delivers Greater Insight And Visibility Into Your Backups
Exciting news today for all of you Splunk fans out there in Clumio Nation. Our new Clumio Splunk App is now generally available and live on Splunkbase! With this Clumio app, we are completing the story that was started with the launch of Clumio Audit Logs Ingester Add-on back in October. Our new Splunk App…
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PlatformJan 21, 2021Design Systems – Should a startup invest in it?
Building a product from scratch is never easy. Companies may rebuild/redesign it at various stages to give the best features/experience to their customers. Clumio underwent major design updates not once, but twice – the first time, while coming out of stealth mode, for branding and the second time when we expanded our offering with AWS…
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MicrosoftJan 12, 2021Cloud Computing: The Way Forward In A World Of COVID-19
A version of this article originally appeared in ET Insights: “Tackling the COVID-19 Storm with Cloud” From governments sealing the borders and implementing lockdowns to businesses facing the threat of becoming irrelevant and consumers undergoing a hard reset of priorities, the world was not prepared for the disruption that followed the footsteps of the COVID-19…
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PlatformJan 07, 2021Clumio Named A Built In 2021 Best Places To Work!
We are thrilled to share that Clumio has been named one of the Built In 2021 Best Places to Work. We are honored to receive three awards in all – Built In San Francisco’s 2021 Best Places to Work, 2021 Best Midsize Companies to Work For, and 2021 SF Best Paying Companies. This designation acknowledges…
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VMwareDec 17, 2020Introducing Clumio RansomProtect, because just having a backup is not enough
Are the security claims of your backup provider keeping you up at night? Worried that hackers might be on your network right now, trying to compromise your data? Did you know that typical ransomware exists on your network for more than 200 days before encrypting your data? Wonder what they are doing? They are hunting…
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MicrosoftDec 15, 2020How To: Point in Time Recovery for SQL Server (Part Two)
It’s demo day! Hopefully you found my earlier demo (Protecting SQL-Server on Clumio Using a Single-pass Backup) helpful. Today, I will demonstrate point in time recovery for SQL Server with Clumio™. If you are not familiar with Clumio, it’s the industry’s first cloud native data platform to backup heterogeneous cloud data sources in one service,…
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IndustryDec 11, 2020AWS re:Invent: Frogslayer on Modernizing IT for the Cloud-era with Clumio
The landscape is ever-changing in enterprise IT. So, one of the things I love about AWS re:Invent is the opportunity to learn more about real world IT solutions. We all know that the world has shifted to a cloud-first approach but what most people want to know is just how the heck are IT teams…
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IndustryDec 10, 2020Startups are the Best Schools
Rakshit is a software engineer at Clumio. He loves writing code and spends his free time reading/writing/tweeting about everything related with startups and tech products. You often hear it said, “Startups are the best schools.” The reason why it’s said so often is because of the opportunity that comes along with a startup to build…
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PlatformDec 08, 2020Immutability & Air Gaps – Why it Matters for Data Protection
Over the past few years, we have seen that traditional data protection methods needed to evolve in order for organizations to better protect themselves from potential threats, both internal and external. We also see that as customers continue to embrace cloud-first and cloud-native strategies, they need to ensure that their data protection strategies can evolve…
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IndustryDec 01, 2020New College Grad – Expectations and the Clumio Experience
Sanchit Khanna graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani with a Bachelor of Engineering Hons. Computer Science. Has been working in Clumio since July’2019 and previously interned in Nutanix and Amazon. I graduated a year and a half ago, but like everyone else, the job hunt started much before that. I was looking…
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MicrosoftNov 17, 2020How To: Protecting SQL-Server on Clumio Using a Single-pass Backup
If you are anything like me, you love demo videos. So, today I am excited to announce that we are kicking off a new series of blog posts and videos that showcase how IT administrators can quickly and easily protect public, private, and SaaS data in Clumio. If you are not familiar with Clumio, it’s…
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PlatformNov 11, 2020Are you authorized to see this blog? Introducing Clumio Access Management
