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BlogWorld Backup Day 2023: AI puts spotlight on data lakes like S3
ChatGPT has gained a lot of attention recently, opening up a whole new world of possibilities across knowledge, research, and collaboration. The growing capabilities of AI and the proliferation of AI-based tools is giving rise to new modalities of working. Use of AI/ML in regulated industries While it’s been fun to play around with large…
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BlogWhy Clumio Beats Cohesity
We’re in the midst of a colossal change for enterprise IT. With data lakes, cloud-native apps, AI and ML, the world has moved on very quickly from the traditional hardware + VMs oriented approach to IT. . At Clumio, we’re riding this wave, having created the industry’s first backup and recovery solution for cloud-first applications,…
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Solution BriefClumio Healthcare Solution Brief
Clumio provides simplified data protection optimized for the healthcare industry’s rigorous requirements.
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eBookAmazon S3 Backup for Dummies
A concise explanation of the best way to protect your S3 data lake and meet compliance regulations.
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BlogHIMSS 2023: Clumio helps healthcare providers protect their data
HIMSS Global Health Conference 2023 is the grandest healthcare innovation conference on the planet. Located at McCormick Place just outside downtown Chicago, tens of thousands of healthcare providers and technology trailblazers will converge to create better healthcare solutions, find new efficiencies, and become overall better providers to patients. Clumio is exhibiting at HIMSS for the first time,…
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WebinarRansomware Recovery Immersion Day
In collaboration with It takes on average nine months to recover from a ransomware incident. At best, this means an organization dedicates valuable resources to getting back to normal. At worst, this can be crippling for the business. Join AWS and Clumio to learn how to protect your critical data and, more importantly, recover…
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BlogHappy Pi Day & S3 Birthday! 3.14 Ways to Boost S3 Security
Happy Pi Day! A day to celebrate things that are round, and also a day to celebrate modern infrastructure! Amazon S3 was released on this day 17 years ago. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been a pie person over cake for birthdays, so today I’m going to eat a slice of pie…
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WebinarStreamline Compliance with AWS CloudTrail Lake and Clumio
Audit logs are an indispensable tool in the security team’s toolset. AWS has solved a major challenge teams were having with disparate logs that made it difficult to manage compliance requests. The new AWS CloudTrail Lake aggregates audit logs in a central location that makes it easier to analyze and query events to aid in…
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BlogClumio Newsletter – March 2023
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! March 31 is World Backup Day, and we’re here to help you get ready for it. Find out what CISOs and security teams can do to stay ahead of the 2023 regulatory landscape. Plus, our Field CTO explains why replication is not a good backup strategy,…
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WebinarWhat CISOs Need to Think About This World Backup Day
This year is shaping up to be a defining year for the future of privacy, security, and data management. The codification of privacy is transforming how businesses are expected to operate. Month over month more legislation is being introduced, and with new changes coming this year (CCPA, NYDFS, SEC, Federal Laws), CISOs and security teams…
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BlogSecurity News in 4 Minutes: US Cyber Security Strategy
Security news in four minutes is back this week! Last week was busy and thought-provoking. These days, every week gets me more excited for the future of the industry. U.S. Government’s Cyber Security Strategy Gets Serious I grew up with the hacker mindset: Figure out how everything works and how to repurpose technology for new…
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BlogOpinion: A better way to CISO (with A better CISO mindmap!)
Introduction I’m excited for this one! I’ve been working on this security mind map to capture how I think about security for some time. If you’re just here for the mind map, you can jump to the end. I encourage you to share and use the mind map to create a dialog. I create content…
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BlogThe data-first CISO, for a new era of data compliance
Let’s be honest, most of us in this industry have been asking for change for a long time. Many of us have argued for digital privacy as a right, and now it’s starting to come to fruition. We see month over month more legislation being introduced. This codification of privacy is transforming how businesses are…
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BlogHow to create a comprehensive backup strategy for your Amazon S3 environment
Backing up data is essential to data resilience and cybersecurity. Having a comprehensive S3 backup strategy can help ensure that your data is secure and easily retrievable in the event of a data loss or system failure. This article will provide an overview of the basics of S3 backup, as well as best practices for…
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BlogSecurity News This Week in 4 Minutes
Hello, and happy Friday! This week (week of February 5th, 2023) security and privacy news has been dominated by talks of spy balloons and sanctions on Russian threat groups. But in case you missed it, some other interesting ransomware press was released. On Thursday, CISA, in conjunction with several domestic and international agencies, issued an…
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BlogClumio Newsletter – February 2023
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! It’s the second month of the year but we’re not over the new-ness of things yet. Check out the new AWS CloudTrail Lake integration, new ways to save on your AWS backup bill, and a new customer story. Read on for a roundup of the latest…
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WebinarUsing Replication for Backups? There Are Better Options.
