Veeam Backup and Recovery Enhanced with QoreStor

Welcome, everyone. My name is Katie Lagerstrom. I'm the field marketing manager for data protection here in North America and I'll be hosting today's session. Thank you for joining today's webinar, Making Veeam Backup Even Better. Just a couple of things before we get started. First, please use the Q&A chat box if you have any questions. We'll get them answered at the end of the presentation. And second, today's session is being recorded. It'll be available to view within the next week on quest.com, as well as on the registration page for this event. A follow up email with a link to the on demand recording will also be sent out. And with that, let's get started. Please welcome today's presenter, senior product management consultant and technology strategist, Adrian Moir. Thank you very much, Katie. Good morning, and good afternoon, good evening, wherever you happen to be. My name is Adrian Moir. I'm a senior product management consultant and technology strategist at Quest. So today's presentation, we are going to look at a few things. But primarily this is around how one of our technologies, called QoreStor, can actually enhance your Veeam backup and recovery solution. And so we're going to step into that straight away. And we'll start talking about some of the aspects that you might want to understand. And how the improvements actually slot into where things actually happen. So let's start off with a little bit of a topic of what is QoreStor. QoreStor is actually a software defined storage solution which is effectively designed as a backup target solution. But being software only, it means it is extremely agile in terms of where you want to deploy it, whether it's in cloud, in a virtual machine, or on some hardware, pretty much hardware agnostic. So when you look at the traditional methodologies for solutions around saving storage space with deduplication, and compression, and all those kind of nice things, traditionally that's been a box. And these days, if you're looking to move things into cloud, you can't really have that physical box. But you still probably want to take advantage of some of the technologies around data reduction, reducing storage costs, especially in cloud because the more you put there, the more it's going to cost you. So why is cost also different? Well, it is literally a piece of software which allows you to install it. And you can install it on your own hardware. We are agnostic to the server manufacturer or storage manufacturer. As long as it meets the requirements, that's all we need really. And away you go. And it's a nice technology as much as the more you give it in terms of resource, the faster it gets. So we can dive a little bit deeper into QoreStor. So it's actually got quite a lot of technologies built into it. I'm going to quickly go over those. And then we're going to focus in on some specific technologies that actually help to enhance that whole experience with Veeam. So let's have a look. There's a lot of things as I say. It's a very busy slide, this one. But essentially we can take the major pieces here around deduplication, top left. We can drive QoreStor up to a 20 to 1 deduplication. And if you want any percentages, that's around about a 95% storage reduction. So think about that for a moment, it's 95% less storage utilized. Then we can be backup platform agnostic, as I said earlier. You can use pretty much anybody's server. If you have a good deal with a hardware vendor already, or you want to keep your whole estate the same, whether it's Lenovo, or Dell, or HP, it doesn't really matter to us. As long as it's got enough resources inside it, away you go. And as you can see, there's lots of other technologies here as well. So we can do site to site replication. There's a level of data tenancy as well. So if you want to separate data types, you can. And use different encryption algorithms on it, you can. We also have that ability of fast throughput as well, up to 20 terabytes an hour. As well, we have some unique protocols that help us deliver that too. And we're going to touch on those a little bit later as well. Also the data we utilize, encryption for replication, is in flight and encryption at rest as well. And we actually have two levels of encryption. And one of them actually has a patent, so we can actually really make that data very, very secure. We actually have that SecureConnect WAN technology. While it delivers a secure connection for replication, it also actually is quite robust and it will actually help to deliver data over high latency WAN links or links that occasionally drop out. So it's pretty robust for that too. We also have a couple of things inside QoreStor that we call tiering. Cloud tiering, we can send data out to cloud. And performance tiering if you need ultra fast recovery stuff. We have a methodology for that too. So there's lots of pieces inside QoreStor. And one of the other things we've been looking at an awful lot recently, and probably on everybody's minds, is around the immutability of backup data. You need to have this data immutable now because the backup data is the last