We all know that authorization and authentication play critical roles in secure enterprise environments. Best practices require that companies ensure that corporate, department and group administrators are only assigned the access they need to help them securely do their job. The trick is always finding the right balance between corporate IT’s desire to lock things…
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IndustryNov 05, 2020Virtual Onboarding: How Clumio Welcomes New Hires While Remote
Good news! You’ve just got hired for a new job at a time when a global pandemic has put millions of people out of work. The bad news: You’re starting that new job during a pandemic that’s forced millions of people to work remotely — including you. Oh and you’re not going to meet your…
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PlatformNov 03, 2020How to Avoid Ransomware NOW with Clumio
Ransomware fears hit new heights this week with a recent round of attacks on the healthcare industry. This new threat prompted the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to send out an advisory this week warning healthcare providers to beware of ransomware and take immediate actions to prevent an attack. Healthcare…
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PlatformOct 29, 2020How Clumio improved their Amazon EBS backups using EBS direct APIs
This is a guest post from Anthony Fiore and was originally posted on the AWS Storage Blog. At AWS re:Invent 2019, AWS launched Amazon EBS direct APIs. This feature enables AWS customers to list the blocks in an EBS snapshot, compare the differences between two EBS snapshots, and directly read data from EBS snapshots. To perform these…
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PlatformOct 22, 2020An Outstanding User Experience for API Developers – Think “UX for REST APIs”
Aarash Heydari is a Member of Technical Staff for Clumio’s Backend team. He completed his undergraduate studies in computer science at UC Berkeley. Aarash spends his free time in quarantine playing drums and reading philosophy. One of the first employees at Clumio’s India R&D Center, Bhaskarjyoti Bora codes passionately. With more than 15 years of…
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PlatformOct 21, 2020Data Management as a Service—Why Clumio Beats Cohesity
The landscape is ever-changing in enterprise IT. The mindset for data management has shifted to a cloud first approach, which rejects the complexity of hardware, demands scale, and requires agility. At Clumio, we love innovating and flipping the industry on its head with new innovative technologies and services that change the customer experience. Jim Boyer,…
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PlatformOct 15, 2020Say hello to Splunk!!! Clumio’s audit logs on Splunk
Yes, you heard it right!!! We have just launched a new Splunk add-on present in Splunkbase and certified by Splunk. This is a big deal, as Splunk is the most popular SIEM tool that means Clumio’s audit logs can be searched, analyzed, and visualized in near real-time. The Splunk add-on will bring two of these…
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IndustryOct 13, 2020My First Job: On Cloud Nine at Clumio
Kabir Peshawaria attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Mathematics. He started working at Clumio full-time June 2020. One year ago, I accepted a full-time job offer from Clumio. Today, that fantastic decision seems like a no-brainer, but at the time the transition from computer science student to…
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MicrosoftOct 06, 2020Protecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere Using a Single-Pass Backup
Virtualizing SQL Server on VMware vSphere and its public cloud incarnations such as VMware Cloud on AWS allows optimizing compute resources through server consolidation and maintaining application flexibility through role isolation, thereby taking advantage of a software-defined data center (SDDC) platform with its capabilities such as network and storage virtualization. It is no surprise that…
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VMwareSep 29, 2020Automate Clumio Recovery to VMware on AWS
Inspired by my colleague Wayne Silberman’s most excellent post on low-cost disaster recovery with Clumio, I decided it was time to grab the world’s largest can of energy drink and tackle a very frequent ask from our customers: Can you help me automate the recovery of my virtual machines to VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC)…
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PlatformSep 28, 2020Is Your Security Camera Truly Logging Everything?
Security cameras help track activities in and around your home and your software audit logs should capture any events happening in your enterprise environment. Capturing and monitoring events into logs helps you in several ways, including but not limited to: Detecting breaches: Just like your security camera helps capture any unknown person entering your home,…
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IndustrySep 24, 2020Partnering in the Cloud with Clumio is Always Blue Skies!