Thousands of organizations rely on Replication to safeguard their Amazon S3 data and AWS databases. While it’s an excellent choice for high availability, replication cannot roll back your data to a specific point in time, making it ineffective against cyberattacks like wipeouts and ransomware, or user-driven deletions and overwrites. Amazon S3 customers who are currently…
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WebinarProtecting Student Data in AWS in 2023
Student data protection is a constant challenge for EdTech companies and educational institutions. The Federal Trade Commission has ramped up scrutiny of student privacy practices, ransomware threats continue to evolve, and cloud storage costs are steadily growing. At the same time IT and cloud teams must also keep student data storage in compliance with federal…
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BlogIntroducing Clumio’s integration with AWS CloudTrail Lake
Audit logs are a vital tool in any security team’s toolbox. They help track and monitor user activity across applications, systems, and networks. Not only do they help identify suspicious activity, like a user accessing a privileged system they don’t have access to, but also are a key piece in forensically looking at the history…
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WebinarHelp! My AWS backup bill is out of control!
If there was ever a time to optimize your cloud spend, it’s now. And corralling storage and backup sprawl is a great place to start. You’d be surprised at how much of your AWS bill is due to ever growing snapshots, versions, and replications, some of which you may not even have visibility into. It’s…
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Blog2022 Clumio Innovation Look Back
A new year brings the opportunity to reflect back on all the amazing things we’ve accomplished through the past year, and 2022 marked another year of industry-changing innovation at Clumio. We ended 2021 with a blockbuster Early Access Program for Clumio Protect for Amazon S3, and launched the product in General Availability in early 2022….
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BlogClumio Newsletter – January 2023
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! Are you ready to make 2023 your best year yet? We’re here to help you achieve those business goals! Might we suggest new years resolutions to harden data protection, simplify management and compliance, and lower cloud costs? Read on for a roundup of the latest news and…
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WebinarPlanning your AWS Data Protection Strategy for 2023
As the pace of digitalization increases, policies and regulations are adapting to address concerns around security of data. Ransomware attacks, insider threats, and even accidental deletions are on the rise. Organizations have come to realize that an outdated data protection strategy puts their entire business at risk. But many organizations aren’t sure what steps to…
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Webinar3 Cloud Security Surprises in 2022
Market intelligence firm IDC projected that 2022 cloud infrastructure spend would grow by 22%. As organizations increasingly build cloud-native applications, and store their business critical data in the public cloud, the need to secure that data becomes paramount. How has cloud security changed over the last 11 months? Special guest Clarke Rodgers, AWS Enterprise Security…
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BlogAWS re:Invent 2022 Highlights: Better, Faster, Cheaper
AWS re:Invent 2022 was a welcome opportunity to connect with customers, partners, and colleagues throughout the industry. It really felt like “the before times” with a bustling expo floor, tons of impromptu discussions, and attendees hustling from session to session. Over 50,000 people attended the conference, and Clumio staff enjoyed the many in-depth conversations that…
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BlogClumio Newsletter – December 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! What an incredible year 2022 has been, capped off in grand fashion with AWS re:Invent! Did you stop by and pick up a tshirt? We hope to see you wearing it in 2023. Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help…
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Videore:Invent 2022 session: 3 innovations that redefine data protection for Amazon S3
In this session, technologists from Amazon, Cox Automotive, and Clumio dive deep into Amazon S3 data protection and demonstrate how to swiftly recover petabytes of data in the event of an incident.
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VideoProtecting Amazon S3 data at unprecedented scale with Clumio
Clumio CEO Poojan Kumar discusses protecting Amazon S3 data, and our partnership and architecture alongside AWS’s Paul Meighan.