solution. It's the cure to having anything in terms of a malware attack or a ransomware attack. You need to ensure that what you have is actually secure and can't be messed around with. And that's some of the things that we've added into QoreStor as well. So for example, we have a recycle bin. That's an immutable recycle bin. So things get maliciously deleted, they drop into the recycle bin, the only thing you can do is recover it. You can't change the contents, you can't delete it, all you can do is put it back. And then we also have object lock immutability, which is going to be a little bit of focus today's presentation. We're going to look at that as well. So some of the newer technologies and techniques that have expanded out of cloud, in terms of storage things like S3 based storage, now seeing that coming into backup scenarios, into on premise solutions as well. And that gives us a few advantages too, in terms of security. And we're going to look at those too. So what are we going to focus on? What are we going to focus on actually is just going to take out some of the things that just distill it down a little bit, so you can actually get a better view of what we're going to look at today. So we're going to cover things like that object lock immutability, the cloud tiering, replication and encryption, and the deduplication piece, and also something called cloud reader. And we'll get to that pretty much towards the end of some of the technical things. That's not too technical. So hang around, we'll get you through this. Right, so let's move on a little bit. So one of the things that we've all had a lot of stress about is ransomware and how we want to utilize things. Now traditionally, Veeam has supported CIFS and NFS, or SMB and NFS, for its data movements. Now they're open protocols and obviously that's prone to attack, given if you get to that point where the share is not secured properly or somebody actually just breaks down your security, and they actually create their own admin account and get in that way. So previously we were storing in this way. And QoreStor can still do this, it ingests the data very, very quickly. We have those protocol accelerators for that, deduplicate it, compress it, encrypt it. So that helps us store it. And the next thing around the deduplication, we want to shrink that down. And the deduplication is a full sliding window variable block deduplication. It's full on enterprise stuff here. So we can shrink that data down and once it's been deduplicated, we then compress it further as well. So it makes that even smaller. So there's two stages of storage reduction going on here. Now if we think about what would happen if we were still in this scenario of using things like SMB and connectors for storing our data, as I said they're open protocols. So if you are attacked, or if there's a payload delivered into your environment and then somebody manages to get in, they're going to hunt around for the backup. Because one of the things they want to do is A, go and copy the backup data out because that's a source for them to go and ransom against. And B, they want to try and destroy it, delete it, encrypt it, do whatever they want. And that's the thing we have to actually secure against. Those two items, really important that you think about two. It's not just about encrypting data anymore, it's also about securing the content that you have. So the first piece, that I mentioned a little bit earlier, was this recycle bin that we have. Now this is really useful if somebody gets in and says, I'm going to delete the files, or you do that by mistake because a lot of the times a lot of the issues we see are actually driven by us humans. And you know, we all make mistakes. So that data will actually drop into the recycle bin. And what will happen then is that recycle bin set up with a certain period of time, say for example 14 days. Now the data will fall into there and it will be locked. It is immutable inside that recycle bin. You can't purge the recycle bin, you can't change the contents, you can't encrypt them, you can't delete them. Even our engineering team have no access to remove any data that's in there. The only way to clear that data out is to restore it. And it puts it back where it used to be. So it's like the thing that any attacker really doesn't want to have to deal with because they're trying to purge out that-- you can't get in. But of course, if you've done it as an accident, it's like a lifeline, a very, very quick lifeline. Because of the way we manipulate the data underneath, there actually isn't an extra copy of the data. It's like a move, but not really a move. So there's a little bit under the hood, we're doing some clever things underneath there so we don't consume any more space. But we can really very, very quickly provide that data back again. In literally a couple of seconds once you click the button, it's there again So very, very useful for those kind of errors and issues that you might have. Now of course, the other thing we have to think about is if that bad actor decides, I'm going to walk away with your data. It's left your environment. It's