Immutability and Offsite Repository Additions
Azure Storage Account Immutability
With the astronomic rise of ransomware attacks, organizations are being even more wary about where and how they store copies of their data for recovery purposes, as many of you may know already Zerto supports a wide variety of storage platforms for its offsite repository or “Long Term Retention” feature, these include Amazon S3, Azure Storage Accounts Purpose Built backup targets such as HPE Storonce, Exagrid etc, NFS & SMB and S3 compatible storage such as Cloudian, this gives customer ultimate flexibility when choosing a suitable repository for their needs. up until recently Amazon S3 is the only supported place for immutable copies to be stored, in an updated to version 9.0 Zerto released the support for S3 Compatible systems to also be able to use the immutable feature inside of Zerto, this allows to organisations to use on-premises s3 repositories aswell as cloud based ones with immutability, and now as of version 9.5, Microsoft Azure Storage Accounts are now supported for immutability aswell, this growing list shows the dedication Zerto has to offering true choice and flexibility when it comes to choosing not only production storage, hypervisors or even whole cloud environments but also where you choose to store immutable copies of the your data aswell.
I think this is huge news, Azure is one of if not the biggest cloud provider in the world so being able to support customers wanting to store data in an immutable format in Azure can only be a good thing.
Zerto leverages the “versioning” options inside of the Azure Storage Accounts to ensure immutable copies cannot be deleted or tampered with once stored, Zerto then creates its own containers of data and metadata in a unique way for Zerto to understand the immutability function.
users can verify if the files are immutable in the Azure portal, by browsing the storage and looking for the field “Version-level Immutable Policy” – this will show either enabled or disabled.
More from Zerto 9.5 to come soon!
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Chris
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