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BlogAccess Control in Clumio
Leveraging Organizational Units and Roles At Clumio, we recognize that Authentication and Authorization are critical requirements for enterprise companies. Enterprises have multiple business units, each with their own employees, data, workloads and data protection needs. Clumio offers robust mechanisms that our customers can use for safeguarding against unauthorized access. Simply put, Access Control is the mechanism that…
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eBookThe Big Book of S3 Data Protection
Enterprises increasingly rely on Amazon S3’s data lake capabilities to power their business, trusting its eleven 9s of durability to keep operations running smoothly. But the ever growing size of mission critical data presents new challenges for CloudOps – particularly when it comes to protecting that data against threats or ensuring that the data meets…
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WebinarBuilding a Culture of FinOps – Tackling Dev Costs
Learn how we reduced our AWS dev spend by over 50% in three months. Like many companies built on AWS, Clumio has relied upon the benefits of cloud computing to develop, test, and scale features for our platform at a high pace. As we focused on building a best-in-class data protection solution, rising AWS bills…
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Solution BriefData Protection for Amazon S3 Solution Brief
Understand why Amazon S3 data needs protection, and how Clumio simplifies S3 backup and recovery at any scale.
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VideoSimplify cloud data protection with Clumio
Build resilience into your data lakes, applications, and business-critical data. Clumio continuously protects your data, automates compliance and provides instant recovery when you need it most.
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Video[Demo] How to Protect Your Amazon S3 Data with Clumio
Protect your S3 buckets from accidental deletions, overwrites, and ransomware attacks. Clumio delivers air gapped backups and simple recovery for Amazon S3.
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BlogNext-Level S3 Data Protection: Exabyte-Scale & Instant Restore
Managing data resilience in the cloud is hard. Modern apps generate and consume data at a blistering pace and protecting that data is a huge challenge. This is because the building blocks of these apps—microservices and functions—leverage ephemeral compute and use cloud object stores to persist data when needed. This leads to massive, exponentially growing…
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BlogRedefine Data Protection for Amazon S3 with Clumio at re:Invent 2022
Clumio is excited to be heading back to Las Vegas November 28 – December 1 for re:Invent 2022, along with an estimated 50,000 attendees from around the industry. This year’s show promises incredible turnout and plenty of opportunities to amp up your knowledge, and network with data protection and data security peers from around the…
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BlogClumio Newsletter – November 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! This is a special edition, rounding up all the exciting Clumio news and happenings for AWS re:Invent! AWS’s biggest show of the year happens November 28 – December 2 in Las Vegas. Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help you…
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WebinarClumio Live: Recovering Lost or Deleted S3 Data
With enterprises increasingly leveraging Amazon S3 to power their applications, data lakes, and AI, a data loss disruption can be deeply damaging and time-consuming to recover. More and more organizations, particularly those that are heavily reliant on high-volume data, are beginning to realize that their Amazon S3 needs comprehensive data protection, especially once they have…
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Blog4 strategies to help your business thrive in a tough economy
None of us has a crystal ball to tell what the economy will do for the remainder of this year, next year or beyond. But with rising interest rates, ongoing supply chain issues and a myriad of other challenges and unknowns that may lead to recession, you’ve probably already started to tighten up spending wherever…
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WebinarClumio Live: Data Resiliency as Code
Data Resiliency as Code: Terraform with Clumio Infrastructure as code has been a fundamental principle of IT & DevOps the last few years. Terraform is a well-known infrastructure as code tool that provides key syntax and structure to help companies minimize environment drift and automate end-to-end reproducibility of cloud based environments. Clumio has used Terraform…
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WebinarBack to School Show & Tell: Summer’s Innovations Recap
Back to school season means it’s time to share what we’ve been up to over the summer! Join Clumio Product Manager Adam Rusho for a look back at the summer season’s hot innovations, including a live demo. Some of the enhancements he’ll share include: Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for Amazon S3, Amazon RDS and…
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Solution BriefClumio for Financial Services Solution Brief
Clumio simplifies data protection and compliance for financial services.
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BlogClumio Newsletter – October 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month! Are you up to date on security trends, developments, and CISA bulletins? Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help you get backup and running. What Is The Mandela Effect? And What Does It…
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BlogMy Favorite Job Ever
For many, the journey of applying to your dream job and getting hired can be a months-long odyssey. For me? Four rounds of interviews and an offer received within a month, with responses from the company never taking longer than 48 hours! I was impressed with Clumio even before I hit the floor. I remember…
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BlogProvisioning Users Automatically in Clumio
Integration Speeds Communication We all live in a highly dynamic world where people from different backgrounds come together and work as a team to achieve great success for themselves and their organizations. When we all speak similar languages, it is straightforward for us to communicate with each other. In the technology world, there are multiple…
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BlogIs the Mandela Effect Leaving Your AWS Data Vulnerable?
