Clumio’s secure enterprise BaaS holistic solution that crosses environments: Poojan Kumar

Clumio provides a secure backup as a service for enterprises that reduces the cost and replaces the complexity of managing data across all clouds with an authentic approach to SaaS. Clumio has re-imagined enterprise backup and recovery, taking full advantage of the scale, economics, and elasticity of the public cloud to give you a new and game changing backup experience.

Poojan Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder, Clumio, tells us more. Excerpts from an interview:

Poojan Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder, Clumio

DQ: What are the activities that will be led by the Clumio R&D center?

Poojan Kumar: The Clumio Research and Development Center in India will not just act as support for the global team. It has its own charter and will drive front-end innovation and research to build cloud solutions from the ground up. The engineering teams will play an integral part in product development and building best-in-class technology solutions.

Key examples of the work already done with the India team’s support include the recent addition of Microsoft 365 to its secure backup as a service. This made Clumio the industry’s first private, public and SaaS enterprise data protection service on a single platform.

The team also built the REST API platform for Clumio – it delivers on the promise of what REST architecture was supposed to solve for the internet era, applied to an enterprise domain such as backup, offered as a service. The team has also, in parallel, built strong foundations in simplifying user experience by constructing simple and intuitive user interfaces for several crosscutting features implemented by their state-of-the-art engineers from across the globe.

DQ: How are you positioning back-up as a service (BaaS)?

Poojan Kumar: Clumio backup-as-a-service replaces the complexity of managing data across all clouds with an authentic approach to SaaS. Regardless of where data is managed, created or stored—whether it’s in a cloud, a hypervisor, a database, or from another SaaS solution, enterprises will have a unified view of all of your backup data for the first time.

DQ: How are you redefining cloud data protection?

Poojan Kumar: Clumio enables enterprises to make their all cloud vision a reality so that they can manage and protect their dispersed data — wherever that data resides. Companies can reap the full scalability, flexibility and elasticity benefits of the cloud – without additional hardware or software for data management and protection. Clumio’s secure enterprise backup-as-a-service is a holistic solution that crosses environments, eliminating the need to create a different set of tools, workflows, and policies for each cloud. The result: enterprises can focus on more strategic aspects of the business.

DQ: What are the new cloud solutions that you are working on?

Poojan Kumar: Recently, Clumio announced data protection for the Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) workloads, eliminating cost, risk and compliance-related barriers to cloud adoption — specifically, the migration of mission-critical apps to the cloud.

Clumio’s service, the first data protection service for long-term retention of AWS native services, also orchestrates operational recovery snapshots for free. The company continues to advance SaaS backup for the all cloud enterprise, delivering a seamless public cloud backup solution and enabling companies to get to the cloud faster.

Clumio’s enterprise backup-as-a-service consolidates the operational recovery, backup and compliance requirements – all within a predictable cost model. Clumio includes snapshot orchestration for free, air-gap snapshot protection and long-term retention, translating to secure and compliant data protection at a substantially lower cost.

This announcement for AWS comes after Clumio’s recent addition of Microsoft 365 to its enterprise backup as a service — the first enterprise data protection service in the market to protect private cloud, public cloud and SaaS on a single platform. Clumio’s AWS and Microsoft 365 data protection “firsts” empower enterprises to map to an “all cloud” model efficiently and effectively, expediting innovation in the process.

DQ: How will SaaS services in the public cloud going to be the draw / Uptake of SaaS services in the public cloud?

Poojan Kumar: The data protection-as-a-service market – which includes spend on backup and disaster recovery cloud services – is projected to reach the US$10 billion mark by 2022, according to IDC. Enterprises have already moved their data warehouse, CRM and IT service management workloads to the cloud, and Clumio is doing the same for data protection. Each of these workloads were best suited for cloud when they were built natively in the public cloud and offered to customers as software as a service.

Clumio is a secure, backup-as-a-service built natively in the public cloud that consolidates the protection of an enterprise data center and any remote sites without any hardware or software to size, configure, manage or buy. Like those that disrupted the markets for the workloads mentioned above, Clumio is disrupting the very large backup and disaster recovery cloud services market with this SaaS service in the public cloud.