Cloud-native data protection outfit Trilio Data Inc. said today it has raised $15 million in funding that will be used to accelerate adoption of its technology across the enterprise.

SKK Ventures led the round together with participation from Plug and existing investors .406 Ventures and Jack Egan. The funding combines $12 million from a Series B round with a $3 million-plus debt facility from Avid Bank, Trilio said.

Trilio first emerged in 2017 with a data protection platform called TrilioVault that was specifically designed for large-scale OpenStack clusters. Trilio’s platform has since evolved to provide cloud-native data protection for containers that use the open-source Kubernetes orchestration software, and for Red Hat Virtualization environments.

Basically what the TrilioVault platform does is create data backups for those environments. It enables system administrators to capture the state of a particular deployment at any given point in time, and store that snapshot on the hardware of their choice, either on-premises or in the cloud.

They can then restore any application or file to the state it was previously in, should the need arise. Users will typically create snapshots on a regular basis, once an hour perhaps, to ensure they can back up to the most recent point in time.

Users might need to restore the system to a previous point if a technical problem occurs or if they’re hit by a cyberattack that compromises data. Backups can also be used as a kind of log to check how a specific environment has performed and evolved over time, Trilio says. That makes it easier to meet compliance requirements or trace technical issues back to their point of origin.

Trilio’s platform can also be useful for system migrations. Users can take a snapshot of their workload with TrilioVault and then set it up exactly as it was on the new infrastructure, resulting in less downtime.

Trilio recently updated TrilioVault to make it compatible with Kubernetes version 2.0, adding a new management console that enables multicloud data protection. Before that, in September, it announced that the platform is being made available to customers and partners of IBM Corp. through the IBM Cloud Pak for Data service.

Trilio Chief Executive David Safaii said the new investors have operational expertise in scaling enterprise software organizations that will help the company going forward. “The cloud and Kubernetes containers are presenting new data management challenges around scale, performance and mobility that legacy backup products simply cannot support,” he said.

Trilio said it will use the funds to invest in its product development, sales, marketing and customer success teams.

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