The average age of the leading backup and recovery software product seems to be approximately 20 years, according to one industry veteran. Yet tech has changed dramatically over the last two decades, making significant advancements in cloud computing and the proliferation of modern applications. These advancements, and the challenges that came with them, have created the necessity for a commensurate update to recovery support.

Peter Smails (pictured), VP of marketing and business development at Datos IO Inc., is working to fill this need with RecoverX 2.5, the latest release of the company’s core product. “It’s all about increased flexibility and new capabilities for the multi-cloud environment,” he said. The innovative data management service offers a unique cloud recovery solution to customers.

Smails paid a visit to theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and spoke with host John Furrier (@furrier) at SiliconANGLE’s Palo Alto studio in California to talk about RecoverX 2.5, and the new features this release is providing to optimize the cloud experience.

Helping enterprise become data aware

The latest rollout of Datos IO’s flagship product is focused primarily around advanced data recovery, giving businesses more awareness and agility in recovering specific data points. With its innovation in queryable recovery, RecoverX 2.5 offers customers the opportunity to search by keyword and times frames, enabling them to capture only the data they need. This level of granularity allows for data masking by customizable criteria, simplifying GDPR compliance for businesses as well.

The release also streamlines local backup and recovery while maintaining global data consistency, and ensures a greater level of security for businesses in their data migrations — a high priority for Datos IO. “These are not science experiments. These are core business applications that mainstream enterprises are running, and they need to be protected,” Smails said.

RecoverX 2.5 aims to offer the highest level of utility to all its customers by operating as an application centric data management tool. “The database is the foundation of any application you create. We integrate there, which makes us agnostic to the underlying infrastructure,” Smails said. With customers running next generation applications on-prem and in the cloud, that level of flexibility is key.

The push toward cloud and a proliferation of new data sources is clearly the driving force behind Datos IO’s offering, and Smail’s is confident RecoverX 2.5 will continue to innovate and fill tech’s growing need for the foreseeable future.

“The world’s moving from a scale up world to an elastic compute, elastic storage model. …Traditional data management doesn’t work in the new modern IT stack. … That’s the market we’re disrupting,” he concluded.

Watch the complete interview below.

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