one of the things that you really don't want to have to deal with. And that's one of the big things that we see around ransomware these days, is that they're looking for personal identifiable information. They want to ransom that out, they want to sell that out to the highest bidder. So we need to put a shield around this. One of the things that we get into now is that securing element here. Add another little square on the left there with securing it. Now the reason we're using this with Veeam, in particular with object based storage as a target, they can now actually lock the data. And that locking mechanism is driven from within Veeam. So QoreStor supports that and we actually have our Veeam ready object with immutability certification. So we've gone through all the kind of hoops that we need to go through when we're working with Veeam. They're a great partner of ours and we ensure that everything works to their specification. So what will this do for us now? Well, if we think about where we're at, at this point-- this is a little bit cheesy, this bit-- but we actually now have our own S3 here, store it, shrink it, and secure it. So three S's, and you've got this lovely QoreStor solution. So not what we're doing now is we're actually going to be taking the data set that sits outside there and will actually move into our protection. So what this will end up doing is we now have all the data and storage under protection. So this allows us to think about now, not only just having data ready for recovery, but also having it available for immutability points and security as well. So it's not all now locked together. Now one of the other things I talked about a little bit was one of the other items on that list at the beginning was tiering out to cloud. Now a lot of people want to use cloud storage these days for backup. It makes a lot of sense. It's a very static model, the reliability of the cloud storage is very good, so it enables you to push that data up there. However, you have to be careful because out of sight, out of mind can run away with you a little bit. So think about the costs that might be increasing. So what we can do with QoreStor is we can take those backup solutions from Veeam over the S3 connection as object data, deduplicate it, compress it, and encrypt it. And then we can tier that out to cloud. And I get a lot of questions about, well, who do you support in terms of cloud? Well, quite a lot actually. So you can choose any kind of cloud provider that you're looking for. Now because the data is already deduplicated and compressed, you're going to use less cloud storage space. And also recovery is also seamless. And I'm going to walk you through that a little bit later, so you can see how all of this mechanism works underneath. What's the impact of doing this and utilizing QoreStor as a recovery repository, as well as moving data and tiering it into cloud? Well, let's have a quick look. This is some screenshots taken from a QoreStor user interface. So let's look at these four panels here. And I'm going to zoom into some of these panels and we can walk through what these mean. So let's look at the first one, our top left panel. It shows that we've been ingesting, into QoreStor, we've ingested 318 terabytes. It's deduplicated that down to 7.7 and then it's further compressed that down to 4.3. So I've gone from ingesting 318 terabytes of data and I've now compressed that to 4.3. That actually is very, very good. Now I would like to say, this is in a lab. So it's a little bit more aggressive than we would normally see in the field, but 95% is very achievable. And we see that very, very often. So here we are, we've now got ourselves a great set of data saving going on here. So it's come in here 318, deduplicated to 7.7, compressed further to 4.3, and is reducing this a 98.7% savings. And you can see down here, the user license capacity is what you use on the disk space. So our licensing is always after deduplication and compression. So it allows you to actually store an awful lot of data for not a lot of money. So let's move on. So we've now got this lovely small data set now. So I want to send that out to cloud. So you set up a cloud policy and that will then, when the data is idle for a certain period of time, it will start copying the data out. And then after the on-premise local instance timeout has reached then it will actually remove the local copy, leaving the one in cloud, and have a link to that. So we always know where the data is. So in this instance, there's 296tb terabytes of my data that I've ingested. It says, I want to send that to cloud, so we've deduplicated that amount of data to 4.8 terabytes then compressed it down to 2.4, so more compression. And then we've pushed that out to cloud. So we've gone from 296 terabytes down to just a little bit over three. So here we go again, 296, 4.8, down to 2.4. We got 99.2% savings this time. And we're actually utilizing three terabytes in cloud. And now it's a little bit bigger than the 2.4 because we actually send some extra metadata out there to live alongside the data. So if at any point the QoreStor instance that you're