Storage Guardian Exec on Infrastructure Builds With StorONE

Storage Guardian is a Canadian MSP focused on delivering secure, efficient, and cost-effective backup and storage solutions to its clients. The provider recently announced that it had consolidated its infrastructure with StorONE, marking a new milestone in a long-time collaboration. 

Storage Guardian’s Founder, Omry Farajun, spoke with us ahead of the announcement to share more about how his company supports clients in the modern era of backup.

How Storage Guardian reduced its physical footprint by 80 percent without cutting services

By consolidating its infrastructure with StorONE’s unified software-defined storage platform, Storage Guardian reduced its physical storage footprint from nine full cabinets to just two, while expanding the range of services it delivers to customers.

Storage Guardian offers managed backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience services through vendor partnerships and its own software, utilizing data centers across North America and the UK. By leveraging technologies like Veeam, immutable storage, and automation workflows, they help customers protect critical workloads against ransomware, hardware failures, and human error. These services demand high-speed, stable, and secure infrastructure, and Farajun says the team has found all of the above with StorONE.

“I think we’re on an equal playing field now in terms of cost-efficiency, especially because the hyperscalers have had this for a while,” Farajun said. “With StorONE, we’re ready to shift when the infrastructure as a service market does, and it will inevitably change. We can bring more efficient solutions to our clients in a variety of ways now.”

StorONE says it was designed from day one to be “an ultra-efficient software solution that delivers any storage use case with minimal hardware. This was made possible by rewriting the entire storage stack from the ground up, dramatically optimizing both write and read operations.”

Longtime partners see more growth in their shared future

According to Farajun, Storage Guardian has worked with StorONE for several years. The partnership began when Storage Guardian started researching potential solutions to problems it was facing with existing vendors, specifically minimizing its footprint without sacrificing availability. 

“We looked around for different partners that would give us the flexibility in storage and high availability but also provide a return on investment, and eventually we chose StorONE and their platform because it met all of those requirements,” Farajun said.

“This is what efficient infrastructure looks like: fewer racks, lower costs, and better services,” said Gal Naor, CEO and Co-Founder of StorONE, in a statement. “Storage Guardian is proof that MSPs can simplify operations, keep data secure, be mindful of ESG standards, and expand capabilities — all at the same time. This deployment proves that vision in action. By consolidating from nine cabinets to just two, Storage Guardian has drastically reduced its data center footprint and power consumption, while gaining the flexibility and performance to grow without compromise. This is the future of infrastructure: leaner, smarter, and built to deliver more with less. In one word, efficient.”

Sustainability joins cost and performance as key markers in IT decisions

Farajun says the sustainability metrics tied to computing are coming up more frequently with clients, who may be focused on regional governance standards tied to supply chain emissions, or might just take a focused approach to their environmental impact.

Similarly, Storage Guardian sought to meet the standards and guiding principles established by the province of Ontario regarding power consumption.

The company’s ongoing consolidation efforts through StorONE ultimately met government guidelines traditionally set for landlords to encourage buildings to become more energy efficient. 

Of course, cost and performance are still critical to the success of tech deployment and adoption. Farajun says net new customers this year have voiced concerns over traditional object-based storage that doesn’t enable them to best leverage and control their data. Storage Guardian’s various services and solutions aim to keep customers secure as they embrace the next generation of technology.

Data center sustainability is a growing concern for many in IT. Revisit our Q&A with Jason Matteson on how data centers can better balance the AI demand against energy and related sustainability concerns.