Humanity’s collective memory can be a little fuzzy. Case-in-point: The Mandela Effect, or the phenomenon of large groups of people misremembering the same fact or event in a similar way. The effect is named after Nelson Mandela, who many people believe died in prison in the 1980s despite the fact that he actually went on…
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BlogClumio Newsletter – September 2022
Welcome to this month’s Clumio Point in Time newsletter! We’ve got an Azure item sprinkled in with our regular AWS focused news this month. Read on for a roundup of the latest news and resources to help you get backup and running. Back to School Show & Tell: Summer’s Innovations Recap Back to school…
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eBookThe Definitive Guide to Backing Up Data in AWS
Understand the current challenges of cloud data protection, when to move beyond AWS snapshots, and why enterprises are choosing Clumio to backup and recover critical data. The importance of protecting data in the cloud cannot be overstated; critical data is stored in it, entire enterprises are built in it. All cloud providers, including Amazon Web…
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BlogClumio SecureVault Lite – Now Generally Available
Listening to customers as they review their data protection strategy sometimes feels like a play-by-play of a tightrope act at the circus. It is a constant balancing act between protecting data effectively versus reducing costs and under-protecting their data. Over-protecting results in cost overages and under-protecting results in increased vulnerabilities ranging from accidental deletions to…
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BlogMaximize Amazon EBS and EC2 Performance with Clumio Discover
Amazon EBS is a popular cloud-based block storage system, generally used in conjunction with Amazon EC2. Amazon EBS volumes can be used for web applications, databases, and file systems to name a few. Amazon EBS volumes vary by volume size, disk I/O, throughput and latency, and are billed per GB per month. As an Amazon…
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BlogIntegrating SaaS with AWS Marketplace, Part 1
Introduction AWS Marketplace is a curated collection of third-party applications that are either hosted on AWS or provisioned directly in a customer’s AWS account. Marketplace helps customers find products and services that seamlessly integrate with businesses’ day-to-day activities without the need for lengthy provisioning or installation cycles. Applications listed on Marketplace cover a wide range…
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WebinarCoffee Talk – The Future Looms Bright for This Business Built on Amazon S3
Brightloom has built their AI/ML foundation on Amazon S3 and Clumio to power real-time applications that are secure, resilient, and future proof. Amazon S3 is the powerhouse behind many applications that fuel hyper growth for today’s businesses. Organizations that take the time to optimize how they leverage Amazon S3 are able to leave their competition…
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BlogHow to Debug EMR Step Failures
Overview At Clumio, EMR has become one of the most important tools for processing data and we use it widely for creation and delivery of ETL, analytics and ML applications. EMR is relatively easy to set up and comes with a lot of built-in features like Spark, Hive, Sqoop etc. However EMR requires sufficient planning…
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BlogHow Cloud-native Data Protection Boosts Your Sustainability Efforts
You’ve heard the terms before. Sustainable, net-zero, green approach, low carbon footprint, eco-friendly, impact-free. But can we move the needle with the way we store and manage our data? Moving from on-prem to cloud could be one of the greatest contributions to reducing a company’s carbon footprint. The Grass is Actually Greener in the Cloud…
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BlogSpeaking 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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BlogClumio 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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WebinarShields Health Invests in Building Their Business, Not Their Backup
Join key decision makers from Shields Health, Clumio and Converge as they share insights on making the move to the cloud, the criticality of protecting your data, and how to decide on buy vs build for your business. When Shields Health selected Converge as their AWS migration partner they needed to ensure their workloads were…
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BlogLeveraging 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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BlogSee 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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Analyst ReportGigaOm Use Case Scenario for Cloud-Native Backup
This GigaOm report focuses on a cloud-native backup use case scenario and best practices. It helps organizations understand the technology, and apply it efficiently for their needs.