sending this data from falls over, you can actually gain access to that data set. And I'm going to show you how that happens a little bit later. So as you can see, it's a very, very aggressive methodology in terms of being able to actually reduce the storage footprint locally as well as in the cloud. But we also have to think about how we recover this and why do we have issues a lot of the time around cloud storage. Well, if you think about cloud storage, if you're sending back up there, the way you have to retrieve the data is very important too. And sometimes your bandwidth is going to be the choking point. So this is where QoreStor gets around that piece. So let's have a look at a QoreStor instance here. We've got some blocks of data and, of course, it's all been deduplicated and compressed, so there isn't a block of data that is the same color. So let's represent these colors. These are all unique blocks of data. So now I want to think, oh, let's use Wasabi as a good example of a cloud provider. We're going to send our data and it's going to be stored in that S3 format as a bunch of objects. So we're going to now create, inside QoreStor, a cloud tier. So this actually is a configuration, and your configuration to attach to Wasabi and login, or your credentials. You can use the Wasabi dropdown inside QoreStor, put in your credentials and away you go. So at this point now, we then say, OK, here's our policy and what I want you to do is abide by this policy. Then over time, what we find is unique blocks end up setting out in Wasabi and unique blocks in QoreStor. Now you notice here, as I said earlier, each block has a different color. And it was actually quite fun trying to find all the slightly different colors in here, making them a little bit more obvious. But we have unique data now between QoreStor and Wasabi. And this is a major, major difference with QoreStor here. It's because its deduplication block map actually extends across to the cloud as well. So you're not wrapping up a whole backup piece. You're not wrapping up a set of files, or a chain, or anything else. It is deduplicated blocks of data. So right now, here's my system, it's running, it's been fine. What happens if I now want a restore? So what happens is we get a restore request from somebody saying, oh, I need this virtual machine restored because something went wrong, or it's got corrupted, or there's some stuff being deleted. And I want to get this back up and running. So what's nice about this is that your restore request from Veeam comes directly to QoreStor. And QoreStor looks at the request and says, you need these blocks as part of that request. I have all of these locally from other deduplicated data sets. And this is a key point here, is that any data that lands on QoreStor from Veeam is deduplicated with any other data that's landed from Veeam as well. And it can be a mixture of VMware, or a mixture of Hyper-V, it doesn't really matter. Or you can separate them if you so wish. So right now I've got a bunch of blocks that are saying, QoreStor, I can give you these straight away but we're missing the yellow pieces. Well, the yellow piece is actually in cloud. So what we'll do is instead of trying to pull everything from cloud to make up the image, we will pull just the blocks of data. So I'm going to pull that block of yellow data from cloud, put it into my local QoreStor instance, and then you see we need it three times. We're going to re-inflate that back in. So I now have all my data. So if we think about that from a recovery time perspective, we've actually done that very, very quickly. We started recovering straight away. We're starting to send data. And in the background, QoreStor is fetching the blocks required from cloud to go and fill in the gaps. So you don't have to think about this at all. It is completely seamless. You don't have to worry about whether you're going to pull this from this particular piece of cloud, or this particular piece of on store, it does it all for you. So it really simplifies the whole effort around utilizing cloud storage and giving you a very fast recovery of data sets. Even though some of it may be in cloud, some of it local, it really doesn't matter. We make up that block map and away you go. So let's look at it from another point of view now. Let's go and look at it from actually some acceleration technologies and techniques. So let's flip this around now, we're going to look at the back up piece. And we're going to replicate too. So this is where we're going to replicate some back up data. So here you can see I've got three backup proxies configured here. And you can point them at QoreStor and you can see I've used the various combinations of protocols going on here. I've got SMB, and NFS, and S3 as well. Now you notice for the NFS and SMB pieces, we have what we call a rapid plugin. That's a protocol accelerator. It's actually source side deduplication. It's a little bit of software you install on each of the backup proxies. And when you send data to QoreStor, it actually checks to say, have I got that block already? Yes, I have, just send me the things that I don't have. So