With the internet and data playing a major role in every organization, data security has also had a growing importance. It has also gained increased importance due to the rise of ransom ware attacks and data breaches. For the hackers, large enterprises are clear treasure troves of data, but since all organizations are turning to digitization, even the small and medium businesses run the risk of data breaches.
Featuring for the Cover Story of The Business Fame’s issue of “The Most Recommended Cyber Security Solution Providers in 2021″ is Atempo, a company that is helping companies to preserve data ecosystems effectively.
The Company-
If oil was the most precious resource of the 20th century economy, digital data is without doubt the most precious in our 21st century economies. Creating data is about creating and exploiting value. This strategic asset is stored and processed in systems comprised of sophisticated, complex and diverse applications and storages.
At Atempo, they see the whole as a permanent mutation, much like a natural ecosystem; a concept which seems more appropriate than that of the environment so frequently used in IT. In much the same way as a natural ecosystem, the quality of a data ecosystem is measured by its capacity to evolve over time, maintaining equilibrium and resisting outside aggression, rapidly recovering.
Atempo is a leading independent European-based software vendor with a global presence.
“We provide solutions to protect, store, move and recover all your data.”
Present on every continent, Atempo data management solutions preserve data ecosystems for mid-sized and corporate organizations. Atempo protects endpoints, applications, servers and large storages including the cloud. Atempo has a reputation for high-level technical expertise in protecting, migrating and orchestrating very large data volumes (Bank & Finance, Life Sciences, Research, Industries, Media & Entertainment).
“Preserving data ecosystems” … Atempo’s new baseline defends this concept. It shines a light on the paradox of the infinite yet fragile resources that represent your company’s data. It underlines the vital importance of data backup and the importance of data movement which ensures adequate oxygenation for the organization.
It also encourages us to behave responsibly with the resources that comprise our data ecosystems: human, material, financial, energy.
Company DNA-
“We love a challenge; finding the “right solution” which does the job in an ideal world, no frills, no bells and whistles which means more time for our customers.”
Freedom for your Data (and your Business!)
A credo they chose to run with around ten years ago with their archiving solutions: a company needs to keep control of its data and have secure storage with open non-proprietary formats. This is why Atempo designs solutions for vendor agnostic environments. The customers are free to choose.
Close Ties to Storage Industry Manufacturers
The team’s desire to work closely with key players in the storage industry to offer advanced and powerful features whatever your business needs.
We Talk Storage and We Talk Data
Atempo teams are “good storage technicians” meaning we talk the same language as our clients.
Atempo’s portfolio of integrated software solutions includes: –
- protection and recovery of critical servers including high volume virtual environments,
- continuous data protection of workstations and laptops,
- long-term file archiving,
- petascale NAS backups to many storage targets including object storage, cloud, tape, VTL…
- NAS synchronization and NAS to NAS data copying
The Products and Services-
Atempo has a complete range of backup solutions for almost all data protection and data management requirements – from physical and virtual machine backup and recovery, endpoint file backup to large NAS protection.
Their flagship data protection technology, Miria, addresses the needs of very large storages with millions of files and petabyte-scale unstructured data volumes using a highly efficient, vendor agnostic backup approach. Moving, protecting and exploiting these very large data sets are undoubtedly the biggest challenge the economy will face over the next decade.
Atempo also commercializes two additional solutions:
- Lina – a continuous data protection solution for workstations, file servers and laptops.
- Tina – a powerful backup and data preservation solutions for virtual and physical servers, and applications.
More than 25 years of proven technology and experience already mean that they stand out from the other companies ‘offerings and in addition to this, there are some points to highlight:
- Disruptive technology mindset
- Open innovation which ensures our solutions perfectly fit our customers’ needs
- Sound engineering experience with an average of 14 years in the storage sector per developer
- Strong technological and strategic partnerships within our ecosystem (storage vendors, distributors …)
Support teams dedicated to complete customer satisfaction based on Atempo’s Customer Care Program. Customer satisfaction is measured on a weekly basis and the rate remains above 94%. The yearly staff turnover of our support team is less than 5%. Our support team is a united and supportive group that has worked together for a long time. They have a better understanding of their customers, their activities, their technical constraints and their IT architectures. This helps us to provide the best quality of service that our customers deserve.
“One of the biggest strengths of Atempo is the choice that we give to our customers, in terms of compatibility and data storage destination. We fit into their existing infrastructure and provide the solution to get the job done well and fast. Our business is to manage petabytes and more of critical data,” asserts Luc d’Urso, CEO of Atempo.
Atempo commercializes three variants of their Miria platform:
- Miria for Migration – Atempo has many customers who fairly frequently change or upgrade their NAS. They require Atempo’s services and software to transfer their data without any downtime or data loss during the process. Rapid and secure, Miria for Migration cuts the time to switch storages to a minimum. One example of a migration project involved migrating almost 3 PB of data and approximately 650 million files for a US Defense provider. The task consisted of migrating data between two different vendor storages with complex clustered nodes. The final incremental synchronization could not exceed 48 hours. Atempo managed and implemented the whole project in under 3 weeks.
- Miria for Backup – Let’s cite the example of the University of Lausanne (UNIL), a major Swiss education and research pole. UNIL research staff generates billions of small and large files. In total, UNIL needs to back up data from two replicated Isilon NAS to an EMC object storage. Miria and its scalable data moving capacity today manages several petabytes of data. Rapid backup times and conservation of access rights information are vital to this customer. Miria covers all bases and ensures file-level recovery as well as disaster recovery in a single tool. No other data movement company was able to come close to Atempo’s response.
- Miria for Archiving – Free up space in the most efficient and expensive primary storage and preserve digital assets over time. Miria for Archiving addresses archiving needs of all sizes up to exabyte levels. Atempo recently completed a major project with DiRAC (Distributed Research Utilizing Advanced Computing), a British supercomputing facility for theoretical modelling and HPC-based research in particle physics, astronomy, cosmology, and nuclear physics. The project was to archive several petabytes of HPC (High-Performance Computing) data for their UK research departments.
Exploring New Avenues- Cyber Security-
The COVID crisis is forcing many organizations to resort to teleworking to maintain their business activity. But, in teleworking as in nomadism, the temporary or permanent relocation of the workforce brings real challenges in terms of data security.
With teleworking, security breaches are more frequent, employee data is more exposed, and the risk of cyber-contamination increases. Cybercrime is taking advantage of this unprecedented situation to lock out and corrupt data especially on laptops and desktops.
With its complete product portfolio dedicated to data protection, Atempo helps organizations to protect their business against ransomware attacks by providing sound backup for data.
At the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic, Atempo offered its customers free Lina license extensions to protect additional workstations and laptops deployed for home working and then, joined the OVHcloud Open Solidarity initiative ensuring all professional organizations free access to Lina Cloud Backup platform, allowing home worker laptops and desktops fully protection.
Luc d’Urso- Leading the Way-
Graduate of ESCAE (Business Administration School), Luc d’Urso began his career at the European headquarters of Alcoa (Aluminum Company of America), based in Geneva (Switzerland). In the Marketing Department, he worked in the Aerospace and Armament markets. An entrepreneur at heart, Luc then pursued his career in the sports industry where he developed the Mistral windsurfing brands, the Reflex water ski, and the Lacroix snowboard brands, before co-founding in 1997, the telecom operator Future Telecom (MVNO) which he sold to SFR in 2007. In 2010, he founded Wooxo, French software solutions dedicated to the protection of computer data. In August 2017, in partnership with Cyprien Roy, he acquired ATEMPO, the European leader in data protection, from the American group ASG Technologies, and then acquired Synerway.
