Redstor Adds AI, Analytics to Smart Data Management Service

Redstor Ltd. has expanded the reach and capability of its cloud-native, data management and protection platform, providing partners and their end-users with a unified view of data residing on infrastructure, cloud and a growing list of SaaS services for faster, easier protection – all from a single application.

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The international data management software-as-a-service (SaaS) business has developed protection for Azure Kubernetes Services and Salesforce, as well as adding a host of new features and functionality.

The company has invested close to a million dollar alone on enhancing the RedApp, a feature-rich application, purpose-built for partners, enabling them to deliver rapid, scalable protection and management of customer data, more easily, from a single application.

With HQs in the UK and a growing development team in Spain, Poland and the Ukraine as well as South Africa, the company has been able to introduce new features and innovations, including AI for the detection and removal of malware from backups.

The firm’s malware detection for backups complements existing anti-virus software by providing an additional layer of protection for malware-free recoveries. A ML model utilises shared insights, gained from malicious files found in backup sets, for community resilience vs. zero-day threats with automatic updates to improve protection every day.

Company-level analytics and Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace dashboards provide partners with an overview of protected data – both by customer and across all products – so at a glance they can drill down to see:

• Number of accounts and users

• Which accounts have grown, where and by how much over a month or year

• Status of backups and restores in last 24 hours

• Threat alerts (malicious files) detected for individual customers

The recent integration of the Redstor app with Google Marketplace has allowed partners to turbo-charge protection of customer data in Google Workspace.

Instead of an admin needing to grant multiple permissions for a backup to go ahead, the company’s integration with Google Marketplace app has reduced the set-up process to the tick of a single box, while single-item recovery is just as quick and easy to perform.

The firm also supports Microsoft’s OneNote, Class Notebooks and Staff Notebooks as part of OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams backups – creating a broad M365 support of any backup provider. This has attracted interest from firm’s many education partners, keen to provide their schools with class and staff notebook support and to capitalise on a margin-rich service with seamless, automated onboarding.

As a result, the company has doubled the number of Google Workspace users and M365 users that it is protecting, in the first 4 months of this year.

Web app users can also remotely manage machines and backups without having to set up all the PCs they connect from.

The app simplifies the protection of infrastructure and cloud workloads and also provides a bridge to the future with the ability to move them around.

An Azure Mobility service makes it to perform a full system recovery or migrate a machine directly into Azure.

The company also makes it fast and easy to manage and recover Kubernetes containers in Microsoft Azure, reducing the impact of accidental deletion, malicious activity or data corruption.

Unlike traditional, machine-based backups that were not designed for modern, container-based applications, firm’s cloud data management platform delivers operational simplicity and automated updates with no error-prone script deployments or configuration, no upfront costs and no complex licensing.

The company offers flexible, cloud-native, hardware-free protection for a broad range of data types and sources.

Paul Evans, CEO, Redstor, said: “Data now exists in more formats than ever before – across a vast number of devices, applications and cloud platforms. Getting full oversight and visibility is difficult without the right tools.

“As data is moving to the cloud, Redstor is building out more connectors to those sources. After launching Salesforce this month, we will be looking to provide protection for Intuit and Sage.

“With many people now expecting to work wherever they need to and whenever they need to, service providers know they need smarter and more intuitive solutions to protect customer data if they are to enjoy recurring revenue and enduring relationships.

“Redstor is perfect for the post-COVID world and is already helping to establish our partners as trusted advisors. Quick to demo and deploy, it eliminates the need for hardware and the associated maintenance costs and site visits, and it also allows businesses to scale up or down easily as demand changes.”