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WebinarBuild vs. Buy: The Hidden Costs of DIY Data Protection
Managing effective data protection in AWS is increasingly challenging, especially as data volume grows, data sources expand, and budgets tighten. It’s tempting to build your own solution for customization and control. But it’s important to weigh the pros and cons of a DIY approach versus leveraging a purpose-built solution, including the final TCO when all…
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VideoTruth in IT Broadcast – Clumio Cloud First Data Protection
Mike Matchett, CEO and Principal Analyst at Small World Big Data, hosts Chadd Kenney, VP of Product at Clumio, for a discussion on data protection in the cloud. Clumio: Cloud First Data Protection In the beginning, data protection in the public cloud reverted to primitive practices (Snapshots, Oh my!) which created a big gap…
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Analyst ReportESG Economic Validation Report: Clumio for AWS Data Protection
ESG Analysis Calculates 35% Cost Reduction While Providing Elevated Data Protection Protecting data in the cloud is essential to your business, but can grow to be a complex task. This is especially true if you’re tasking your IT team with combining cloud tools, manual scripts, and multiple services in order to maintain security and compliance…
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BlogEnhancing 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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BlogClumio 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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BlogMicrosoft 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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BlogHow 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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WebinarCoffee Talk: Simplifying SOC 2 Compliance
SOC 2 compliance has become an important part of doing business in today’s threat-laden environment. Slogging through the tedious language of the standard to pull out concrete actions is just the first challenge. Once you have a game plan, implementing and managing it takes valuable time away from other tasks that are more central to…
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BlogAutomating 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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BlogClumio 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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BlogClumio SecureVault Lite: Affordable EC2 Air-Gap
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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BlogThe 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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BlogDemystifying SOC 2 Data Protection Requirements
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 data protection in the 2017 Trust Services Criteria that SOC…
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WebinarHow BioPlus Simplified Ransomware Protection and HIPAA Compliance
The healthcare industry’s stringent compliance requirements in ensuring patient data is secure and protected can add cumbersome administrative overhead for IT departments. They must also consider a more robust level of data protection since the sensitive nature of patient data makes it highly valuable to cyber attackers. Learn what BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy is doing to…
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BlogUsing 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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BlogSnapshots and Backups and Replication, 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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BlogClumio 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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WebinarCoffee Talk: Amazon DynamoDB – Harness The Power, Protect the Data
Want to get the most out of Amazon DynamoDB? Hear directly from a member of the product team! Join Gautham Shanmugam, Amazon DynamoDB Senior Go-to-Market Specialist, as he shares insights into how this powerful database service is being leveraged to power performance in modern, cloud-native applications. He’ll be talking with Clumio’s VP of Product, Chadd…
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BlogBacking 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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BlogFormer NSA Officer’s Tips for Cyber Threats
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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BlogClumio – 2nd Year G2 Leader for AWS Backup
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 <a href=”https://clumio.com/solutions/aws-backup/”>AWS backup</a>, Spring 2022. Clumio has experienced tremendous growth over the last year: quadrupling the number of cloud customers, tripling the number of supported AWS data…
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BlogIntroducing 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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Solution BriefClumio Protect for DynamoDB Datasheet
Turnkey ransomware protection supercharges backup, recovery and audit readiness at cloud scale.
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BlogDiscover Feature: Ransomware Assessment & Inventory
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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BlogFrom 451 Research: Overlooked Cloud Data Protection Areas
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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Analyst Report451 Research Brief: Rise of Microsoft 365 Creates Data Protection Issues
43% of respondents in the Voice of the Enterprise survey are considering a backup service to protect their M365 data, suggesting that M365 is a key platform requiring enhanced data protection. Download this brief to get 451 Research’s take on the business impact.
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BlogClumio 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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BlogWorld 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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BlogNew 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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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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WebinarCoffee Talk: Former NSA Officer’s Advice on Preparing for Increased Cyberthreats
Ransomware attacks have exposed serious vulnerabilities in business operations across all market sectors. But the recent escalation of political tensions has heightened awareness of what’s at stake when core services are crippled by cyberattacks. Join a panel of experts featuring Rachel Wilson, Former Head of Counterterrorism Operations, National Security Agency (NSA) and current Director of…
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BlogJoin 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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BlogClumio 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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WebinarMake S3 Data Easy to Search, Fast to Recover
Learn about Clumio’s unique Protection Group feature for data classification. Your Amazon S3 account is great for storing all your data. However, all of that data goes into buckets that mix business-critical data with non-critical data. While this works well for functional storage, it makes backup and recovery of S3 data difficult to manage and…
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BlogClumio 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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BlogClumio 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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Solution BriefClumio Protect for Microsoft 365
Clumio provides a secure cloud backup for Microsoft 365 Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint.
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Blog2021 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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WebinarCoffee Talk: Is Your S3 Data Protection Strategy Ready for 2022?
