CloudRanger Now Integrated with the Druva Cloud Platform

0 Steven Duff Amazon Web Services, cloud management, SaaS

Release Provides Over 4,000 Customers with Comprehensive Protection and Management Across Major Enterprise Data Sources–Including AWS Workloads

Druva, the global leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced the integration of Druva CloudRanger with the Druva Cloud Platform (DCP), the industry’s first and only Data Management-as-a-Service solution. The DCP unifies Druva’s product offerings and provides a single point of management that enables organizations to centrally protect, manage and gain visibility into their entire data footprint.

With the integration of Druva CloudRanger, Druva now provides a holistic end-to-end solution that builds a bridge between data management for traditional on-premises and modern cloud infrastructures. Enterprises can now centrally manage their entire data footprint without incurring the increased complexity and costs of additional administration and infrastructure.

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Do you even need to backup EC2 VMs?

0 Steven Duff Amazon Web Services, Backup Policy, Backups

In this guest blog post, W. Curtis Preston (aka “ Mr Backup”) poses the question ‘Do you need to backup EC2 VMs?’. W. Curtis Preston is an expert in backup & recovery systems; a space he has been working in since 1993. He has written three books on the subject, Backup & Recovery, Using SANs and NAS, and Unix Backup & Recovery. As well as being the Chief Technical Architect at Druva, Mr. Preston is also an independent consultant and writer and has spoken at over 300 seminars and conferences around the world.

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How to automatically delete old AWS snapshots on schedule

0 Steven Duff Amazon Web Services

In the following article, we’ll explain how you can import existing AWS backups into CloudRanger so you can automatically delete old AWS snapshots, that are not currently managed by any specific backup policy. We will explain how you can easily add these orphaned AWS snapshots to a CloudRanger backup policy which will automatically manage the retention and clean up of backup data that is no longer required. But in order to take full advantage of AWS and CloudRanger, it’s important for users to understand the importance of properly tagging your AWS resources when creating your Amazon EBS, EC2, RDS and RedShift backups.

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Create automated schedules for AWS EC2 Auto Scaling Groups

0 Steven Duff Amazon Web Services, Automation, EC2 Scheduler

We are delighted to announce that you can now configure your AWS EC2 Auto Scaling Groups to operate on your chosen schedule using the CloudRanger platform. Previously, this functionality was only available through the AWS Application Programming Interface (API), Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS CloudFormation.

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling based on a schedule allows you to scale your application in response to predictable load changes. For example, if the traffic to your web application consistently increases on Wednesday, remains high on Thursday, and starts to decrease on Friday, you can use scheduled Auto Scaling to automatically increase capacity to match the predictable traffic patterns of your web application.

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your EC2 resources based on demand within certain parameters. CloudRanger Auto Scaling schedules allow you to adjust these parameters, in a fully automated way. The minimum, maximum and desired values of an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) are the boundaries to which your scaling is confined. We allow you to dynamically adjust these limits and in case of emergency, to perform a one-off adjustment to your ASG.

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CloudRanger Public REST API Now Available

0 Steven Duff Amazon Web Services, Automation, Snapshot Management

We are delighted to release the CloudRanger Public REST API that customers and partners can use to integrate the CloudRanger platform with third-party applications and systems. Customers and managed service providers (MSPs) can use the CloudRanger API to manage customized backup policies and schedule server resources on AWS cloud.

Access to the CloudRanger Public REST API is controlled by your API key generated in the CloudRanger dashboard and token. This will allow you to manage your Amazon EBS, EC2, RDS and Redshift resources and backup policies across multiple AWS regions and accounts with ease.

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