Simplifying Backup as a Service with Clumio - Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomes Chadd Kenney, Vice President and Chief Technologist at Clumio to discuss cloud and data storage, Backup as a Service, and the latest happenings in the company.

Making Backup as a Service Simple

Cloud solutions are mission-critical for the enterprise these days, but nobody really likes to manage these complex systems. Most enterprises have data spread across public and private clouds and SaaS solutions. Ensuring that all data — everywhere — is backed up properly can be a headache.

When we think of backups we probably think of the simple solutions for a single user like an automatic iCloud backup where you don’t have to think about it. That’s not the case for the enterprise. It’s not friendly. It’s not a modern architecture. It’s tapes and storage arrays. It’s on-prem. Adding in more SaaS applications only makes the data dispersion more and more complicated.

Companies need a quick easy way to have consistent data protection. The old storage solutions need to be more agile which is what Clumio set out to do. Their Backup as a Service offering has a low barrier to entry meaning companies can start backing up almost immediately

Building For Cloud, In Cloud

Old storage models are the antithesis of agile IT. Companies have legacy storage solutions and giant data centers with racks and racks of servers that took weeks and months to get up and running. Clumio makes it easier for the end consumer by allowing them to really leverage the agility and scalability of the cloud.

In order to get true leverage from the public cloud, you actually have to build it on a lot of the

native componentry because it’s built for agility, scalability and it enables you to build platforms that take the efficiencies of the cloud into the platform.

Clumio is integrating this agility early on in the platform so when it moves operations, enterprises have a consistent way of applying data protection — no matter where the data is.

Clumio’s Key Differentiators

You used to be able to copy data from one rack to another rack, or from one site to another site, and it didn’t matter. There was no additional cost, it was all one big capital purchase. But if you try to do that now, you get hit with hidden charges and fees that make it difficult to operate.

Clumio’s architecture allows data to be backed up in the cloud that it was created in. They’ve increased parallelism, decreased overall aggregate costs, enabled user experiences that were much more scalable without having to do any thinking whatsoever which is especially helpful as data gets more dispersed across SaaS and even PaaS solutions.

Clumio’s Exciting Future

Clumio started with backing up private cloud with virtualization. They also do VMware cloud running in AWS and a few months ago added the ability to do elastic block storage which is in AWS as well. This covers most of public and private cloud storage.

To continue the momentum, Clumio is building its first SaaS service with Office 365 enabling customers to be able to provide consistency across all these use cases. Now customers can have uniform policies that can be applied across your private cloud, your public cloud assets, and even SaaS based solutions with Office 365. The best thing is zero customers will have to do a software upgrade to add this new innovation to their platform.

If you’d like to learn more about Clumio, its offerings, or the exciting new announcements check out the website and make sure you listen to the full episode below. While you’re at it, be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss a great conversation on the Futurum Tech Podcast.