Your mission critical data in Amazon S3 is growing at a rapid pace. Is your data protection solution for S3 ready to scale without adding complexity? Your mission critical data in Amazon S3 is growing at a rapid pace. If you’re relying on versioning and replication to protect your data, you’re not alone. Amazon S3…
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BlogClumio 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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Analyst Report451 Research Market Insight Report: Clumio backup as a service for Amazon S3
According to 451 Research, viewing backup for Amazon S3 as unnecessary is outdated thinking. Applications and workloads have evolved well beyond the cheap and deep storage use cases of archiving and long-term backup retention for which Amazon S3 was originally intended. Organizations now rely on S3 to store mission critical production data, data that requires…
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White PaperCompliance and the Increasing Challenges of Cloud Data Lifecycle Management
Simplify compliance and cloud data lifecycle management while ensuring the highest levels of data protection. As applications, systems, and operations grow and evolve, maintaining compliance becomes more challenging. For companies migrating to the cloud, there is the added challenge that well-established practices for on-premises operations do not easily or completely map to requirements of public…
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BlogWhy 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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Blog4 Key Capabilities for Cloud Outage Recovery
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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Video6 innovations that reinvent Amazon S3 data protection
Amazon S3 has evolved from storing static images to being used for business-critical datasets. This is challenging enterprises to determine what needs to be protected and how to protect it, while ensuring they meet compliance requirements. In this session, join Defiance Digital, an AWS Partner, and Clumio to learn the optimal way to back up…
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BlogNow 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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WebinarClumio LIVE – 2021 Innovations Recap
2021 Word of the Year? We vote for “acceleration.” Digital transformation – accelerated. Cloud adoption – accelerated. Even ransomware attacks – accelerated. At Clumio, we accelerated our pace of innovation to keep up with our customers’ accelerating business needs. We ran through 2021 with a series of industry firsts, capping them off with the industry’s…
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WebinarProtecting Mission Critical Databases on AWS
You’ve moved your mission critical database to AWS, with the intention of leveraging all the benefits of the cloud – scalability, reliability, availability. And of course, security remains a top priority, especially in this era of increased cybersecurity threats and data breaches. You need a comprehensive data protection plan that can help you recover from…
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Solution BriefEnterprise Backup for VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS
Clumio delivers a single, secure backup service that protects VMs that run on VMC.
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Solution BriefClumio Enterprise Backup for Microsoft SQL Server
Clumio for Microsoft SQL Server is the only backup solution that provides touch-free management, engine independent backups, and instant data retrieval that is built for enterprises operating in hybrid cloud environments. Additionally, the data is stored in a searchable time-series data lake from which records can be retrieved using familiar ANSI SQL queries by authorized…
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BlogGet 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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BlogMeet 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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WebinarEnhancing Data Protection, DRaaS, & Disaster Recovery Capabilities
Beyond standard practices and common sense, there are a number of steps you can take to ensure your data is protected and easily recoverable in the event of a disaster or attack. Ever increasing threats to data security necessitate ongoing evaluation of data protection strategies, with extra considerations for your cloud data and applications. Beyond…
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BlogIntroducing Clumio Protect for Microsoft SQL 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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Solution BriefBest Practices Checklist for Ransomware Protection
As outlined in our blog, Best Practices to Protect your Organization Against Ransomware Threats, protecting your data against ransomware involves putting together a multi-layer defensive plan all the way from thwarting such attacks to recovering quickly in the event of a breach. Download this checklist to guide you as you modernize your cloud data protection plan…
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BlogGrowing 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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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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White PaperSecure, Immutable, Air-gapped Data Protection
As more workloads move to the cloud, data becomes more distributed, and thus managing and protecting that data becomes more complex. Download this paper to understand what components are needed in a modern cloud data protection solution. Data security is more critical than ever in the age of digital and cloud first IT strategies. As…
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BlogAmazon 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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BlogChallenges Porting Backup to Cloud Solutions
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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WebinarBusting Ransomware Myths with the Experts
Risky Assumptions About AWS Backups That Experts Want You To Know Are you trusting that your default backups in AWS are enough to keep your business running? Do your snapshots in AWS live in the same account as your primary data? You may be at higher risk for ransomware attacks and security breaches than you…
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BlogProtect for M365 & VMC – Feature Friday
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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BlogIntroducing 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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BlogHow 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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BlogMy 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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BlogData 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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BlogRBAC vs EBAC for Data Compliance: Clumio Insights
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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WebinarCloud-Native Data Protection in the Era of Ransomware
Malware and ransomware present a new challenge for your data protection and disaster recovery needs. Native AWS backup is often the go-to when getting started, however, once you need to restore you’ll realize it will take more time than your business can afford to get back up and running. See how Clumio’s SaaS backup and…
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WebinarProtect your AWS Data from Ransomware and Disasters with Clumio
Assessing and Improving Data Protection, DRaaS, & Disaster Recovery Capabilities Protect your AWS Data from Ransomware and Disasters with Clumio Native AWS backup services fall severely short when it comes to data protection. You cannot simply rely on snapshots to protect against ransomware attacks or similar account compromises. It is also not possible to perform…
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ArticleStay Ahead of Ransomware, Get Back Up and Running
Ransomware is constantly evolving. Here’s what you should know.
