Cyberattack resilience starts with an intelligent, siloed backup strategy. ExaGrid combines performance, security, and simplicity to ensure data recovery without compromising business continuity.
Why is traditional backup no longer enough?
In today’s digital environment, data is any organization’s most valuable asset, but it is also the preferred target of cyberattacks. In recent years, ransomware has gone from being a one-off threat to becoming a systemic problem for companies of all sizes and sectors, with the key to an attack of this type being to ensure that data is protected and inaccessible to any attacker.
Attacks such as those of LockBit, Clop or BlackCat have put critical infrastructures and global companies in check, paralyzing operations for days or even weeks.
The question is no longer whether a company will be attacked, but when and how it will respond when it happens. Having protected data is no longer enough, and we need to be able to restore it as quickly as possible and with guarantees.
How do we do it?
The traditional backup approach—storing copies on disk or in the public cloud—is no longer enough. Many copy environments are compromised because they are always connected to the network or share credentials with the production environment. When ransomware goes into action, it encrypts both data in production and backups, leaving the company without a reliable recovery path; it also encrypts the production environments, equipment, etc.
Added to this are other challenges:
The Backup Window
Increasingly reduced.
The exponential growth of data
Without a commensurate increase in capacity or budget.
Pressure to reduce restoration times
(RTO) in the event of an incident.
The complexity of managing hybrid environments
Where local and cloud loads coexist.
ExaGrid: an architecture designed to resist
In this context, ExaGrid has emerged as one of the smartest and most efficient solutions for data protection and defense against ransomware. Unlike other systems, its proposal is based on a simple but powerful concept: a tiered backup architecture (Tiered Backup Storage) that physically separates the backup environment from the network-accessible environment.
The result: a non-network-facing backup that is impossible to modify or delete from the outside, even if the attacker has compromised administrator credentials or production systems.
What makes ExaGrid different
1. Tiered Storage
- Recent data is stored in a quick-access “Landing Zone”, allowing for immediate restores and efficient deduplication.
- Long-term copies are automatically moved to a secure retention level, isolated from external access, protected from deletion or encryption.
2.Immutable retention and adjustable retention time
Retained copies are immutable for the configured period, preventing their deletion or modification even by human error.
3. Horizontal scalability
ExaGrid grows by adding appliances in parallel, maintaining consistent performance without the need to resize or replace hardware.
4. Ultra-fast recovery
By not relying on deduplicated volumes to restore, recovery performance is up to 20 times faster than traditional solutions.
5. Integration with major backup software vendors
Compatible with Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, HYCU, Nakivo, and more.
Comparison with other approaches
| Feature | Public Cloud Backup | Traditional appliance | ExaGrid |
| Ransomware isolation | Low | Medium | High (Backup Disconnected) |
| Predictable long-term cost | Variable (per use) | High (vertical expansion) | Horizontally scalable |
| Speed of Restoration | Media | High | Very High (Landing Zone) |
| Immutability | Depends on the provider | Limited | Guaranteed |
| Multi-software integration | Partial | Variable | Wide compatibility |
Artificial Intelligence and Data Resilience
The rise of AI applied to cybersecurity is also transforming the world of backup. Increasingly, platforms are integrating algorithms that detect anomalous patterns in the deduplication rate or in the behavior of data.
In this sense, solutions such as ExaGrid – integrated into modern backup ecosystems such as Veeam or Commvault – allow you to combine your isolated physical architecture with AI-based early detection systems, offering a double layer of protection:
- Prevention: by detecting suspicious behavior.
- Mitigation: By recovering immutable and disconnected copies.
Unikal’s role: accompanying companies in their resilience strategy
At Unikal Tech Partners, within our Cloud, Systems and Networking Business Line, we help organizations design protection, recovery and business continuity strategies based on modern architectures such as ExaGrid.
Our approach combines:
We believe that data resilience is not just a technical issue, but a strategic decision. Protecting critical information with robust and isolated solutions such as ExaGrid not only minimizes the impact of an attack, but also reduces reputational and operational risk, reinforcing the trust of customers, employees and partners.
Conclusion: A Step Closer to Traditional Backup
Modern cybersecurity requires assuming that attack is inevitable, but data loss is not. With technologies like ExaGrid, organizations can ensure that a clean, secure, and accessible copy is always available, no matter what’s happening in the production environment.
In a world where data is the new gold, having a disconnected, immutable, and fast-to-recover backup makes the difference between a temporary outage and an irreparable crisis. And at Unikal Tech Partners we are ready to accompany you on that path.
