NetApp announced cyber-resiliency capabilities aimed at equipping customers with data protection and recovery amidst increasing ransomware threats. The NetApp cyber-resiliency capabilities can protect data stored on-premises or in the cloud. It also claims to be an industry-first in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) directly into enterprise primary storage to fight ransomware in real-time.
“NetApp is taking an aggressive and proactive approach to protecting our customers’ data against cyber threats using artificial intelligence. We are the first storage vendor to explicitly and financially guarantee our data storage offerings against ransomware,” said Mignona Cote, CSO at NetApp.
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ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection with Artificial Intelligence (ARP/AI) allows real-time enterprise storage ransomware protection. NetApp maximised adaptive AI/ML models built directly into enterprise primary storage to detect ransomware attacks in real-time.
Moreover, NetApp BlueXP Ransomware Protection provides a single control plane to intelligently coordinate and execute an end-to-end, workload-centric ransomware defense and an Application-Aware Ransomware Protection via NetApp SnapCenter 5.0 offers ransomware protection for applications.
NetApp BlueXP Disaster Recovery seamlessly integrates with VMware infrastructure and provides storage options for both on-premises and major public cloud environments. Moreover, NetApp Keystone Ransomware Recovery Guarantee extends NetApp’s current Ransomware Recovery Guarantee to its storage-as-a-service offering, NetApp Keystone.
Inside-out approach
You Qinghong, the Solutions Engineering lead, Greater China, ASEAN, and South Korea at NetApp, says that organisations in the Asia Pacific must innovate to strengthen their cyber resilience and disaster recovery capabilities, especially with today’s highly distributed IT environment.
“NetApp’s data-centric, inside-out approach to cyber resilience embeds AI-driven protection directly into the storage infrastructure, providing defense at its most critical point – where the data resides, in owned data centers or anywhere in the cloud,” he said.