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BlogFeature 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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WebinarUnderstanding Cloud Backup and Best Practices
Featuring GigaOm Research Everybody loves the flexibility of public cloud, but hidden costs, lack of visibility, and complexity can easily hamper the development of sustainable long-term plans. Data protection is a key component of every cloud strategy and a basic requirement for enterprise applications. This on-demand webinar from GigaOm Research brings together experts in data…
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WebinarModern Cloud Backup & Recovery Summit
Cloud Backup and Recovery is more important than ever — and more complicated! Just look at what’s happening to companies affected by ransomware or disasters like the OVH data center fire. Do you know all the best practices you need to make sure your data is actually recoverable? Can you make sure you don’t cost…
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Solution BriefRecovering from Ransomware Attacks
Common security practices aren’t sufficient to defend your organization against ransomware attacks, and as organizations expedite their movement to the cloud, the need to ensure data is protected is paramount. Download this brief to learn: Top ransomware attack vectors Why you should separate your backups (also known as air-gapped backup) Reasons it makes sense to…
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Solution BriefClumio Product Overview
Clumio is a secure backup as a service that simplifies data protection in AWS. Get cloud data protection that puts a gap between you and ransomware.
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WebinarData Protection as a Service with Clumio
Protecting data that natively resides in AWS can be challenging at scale. Ensuring compliance of that data is even more challenging, as backups and snapshots grow with limited visibility. Clumio provides air-gapped cloud backup to ensure your data is protected and available whenever you need it. A simple but powerful dashboard provides insight into all…
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WebinarTaking the Pain Out of Cloud Data Protection: Lessons Learned
As enterprises accelerate their adoption of over 175 AWS services, growing volumes of business data become scattered across multiple geos, accounts, services and clouds. Cloud operations professionals become faced with the daunting task of managing and protecting their data, while unleashing their developers to push the boundaries of innovation. In this session, our panelist of…
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ArticleProtecting Your Amazon EBS Volumes at Scale with Clumio
Clumio’s SaaS solution takes less than 15 minutes to set up and protects Amazon EBS volumes from multiple AWS accounts though a single policy.
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Solution BriefClumio Backup as a Service for Amazon EC2 and EBS
Learn how Clumio simplifies the backup of AWS accounts securely and cost-effectively.
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VideoWhy Customers Choose Clumio
See How Our Customers Have Simplified Their Backups and Saved Time and Money Whether they’re cloud veterans or organizations just embarking on their cloud journey, customers trust Clumio to solve their data protection challenges and enable them to truly unlock the promise of the cloud.
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VideoThe Cloud – Trouble with Snapshots
Snapshots are typically stored in your primary account. What happens when your production account is compromised? That’s not the only drawback to relying on snapshots as your backup. See what other challenges they pose.
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PodcastStorage Unpacked – Chris Evans Interviews Chadd Kenney
Chris Evans from Storage Unpacked chats with Chadd Kenney, VP and Chief Technologist at Clumio about how data protection for cloud should work and some specifics of the Clumio implementation.
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PodcastSix Five Podcast – Poojan Kumar Interview with Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead
The Six Five – Insiders Edition hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Clumio CEO Poojan Kumar to discuss top considerations for IT leaders.
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Solution BriefRemoving Data Protection Roadblocks for Amazon RDS
With the rise of cloud computing and open-source software, the way databases are now set up and managed has been massively disrupted. The database as a service (DBaaS) offerings from cloud service providers, such as Amazon, has enabled organizations to treat database systems like a service utility- spin up as many database instances as needed…
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VideoProtecting AWS Native Services – Backups vs. Snapshots
Woon Jung, CTO at Clumio, sits down with Peter Burris, Chief Research Officer at Wikibon, for a chat about backup as a service and how snapshots are fundamentally different from backups.
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WebinarNavigating Critical Challenges Facing Communities Today
In today’s new reality of remote work, there has been a surge of ransomware attacks. Cybersecurity ranks as the No. 1 priority for local government officials. While ransomware attacks and cybersecurity breaches have been top of mind for city and county leaders, in recent months that focus has shifted to cybersecurity protocols and safe, secure…
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White PaperHow to Protect Data in an All Cloud World
The Cloud Creates Unique Data Protection Challenges As enterprises drive towards SaaS first and cloud first initiatives, the number of data silos increases almost linearly. The challenge of knowing what data you have, where it is, and how it’s protected becomes exponentially daunting. Learn about the new data protection strategy requirements for cloud and how…
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PodcastFuturum Podcast – Daniel Newman Interviews Chadd Kenney
Daniel Newman welcomes Chadd Kenney, Vice President and Chief Technologist at Clumio to discuss cloud and data storage, and Backup as a Service.
