InfoScale showed up at the 66th IT Press Tour with a clear message: enterprise resilience needs to move beyond infrastructure-only approaches. The company, now part of Cloud Software Group, has been protecting mission-critical applications since its Veritas days, and they're addressing a problem that's getting worse, not better.
The Reality of Modern Application Stacks
Most enterprises run over 1,000 applications across different platforms. InfoScale says half of these are mission-critical. When you look at the technology stack involved—Oracle, AWS, Kubernetes, VMware, SQL Server, SAP, and dozens more—it's clear why traditional resilience approaches fall short.
The numbers tell the story. According to InfoScale's data, 59% of Fortune 500 companies experience an average of 1.6 hours of unexpected downtime per week. That adds up to 83 hours per year. For financial services, 24 hours of downtime costs $163 million, or $6.48 million per hour. And that's before you count regulatory fines.
Where Traditional Approaches Break
Joe D'Angelo, InfoScale's Director of Product Management, outlined four core challenges:
Operational blind spots. Thousands of interconnected systems create complexity that's hard to track. Most monitoring tools are reactive rather than predictive.
Constant change. Patching, scaling, and upgrades cause most downtime, but existing tools only respond after problems occur.
Infrastructure-only resilience. Protection, availability, and recovery happen in silos. This makes it difficult to ensure data remains resilient across applications and environments.
AI and cyber threats. AI pipelines amplify the cost of failure. Risk now occurs at any layer—application, data, infrastructure, or service.
How InfoScale Works
InfoScale provides software-defined resilience that sits between your applications and infrastructure. Here's the architecture:
At the bottom layer, it abstracts storage from any vendor—Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Nutanix, AWS, Azure. You get block, file, and object access through a unified interface.
The middle layer handles data resiliency services: mirroring, snapshots, and replication. This works across any storage topology and includes application-consistent copies. The system monitors events and manages configuration across your entire environment.
At the application layer, InfoScale provides clustering with parallel access and instant failover. It integrates deeply with enterprise applications through specific agents for Oracle, SQL Server, SAP, MySQL, and others.
The orchestration layer manages failover, disaster recovery, and what InfoScale calls "fire drills"—automated testing of your recovery procedures.
InfoScale runs across:
- Hypervisors: VMware, Hyper-V, KVM
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud
- Container platforms: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker
- Operating systems: Red Hat, SUSE, Oracle Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Windows
- Storage: 1,000+ supported targets
This platform-agnostic approach matters. You don't have to rearchitect your entire stack to get resilience. InfoScale works with what you already have.
Real-Time Protection
InfoScale's value comes from operating in real-time across the full stack. When something fails, the system detects it at the application level, not just at the infrastructure level.
For cyber resilience, InfoScale offers secure snapshots with WORM (write once, read many) capability. If ransomware hits, you can roll back to a clean state. The system maintains data integrity through the entire process.
For modernization, InfoScale provides sequencing for complex application dependencies and rehearsals for migration testing. You can validate your procedures without disrupting production.
For hybrid cloud, the platform enables non-disruptive migration and repatriation. Move workloads between on-premises and cloud environments without downtime.
InfoScale reports these results from customer deployments:
- 98% reduction in downtime (from 4 hours to 5 minutes)
- 320,000 IT hours saved per year on downtime support
- Near-zero RPO (recovery point objective)
- Near-zero RTO (recovery time objective)
- Sub-60-second recovery for containerized applications
Red Hat Certification for OpenShift
For teams running Red Hat OpenShift, InfoScale offers certified resilience for both containers and virtualization. The platform provides:
- Resilience built around the application, not just the infrastructure
- Consistency across VMs and containers
- Backend storage for live migration, parallel access, snapshots, and disaster recovery
- Automated restarts, failovers, and scaling
This matters for organizations consolidating workloads on OpenShift. You get the same resilience model whether you're running traditional VMs or cloud-native containers.
AI and Autonomous Operations
InfoScale is working on autonomous resilience features powered by AI:
- Predictive analytics for infrastructure failure forecasting
- Intelligent workload optimization based on learned I/O patterns
- Optimized recovery architecture with adaptive redundancy models
- Workload fault simulations for predictive failure scenarios
- Contextual alerting with application-aware operations
- Proactive threat protection with attack simulations and anomaly detection
These capabilities are still in development. The goal is to reduce manual intervention and predict problems before they cause downtime.
Who Uses InfoScale
The customer list includes:
- 9 of 10 largest energy companies
- 10 of 10 largest telecom companies
- 10 of 10 largest financial services companies
- 9 of 10 largest pharmaceutical companies
- 7 of 10 largest healthcare companies
- 9 of 10 largest insurance companies
InfoScale serves 1,700+ enterprise customers across 52+ countries.
What This Means for Development Teams
For developers and DevOps teams, InfoScale addresses a specific problem: ensuring your applications stay available regardless of infrastructure failures.
You don't have to build resilience into every application. InfoScale provides it as a layer beneath your applications. This works whether you're running legacy apps or cloud-native workloads.
The platform integrates with your existing CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure-as-code tools. You can automate resilience policies and test them regularly without manual intervention.
For organizations moving to Kubernetes, InfoScale provides persistent volume management with built-in resilience. Your stateful applications get the same protection as traditional workloads.
Implementation Considerations
InfoScale isn't a point-and-click solution. It requires planning and configuration. You need to understand your application dependencies, define your resilience policies, and test your recovery procedures.
The platform works best when you treat resilience as code. Define your policies in configuration files, version them, and test them regularly. InfoScale provides the APIs and management interfaces to support this approach.
For new deployments, start with your most critical applications. Define your RPO and RTO requirements, then configure InfoScale to meet them. Use the fire drill feature to validate your setup before you need it.
Compliance and Regulations
InfoScale helps with DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) compliance. DORA, which started enforcement in January 2025, requires financial services organizations to implement standards for application and infrastructure resilience.
The platform provides the reporting and audit capabilities needed to demonstrate compliance. It tracks resilience metrics, recovery times, and test results.
Cost Model
InfoScale uses subscription licensing based on the number of protected instances. Pricing varies by platform, edition, and support level. The company offers both perpetual licenses and subscription models.
For organizations comparing build-versus-buy, InfoScale's value comes from covering multiple use cases: high availability, disaster recovery, data protection, and cloud migration. Building equivalent functionality in-house would require significant development resources.
Bottom Line
InfoScale provides resilience as a platform service. It works across your existing infrastructure and applications without requiring rearchitecture. The company has 30+ years of experience protecting enterprise applications, and that knowledge shows in the product.
If you're responsible for keeping applications running, InfoScale offers a way to do it without building custom solutions for every platform. The real-time detection and automated response reduce the manual work involved in maintaining availability.
The platform isn't simple to implement, but it solves a real problem. Downtime is expensive. InfoScale reduces it.