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Every year GigaOm issues a series of documents to help IT organizations assess competing solutions in the context of well-defined features and criteria, such as scalability, performance, and total cost of ownership. The GigaOm Radar weighs each vendor’s execution, roadmap, and ability to innovate, and plots solutions on a "radar"-like graph. The closer to the center a solution sits, the better its execution and value, with top performers occupying the inner Leader circle. Cobalt Iron is not only in the Leader circle for the second year in a row, but this year the company also achieved Outperformer status, which indicates the fastest possible pace of innovation and rate of progression.
The report states, "Cobalt Iron provides strong cyber resiliency features at both the predictive and remediation levels. The company puts a strong emphasis on its Zero Access™ architecture, which makes the data backed up into Compass inaccessible, read-only, and immutable; data can only be deleted based on strictly controlled and monitored data retention policies.
Cyberattack detection includes monitoring multiple anomalies and abnormal behaviors, including baselining the normal environmental behavior and observing deviations, with additional ’cyber inspection’ features to be delivered by the end of 2023. The capabilities are regularly improved and made available to customers. Finally, Cobalt Iron also proposes a logical air gap solution and options for physical air-gapped copies of backups."
Cobalt Iron received "Exceptional" marks, indicating outstanding focus and execution in the key criteria of analytics, cyber resiliency, and backup as a service. The company also got Exceptional marks across all of GigaOm’s evaluation metrics: solution lifespan, scalability, flexibility, efficiency, security, manageability and ease of use, and ecosystem.