With data being produced at high speed, protecting information is a challenge for enterprises. This became even more evident with the global pandemic, when ransomware attacks escalated as companies had to send employees to work from home.

But as the problems increase, so do the solutions. Enterprise data backup provider Clumio Inc. improved its products during the pandemic to further increase cloud protection, according to Chadd Kenney (pictured, right), vice president and chief technologist at Clumio.

“We expanded from [Amazon] EBS to EC2 and RDS, we brought in one of the most native services outside of snapshots, and we kind of progressed the enterprise from the traditional snapshot primitive into a true enterprise class backup,” Kenney said. “And [we] built in a time-series data lake that allows enterprises to decouple their data from the infrastructure and really be able to provide tons of value in the future.”

Kenney and Brian Cahill (pictured, left), director of technology and DevOps at FrogSlayer LLC, spoke with Justin Warren, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed Clumio’s innovations, how customers like FrogSlayer are using new solutions, and data protection challenges in the face of ransomware threats. (* Disclosure below.)

FrogSlayer found a solution to enable its growth

These new cloud native solutions from Clumio aim to enable customers to deploy data services not only for corporate backup, but to create value from that information, according to Kenney.

Custom software developer FrogSlayer sought out Clumio’s services four months ago to scale up its business. It not only builds software for its clients, but it also hosts and manages that software.

At first, FrogSlayer developed its own AWS backup scripts, but this became difficult and costly to manage as the company’s needs grew, according to Cahill.

“[With Clumio] there’s an air gap between us and the backup, so I’m not boosting the backups or the data. It is in a separate account,” Cahill explained. “I can’t even delete it; there’s kind of a protection level that someone can’t accidentally delete the stuff we’re backing up.”

Against ransomware attacks, businesses that store snapshots inside their cloud account are not efficiently protected, according to Kenney. There are also vulnerabilities beyond ransomware, as an accident or a bad inside actor can access and damage data.

“So protecting that is one of the key capabilities of the platform, where we’re outside of the service, outside of the cloud in many cases, to protect the customer’s data and make sure that they can restore it to any account in the event that even a bad actor gets access to it,” Kenney concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: Clumio Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Clumio nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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