straight away you're going to get faster backups. You're going to get less network traffic, which means the QoreStor instance isn't going to be flooded at line speed. So that means you can do more backups in the same amount of time which is going to improve your throughput. And potentially, if you want to add more backups to the data sets, you're going to get a better recovery point objective as well. So now we've got our data moving into QoreStor, it gets deduplicated and compressed. Now we all want to do the 3-2-1 rule, so let's think, how do I get this offsite? How do I want to do that? Couple of ways. So the first piece is you can actually replicate. So replicating data sets will give you an exact copy of what you have from the source data set. So from one QoreStor, whether it's in a virtual machine or running on hardware, to another one, it's going to allow you to replicate data sets. So here we have now, sat there, in this particular time our replication target is actually running in cloud. So you can pick up one of the cloud images, they're available in the Amazon marketplace and the Azure marketplace too. And you can spin that up and actually add in your data sets. And the data gets replicated and then stored. Interestingly, it's not stored on disk. We actually utilize object storage in Amazon or Azure to actually store the backup data itself. So again, this makes it scalable very easily. But also, it's cheaper than actually having attached spinning disks or putting flash behind it. You can do that if you so wish. But if you want simplicity, this is the way to go. And of course, that QoreStor instance could also not have to be in cloud, it could be in a colo, it could be in another office. It doesn't really matter, another hypervisor stack somewhere else, it really doesn't matter. And that's one of the key things about doing this as a piece of software. So what happens now? Maybe I want to add in the alternative. Maybe want to do a cloud tier. Now this is not a replication, this is an extension of your local storage into cloud, give it like that. So it's still one copy of data, per se. So if you want to go replication, if you want to then move data out to cloud, then use the cloud tier as well. So now at this point, as I mentioned earlier, what happens when things go wrong? So things go wrong. Well, OK, we're going to lose a QoreStor instance for whatever reason, whether it's complete failure of the server or you've had an outage in your data center. I've stood in a data center with rain coming down on my head. There's all manner of things that can go wrong. So it's no longer available. But we've got all this data set out there in the cloud as a cloud tier. So I got a couple of choices here now. I can restore content from my replicated copy, that's that big QoreStor instance in the middle. But what about the cloud tier data stuff? Well, what you can actually do is you can spin up a virtual machine in cloud, for example AWS. And you've got that little book icon there, this is the cloud reader technology. What this enables you to do is go and look at that data set, attach that, bring that into QoreStor. It then rebuilds all the data block maps for all the data stored, and that gives you access back to your cloud tier data again. So it's inherently safe in terms of the data sets. That's why we push that little bit of extra data up around the metadata associated with the cloud tier objects. So hopefully that gives you a really good idea about how you can actually build upon what you're doing already with Veeam, introducing QoreStor, giving you options to actually send data offsite into cloud, replicate between sites. Replication's bi-directional, by the way. And all of this technology all actually comes with a single license. So you get everything. There's no hidden pieces anywhere. So you get all the accelerators if you want them. You get all of the replication technologies. Everything comes in there, all the protocols you want to use. So what's the actual impact of all of this? Now I could give you graphs, and times, and figures, and lab figures. We've already seen what the UI says. But what we've done today is to actually give you some information from an ESG report. So they actually did some testing with our technology in their labs with Veeam, and they produced some interesting results. So first of all, let's have a look at this, storage reduction. So this is comparing with and without QoreStor. So if you were running Veeam into some storage, with its own deduplication technology, you're going to get around about a 40% reduction in storage. If you're using QoreStor, they got 90% reduction in storage. So there's obviously a big difference here in terms of footprint, which means you need less energy, you need less cooling, all those nice things that come along with just reducing the amount of physical storage that you need. And then we get into the speed of backups. So using those protocol accelerators, we can actually speed the backup time. So you can see the difference between the average full backup. So green is the QoreStor target and less numbers are better. So it can actually reduce the