The Cybee project

Companies are faced with the problem of obsolete data backups:

  • Backup infrastructures, which have not natively integrated the sharp increase in data volumes and the arrival of the Cloud as a storage element for primary backups (50% are over 10 years old, and even 5% are over 30 years old).

 

  • Backup policies, which are obviously aligned with the technological possibilities of the time, do not address the new risks associated with cyber threats, and in particular the fact that attackers can destroy or corrupt backups.

 

  • Traditional backup solutions do not simply allow different technologies to be adapted locally according to data retention, and particularly long retention periods (in excess of a few years).

The result is several major concerns for companies:

  • Backup times increase
  • Local hardware costs increase
  • There are still no regular tests for restoring and restarting backed-up applications.
  • In the event of a cyber-attack, companies are not well armed to withstand it

The Cybee project offers simple new ideas on backup:

On the company’s backup policy

  • It makes more sense to back up long data retention periods in the cloud, since different classes of storage are available at low cost: to optimize restoration times, it makes more sense to keep short retention periods (ten days maximum) locally.

Protection against cyber risks

  • backups must themselves be immutable (one could also say unalterable), thus preventing cyber-attacks from altering or destroying them: backups must be able to analyze zero days and other cyber threats.

Technological architectures

  • The solution integrates deduplication mechanisms at the target, i.e. in the Cloud, to reduce the amount of storage used.
  • The solution integrates deduplication mechanisms at source and data compression, to reduce the volume of data to be transported over networks: the solution is not based on software bricks, to avoid being subject to the obsolescence of backup storage hardware and having to manage changes

Key figures

2 TB/h This is the restoration speed achieved
3 mode These are the object storage classes used
5 liters The number of liters of coffee consumed daily

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On the company's backup policy
  • It makes more sense to store long retention periods in the cloud, as you benefit from different classes of storage at low cost.
  • For obvious reasons of restoration times, only short retention periods (ten days maximum) should be stored locally.
Protection against cyber risks
  • backups must themselves be immutable (one could also say unalterable), thus preventing cyber-attacks from altering or destroying them
  • backups must be able to analyze zero days and other cyber threats
On technological architectures
  • The solution integrates deduplication mechanisms at the target, i.e. in the Cloud, to reduce the amount of storage used
  • The solution integrates deduplication mechanisms at source and data compression, to reduce the volume of data to be transported over networks
  • The solution is based on software bricks, so as not to be subject to the obsolescence of backup storage hardware and the need to manage changes
Cybee project

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