The vast majority of my 20 years in technology sales has been spent in the channel. I cut my teeth early at EMC in their channel organization shortly following their acquisition of Data General. It was arguably one of the best hardware acquisitions that EMC made. While EMC knew they had a winner on their…
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MicrosoftSep 22, 2020Secure AND Simple? Backing up Microsoft 365 can be both with Clumio
Securely backing up and protecting data will always be a challenge. It gets even further amplified when the data resides with another service provider in their cloud. The specific case for this blog being your emails and mailboxes from Microsoft 365, which Chadd Kenney digs into in The Truth about Data Protection for SaaS. In…
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AWSSep 18, 2020When it Comes to RDS Data, Please Don’t Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket
Time and time again it happens for organizations using Amazon RDS. No, the problem is not with RDS itself, which is an excellent database-as-a-service offering from AWS. The problem is with the way RDS data is getting backed up, and those backups becoming useless when your enterprise requires it. It happened again, this time at…
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AWSSep 17, 2020Introducing Backup as a Service for AWS EC2/EBS
Back in November of last year, Clumio delivered the first native backup as a service platform for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS). Enterprises enjoyed the ability to natively protect EBS consistently across all their accounts, full indexing plus cataloging of their data while saving up to 50% cost reduction compared to AWS snapshots. Shortly afterward,…
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IndustrySep 15, 2020Darwin was on to Something – Time to Adapt
“Hard times make for tough people, tough people make for good times, good times make for weak people, weak people make for hard times”. – Michael Hopf in “Those Who Remain” History has pretty clearly proven this quote out, time and time again and my own career has seen some ups and downs. But I…
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PlatformSep 09, 2020Horizontal Innovation > 100 Seagulls on a French Fry
Let’s be honest, the data protection market is thoroughly boring and relatively static. It’s probably one of the more mundane use cases in tech. But the space is about as crowded and noisy as 100 seagulls on a french fry because data protection is required by every organization. While backup and recovery might not be…
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AWSSep 01, 2020The Pros and Cons of Snapshot Management in the Public Cloud
Some say that the best things in life are free, but when it comes to data protection in the cloud, free might only get you part of what you need and cost more in the long run. At the end of the day, it is good to have options and review the pros and cons…
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AWSAug 27, 2020Amazon RDS Rolling Backup Deep Dive with Clumio
Hacking or ransomware attacks are a concern of every enterprise today. As per ransomware reports of 2019, ransomware attacks have almost quadrupled year over year. As organizations have started adopting cloud for their mission-critical systems, data protection becomes even more paramount. At Clumio, we build solutions that protect customers from the ransomware which is a…
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IndustryAug 25, 2020Clumio Launches Operations in Canada to Protect Enterprise Data
In April of this year, I had the honor of leading Clumio’s launch into Canada, signifying the company’s first suite of clients outside of the U.S. Our neighbors to the north now have access to the only service that can protect data when it’s on the move in the all cloud world. This expansion allows…
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VMwareAug 13, 2020From Weekend at Bernie’s to Ozark
A data platform that streamlines backup and recovery with value creation use cases to come. But first, Weekend at Bernie’s. In 2007, ten years after the company was founded, Netflix was slinging rentals of Weekend at Bernie’s in red envelopes by mail. Anyone remember the last Netflix DVD that they failed to return? Not saying…
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PlatformJul 29, 2020Faster Disaster Recovery Solutions that Leverage Cloud Backup
Imagine backing up your data, and as the job completes, it is stored securely offsite, immutable, and ready for recovery. Now imagine this without hardware, manual updates, or a price premium… seems like a disaster recovery solutions gift from the Backup Gods, right? We now have more tools at hand to prevent downtime and more…
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AWSJul 22, 2020Amazon RDS Extended Retention and Granular Record Retrieval Deep Dive with Clumio
Most organizations need to retain data for long periods for regulatory requirement audits, company policies, and compliance. These organizations are required to spend large amounts of money and effort to retain backup data for the long durations to ensure they can retrieve the data when needed. To help organizations with their long-term retention requirements, Clumio…
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AWSJul 01, 2020Liberate Amazon RDS Backup Data From Database Engine Dependencies
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffet This is an open letter to all Cloud Architects and CloudOps teams serving in those industries where you are required to retain data for several years to meet regulatory compliance. Snapshots are great for quick recovery,…
