Long-Range Forecast: Disruptive Supercloud

By Gavin Sutton, Head of Marketing

If disruptive technologies are your thing, then don’t go anywhere! As cloud has become a key element within a company’s IT strategy, customers have found themselves facing a multitude of challenges. But fear not, Vawlt is changing the game in the cloud storage space, and in this blog we’ll dive into how Vawlt addresses these cloud challenges as well as discuss how this technology works.

The Challenges of Traditional Cloud Storage Providers

The dominant cloud storage providers—AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure—offer great solutions, but they also come with their own set of challenges.

Many cloud providers make it difficult for customers to migrate their data to another platform without high costs or complex processes. This vendor lock-in and lack of flexibility restricts businesses from optimising their storage strategy.

It’s also very difficult for customers to manage cloud costs as these providers often have complex pricing models and customers find themselves suddenly facing unexpected egress fees, making budget management a challenge for IT teams.

While data security and compliance are high on the agenda for your customers, managing encryption, redundancy, and sovereignty across a single provider can be challenging.

Finally, while a lot of providers promise high uptime, outages and latency issues still occur, impacting business operations and accessibility.

The Supercloud: Distributed Storage Technology

There is an inevitable need for change in this space, and Vawlt is breathing fresh air into it with the supercloud, unifying multiple cloud environments including public, private, and hybrid, into a single solution. Instead of relying on a single provider, Vawlt supercloud can leverage multiple cloud platforms simultaneously to deliver cloud-scale, resilient, secure, and cost-effective solutions. Vawlt’s supercloud transforms how your customers can manage data, providing the flexibility of multi-cloud with the simplicity and security of a unified storage solution.

How Vawlt’s Technology Works

Vawlt.io is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that dynamically distributes data across multiple cloud providers. It functions as an intelligent layer between your customers and cloud storage providers, optimising data placement based on security, performance, and cost efficiency.

Distributed Storage: Data is distributed in multiple clouds simultaneously, creating the ‘supercloud’. Your customer’s data is available even if some of the clouds are down, if they lose or corrupt the data, and also in case of a ransomware attack. Some of the techniques used by Vawlt include erasure coding and Byzantine-quorum systems for both dependability and cost-effectiveness. Vawlt’s architecture takes advantage of the selected providers that have the best performance at any moment, to always deliver the best outcome.
Data-Centric Architecture: Customer data never goes through Vawlt’s servers, it travels directly between the customer’s premises and the storage clouds. This increases independence and removes operational bottlenecks. Performance, availability, and security of the data plane are never compromised, even if the Vawlt server is down or overloaded. Vawlt’s servers only handle users and cloud accounts, billing, and data volumes configuration.
Improved Data Security: Vawlt applies a proprietary zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption protocol to your data, assuring that only the owner has access to file contents. All data is encrypted and signed (for privacy and integrity) at client-side, and the keys are never sent to Vawlt’s servers unencrypted. Vawlt works with a combined set of state-of-the-art algorithms: Asymmetric Encryption (RSA-2048), Symmetric Encryption (AES-256), Cryptographic Hashing (SHA-256), Password Hashing (PBKDF2), Secret Sharing (Shamir’s).
Multi-cloud effortlessly: Customers don’t even have to manage the cloud accounts. They can pick the ones they want to use out of a list of more than ten cloud providers and take advantage of their diversity (e.g., price, locations, etc.) for their own benefit with zero management effort.

Vawlt Supercloud: Super by name, Super by nature.

Customers who leverage Vawlt Supercloud can unlock several critical benefits:

Enhanced Security: Data fragmentation and encryption provide a higher level of security compared to storing data on a single cloud provider.
Resilience & Redundancy: Storing data across multiple clouds improves availability and ensures data integrity, even in the event of a provider outage.
Cost Optimisation: Vawlt’s intelligent data placement reduces unnecessary costs and eliminates vendor-specific fees, leading to more predictable expenses.
Compliance and Data Sovereignty: Customers can meet regulatory requirements by controlling where and how their data is stored across different regions.
Freedom from Vendor Lock-in: Businesses gain full control over their data, with the ability to switch providers without downtime and reducing costly, time-consuming and error-prone migration issues.

The Outlook

It’s time to embrace the Supercloud! Your customers have a litany of headaches when it comes to cloud providers, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Vawlt offers a cost-effective, secure and simple to use multi-cloud solution that can address their key pain points. The future of cloud storage is here, it’s decentralised, secure, and smarter than ever. Are your customers ready to discover how Vawlt can transform their cloud storage strategy?

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