speed of an average for backup. But also, the difference in the incremental backup as well is significant. So if you're running incremental forever technologies into storage then you're going to see a speed improvement there. But also when you come to do things like synthetic falls, QoreStor actually supports the block cloning technology as well. So if you want to utilize that as your synthetic full piece with QoreStor then you can do that. So again, you're going to be reducing the whole data movement piece as well as that block cloning is happening at the storage level. OK, backup's one thing, what about restore speed? Now there's a couple of things that we have to think about restore speed as well. So how quickly can you get things back. And there's an interesting piece here as well. So if we're looking at the restore technology, what we're looking at here is on the left hand side, a full virtual machine recovery compared to normal storage with a local RAID versus QoreStor. Now a lot of people have said in the past that restoring data from deduplicated solutions takes longer. Well, here's the proof that that's not necessarily so. We actually do some kind of very, very clever restoration algorithms inside QoreStor as well. So we make sure that the data we actually store isn't too fragmented, so it allows us to actually read things out quicker. And also we've enhanced that further if you actually utilize our performance tier. Now the performance tier inside QoreStor, you can actually have different disks if you so wish. So if you wanted to have say, your really important things for recovery, I'm going to put some flash disk in there for that. And that's my performance tier inside QoreStor. And I'll have spinning disk for other things, you can do that too. And then once you get into that high speed restore tier, you're then thinking about, OK, flash is fast but we've still got all the dedupe piece underneath as well. And that's where, inside the performance tier, we've added those extra technologies around reading data sets back. Another big impact of that is that, from within QoreStor, you can now actually do instant recovery from deduplicated data sets. Now this has been a long standing problem. And as you can see, if we look at the graph on the right hand side, this is the instant recovery IOPS performance requirements. So you can see here QoreStor actually provides better IOPS than just a standard RAID with storage on attached to that Veeam server. So from that point of view, you don't actually have any restore issues either. So we sped up back up, we can improve your restore performance, you've got replication technologies, you've got cloud tiering inside here. We've got objects immutability as well, so that will work with Veeam 12 and on onto Veeam 13 as well. So you can use their new director object backups and send the data straight into QoreStor. So if we look at that from a quick summary, let's have a quick summary around this now. What does QoreStor deliver for you? Well, we're all about protecting your data. At the end of the day, that's what it's about. That's why you do backups, so you can restore, about protecting your data, and also your company's reputation, getting things back up and running quickly. We're going to reduce the storage usage purely with a deduplication and compression technologies that we have. They're pretty advanced. There's over 10 years worth of R&D inside that technology. And we can actually store that data, reduce the storage footprint, and reduce the size of cost associated with that storage as well. We're going to help complete a backup strategy for you, that 3-2-1 strategy you might want to do. Or we can give you that through either the replication piece for two copies or if you want longer term retention piece, you can actually use the cloud tier as well. So it helps you to complete that strategy that you're looking for. And then saving you money. This one is always an interesting conversation to have because what we can look at in terms of savings over a longer period of time, specifically with cloud storage, then your return over say three or five years can be quite significant, anywhere up to like 60 to 65% cost reduction in that cloud storage cost, just that alone. And then, of course, you've got the cost reduction of having a ton of storage that you're buying all the time, that you would have to refresh every three years. The nice thing with QoreStor is that if you have to refresh your hardware every three years, if you're running it on hardware that is, you can move your license to the new hardware. You don't have to buy the software piece all over again, unlike other deduplication appliances where you have to buy the whole thing. So your return on investment over three or five years is going to be a lot better as well. So let's think about the next piece it's going to give you, that whole complicated piece around cloud storage. This makes it so simple to go and use. So you can set up QoreStor to go and talk to the cloud solution of your choice, you are not locked into any particular vendor. So that, again, gives you choice to go and source the one that