Cloud infrastructure has become the de-facto standard for hosting and delivering applications over the past 20 years. This move to the cloud offers tremendous benefits but also makes the lives of enterprise infrastructure and security teams much more complicated. Unlike on-prem environments, the cloud is a collection of services and storage types (virtual machines with block storage, object storage, elastic file systems, databases, data lakes, and data warehouses) and has many elastic and ephemeral components. Its dynamic and noisy nature makes it extremely challenging to catalog, govern, and protect.
Traditional backup methods often fall short when it comes to cloud environments. They are unaware of data context, rely on manual, error-prone resource tagging, and use costly general-purpose snapshots that do not allow finding and restoring specific files or database records when required.
Founders Ofir Ehrlich, Gonen Stein, and Ron Kimchi, are uniquely positioned to solve these challenges. They founded CloudEndure (a pioneer in Cloud Disaster Recovery and Migration, acquired by AWS) and later built two native AWS services: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS Application Migration Service, scaling the business to $1B+ and supporting some of the world’s largest enterprises. They saw first-hand how difficult it was for enterprises to understand and protect their cloud environments and to do so cost-efficiently. They decided to put all their insights and years of experience in the space into building Eon: the world’s first, cloud-native, backup solution.
Eon continuously maps, groups, and classifies resources across various cloud infrastructure services (e.g., block, file and object storage, elastic file systems, databases, and data warehouses) and automatically recommends and manages backup policies and data retention periods to meet business and compliance requirements, keeping backed up data for just the right period. Borrowing from cyber security terminology – we refer to this as ‘Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM)’. Data is backed up into purpose-built, globally searchable backup storage located in a cloud account and region of choice. Customers can backup and restore data across multiple cloud providers, search and restore individual files, and run SQL queries to retrieve select database records across all backed-up data sources without having to provision full servers and databases, finally making backups useful.
Eon is still a fairly young company, but it is moving at incredible speed, and early customer reactions are essentially, “This is magic!”.
We believe much of the cloud will be backed up autonomously by Eon in years to come, with backed-up data finally being made accessible and useful. We are incredibly proud to partner with them on this journey.
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