Cobalt Iron Start-Up Out of Stealh Mode

New company Cobalt Iron, LLC, provider of enterprise data protection solutions, unveiled its Cobalt Iron Data Protection Portfolio, a single-source solution of enterprise data protection features and functionality delivered in an elastic cloud model to address today’s business needs.

This portfolio leverages decades of data protection experience of its designers, Richard R. Spurlock and Robert M. Marett, who have delivered data protection architectures to the Fortune 1000 and mid-market businesses since 1993.

Transforming Classic Backup Capabilities
into Business Services
Designed for both on-premise and cloud off-site deployment, Cobalt Iron’s Data Protection Portfolio enables customers to overcome backup and BC costs and challenges. It maintains rapid backup integrity validation and data recovery while packaging the solution as a cloud solution with optional ready-to-run appliances to accelerate on-site data services.

"According to the recent ESG data protection modernization research, there is a strong interest in moving away from ‘do it yourself backup servers’ to backup appliances – as well as looking to the cloud for tertiary protection," said Jason Buffington, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "Customers are still struggling with improving their backup reliability and their agility to restore, while trying to increase their disaster preparedness and decrease their costs. With its ‘vault plus cloud’ architecture, Cobalt Iron has most of the right pieces in their plan."

Today’s enterprise data protection solutions require customers to combine and operate complex software and hardware infrastructure from multiple vendors. Cobalt Iron enables customers to deploy a single unified solution as a public cloud, hybrid cloud, private cloud, or as a hosted solution. Customers can transform high-cost complex solutions into an elastic and simply consumable solution.

"At Tri-CUE, we provide 24×7 mission critical MSP services for credit unions in the Rocky Mountain States area of the United States," said Kent Richard, president, Tri-CUE, Inc. "The Cobalt Iron team and portfolio has greatly improved the reliability and efficiency of our backups, by both eliminating tape and providing an effective off-site DR solution for our backup data."  
 
Deployment Options Driven by Customer Needs
With a flexible architecture designed to scale from 5TB to 10,000TB, the Cobalt Iron offering enables customers to:

• Deploy in the data center: Automated backup and archiving protects servers, desktops, and applications with on-premise Cobalt Iron Vaults.
• Deploy in the Cobalt Iron Cloud: The Cobalt Iron Cloud eliminates the costs, risks, and complexity of operating and maintaining a backup infrastructure combination of quick installation and no hardware requirements delivers instant data protection for customers.
• Deploy on-site and in the Cobalt Iron Cloud: Customers can combine the Cobalt Iron solution with the Cobalt Iron Cloud to optimize data center data protection coupled with the simplicity and flexibility of cloud services.

"Protecting the growing data volume for companies of all sizes is a serious challenge today," said Richard R. Spurlock, CEO and founder of Cobalt Iron. "Faced with accelerating data growth, shrinking IT budgets, and pressures to enhance business services, customers are looking for new options to navigate out of this storm. Cobalt Iron delivers a single-source solution that crushes the high costs and complexity of data protection."

Cobalt Iron Data Protection Portfolio is available at multiple sizing tiers. Whether installed on-premise with Cobalt Iron Vault appliances, in the cloud, or both, it is charged as a monthly fee starting at $750 per TB that includes protection for all applications and an unlimited number of servers and desktops.