Cloudian Ransomware, Data Lakehouse, and HPC Solutions on Lenovo ThinkSystems

Cloudian target for Veeam provides immutable backups for protection against ransomware

Challenge: More Data and New Threats

IT managers must manage data growth, meet stringent RPO/RTO objectives,
and protect data from loss or malicious attacks. Your infrastructure choices for a backup and storage target are critical to meeting these data protection objectives. Traditional storage appliances as backup targets are expensive and lack scalability. Public cloud targets can limit bandwidth, resulting in lengthy restore times. Wherever your backup data resides, a ransomware attack could render that data useless, potentially shutting down operations. The need for a new approach to data protection has never been greater.

Solution

The Lenovo ThinkSystem series for Cloudian HyperStore and Veeam Backup & Replication simplifies and accelerates your data backup and recovery processes providing enterprise-grade data protection. Customers can meet their backup window and RTO/RPO objectives while enabling an offsite data recovery strategy that dovetails seamlessly into their daily backup workflow. Cloudian HyperStore enterprise storage complements Veeam Availability Suite with a fast, on-premises, disk-based storage and built-in ransomware protection. At 70% less cost than public cloud or traditional enterprise storage, Cloudian offers an innovative solution for better backup storage.

Cloudian provides a fast, on-prem, capacity-tier storage target

for Veeam Availability Suite deployed on Lenovo ThinkSystem Series. The Object Lock feature ensures protection from ransomware.

SOLUTION BENEFITS

Enterprise-Grade

• Running on industry leading ThinkSystem hardware, the solution of Cloudian and Veeam provide enterprise-grade data protection solution

Ransomware Protection

• Object Lock feature protects backup copies from encryption by ransomware
• Assured restore in event of an attack

Superior RPO/RTO

• Fast restore from on-prem, disk-based backup target

Lowest TCO

• 1/3 the cost of public cloud or traditional enterprise storage
• 30% lower TCO than tape

Trouble-Free Integration

• Veeam Object Ready certified
• Proven in Veeam deployments worldwide

Modular and limitlessly scalable

• Start small and expand without downtime

Cloud compatible

• Replication to public cloud for DR
• Compatible with AWS, Azure, GCP

USE CASES

• Ransomware Protection: Immutable data for compliance, governance or legal hold
• Data protection: Integrated backup and archive solution 
• Disaster recovery: Policy-based replication to cloud or remote site for DR
• Regulatory Compliance HIPAA, GDPR, SEC Rule 17a-4

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WekaFS and Cloudian HyperStore for AI, ML, and Advanced Analytics

The Challenge

Organizations are consuming and creating more data than ever before and many are
applying AI/ML on ever larger data sets, to make better decisions in near/real-time
and unlock new revenue streams. Traditional storage systems simply can’t handle
the processing needs or the scalability required for iterative analytic workloads and
introduce bottlenecks to productivity and data-driven decision making. The ability
to unify data silos to accommodate diverse workloads along with high performance
compute speed is crucial for today’s modern organizations.

The Solution

The Lenovo ThinkSystem series running Cloudian HyperStore and WekaFS offers a stateof-the-art optimized storage solution for high-performance and scale-out workloads.

Deployed on Lenovo ThinkSystem, Weka file system (WekaFS) and Cloudian
HyperStore™ provide an integrated storage solution allowing you to overcome the
challenges associated with accelerating and scaling your data pipeline, while lowering
overall storage costs associated with data analytics. WekaFS is a distributed, scaleout and POSIX-compliant file system, built on a modern architecture using NVMe Flash
and supports Ethernet or Infiniband transport, with low latency, multi-protocol (POSIX,
NFS, SMB, S3, GPUDirect Storage, CSI) high performance access. WekaFS distributes
metadata throughout the cluster via patented mechanisms that prevent hot spots to
maximize performance levels. Performance is predictable, consistent and scales linearly
as more nodes are added to the storage cluster.

Weka is industry-leading storage systems for performance workloads on the Lenovo
SR630 running the Weka file system (WekaFS). An entry-level cluster size for Weka
requires eight server nodes, which are then presented as a single storage cluster.

SOLUTION BENEFITS

• POSIX / SMB / NFS / S3 / GPU Direct Storage / CSI protocols access
• Enterprise-grade on-prem object storage platform that scales limitlessly
• Industry leading storage infrastructure with Lenovo ThinkSystem Native S3-APIs with industry-leading compatibility
• Scale-out modular design with centralized data management and Single global namespace
• Start small and expand without downtime
• Military-grade security and regulatory compliance certifications
• Hybrid and multi-cloud ready
• Single platform for all applications with 1/3 savings

USE CASES

• High performance file and object storage
• Machine Learning, AI, Advanced Analytics and Big Data
• Life Sciences Research, Genomics
• Financial Services, High Frequency Trading, Compliance

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