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APEX Backup Services for hybrid workloads combines high performance, scalable backup, disaster recovery, and long-term retention to simplify data protection, reduce costs, and improve data visibility for today’s complex information environments. Organizations can achieve their most aggressive business SLAs and reduce TCO.
By using the elasticity and scale-out capabilities provided by the cloud, APEX Backup Services for hybrid workloads enables organizations to centralize the data protection of enterprise workloads including physical file servers, databases, network-attached storage (NAS), and virtual and hybrid environments.
From a single console, IT has the flexibility to backup and restore data, failover virtual machines (VMs) for disaster recovery, apply long-term retention to data in the cloud for compliance, and replicate VM workloads across regions and accounts for test-dev purposes.
APEX Backup Services for hybrid workloads delivers against stringent recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) requirements of critical applications while eliminating the complexity and costs associated with on-premises infrastructure. For demanding RPOs and RTOs in the data center, Cloud Cache can be installed on commodity hardware and achieve fast VM restore.
The APEX Backup Services approach to store enterprise data uses both an advanced data-scrambling algorithm and a unique envelope-based encryption model where the data and metadata are decoupled and encrypted. This approach ensures that your data is only accessible by you. This component a critical to help you meet today’s stringent global data-privacy regulations. Finally, to enable restoring from ransomware attacks, APEX Backup Services for hybrid workloads provide data isolation and high performance restores to minimize downtime from a breach.