KCF Technologies Deploys Rubrik Datos IO and AWS

Rubrik, Inc. announced that KCF Technologies, Inc., a technology company that innovate IoT products for the industrial world, has deployed its Datos IO to protect its mission-critical IoT data.

With Datos IO, KCF was able to deploy a fully automated, cloud-based backup and recovery solution for Cassandra databases on AWS.

KCF designs and manufactures wireless IoT sensors for the military and civilian markets, specializing in energy harvesting, wireless sensors, underwater navigation, and IoT material devices. The IoT sensors allow industrial businesses to improve performance, reduce machine downtime, and optimize operations through data-driven insights.

The collected data from the sensors is transmitted to AWS for trend diagnostics, which is used to provide near real-time monitoring and support services to customers. Prior to Rubrik, KCF relied on native Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots of the NoSQL database servers hosted on AWS to protect their data, and wanted to find a solution to address their increasing operational costs and management complexity.

As a cloud company, all of KCF’s application and database infrastructure is primarily deployed on AWS. The company needed a solution that could orchestrate data management across all 30 nodes in their Apache Cassandra database. To meet their needs, it leveraged Datos IO to deploy an orchestrated cloud-first backup and recovery solution that was purpose-built for NoSQL databases.

“Time series data is very common in sensors and industrial manufacturing. However, it doesn’t fit well into traditional databases, which is why we keep this data on NoSQL,” said Myron Semack, chief infrastructure architect, KCF. “Protecting our NoSQL data is absolutely imperative as our customers’ sensor data is the most critical piece of our business; it literally is our product. Using Datos IO, we now have peace of mind knowing that we can efficiently and effectively protect our NoSQL data, so we can focus our attention on improving the customer experience.”

After deploying Datos IO, KCF has achieved faster restores and protection for its 30-node Apache Cassandra cluster. Additionally, it reduced its NoSQL backup storage footprint by 67% with semantic deduplication which consolidates multiple database replicas into a single backup. By moving away from Amazon EBS Snapshots to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), it was able to achieve an additional reduction in cloud storage costs by 54%.

Datos IO’s API-based architecture provides KCF with control to customize the solution to fit with their complex environment. This ensures the sensitive military and industrial data that KCF generates is properly managed and protected.

“Datos IO gives customers with NoSQL databases new levels of control and intelligence for their data. It’s built specifically to provide enterprise-grade data protection for NoSQL workloads, such as the IoT sensor data from KCF Technologies,” said Tarun Thakur, GM, Rubrik Datos IO. “With Datos IO, KCF Technologies no longer needs to worry about if or how their critical NoSQL data is going to be protected, letting them increase their focus on scaling their customer data on KCF IoT platform and customer happiness.“

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