SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 03/10/16 — Exablox®, the award-winning company reimagining storage and the *, today announced that top-ranked universities — including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Johns Hopkins University and New York University — have deployed its OneBlox storage solution. These universities rely on OneBlox to protect the valuable data generated by their world-class researchers and ensure that they get reliable access to the enormous amounts of data is needed to do their work. Exablox–s scale-out, object-based storage system OneBlox, with continuous data protection (CDP), keeps primary data safe and accessible by taking unlimited snapshots so users can restore information from any point in time. Recovery is fast and easy, typically taking one hundredth of the time that would be required to recover files through traditional backup/recovery methods. OneBlox–s CDP has zero performance overhead on the filesystem eliminating the need for traditional backup. With OneBlox also able to act as a backup target for Veeam, NetBackup, Commvault and others, Exablox provides universities a unified solution for multiple storage needs.
“With Exablox–s technology we–ve achieved a new level of data protection, scalability, and peace of mind,” says Brandon Savage, IT and network administrator at MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. “We can–t recreate the data our researchers generate, and it needs to be stored in perpetuity, so data protection is absolutely critical for us. Not only are we protecting our VMware infrastructure with Veeam and OneBlox, we have been using OneBlox to protect departments– primary research data. We–re now in the process of moving all our research data to OneBlox.”
Both scalability and data protection are mission-critical for today–s universities, which are challenged to rapidly react to the growing generation of information and consumption of storage by students and researchers. Universities need instant recovery from failure, state-of-the-art backup and recovery and protection from new threats such as ransomware. But they also need storage that is feature-rich, easy to manage, and affordable, so they can prioritize investment in R&D instead of IT administration.
Exablox–s flagship product OneBlox is a cloud-managed, scale-out, object-based storage solution. OneBlox provides immediate scalability, fast and self-service recovery, protection from CryptoLocker and other ransomware and advanced backup and recovery capabilities that may eliminate the need for traditional backup/recovery software.
OneBlox–s unique CDP enables universities to fully protect all of the primary storage written to OneBlox. CDP takes continuous, unlimited and immutable snapshots of information so IT administrators can swiftly recover any individual file, folder or file share, rendering threats such as CryptoLocker obsolete. Alternatively, IT administrators can empower students or faculty to recover data on their own, which reduces the burden on resource-constrained IT administrators and enables users to get back to work quickly.
OneBlox yields exceptionally high deduplication and compression data reduction ratios, up to 20:1 or more by using inline variable-length deduplication and compression. This helps keep storage utilization under control when using OneBlox as a target for backup/recovery or archiving of the production data.
OneBlox–s scale-out architecture supports immediate allocation of cost-effective storage for researchers and students without reconfiguration. Universities can mix and match commodity-priced drive types (SATA, SAS) and capacity (1-8TB) within the same OneBlox and within a OneBlox Ring. In two minutes and with zero configuration, the new storage is available within the existing global file system and is immediately available to applications, researchers and students. Organizations can also consolidate primary storage (with CDP protection) and backup in the same storage pool.
“Research is core to the value of universities and it can–t be recreated,” says Shridar Subramanian, VP marketing of Exablox. “Reliable data storage and protection is essential to ensure the research and development work that enables universities to win grants, build their reputation and attract students is always available.”
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Exablox is the company reimagining storage. Exablox solves businesses– runaway storage costs and information management nightmares by providing a cloud-managed, scale-out, object-based solution that is affordable and easy to use. OneBlox is an inclusive storage offering that combines an elegant hardware architecture and integrated, enterprise-grade software, including inline deduplication, continuous data protection, and disaster recovery. Exablox–s innovative approach to storage has led to widespread customer traction across verticals including higher education, healthcare, insurance, and the legal industry as well as Fortune 500 companies. The company–s growing list of customers includes Lockheed Martin, Equity Bank, and NYU. Founded in 2010, Exablox is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and backed by leading Silicon Valley venture firms. Visit Exablox online at and join the conversation at .
Justin Gillespie
10Fold Communications
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