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White PaperBackup and Recovery of Microsoft SQL Server on Clumio
This technical guide details how to leverage Clumio backups for performing recovery of SQL server databases, covering both full restores from Clumio’s backup as well as point in time recovery for Microsoft SQL Server processes.
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Solution BriefAmazon RDS Data Sheet
Clumio simplifies data protection with unified protection policies to ensure consistent compliance across Amazon RDS databases as well as other related data sources of modern, distributed, enterprise applications.
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VideoAudit Logging Demo Video
Watch a step by step demo of the Audit Report feature that details activity by all users.
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VideoAmazon RDS Product Demo Video
Understand the challenges of protecting Amazon RDS and how Clumio addresses them, with a step by step demo.
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VideoIntuit’s Journey to the Cloud
In this session from AWS re:Invent 2019, Justin Stottlemyer, Director and Chief Architect at Intuit, says “Everything that Intuit has is about data, that is the lifeblood of the company.” See how he protects that data.
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BlogNew 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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BlogBackups 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…
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BlogProtecting Your Org from Ransomware: Best Practices
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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BlogFinding 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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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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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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BlogIntroducing 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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BlogA 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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BlogYour Cloud Backup Journey with AWS Backup & Snapshots
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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BlogBest 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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BlogTop 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. This blog post will cover…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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BlogFrogslayer Modernizes IT with Clumio at AWS
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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BlogLearning at its Best: Why Startups are the Perfect 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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BlogImmutability & 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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BlogNew 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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BlogBulletproof Your SQL Server with Clumio’s 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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BlogClumio Access Management: Enabling Secure On-boarding for IT Teams
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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BlogClumio’s Active Approach to Virtual Onboarding for Remote Hires
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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BlogProtect Your Data from Ransomware: Learn How 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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BlogImproving 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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BlogUX for REST APIs: Elevating API Developer Experience
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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BlogSay 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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BlogMy 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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BlogSingle-Pass Backup for Securing SQL Server on vSphere
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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BlogAutomate 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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BlogIs 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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BlogPartnering 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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BlogEffortlessly Secure Microsoft 365 Backups
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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BlogDon’t Risk RDS Data Loss: Diversify Backups
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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BlogIntroducing Clumio BaaS 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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BlogAdapt to Survive: Lessons from Darwin for Modern Businesses
“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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BlogSeagulls and French Fries: Lessons in Horizontal Innovation
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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BlogThe 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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BlogDeep Dive into Amazon RDS Rolling Backup 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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BlogClumio 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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BlogSurviving Weekend at Bernie’s: A Lesson in Data Protection
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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BlogOutsmarting Disasters: Cloud Backup for Foolproof Disaster Recovery
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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BlogRetain & Retrieve: Clumio’s Deep Dive into Amazon RDS Backup
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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BlogFreeing Amazon RDS Backups from Database 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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BlogAmazon 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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BlogCompliance 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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BlogRevolutionizing AWS RDS Backup with Clumio BaaS
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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BlogInnovating with Purpose: Building Clumio’s Hub
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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BlogAre 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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BlogClumio Takes the Lead with Industry-First Cloud Backup Solutions
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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BlogWinning Culture: Creating an Award-Winning Company
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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BlogUnveiling the Reality of SaaS Data Protection
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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BlogScaling with Clumio: Unleashing Microservices
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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BlogProactive 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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BlogBest 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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BlogSaaS 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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BlogPreparing for Uncertainty: Clumio’s COVID-19 Readiness Plan
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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BlogMinutes to Onboard: Revolutionizing Customer Experience
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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BlogThe 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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BlogSaaS 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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BlogHow 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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BlogNot 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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BlogSizing 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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BlogSaaS 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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BlogMythBusters: 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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BlogHow 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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BlogSeven 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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BlogBackup 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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BlogBandwidth 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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BlogIntroducing 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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BlogSaaS 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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BlogSaaS 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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BlogChoosing 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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BlogHow 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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BlogThe 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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BlogHow 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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Blog60 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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BlogWhat 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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BlogOn 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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BlogThe 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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BlogBuilding 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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BlogKey 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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