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AWSJun 30, 2020Amazon RDS Operational Recovery Deep Dive with Clumio
Clumio recently launched backup as a service for Amazon Relational Database Service(RDS). In this three-part blog series, we will dive deep into what this service provides through functional demos of the various protection mechanisms across different RDS databases. We will cover the following aspects as mentioned below: Operational Recovery: This is the first order of…
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PlatformJun 23, 2020Compliance in the Cloud
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden Enterprises require the most robust security available and Clumio has made security the primary guiding principle of how we build our service. We made…
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AWSJun 02, 2020Snapshot Managers Exposed; Announcing Clumio Backup as a Service for AWS RDS
Remember long ago how excited you were about getting the nice bundle with 250 channels, a phone line, and internet when signing up for cable? I remember thinking, “this is great, I am getting such an awesome deal for all these services.” Fast forward a few years. I never watch more than 5 channels, never…
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IndustryMay 28, 2020Building a Clumio Innovation Hub The Right Way
At a very high level, for any startup like Clumio to be successful, two things must matter most. First, have you read the market right? Second, do you have what it takes to market your idea? It is not an easy job, but a successful launch from stealth and winning the Best of Show award…
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AWSMay 20, 2020Are Cloud Data Protection Gaps Slowing your RDS Adoption?
With all the craziness of recent times, I often think back at past vacations and reminisce on how much fun they were: time with family, going on new adventures, and creating new memories. Then I remember that one family vacation that I forgot my passport and it derailed everything. When I realized it, my heart…
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PlatformApr 29, 2020Clumio Separates From the Pack with Industry First
Isn’t it the worst when you are forced to use two or three tools when you really only need one? Think back at the painful experience of picking up one remote at a time to turn on your television, then your receiver, then your cable box. If there was any inconsistency in the sequence, more…
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IndustryApr 27, 2020Creating an Award-Winning Culture
Our employees are at the center of our culture. We believe this to be so deeply important that we designed our core values that way, and you can see it in the acronym: TRUST with “U” at the center. That’s what makes this a special announcement. I am proud, honored, and humbled that Clumio has…
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PlatformApr 16, 2020The Truth about Data Protection for SaaS
Don’t you hate that feeling when you realize something you always thought was true, wasn’t true? Maybe it is something your parents told you and you have confidently told others about it. Then one day, your friend or co-worker proves you wrong. You are shocked and wonder, what else am I wrong about? Like when…
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PlatformApr 07, 2020Unleashing an Army of Microservices with Clumio Cloud Scaling
Here at Clumio, we’re attacking a common enterprise problem in an uncommon way. The problem entails how to protect various on-premises, public cloud, and SaaS workloads while minimizing risk, complexity and cost. In today’s world of managing the myriad apps and data built in different places on various platforms, organizations find that traditional data protection…
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PlatformApr 02, 2020Proactive Data Protection Strategies in a World of Ransomware
Ransomware is one of many cybersecurity threats we face in our modern and more connected world. Ransomware earns headlines across the globe, not only for the systems targeted and organizations initiating attacks but also for the cost of remediation and lost revenue. In 2019, the City of Baltimore attributed over $18 million in costs associated…
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PlatformMar 26, 2020Best Practices for Protecting Your Data in Today’s New Reality
The global pandemic and economic crisis unfolding before us is a new reality for everyone, creating complex challenges that must be managed in bold new ways. Unfortunately, concerns about interruptions in the IT supply chain are real. And we know that bad actors get more aggressive, not less, during times like these. We all want…
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PlatformMar 24, 2020SaaS Matters – CI/CD for Modern SaaS
Developing a modern SaaS product is not just limited to writing features that customers can use, there is an entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that needs to be defined and implemented. The SDLC has many parts to it that would be too long to cover here. In this latest installment of the “SaaS Matters”…
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IndustryMar 17, 2020Clumio Readiness Strategy for COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, Clumio remains focused on keeping our employees healthy and safe as well as ensuring that our customers are fully supported. We are closely following WHO, CDC and local government guidelines as we continuously assess our policies and support efforts. Our thoughts go out to everyone impacted by the…
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PlatformMar 10, 2020Customer Onboarding – What once took months, now takes minutes!
