About Ootbi
Today, businesses need a purpose-built, ransomware-proof, on-premises storage target that integrates seamlessly with Veeam and guarantees the security of its backups. Ootbi (which stands for “out-of-the-box immutability”) is secure, simple, and powerful by design. It delivers a ransomware-proof primary storage target that was purpose-built to be the best storage for Veeam.
Veeam Data Platform fully embraces S3 Object Storage as a primary backup target. Ootbi fully supports Veeam’s “direct-to-object” functionality, leveraging industry-standard S3 Object Storage security and immutability while providing high-performance backup. It also fully supports the Veeam Smart Object Storage API (SOSAPI) for simplified management.
Ootbi is an object storage appliance built for the backup use case and, even more specifically, for Veeam. Capacity and performance scale linearly when adding nodes, supporting backup speeds up to 8.0 gigabytes per second with up to 1.7 petabytes of storage space. Ootbi was designed to empower Veeam Backup & Replication. It supports Veeam’s standard block size and encryption by default.
Ootbi was built to support Zero Trust principles—including Veeam’s recommended Zero Trust Data Resilience (ZTDR) architecture—which assumes that any individuals, devices, or services attempting to access company resources may be compromised and should not be trusted by default. Ootbi follows Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recommendations and embodies the principles of “Security-by-Design and -Default.” Ootbi utilizes S3 Object Lock to enable immutability and runs its storage software on a hardened Linux operating system with a “zero access to root” policy.
Because of the ZTDR architecture and secure appliance form factor, Ootbi is inherently separated from the Veeam Backup & Replication server, unlike legacy solutions such as direct-attached storage (DAS). This separation creates proper segmentation between backup software and backup storage layers to ensure ransomware resilience.
