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Simplify Operational Complexity

Managing and securing your enterprise backup doesn’t have to be painful

Simplicity at your fingertips…

Organizations of all sizes grapple with the complexities of data growth, management, and protection. Enterprise backup doesn’t have to be costly, frustrating, or challenging. With the right solution, you can enhance your data protection, maximize value, streamline daily management, and simplify backup operations.

Challenges in data backup and protection management

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Cyber attack detection and recovery

Ransomware monitoring and analysis

Backup operations

Hardware and software management

Data governance and auditing

Capacity planning

Software currency

Cyber attack impact assessment

Dynamic capacity management

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Meet Compass, your newest team member.

Saving you time, money, and resources.

To experience the impact of Compass is to truly grasp how it automates both software and hardware tasks. By eliminating up to 90% of backup operations, Compass frees backup administrators to focus on higher-value projects, significantly reducing overall costs.

Capabilities

Simplicity | Security | Automation

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Single Pane of Glass

Single, unified experience for orchestration of multicloud backup infrastructure and operations across on-premises data centers, remote offices, and public clouds. All through one pane of glass.

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Security & Cyber Attack Detection

Monitors various metrics, conditions, and events in your backup environment and analyzes for indications of ransomware or other security attacks. Compass will immeditaley alert you to any anomalies, enhancing your ability to mitigate potential threats promptly.

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Automated Analytics

Compass delivers a diverse set of capacity, performance, health, and security analytics. Many of these analytics are self-optimizing, allowing Compass to adjust its operations and infrastructure based on detected conditions, behaviors, and events across its entire system.

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Multitenant Management

Access and manage a dynamically modifiable organizational matrix, viewing and tracking suborganizations as a group or independently to examine factors such as chargebacks, reporting, and resource utilization.

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Machine Learning

Built-in Machine Learning goes beyond industry standards. Compass offers dynamic authorization control that automatically responds to cyber threats and events and health remediation for both hardware and software IT resources.

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Data Governance

Comprehensive data protection and data governance for a company’s entire backup landscape and operations.
From the moment data is ingested into Compass to when it is deleted based on enforced retention policies, Compass applies the highest levels of data discipline.

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Automated Reporting

Swiftly respond to changes in backup data with automated alerts and reports. Compass ensures you stay ahead by notifying you of any anomalies, enhancing your ability to mitigate potential threats promptly.

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Automated Software Updates

Compass customers no longer worry about hardware and software installs, configurations, monitoring, cyber hardening, or patch maintenance for the backup server.

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Compass Migrator™

Compass Migrator enables you to easily remove aging backup and storage technologies from your environments, reducing investment in obsolete skills and giving you greater control over your data.

Download the deep dive into Analytics-Driven Automation in Cobalt Iron Compass

“Cobalt Iron Compass provides the broader set of core backup and recovery features that enterprises expect and demand. It simultaneously delivers the new set of anti-ransomware features enterprises want.”

— DCIG

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