The Steelstore of the past, the altavault of today

In 2014, NetApp used $80 million from Riverbed (riverbed). ) has acquired its Steelstore product line to complement its cloud-integrated solution.

This year, NetApp repackaged the product and renamed it Altavault.

Traditional backup software, in the face of access to the cloud, there is always a problem, is to take advantage of the benefits of the cloud at the same time, how to seamlessly connect with the cloud. Altavault is a good answer to this conundrum. Architecture is not complex, Altavault leverages the support of each backup software for CIFS and NFS protocols, provides a shared backup destination for front-end backup software through the two protocols, and then backs up data to the Altavault local storage by deduplication, encryption, compression, and so on. The data is then backed up asynchronously to the cloud through back-end support for various clouds.

Traditional backup software in the server <-CIFS/NFS-> altavault <-backup/Restore Cloud (public/private)

With this architecture, Altavault can be seamlessly integrated into existing backup scenarios, with a range of cloud-backed data security concerns, minimizing the need for network bandwidth.

As part of NetApp's cloud turnkey solution, Altavault is poised to become an important product line for cloud propulsion.

The Steelstore of the past, the altavault of today