Plakar brings mathematical rigor, visibility, and sovereignty to your data protection strategy. We decouple data from the infrastructure, allowing you to secure assets at the source and restore them anywhere. That’s the difference between Plakar's open resilience standard and today's legacy black boxes.
Through high-density client-side deduplication and compression. We only transmit unique, encrypted chunks, eliminating egress fees and storage bloat.
Encryption keys never leave the source. The infrastructure (and the admin) remains blind to the data, ensuring absolute privacy even in untrusted environments.
An index-in-snapshot architecture that eliminates central database bottlenecks. Handle millions of inodes without the "catalog crash" of legacy SQL-based tools.
Based on Open Source standards (PTAR & Kloset). Ensure your data remains readable and restorable 50 years+ from now, without proprietary software lock-in.
A single pane of glass to continuously enforce policies and visualize coverage across On-Prem, Cloud, and SaaS environments.
Safely delegate backup operations to third parties (MSPs, Departments) without ever sharing your encryption secrets or losing control.
| Capabilities | Plakar Enterprise | Rubrik | Cohesity | Veeam | Commvault |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Architecture | |||||
| Data Sovereignty & Format
Guarantee long-term access without paying a ransom |
Open Source (No Vendor Lock) | Vendor Locked Format | Vendor Locked Format | Vendor Locked (.vbk) | Vendor Locked Format |
| Portable & Self-Contained
Recover instantly in disaster scenarios | Need Appliance | Need Appliance | Need Catalog DB | Need CommServe | |
| Cost & Security | |||||
| Zero-Trust Storage Efficiency Cut storage bills without compromising privacy | Max Efficiency | Requires Trust | Requires Trust | Low Efficiency | Complex Setup |
| Petabyte-Scale Architecture Scale indefinitely without infrastructure sprawl | Linear Performance
(No central catalog) | Hardware Tax Metadata requires costly nodes | Hardware Tax High RAM usage per TB | Catalog Collapse SQL DB chokes on file count | Infrastructure Sprawl Complex scaling architecture |
| Operations | |||||
| Unified Backup Posture Eliminate compliance blind spots | Fragmented | Fragmented | Fragmented | Complex | |
| Resilience As A Service Outsource operations, keep full sovereignty |
Native Protocol | ||||
| Ecosystem | |||||
| Cloud Sources (AWS, etc.) | Easily Extensible
Open Ecosystem | Limited / Add-on | Limited / Add-on | Agent Heavy | Complex |
| SaaS Sources (M365, etc.) | Easily Extensible
Open Ecosystem | Separate License | Separate License | Separate Product | Complex |
| On-Premises Sources | Easily Extensible
Open Ecosystem | Locked | Locked | Legacy / Heavy | Legacy / Heavy |
Competitors often tick the same boxes on paper. But when you dig into the architecture, the difference between "Marketing Yes" and "Technical Yes" becomes expensive.
The Others: To deduplicate data efficiently, legacy appliances often need to decrypt data at the gateway or storage level, exposing keys and plain text to the infrastructure.
Plakar: Solved the math. We deduplicate encrypted chunks against encrypted indexes. The infrastructure remains blind, always.
The Others: Store data in opaque blobs (`.vbk`). You trust their software blindly, even though they are rarely publicly audited.
Plakar: Open Source, no vendor lock-in. Our core cryptography and format are publicly audited by top security experts. You don't just "trust" us; you can verify.
The Others: Rely on massive centralized databases (SQL) to map files. These databases choke under millions of inodes.
Plakar: Decoupled architecture. The index is split and stored inside each snapshot. Backing up the 1st Petabyte is as linearly fast and stable as the first Gigabyte.
Traditional backups were designed for pre-AI world threats. Plakar is designed for war.
The Threat: Attackers target backup catalogs first to get a copy of your data (exfiltration), and second to prevent recovery.
Plakar Defense: Encrypted at source. Even if they steal the blobs, they get nothing but noise. Immutable snapshots ensure recovery paths can't be destroyed.
The Threat: Accidental deletion remains a top cause of data loss. Recovering a single file from a massive VM backup is often too slow.
Plakar Defense: Instant Mount. Browse your terabytes of backups as a local filesystem instantly. Recover just the file you need in seconds, not hours.
The Threat: Attackers increasingly try to get employed (fake candidates) or compromise HR to gain insider access.
Plakar Defense: Mathematical Privacy. The storage backend and the backup admins only see opaque chunks. Even a rogue admin cannot read sensitive data.
The Threat: Cloud providers can accidentally delete data. SLAs often exclude data loss liability, leaving you exposed.
Plakar Defense: Total Portability. Sync your repositories to any other cloud or local NAS instantly. You are never locked out of your own assets.
The Threat: AI models can drift or hallucinate. High-velocity code delivery requires frequent rollback points that traditional backup can't keep up with.
Plakar Defense: High-Frequency Snapshots. Create a "Time Machine" for your datasets with minimal storage cost, enabling precise rollbacks for ML training data.
The Threat: "Store now, decrypt later." Future computers may break current encryption, forcing you to re-encrypt petabytes of archives.
Plakar Defense: Future-Proof Design. Our modular crypto-architecture is designed to adapt to post-quantum standards without requiring a full re-ingestion of your history.
Stop renting your peace of mind. Switch to the resilience architecture that is open, audited, and secure by design.
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