So we're here at VeeamON 2017 and we're visiting the Starwind booth.
Can you tell us a little bit about the company and what you're showing here at VeeamON?
Yeah, sure.
So Starwind has been around for 10 years already and our main job what we do is a hyperconvergence,
the word which even did not exist when we started with it.
So we started with a pure iSCSI target then managed to an HA and full tolerance services
and we are doing it over 10 years.
Another product, a major product that we offer is a VTL and there are some exciting news
to tell you today about a new functionality we have added to a common virtual tape library.
And is that what we heard in the keynote today?
Yeah, exactly.
So it was told on the keynote today and the new function or the new functionality we have
to offer is that our Starwind VTL to cloud solution is capable to replace your existing
physical tape with a virtual tape one which is faster because internal commodity hard
drive hard disk are used and these tapes can be immediately replicated into cloud using
a very intelligent and nice retention policy much like Veeam does it.
So you can specify what amount of tapes remains on-premise, what amount of tapes goes directly
to Amazon S3 and then later on depending on the retention policy they are stored directly
in Glacier.
So how does this apply to other cloud storages?
Yeah, right now our solution supports only AWS but that's the first one per Veeam's request
and right now we are working on adding other public clouds or probably all of them.
The next coming is Azure, the code is there so it takes only two to one months to implement
this functionality into our solution.
Next one will most probably be Google Nearline and Coldline, Backblaze and other public clouds
depending on the feedback we get from our customers.
So how do you compare to AWS?
Yeah, that's a very analogic solution from Amazon but the drawback of AWS Storage Gateway
is that all the tapes you place in there go directly to Amazon so you cannot specify a
retention policy and the tapes you have uploaded using AWS Storage Gateway into cloud should
be placed into Glacier manually.
With starving VTL to cloud solution you have a retention policy and all this is done automatically
so you only decide how much tapes are kept on-premise, how much tapes reside in S3 storage
to be able to quickly recover them from there and after a certain period of time how much
tapes are going directly to Glacier and remain there.
So can you show us a demo?
Yeah, it's a prepared stand we say, it's a Veeam backup and a job already completed,
a backup job and we have a starving management console to manage our VTL device here open.
Right now we have finished the job to a tape and as you can see the tape is right now being
uploaded to an offline shelf which is an Amazon S3 bucket.
As soon as the upload completes your tape is copied from on-premise location to a cloud
directly and according to the retention policy you said it will be uploaded to Glacier in
a certain amount of time.
Great, well thanks for taking the time to speak with Veeam blog and we hope you have
a great show.
You are welcome.
