It’s true that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility. But catchphrases don’t stop cybercriminals.

With the average cost of a ransomware breach hitting $4.62 million in 2021, the pressure is on for companies to beef up their security profile. But the security market is crowded with point tools that claim to be essential. For many buyers, the answer to the noise comes from built-in security solutions from companies they already use and trust.

Infinidat Ltd.’s InfiniGuard purpose-built backup and disaster recovery solution comes with the company’s reputation for high performance and low latency at petabyte scale. Built on the same unique architecture that made the non-flash InfiniBox beat out almost all of its all-flash array competitors, the enterprise-class InfiniGuard is optimized for both fast backup and almost instantaneous recovery.

“It has an incredible play on data and cyber resilience with the capability of … remote logical air gapping and creating a clean room, a vault, so that you can then recover and review for malware [and] ransomware before you do a full recovery,” said Eric Herzog, chief marketing officer of Infinidat, in a recent interview with theCUBE.

Herzog will be one of the guests during theCUBE’s and Infinidat’s “InfiniGuard Cyber Resilience: Infinidat’s New Cybercrime Fighting Solutions” livestream event on Feb. 9, starting at 11 a.m. ET, during which he will reveal new features that promise to boost InfiniGuard’s cybersecurity powers. TheCUBE will also interview Stan Wysocki, president of Mark III Systems Inc., which specializes in IT infrastructure and artificial intelligence. (* Disclosure below.)

Built-in security solutions will become essential for storage market success

Cloud storage is a $70+ billion market. And if it sticks to its projected 26.2% compound annual growth rate, it will hit $390 billion in 2028. Infinidat holds a strong position in that market. The company closed out 2021 with an impressive list of awards and accolades, and it holds over 25% of the Fortune 100 in its customer list. InfiniGuard is an important piece of the company’s strategy to hold that market lead. 

“In 2022, the gap will further widen between premier solutions with built-in ransomware protection capabilities and those without,” predicts Max Mortillaro, storage analyst at GigaOm, in an email interview with SiliconANGLE.

Mortillaro believes that within 12 to 18 months, companies that can’t provide ransomware protection will be losing customers to competitors who can.

Infinidat is known as a disrupter within the close-knit cloud storage community for its refusal to jump on the all-flash bandwagon. Over the past year, the company has undergone a renaissance. A new executive team brought fresh energy to the company and evolved its portfolio by adding InfiniGuard and an InfiniBox solid state array to meet the twin demands of enterprise: security and speed.

The InfiniBox SSA may be an all-flash array, but that’s just a choice of convenience, according to Infinidat’s Field Chief Technology Officer Ken Steinhardt. “We can use virtually any technology on the back end. And, in this case, we’ve chosen to use flash,” he said.

The true differentiator between the InfiniBox and its all-flash competitors remains the same, according to Steinhardt: the software that provides caching to the front-end DRAM.

With InfiniGuard, it’s the promise of almost instantaneous recovery that marks the product out from the crowd. As mentioned, the solution provides logical air-gapping and immutable snapshots for backup datasets. In the event of a disaster, the built-in automation goes to work, identifying and restoring the most recent known good backup.

Added together, the three solutions meet the needs of the modern dispersed environment by providing secure and cost-efficient data storage with lightning-fast backup and recovery.

“With many workloads moving to the cloud, you’ve got to have this infrastructure that supports core edge and cloud, the virtualization layer and, of course, the container layer across a hybrid environment,” Herzog said. “We can do that with all three of these solutions, [and] with a common underlying software-defined storage architecture.”

Livestream of the InfiniGuard Cyber Resilience: New Cybercrime Solutions event

The InfiniGuard Cyber Resilience: New Cybercrime Solutions livestream event will feature interviews to be broadcast on theCUBE. You can register for free here to access the live event. Plus, you can watch theCUBE interviews here on demand after the live event.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch the InfiniGuard Cyber Resilience: New Cybercrime Solutions livestream event, including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube channel. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s events on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE Insights podcast

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests

During the InfiniGuard Cyber Resilience: New Cybercrime Solutions livestream event, theCUBE will talk with Eric Herzog, chief marketing officer of Infinidat, and Stan Wysocki, president of Mark III Systems Inc.

Event Update!

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(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the InfiniGuard Cyber Resilience: New Cybercrime Solutions event. Neither Infinidat Ltd., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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