March 31, 2025 - 5 min read

The Key to Application Resilience: Software Defined Storage

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Headshot of Bhooshan Thakar, VP & GM of Data Resilience at Arctera

Bhooshan Thakar

VP & GM of Data Resilience

We all feel the IT strain when unexpected downtime strikes. The discomfort of being unable to access our files or frustration of delaying deadlines when systems are offline. With downtime costing global enterprises $400 billion annually, it’s past time for a new strategy.

Organizations need to take control of downtime, stop data loss, and prevent operational impacts caused by cyber-attacks. Full-stack application resilience is the key.

Arctera™ InfoScale leads the 2025-2026 DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise SDS Block Storage Solutions report for visionary approach to Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and cyber resilience.

SDS: The Foundation of Application Resilience

Cyber threats relentlessly expose resilience gaps. While attacks can spawn from various entry points, they seek out the application and data layers. Operations teams face challenges in detecting, triaging, and mitigating these attacks due to the complexity of modern infrastructures. As a result, they resort to manual rebuilds and backup data to get systems back online.

Storage solutions, built with performance in mind, fall short in addressing these challenges. They lack the context-aware risk mitigation required during an attack, as well as the necessary features such as redundancy, replication, and automated failover to ensure rapid recovery in complex environments, especially in hybrid or multi-cloud setups.

While cloud storage does provide powerful scalability and convenience. It struggles with orchestration and automation across various zones, and often lacks seamless integration between the storage, compute, and networking layers, which are critical for effective protection and rapid recovery.

InfoScale Full-Stack Resilience

InfoScale is the only real-time full stack application resilience solution that combines filesystem protection, software defined storage, and application-level context to ensure zero downtime or data loss for mission critical applications.

InfoScale ensures that businesses remain operational, even in the midst of a cyber-attack or system failure. How InfoScale works:

  • Software-Defined Storage (SDS) enables management, orchestration, and automation of any storage target across infrastructures—whether on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid environments. With InfoScale, organizations can achieve context-aware protections that span both data and infrastructure layers. SDS includes features like immutable snapshots, data replication, and automated recovery, ensuring rapid failover and minimizing data loss or downtime.
  • Application-level context delivers deep visibility into application behavior and performance. InfoScale ensures that recovery and protection efforts are informed by the application’s specific needs. This context allows InfoScale to intelligently manage resources and ensure that recovery is optimized not just at the storage level, but across the entire application stack.
  • Real-time filesystem protection means that InfoScale continuously monitors and protects the integrity of the filesystem itself. If data is compromised or a failure occurs, InfoScale can instantly recover or roll back to a previous, secure state, preventing data loss and keeping applications running without disruption.

InfoScale combines SDS with intelligent application-level monitoring, response, and data protection into a single full-stack solution, providing businesses with a proven resilience strategy designed for mission-critical application SLAs. By managing the storage layer with SDS and offering application-level context for quick detection and response, InfoScale ensures automated real-time recovery. This unified approach reduces enterprise downtime by 98%, offering a complete SecOps strategy that protects data, applications, and infrastructure. With InfoScale, organizations can maintain business continuity, even amid evolving cyber threats.

Driving Industry Transformation

InfoScale’s leadership in SDS and application-aware cyber resilience has positioned it as the only enterprise grade solution designed for complex IT environments. Its recent recognition as Amazon’s Storage Partner of the Year, along with DCIG’s TOP 5 SDS ranking, further validate innovation and impact in enterprise storage.

Download the full DCIG report to see how Arctera InfoScale delivers the next generation of cyber-resilient storage.

Enterprise resilience starts with SDS that does more than store—it protects, recovers, and optimizes.

Ready to take the leap into the future of storage?

Register for our Webinar on 15 April - Unlocking Application Resilience with Software Defined Storage. Bhooshan Thakar, VP & GM of Data Resilience at Arctera, and Jerome Wendt, CEO & Principal Analyst at DCIG, will discuss how the right SDS solution and a robust application resilience strategy keep you operational during cyber-attacks or system failures.

Alternatively contact us to learn how InfoScale’s SDS block storage solutions can help you optimize your data and infrastructure for greater agility, security, and scalability.

Bhooshan Thakar
VP & GM of Data Resilience