IBM and Cobalt Iron are launching Secure Automated Backup with Compass for IBM Cloud customers—a major expansion of the companies’ joint commitment to deliver modern, automated, and highly secure data protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Building on the strong adoption of Secure Automated Backup with Compass for IBM Power Virtual Server, this new offering brings the same proven, enterprise-grade protection to an even broader set of workloads running in IBM Cloud and on premises.
With this launch, customers gain a seamless, fully managed Backup-as-a-Service experience that dramatically simplifies backup operations and accelerates cloud adoption, according to the vendors.
Secure Automated Backup with Compass eliminates the complexity traditionally associated with backup infrastructure. Through the IBM Cloud catalog, customers can now:
- Deploy in minutes using a frictionless, self-service experience
- Eliminate backup infrastructure with a fully managed BaaS model
- Automate protection policies across workloads and environments
- Gain instant visibility through Compass’s intuitive management interface
With no hardware to manage and no manual configuration required, organizations can begin protecting workloads quickly—and scale seamlessly as their environment grows.
This new IBM Cloud BaaS offering brings a unified data protection experience across a wide range of platforms, including:
- Windows, Linux on x86, macOS, AIX, IBM i and Linux on Power
- IBM Power, x86, and VMware
- Db2, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and more
Because Compass is built for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, customers can protect data not only within IBM Cloud but also across on-premises infrastructure and leading public clouds—including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud—all managed seamlessly through a single management interface.
Security is at the core of this new offering. Secure Automated Backup with Compass combines the advanced capabilities of Cobalt Iron with the industry-leading resilience of IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), leveraging:
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- Immutability to defend against ransomware
- Erasure coding for durability
- Secure access controls and IAM integration
- Zero Access architecture for protected operations
- Automated compliance, retention, and audit trails
The result is a fully protected environment designed to safeguard critical workloads against ransomware, tampering, and operational errors.
“With this launch, customers can now safeguard workloads across IBM Cloud, other public clouds, and on-premises data centers around the world—all through a single, simplified experience,” said Greg Tevis, VP of strategy at Cobalt Iron.
Secure Automated Backup with Compass is now instantly available across all IBM Cloud data centers worldwide, with regions including Dallas, Washington DC, Toronto, Montreal, São?Paulo, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka, Chennai and more.
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