Fujitsu delivers data protection appliance for hybrid IT

Fujitsu introduces the new Fujitsu Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) Rapid Recovery Appliance, which enhances the globally available Fujitsu Cloud Backup as a Service solution to deliver faster, more resilient and more robust security features.

This pre-configured solution provides the flexible data protection approach needed in a Hybrid IT model where business processes are supported by a mixture of on-premise and external cloud services. It combines the benefits of a backup and recovery appliance with cloud-based backup strategies – such as pay-as-you-grow pricing and data security – to ensure an organisation’s data is secure and readily recoverable, no matter whether the application resides in the cloud or on traditional IT.

This new Fujitsu BaaS solution automatically replicates data to the secure cloud for offsite data protection and allows for the rapid recovery of recent local backup data while using secure cloud-based services to hold backup data in an easily-accessible vault. Thanks to the use of advanced deduplication from technology partner Seagate, Fujitsu can minimise the amount of data transferred via the network, while sophisticated data compression ensures minimal storage footprints, helping reduce space requirements and associated costs.

Protecting every link in the data-protection chain, Fujitsu Cloud BaaS end-to-end security addresses front-end, over-the-wire and at-rest encryption for local and cloud-based backup vaults. The comprehensive 256-bit AES encryption ensures data security at all times. Data is encrypted in-flight and at-rest in the onsite appliance backup vault and cloud backup vault. The BaaS Rapid Recovery Appliance also provides automated, continuous cloud replication, helping reduce costs and resource requirements while also leveraging Fujitsu’s global cloud capabilities.