Cyberstorage, on JetStor.
BrickStor SP puts patented Active Defense in front of JetStor's high performance arrays, so the platform that holds your unstructured data also watches it, defends it, and restores it. One namespace across NFS, SMB, S3, and Web Drive. Real time protection against ransomware and data theft.
RackTop software, JetStor hardware, one supported architecture. Sized and quoted together by engineers from both companies.
Two layers, one platform.
BrickStor SP presents file and object services to users. JetStor carries the capacity underneath.
RackTop / BrickStor SP
The defense layer
Highly available active/active on two x86 servers. Serves users over SMB, NFS, S3, and Web Drive.
JetStor
The capacity layer
Scalable architecture, configured for the workload rather than a catalog SKU.
S3 tier out
Object storage tier
Transparent Data Movement tiers cold data to S3 compatible object storage and pulls it back on access, without changing the path users see.
Transparent Data Movement →Storage that recovers is not the same as storage that defends.
Traditional storage and backup close the gap after the damage is done. They restore files. They do not stop an insider copying a share, a compromised account walking off with a dataset, or a process quietly encrypting a million files overnight. That work has to happen where the data actually lives, in the data path itself.
What JetStor brings
32 years of storage engineering
- ✓Building enterprise storage since 1994, with more than 4,000 customers worldwide across the Fortune 500, higher education, healthcare, media, and government.
- ✓Ninth generation platforms spanning hybrid, all NVMe flash, SAN, and JBOD expansion.
- ✓Systems specified against the actual workload, with no middleware bloat and no proprietary protocol lock in.
- ✓Direct access to senior engineers rather than a scripted support tier.
- ✓GSA contract in place for federal procurement.
What RackTop brings
The Cyberstorage layer
- ✓RackTop pioneered the Cyberstorage category, which Gartner named in July 2021 with RackTop as a sample vendor.
- ✓Built by U.S. Intelligence Community veterans, with four issued patents covering Active Defense, ImmutaVault, and Transparent Data Movement.
- ✓Security native to the storage platform, not an appliance bolted on beside it, so it cannot be disabled by compromising a separate management VM.
- ✓Detection and response for both ransomware and data theft, weighted equally.
- ✓Audit logging and built in compliance reporting for organizations that have to prove control, not just assert it.
What BrickStor SP adds to a JetStor deployment.
Active Cyber Defense
Behavior based detection identifies ransomware encryption and data exfiltration while it is happening, stops it in the data path, and reports the incident in real time.
User activity monitoring
Graphical user behavior analytics with client IP visibility, privilege access analysis, and compromised account detection.
ImmutaVault with active air gap
Virtual air gapping keeps gold copies, AI seed data, and regulated records online, sealed, and manifest verified for chain of custody.
FIPS 140-3 AES-256 encryption
Hardware and software data at rest encryption with per dataset key management, which makes true cryptoshred possible for spillage response and decommissioning.
Policy based snapshots
Unlimited snapshots on a schedule you set, with no snapshot count ceiling and a one minute recovery point.
File and object services
NFS 3/4/4.1/4.2, SMB 2/3, S3, and Web Drive reaching the same files, with the same Active Defense across every access method.
Transparent data movement
Patented tiering moves cold data out to S3 compatible object storage and back on access, so hybrid economics do not cost you a namespace.
Audit and compliance
Continuous audit trails, file provenance, and built in reporting mapped to NIST SP 800-53 and the frameworks that govern your sector.
1 minute
Recovery point objective
3 minutes
Recovery time objective
Per file
Last known good version
When something does get through
BrickStor SP identifies the last known good version of each affected file on its own, then restores only what the attack touched, with cryptographic verification. There is no hunting through snapshots to guess at a clean point, and no full volume revert that costs you the good work sitting alongside the damage.
Storage features
- ✓FC, iSCSI, SMB 2/3, NFS 3/4/4.1/4.2, S3
- ✓Highly available active/active architecture
- ✓Advanced data reduction with compression and deduplication
- ✓Hybrid or all flash configurations
- ✓Secure cloud tiering
- ✓Immutable data protection
- ✓Data replication with rapid recovery
- ✓VMware Certified
Built for the environments where a breach is not a line item.
Federal, DoW, and SLED
NIST SP 800-53 control support, FIPS 140-3 validated encryption, and audit reporting that shortens ATO work. CJIS reporting for law enforcement agencies.
Healthcare
HIPAA reporting on a foundation of NIST SP 800-53 controls, with insider threat detection across imaging and records shares.
Higher education and research
Multi tenant research data with per dataset encryption keys, generous capacity economics, and unlimited snapshots.
Media and entertainment
High throughput SMB and NFS for production, with ImmutaVault protecting masters and finished deliverables.
Financial services
SOX reporting on a NIST SP 800-53 foundation, with exfiltration detection on the shares that hold client and position data.
AI and HPC datasets
ImmutaVault seals training and golden datasets against tampering, with manifest backed proof that the seed data has not changed.
Bring us the workload.
A RackTop and JetStor engineer will size the joint solution against your real data, protocols, and recovery requirements, then quote it as one architecture.
For customers
Request a joint briefing
Walk through the architecture with both engineering teams, and see Active Defense stop a live ransomware and exfiltration sequence.
Request a briefing →For resellers and MSPs
RackTop Partner Program
Add Cyberstorage to a JetStor configuration you already know how to sell. Register the opportunity, pull down sales and technical enablement, and track it through the RackTop partner portal.
Put Active Defense in front of your JetStor storage
Same protocols. Same capacity economics. Data that defends itself.
BrickStor SP, Active Defense, ImmutaVault, and Transparent Data Movement are RackTop technologies. JetStor is a trademark of AC&NC / JetStor.