you want to work with. Now what was that going to do for you? OK, that makes that nice and easy. We actually have, inside QoreStor, a dropdown for all of our providers that we support, put in your credentials, and you're connected. And for restoration of data, it's all transparent, remember. So you ask Veeam to restore something, QoreStor works out where all those blocks are. If they're in locally, or in cloud, or a mixture of both, which is usually the normal, we're going to get that data back for you very, very quickly, very simply. And that is all automated and transparent. So once you set up the policy, that is it. That's all you have to do. It sits there and does its thing, it moves data out. If you need data back, it pulls data back for you. So it simplifies the whole piece around looking after your cloud storage. And it will ensure that your data goes up there, is deduplicated, compressed, and encrypted. And that comes back to one of those two things that I said about ransomware, that you want to prevent people reading your backup data. Because the data is encrypted, on top of that, it's already deduplicated. So the way we store that as blocks of data in cloud, and also locally on QoreStor, it's pretty much unreadable. It's just a bunch of numbers. So it's very, very hard to actually take the raw data set out from a cloud storage. For example, if it's compromised, they're going to copy that out, but they won't be able to do much with it. Now on top of that, if we look at the encryption piece, we start with 256-bit. But we also have a patented technology that allows us to actually take some unique data, that is unknown to you or I, and we will then use that to encrypt the passphrase that you put in. And we'll change that unique data every seven days. So that every seven days, the data you store out in cloud is encrypted in a different way. So if somebody is trying to brute force the encryption, they're going to have to start all over again. Plus they're going to have to piece everything together from the deduplication data sets. It's going to be hard. So this is one of the things that enables you to actually utilize cloud storage in a cost effective and secure way. And then we come into the restore piece, as mentioned a little bit earlier about simplifying this. Being transparent, we're going to accelerate that restoration for you from cloud. So it's going to be able to pull data back very, very quickly for you. We'll utilize local blocks, if they match the request. Doesn't matter where they're stored, or what backup they come from, if they match the blocks then we're going to use those. And then we pull out just what we need from cloud. So if you're with a cloud provider that actually has high egress costs, it's going to reduce those as well because you're going to be pulling out small blocks of data. And then we have the object based immutability, the one that everybody wants to talk about these days. You're actually securing that data set by the utilization of Veeam's direct backup to object storage. And we support that. We support the locking mechanisms. You can set that up ready in QoreStor, add it into Veeam as a repository, and away you go. It's that simple. You don't have to rip anything else out. You don't have to replace anything. You can run the QoreStor alongside what you already have and go and try it out. And that allows you to actually go and download the solution as well. And I'm going to give you a web address to go and check out some more information in a moment. So as we now look back on this, QoreStor store is a true software defined solution. You can install it on your own hardware. You can run it in a virtual machine. We'll even give you images to do that, if you want to make life really easy for yourself. There are images available for you in the Amazon marketplace as well as the Azure marketplace, if you want to replicate the cloud. All of the technology that we have inside QoreStor is all built in. It is all included in the license, there are no hidden extras. Also QoreStor is an award winning technology too. So we've actually been recognized by several third parties out there, that this is a solution that meets the needs for now and into the future as well. So where do you go to learn a bit more? Well, you can just hop across to quest.com/veeam. And you can go and find out more there. There's a scan me thing there. It should take you to the QoreStor page as well, if you want to find out more there too. So as I say, you can download this as a free trial. The free trial comes with a terabyte of storage usage for free, for life as well. So if you want to keep it running with a terabyte, or if you've got a small installation, you can go and use QoreStor store on us, go and utilize that. And you can have that for as long as you would like. So that brings us around to the end of the presentation portion of today's presentation. And I'm going to quickly ask Katie, have we had any questions come through, Katie? Thank you, Adrian. We do have a couple of questions. The first, can I use multiple cloud storage providers at the same time? Oh, that's a good question. With QoreStor