This document discusses the importance of properly protecting unstructured data and compares current practices for protecting structured data versus unstructured data. It notes that unstructured data sets are often the largest in terms of capacity but are typically only backed up once per night. This leaves them vulnerable, especially to ransomware attacks. The document advocates for using a purpose-built solution for unstructured data protection that uses snapshot-like data capture for granularity and content search abilities while leveraging object storage or public clouds for long-term retention and instant restore capabilities. It promotes the Aparavi File Protect & Insight solution.

1. ARE YOU TREATING
UNSTRUCTURED
DATA LIKE A SECOND
CLASS CITIZEN?
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2. George Crump
Founder/Lead Analyst
Jonathan Calmes
Vice President
Business Development

3. COMPARING UNSTRUCTURED
DATA PROTECTION TO OTHER
DATA SETS
• Databases are often snapshotted, replicated and
backed up multiple times per day
• Virtual Environments provide change block
tracking so virtual machines are protected every
few hours
• “Instant-Restore” / Recovery in Place very
popular feature
• What about Unstructured data?
• Backed up once per night
• Not often enough, especially with
ransomware
• Maybe snapshotted a couple times per day
• Provides faster backup but horrible search
and weak retention

4. HOW IMPORTANT IS
UNSTRUCTURED DATA?
• The unstructured data set in terms of
capacity typically dwarfs all other data sets
in the organization
• Data from Office Productivity Applications
often represent a large chunk of the
organization’s creative energy
• It can be reproduced but reproduction
is time consuming
• Data from Machines and Devices represent
a large % of the unstructured data
• In many cases it can’t be reproduced

5. UNSTRUCTURED DATA
IS HARD TO PROTECT
• Again, the data set, in terms of capacity, is
often the largest in the data center
• Most unstructured data sets are made up
of millions if not billions of files
• The value of unstructured data is often
found inside the file
• Regulations like CCPA and GDPR clearly
indicate that an organization needs to
know what’s inside the file

6. UNSTRUCTURED DATA
PROTECTION IS AN
AFTERTHOUGHT
• Legacy applications for the most part backup
Unstructured Data a file at a time
• Egregiously slow
• Causes metadata problems with backup
application
• Most applications, today, protect unstructured
as an image
• Fast and No Metadata problems
(because there isn’t any)
• They loose granularity and can’t
extract value

7. ORGANIZATIONS NEED A SOLUTION
PURPOSE-BUILT FOR UNSTRUCTURED
DATA PROTECTION
• Use snapshot-like data capture for fast but
granular data protection
• Leverage that granularity by providing
content search and automatic data
classification
• Leverage on-premises Object Storage or
• Public Cloud for long-term data retention
• Provide “instant-restore” like functionality
via an in-place mount point

8. Multi-Cloud Intelligent Data Protection

9. Action must be taken now to prepare data for future use

10. Action must be taken now to prepare data for future use

11. Aparavi File Protect & Insight℠
File by file data protection and archive for servers,
endpoints and storage devices featuring data
classification, content level search, and hybrid
cloud retention and versioning.
Does your organization
have a second line
of defense against
ransomware?

12. Recover and retrieve with confidence and context
Mountable file
recovery
Automated
alerts and
defense
Near instant
data recovery
Data insight and
governance
Air-gapped
copies in
multiple clouds
Aparavi gives you air-gapped, immutable copies
of all your files so you can recover immediately

13. Data is Organized
With classification tags
+instant searchable content
Data is Protected
Hybrid and multi cloud
infinitely distributable
Data is Usable
Web access CIFS/NFS mount
open format for AI-ML-BI
Aparavi File Protect & Insight

14. What problems Aparavi FPI can solve
 Ransomware recovery
 Endpoint and ROBO
protection
 Data retention and Archive
 Compliance and Governance
 Storage optimization (Besides the mystery of Stonehenge)

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