This document discusses InfiniGuard's data protection solution and its advantages over other backup appliances. It highlights InfiniGuard's ability to provide fast restore times even for large datasets through its use of InfiniBox storage technology. The document also covers how InfiniGuard addresses modern threats like ransomware through immutable snapshots, logical air-gapping of backups, and a isolated forensic network to enable fast recovery from cyber attacks.

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Rostislav Gemrot
ARROW ECS, a.s.
Protect Mission Critical
Data with InfiniGuard

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Current Data Protection Challenges & Trends
Exponentially Growing Data and Shrinking Windows
Backup and DR-as-a-Service
Achieving better SLAs (RTO / RPO) to the Business
Data Protection Assurance
Cost Reduction and Consolidation

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InfiniGuard Background
• InfiniGuard is focused on delivering enterprise data protection without the normal
poor performance of restores
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is a critical metric for business today
• Backup is important but the goal is to NEVER use the data
• When it is required, it becomes critical data
• The transition from ‘who cares’ to critical is where current solutions fail
• The dominant purpose built backup appliances do ‘ok’ with backup
• Real world experience for restore is described as being awful
• RTO is either missed or so loose it is not meeting the business needs
• InfiniGuard addresses this prevalent problem

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InfiniGuard – Restore Problem Solver
• InfiniGuard leverages InfiniBox technology to achieve RTO expectations
or establish more aggressive goals
• Enterprise customers are no longer willing to accept mediocrity in a
Business Continuity situation – improved RTO is demanded
• Deduplication is wrongly blamed for poor restore performance
• This is broadly accepted as reality and deduplication is wrongly
‘blamed’
• The underlying storage that is at fault
• But what makes us different?
The quality of the underlying storage system matters – even for backup

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InfiniGuard ® - Modern Data Protection
Backup to InfiniGuard®
Heterogeneous Storage Vendors
• Architecture matters
- Purpose built with the power
of InfiniBox
- 100% available backend
- InfiniGuard adds three
Dedupe Engines
- Up to 50PB effective capacity
in a single rack
- Decoupled immutable
snapshot methodology
- Local and remote logical
Airgap
+ more
• Solution Highlights
• Industry leading performance and data reduction
• Broad ecosystem support and integration
• Works with any primary storage vendor
• InfiniSafe Cyber resilience

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CIFS
3U
6U
1U 3xATS
3xBBU
3xSTG Nodes
4*Drive
Enclosures
60 Drives
Each, 6 or
12TB drives
16U
DDEs to storage nodes - FC
Storage nodes – InfiniBand I.C.
3840 GB / 4608 GB DRAM
28 TB SSD Cache
6U 3xDDEs
3U 3xSwitches
Storage nodes to enclosure - SAS
Reference Implementation – InfiniGuard B Series
B4306, B4312
42U
OST
NFS
VTL
RMAN
RMR
Up to 25 PB / 50 PB effective
capacity

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InfiniGuard Advantage
App-aware
• Automatically filter
blocks per backup
application
Performance
• 180 TB/hr Backup with NetBoost
• 48TB/hr Backup target-side
• RESTORE (as fast as the backup)
Dedupe
• Inline (no staging or
post-process)
• Variable Block = 3x
Better Results than
Fixed Block
Performance
• Writes acknowledged from DRAM
• 240 NL-SAS disks provide high
throughput
• Neural cache accelerates restores
Superior Restore
Performance

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0-15 minute data-aware rebuilds
System can lose up to 6 drives without capacity
or performance impact
FASTEST REBUILD-TIME IN THE
INDUSTRY
Protection against “Lost-Writes” & “Silent Data Corruption”
Dual-parity data protection – Dispersed data layout
END-TO-END DATA
PROTECTION
In-flight and at-rest Encryption with NetBoost
Built-in key management
DATA ENCRYPTION
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Self monitoring for all system components
Issues are automatically reported to support engineers
COMPREHENSIVE PROACTIVE MONITORING
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All data is stored on the underlying InfiniBox
Engine replacement in less than 15 minutes
DDEs ARE STATELESS
Full redundancy to all key components
Seven Nines reliability at InfiniBox subsystem
NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE
Resiliency

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InfiniGuard: Purpose Built Backup and Recovery
• High performance for both backup
and restore
• Market-leading backup and restore
speeds
Modern Solutions Need: InfiniGuard Delivers:
• Replication for BC/DR • Native high availability and
replication for BC/DR
• Frequent RPOs and low RTOs • Predictable performance for both
backup and restore SLAs
• A storage foundation that delivers
reliability, performance, scale and
cost without being an afterthought
• InfiniBox as the storage foundation
• Data reduction
(deduplication/compression)
• Best-of-breed deduplication that
does not impact restore speeds

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Modern cyber threats
Servers’ based encryption attack

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The Data Center
Production servers
Production storage
DR storage
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers
Backup appliance
Covered threats:
ü Servers’ & Storage physical failure
ü Entire datacenter failure
ü Single application data corruption
ü Data deletion due to human error
ü Regulatory compliance
ü Storage-level cyber attack
Uncovered threats
× Operating-system level ransomware attack

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Cyber attack flow – land and expand
Production servers
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers
DR storage
Production storage
Backup appliance