store, yes you can. We do actually support two cloud providers at the same time. You can set up two cloud tiers. And if you were using one before then you can, if you wanted to swap to another one, you can add in the second one, start sending data there, and then start retiring data off the previous. So yes, they can be Azure and AWS, or Wasabi and Backblaze, or Backblaze and Azure. The choice is yours. Thank you. We have another one. What's the average cost reduction of cloud storage, say, in S3? Well, that's a very good question. It does prevent-- obviously, the vendor, as well, that's supplying the cloud storage, the cost associated with that. But on average, you're looking at reducing the storage by like 60 to 65% in terms of cost. So that is significant, if you've got a large amount of data and you're using-- say your corpus decided, we only put things into Amazon. Then, obviously, that's one of the more expensive ones out there. They have great service and solutions. And the egress costs are going to be something of interest, as well, because you've got to budget for those if things go wrong. And also the storage costs. So one of the things that they've also introduced now is their intelligent storage tiering. And we will be supporting that in our next release. So again, you'll be able to save costs there as it automates movement to colder storage, or deduplicated and compressed, and then it's going to actually save you even more money on top of that as well. OK, thank you. How fast can you make recovery? I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that, Katie. What was that? How fast can you make recovery? Well, that's an interesting question. It's as fast as you put underneath QoreStor. We support the instant recovery technology from Veeam. So if you want to have a faster box, give it more resource and it will be faster. We've seen people spin up virtual machines in a few seconds if you're running on flash storage. We've seen people doing it in a couple of minutes. The key thing here is that it's not hours or days even though the data is still deduplicated. So we have those really nice readahead algorithms that help us actually push that data forward. OK. Can QoreStor act like cloud storage? Am I able to send the data to via S3? Yes, you can. So that's where that object container technology, it will present itself as an S3 target. So inside Veeam you can actually go and utilize their director object as if you were sending it to cloud. You can send it to QoreStor instead. And it's completely supported by Veeam doing that and will still deduplicate, and compress, and encrypt, and all the other nice things that QoreStor does. OK, we just have a couple more. Can I use faster hardware to improve speed? Yes, there's a simple answer to that. Yes, you can if you're creating a hardware solution, if you make the network bigger, if you make the storage faster, RAM and CPU, you can have the supportive requirement. If you make the underlying infrastructure underneath it, the storage piece, the network piece, if you make that faster, QoreStor will run faster. It's as simple as that. OK, and then one last question. What identity management options do you have? Oh, that's a great question. In the days of ransomware, we all talk about identity management, and lease privilege, and all of those nice things. So there are a few things inside QoreStor that are quite nice. A lot of applications, that when you download as a solution like this, come with a default user and default password. We don't do that with QoreStor. So there are no default passwords. That's it. You have to set those up as you install it. So straight away you get that. There is a user and groups configuration as well. So you can utilize Active Directory for that internally, if you so wish, for access for other people. And also access for protocols as well. So again, you could use different service accounts with very strong passwords for access. You can limit them to IPs and whatever you want to do around that piece. And the really nice thing is that if you want to logically separate your backup storage from your Active Directory, or LDAP server, or whatever it is you're using as a directory service, if you want to logically separate that in terms of accessing the user interface, we also support the SAML based multi-factor authentication. So if you wanted to say, oh, I don't know, go and hook it up with OneLogin, or Okta, or somebody else, or using a different account completely from anything else you're using inside the business, that's another hurdle for any kind of attacker, or anybody that wants to do bad things with QoreStor, they've then got to get over that. So you can actually have multi-factor authentication done in that way as well. So again, it helps secure that front end. OK, great. Well that was the last question that we had come through. So thank you so much for all of this information today. It was a great presentation. And then just a reminder to everybody, a link to the recording of this session will be emailed out within the next week. So thank you again for joining us and have a great rest of your day. Thank you.