At Clumio, we have removed the time consuming task of designing and architecting complex infrastructure solutions in order to meet data protection requirements. Clumio customers simply access our secure backup as a service through a URL where they register and start protecting data within 15 mins. It’s as simple as that! The Clumio service and…
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VMwareMar 03, 2020Rapid Recovery – The Fastest RTO for Production Workloads Delivered from Cloud
500 GB SQL Server database recovered from cloud in 5 minutes! Let us say you have a SQL Server Availability Group (AG) in your virtualized data center. This SQL Server AG is hosting many databases serving mission critical applications. There is a total of half a terabyte of mission critical data today but it is…
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VMwareFeb 13, 2020SaaS Backup for VMware Cloud on AWS – Have Your Cake and Eat it too
Don’t we all want to have our cake and eat it too? I know I do…. In today’s enterprise, having it all means leveraging both public and private clouds together without having to compromise or change the way things are done. This is the value of VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS. Customers get the benefit…
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IndustryFeb 12, 2020How to Choose the Right Startup: Hidden Signals
In my previous blog posts, I shared some of the more obvious signals – competitive advantages and company leaders – to look for in choosing the right startup. This is my final post on the subject and I’d like to share some of what we might call “hidden signals”. These are some of the not…
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PlatformFeb 05, 2020Not All “Cloud Native” Solutions are Created Equal
With all the new “cloud” products in the enterprise market today, it can be challenging to discern what was actually born in the cloud and what is just a cloud native wannabe. Seemingly everyone these days markets their solution as “cloud-native” but the real question is, what is cloud-native, what difference does it make, and…
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PlatformJan 23, 2020Sizing for Peak Workloads – Public Cloud Demands Intelligent Design
Sizing for peak workloads is a fundamental tenet of any responsible architecture. After spending the last 20 years helping my customers properly evaluate and right-size storage architectures for these peaks, it was never lost on me that they generally occurred less than 20% of the total run time of the sized environment. In the era…
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PlatformJan 09, 2020SaaS Matters – Designing for the Enterprise
With accelerating cloud adoption, backups in the cloud are necessary and the expectation that SaaS will abstract the complexities away has become more important than ever for the best user experience. Till now, in the world of enterprise backup, on-premises products have been the norm where companies ship a hardware device and let the user…
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PlatformJan 07, 2020MythBusters: SaaS Edition
In the numerous customer meetings I’ve participated in over the last few years, I kept hearing the same set of words, “we have a cloud-first IT strategy.” According to the latest IDC predictions, public cloud spending will grow from $229 billion in 2019 to $500 billion in 2023. More than half of this spend will…
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IndustryDec 12, 2019How to Choose the Right Startup: Founders and Investors
In part I of my blog series, “how to choose the right startup”, I discussed finding a startup that is attacking a large market with key differentiators that enable a competitive advantage. That is a good first step, but there is more to it, of course. In part II, we will focus on a few…
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PlatformDec 05, 2019Seven Habits of Highly Effective SaaS
The holiday season is upon us. This is the time for jolly and self-reflection. The core of an information technology professional’s career has always been about vendor selection and relationship management. As an IT/ISV professional prepares himself/herself for the brand new decade ahead, it is time to reflect on existing relationships and reinvent oneself for…
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AWSDec 03, 2019Backup for EBS: A Solution Driven by Customer Requirements
Clumio recently announced that its secure backup as a service for enterprises now supports AWS EBS. In this post, we will cover some of the customer motivations and challenges we had to overcome to build the solution. Gathering Requirements After we launched our service to protect VMWare workloads on-prem and in VMware Cloud on AWS,…
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PlatformNov 26, 2019Bandwidth Throttling for Cloud Backup
Bandwidth is a limited and precious commodity so the networking team needs to ensure that no one application is monopolizing the entire network. They need to manage the network capacity and allocate bandwidth per application – allocations that can vary by time of day based on usage of the application. For example, during the day,…
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AWSNov 19, 2019Introducing Backup as a Service for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