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Cyber attack flow – encryption on the servers’ level
Data on storage is already pre-encrypted
Production servers
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers
Data is encrypted
on the servers’ level
• Virus encrypts
Data-writes
• Staying hidden by
decrypting read
requests data
DR storage
Production storage
Backup appliance

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Cyber attack flow – new snapshots hold encrypted data
Production servers
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers
DR storage
Production storage
Backup appliance

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Cyber attack flow – good snapshots deleted over time
Production servers
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers
DR storage
Production storage
Backup appliance

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Cyber attack flow – replicated data is also compromised
Production servers
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers
Production storage
DR storage
Backup appliance

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Cyber attack flow – The backups are still valid!
Production servers
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers
Production storage
DR storage
Backup appliance
Only the backups
can save you now
Reminder - Data is
encrypted on the servers’
level
• Virus encrypts Data-writes
• Staying hidden by
decrypting read requests
data
Backup is read requests – the virus decrypts the data

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Cyber attack flow – The checkmate
Delete backups and ask for ransomware money
Production servers
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers
Production storage
DR storage
Backup appliance

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Recommendations
• HA Clusters, Snapshots & replications are important for “traditional” threats, but not for
servers-based encryption attacks
• The backup system should be cyber-protected
• The catalog/DB component
• The Backup images
• Invest in quick-detection, but, be prepared for a fast-recovery
• Quick restore of massive-scale data
Production servers
Catalog/Backups-DB
Backup servers

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INFINIDAT can help!.
1. Cyber protected backup system
2. Fast restores at scale

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InfiniGuard NextGen Data Protection Announced
• InfiniSafe® Technology for Cyber Resilience
- Immutable Snapshots
- Logical Air-gapping: Local and Remote
- Fenced/Isolated Network for Forensics
- Near instantaneous Recovery
• Doubled backup/replication performance
- 2x reduction in backup windows
- Faster time to DR Readiness
- Minimise Backup Impact on Primary Storage, Applications, and Servers
• System updates
Press release:
https://www.infinidat.com/en/news/press-releases/infinidat-unveils-significant-
enhancements-infiniguard-platform

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InfiniGuard’s InfiniSafe Technologies
Delivering essential cyber resiliency
InfiniSafe: a comprehensive cyber resilience solution at NO additional cost
Scheduled or manually created
secure, immutable point in time
copies
Restoring into a secured
area of your network
Air-Gap separates your
copies logically from access
Logical Air-Gap
Immutable Snapshots
Scheduled or manually
created secure, immutable
point in time copies
Fenced Forensic Network
Restoring into a secured
area of your network
Near Instantaneous
Recovery
Superior Restore
Performance at scale
No dependency on
dataset size

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DDE CYBER PROTECTION
Immutable protection – Snapshots are hidden at the underlying storage layer
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InfiniBox-pool1 InfiniBox-pool2
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STANDBY_INSTANCE
Backup server
Data path
Data path

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THE BIG PICTURE - BACKUP ENVIRONMENT CYBER RESILIENCY
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InfiniBox-pool1 InfiniBox-pool2
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Backup catalog LUN
Master server
No external dependencies for the backup system
Synchronized protection for the backup catalog & Images
Enable cyber discovery tests on a sandbox environment
STANDBY_INSTANCE
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Copy of SnapShot:
Backup server
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Copy of SnapShot:
DDE_INSTANCE1
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Isolated Environment
Backup environment
dependency on
primary storage
LUN served by
the underlying IBOX

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Add extra connections on the Stand-By Node - Expanded
DDE A DDE B Stand-By Node
Switch A Switch B
10/25GbE 172.31.X.X
Clean Room
Test Environment
Private Switch
10/25GbE
10.10.X.X
10.10.X.X
Test VM
Cluster
Test Oracle
Servers
Test Backup
Servers
ü Air-Gaped from General Networks
ü Preconfigured Network for Stand-By Node
ü Mount Snapshot, Pause Replications, Modify
Share Access, Mount Share to Servers
(Import / Scan / Data & Test)
ü Download logs for review and analysis

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Chandler
Primary
Encrypted
• Data is replicating bi-directionally across sites
• Can have different policies and retention on each InfiniGuard/DDE
• Allows you to keep data longer in DR site for example
• Validation tests and validations can occur in both sites
Encrypted
Continued Cyber Protection
Secondary

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1. Cyber protected backup system
2. Fast restores at scale

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HYBRID
240 HDDs boosted by 28TB of SSD
cache
Up to 3TB RAM
INFINIGUARD PERFORMANCE
PARALLEL AND
BALANCED
Writes across all 240 NL-SAS disk
drives
ADVANCED CACHE
Read ahead cache boosts restore
performance
Powered by InfiniBox

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INFINIBOX - FASTERTHANFLASH
3 Nodes of
Cache
DRAM + SSD
90% @ ns
9% @ μs
1% @ ms
Layer of Abstraction
Patented Trie
Massive Cache
HOT
COLD
Data Serviced Data Capacity
0.5%
3%
96.5%
InfiniGuard provides x10 better
Restore Performance

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INFINIGUARD
Powered by INFINIBOX
Best in class in:
1. Cyber protected backup system
2. Fast restores at scale
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INFINIGUARD

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