N2WS, a Veeam Company recognized in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, is pleased to announce the N2WS Backup & Recovery has been nominated to compete in the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.
N2WS Backup & Recovery, a #1 backup & recovery solution on the AWS marketplace, has become the go-to solution for enterprises of all verticals ensuring uptime for their cloud data.
AWS has been the most experienced, reliable and compliant public cloud, as evidenced by their >40% market share and exponential growth since its inception in 2006.
It’s also well known that companies both large and small depend on 24/7 access to their data and a crucial need for a backup solution that can be accessed quickly and reliably.
No matter what your vertical is – financial, healthcare, mobile, IT, transport, media – the risk of even seconds of downtime is too just large to gamble with.
Organizations need to be prepared for potential data breaches, ransomware, errors, bugs and weather-related disasters.
(See how N2WS Backup and Recovery 2.4 empowers Enterprises and Managed Service Providers to satisfy data protection demands while reducing storage costs and addressing varying backup lifecycle needs. Courtesy of N2WS and YouTube. Posted on Nov 27, 2018.)
The consequences can be dire and can be anything from shutting down entire global transport systems to a ransomware attack costing millions of dollars and chaos.
These threats are growing exponentially and AWS stresses this shared responsibility model for fear that users are unaware of the risks involved.
For organizations running AWS workloads, this is where N2WS Backup & Recovery steps in.
N2WS is an enterprise level backup and disaster recovery solution featuring very flexible backup scheduling, ensuring you are protected from outages, failures, and data losses.
Built specifically for AWS, N2WS gives enterprise teams the ability to back up data as often as needed and recover it far more quickly than with traditional on-premises.
N2WS protects hundreds of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances for thousands of customers that need to back up often, recover quickly, ensure 100% uptime and ultimately saves these teams an enormous amount of time and resources.
(Hear from N2WS Clients 2nd Watch Managed Cloud Manager Ken Weinreich, Cloudar COO Tom Dee Blende, National Systems Admin Kay McCartney, St. John’s University Systems Engineering Manger Rahul Karnik, Eloitte Cloud Engineer Peter Jackson, Best Friends Animal Society Lead Systems Engineer Brent Bain, Kris IT Infrastructure Manager & Cloud Engineer Michael Coat, how N2WS Backup and Recovery empowers Enterprises and Managed Service Providers to satisfy data protection demands, while reducing storage costs. Courtesy of N2WS and YouTube. Posted on Mar 20, 2019.)
The big news in early 2018 was that N2WS was acquired by Veeam.
N2WS has quickly become the #1 AWS solution for Enterprise-Class, Backup, Recovery and DR Iaas, built from the ground up for Amazon EC2 based on Amazon native snapshots. Iaas is the fastest-growing cloud segment, with the market set to hit $88bn by 2022.
AWS leads the sector, standing astride 44.2% of the market, according to the latest figures from Gartner.
What if one of your AWS accounts is compromised or a region goes down?
All responsible businesses should be equipped with a disaster recovery strategy.
Native-tools do not provide easy options for cross-account or cross-region DR.
This severely limits your ability to keep your business running smoothly in the event of regional disasters or an account compromise.
N2WS Backup & Recovery provides central management for multiple accounts and simplifies this process by fully supporting multi-tenancy and allowing you to set permissions to suit the way you and your users work.
You need a solution that provides a single pane of glass across multiple AWS accounts.
Finally N2WS has a giant “recovery” button that allows you to recover anything from a single file to entire instances and even environments in seconds (and fully supports application-consistency for proper viable backups).
Native-tools do not provide any recovery options.
(Learn More about N2WS Backup and Recovery to satisfy data protection demands, reduce storage costs and stay disruption-free. Courtesy of N2WS and YouTube. Posted on Nov 27, 2018.)
N2WS is highly differentiated from other data protection solutions because it is AWS-native in the full sense by leveraging AWS block level incremental snapshots, affecting the user in two ways:
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Cost effective, paying for what had changed each time, and
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Performance-wise – EBS snapshots are very fast because only incremental delta from when the last snapshot was taken is copied.
N2WS protects hundreds of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances for thousands of customers that need to back up often, recover quickly, ensure 100% uptime and ultimately saves these teams an enormous amount of time and resources.
One main advantage of N2WS is that it is sold as an AMI rather than a SAAS solution.
Organizations are able to launch their own instance in their own server, maintaining 100% control over their environment.
No information goes over the wire, or even to N2WS.
Most companies, particularly ones new to the cloud are unknowingly pouring company assets down the drain.