Moving applications to the cloud can be an exciting journey. Last week an enterprise cloud architect said, “our ability to increase agility, remove infrastructure complexity, and reduce costs in the public cloud makes us more competitive in the market today.” I could see the excitement in his face, but in the same breath, he mentioned…
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PlatformNov 14, 2019SaaS Matters – Enterprise Support Made Possible by Clumio
At Clumio, we’re laser focused on the success of our customers. This starts with delivering a secure, backup as a service for the enterprise that eliminates the complexity of software and hardware management. But it doesn’t end there! Being a true, cloud-native backup solution allows us to provide our customers with a level of support…
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PlatformNov 13, 2019SaaS Matters – For the Customer and the Vendor
It was a Tuesday about a year ago and I had just walked out of a client meeting. I wanted to try my hand at consulting after a 5.5 year run at ServiceNow. The meeting had to do with filesystems for on-prem storage. Really, I left one of the hottest SaaS companies in the valley…
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IndustryNov 07, 2019How to Choose the Right Startup: Market Disruption and Competitive Advantage
In my last blog, I shared my view on the nine characteristics that great startups often share. I wanted to pick up on that theme and dive deeper into the first two, market disruption and competitive advantage, in my continued effort to help job seekers find the right fit for their career and personal goals….
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PlatformNov 05, 2019How Well Is Your Journey to the Cloud Protected?
Enterprises are quickly accelerating their move to the public cloud to escape the complexities of infrastructure while leveraging public cloud innovation, scale, and economics. This shift has changed modern IT from a cost center, focused on managing infrastructure, to a business value driver, focused on getting leverage from data. The public cloud has delivered tremendous…
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PlatformOct 31, 2019The Complexity Behind The Simplicity
In my last blog, we explored the engineering challenges of building products delivered ‘as a service’. Developers are constantly making trade-offs between simplicity (sometimes at the expense of functionality) and functionality (sometimes at the expense of added complexity). As enterprises operate multiple datacenters, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, protecting all of these workloads becomes a very…
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IndustryOct 24, 2019How to Choose the Right Startup
I spend the majority of my day speaking with software engineers. This can vary from the person recently out of school to the engineer with 20+ years of experience. The people I talk to and get to know, come from all types of backgrounds and are at different places in their lives. Some have few…
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IndustryOct 22, 201960 Days Out of Stealth – Another New Beginning!
After nearly two years of building under the heavy cloak of stealth, this past summer we went into full-on launch mode for 3 months to get the biggest bang possible for the unveiling of our secure backup as a service. Though it’s come and gone in a flash, it was an incredibly successful debut and I…
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PlatformOct 10, 2019What is Authentic SaaS for Enterprise Backup?
I am sure you hear “as a service” all the time, Software as a Service (SaaS), Backup as a Service (BaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). The question is, what does “as a service” actually mean anymore, especially for enterprise backup? For most, as a service means signing up for a service without…
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PlatformSep 26, 2019On Board with Clumio SaaS for Enterprise Backup
This week marks the beginning of my newest adventure, revolutionizing the enterprise backup industry with authentic SaaS at Clumio. So you are probably wondering… why backup and what is “authentic SaaS? Isn’t all SaaS… SaaS? Before getting into why I am excited, let’s take a step back and look at some of the realities that…
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PlatformAug 08, 2019The Why, What and How of Clumio…a New Beginning!
Going after big markets with disruptive solutions proves to be a winning strategy. It’s only possible when there is a discontinuity in the sector. Incumbents cannot react to the lack of coherence fast enough and that gives a newer company an opening to come in and take advantage. The below framework from Mike Speiser, a…
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PlatformAug 08, 2019Building Services Is Hard – And We Like It That Way
A tool can be simple, but it is usually singular in its purpose. And when a product or technology changes, any given tool can be quickly rendered useless. Some probably have a wrench at home, but when the plumbing problem turns complex because of new and more automated systems, many are likely to turn to…
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PlatformAug 08, 2019Key Management in the Cloud
Encryption is fantastic for data security. It offers mathematically provable assurance that your data is able to be read only by you. It offers the assurance for most CIOs…
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