Wasted cloud spend is astronomical—forecasted to reach $21 billion/year by 2021.
Chances are, if you’re spending money on cloud, some of that money is being wasted mainly due to idle resources and unnecessary storage costs and one of the biggest causes of cloud waste an instance is not used 100% of the time.
More likely, it will be utilized during office hours or at specific times when a certain job is running.
The rest of the time, the instance will be idle—producing cost while doing nothing for you.
Even in smaller cloud environments with only a few instances running (let alone larger ones), this can have a significant effect on your AWS monthly bill.
N2WS has made a conscious effort to help companies with these growing problems.
N2WS enhances company’s cloud savings by automatically backing up, up to hundreds of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, eliminating the need for home grown scripts, and simplifying the process further – ultimately saving precious devops time so they can focus on business-critical tasks.
(Hear More from AWS re:Invent 2018 – a great event and a great experience. N2WS customers share how they protect their AWS workloads with N2WS Backup & Recovery. Courtesy of N2WS and YouTube. Posted on Dec 17, 2018.)
N2WS’ newest features allow customers to utilize features such as archiving to S3 for further reduction in savings and gives them the ability to use ‘Resource Control’, or the “lightswitch” for EC2, allowing users to hibernate idle servers.
N2WS has had an aggressive timeline and has recently release 2 new versions of their software in the past few months, which includes breakthrough cost and time saving features.
A huge request that the company were able to roll out was allowing users to easily decouple and archive snapshots to S3 utilizing cheaper storage costs and then pull them for recovery in minutes when needed.
The latest version of their flagship solution will help businesses to reduce AWS storage costs up to 60%, improve cloud mobility and stay disruption-free.
Users can now achieve real-time cost savings, plus set schedules, retention periods and create multiple folders within a single S3 bucket.
Additionally, S3 storage leverages incremental snapshots which means an additional cost savings as archives are created daily, weekly and hourly.
Users can recover from S3 into any region thanks to N2WS Backup & Recovery cross region replication feature.
This is a huge step because you are no longer limited to one particular DR zone.
Lastly, not only can you encrypt your S3 data with N2WS, you can utilize client-side encryption, essentially encrypting encrypted data for companies with high security requirements.
A huge challenge that customers can address with this feature is compliance by retaining critical data in a low-cost storage tier.
Almost all of N2WS’ reviews on the AWS marketplace are 5 stars, with many testimonials from customers detailing how N2WS’ features have allowed them to run their production environments worry-free.
N2WS has a large and loyal customer base which spans many verticals who are not only successfully backing up their AWS environment and sleeping soundly knowing their workloads are backed up frequently, they are able to utilize the many cost saving features and save up to 60% on their monthly AWS bill.
Flagship customers include Coca-Cola, NASA, Cisco, IBM, Dyson, Time, Oracle and the UK Home Office.
Many of these customers are using N2WS’s disaster recovery feature, as they rest easy knowing that their data is available and recoverable even if a whole region is down.
This is because EBS snapshots can be copied both between regions and across accounts, allowing you to recover complete instances including all data and configurations and be back up to production in only seconds.
Companies of any and all verticals rely on N2WS Backup & Recovery to secure their mission-critical data and recover at the drop of a hat… when needed.
N2WS Backup & Recovery Competes in 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program
N2WS, a Veeam Company
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Best Cloud Computing/Storage Solution
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Cloud Protection Manager
As a 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program Competitor, N2WS will be competing against the industry’s leading providers of Cloud Computing & Storage Solutions.
The 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program is Proudly Sponsored by ATI Systems, Attivo Networks, Automatic Systems, and Desktop Alert.
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards at https://americansecuritytoday.com/ast-awards/.
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| Access Control/ Identification | Personal/Protective Equipment | Law Enforcement Counter Terrorism |
| Perimeter Barrier/ Deterrent System | Interagency Interdiction Operation | Cloud Computing/Storage Solution |
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| Video Surveillance/VMS | Mobile Technology | Anti-Malware |
| Audio Analytics | Disaster Preparedness | ID Management |
| Thermal/Infrared Camera | Mass Notification System | Fire & Safety |
| Metal/Weapon Detection | Rescue Operations | Critical Infrastructure |
| License Plate Recognition | Detection Products | And Many Others! |
Don’t see a Direct Hit for your Product, Agency or Organization?
Submit your category recommendation for consideration to Michael Madsen, AST Publisher at: mmadsen@americansecuritytoday.com.
Good luck to N2WS on becoming a Winner in the 2019 American Security Today’s Homeland Security Awards Program!
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