Plakar - IT Press Tour #65 Dec 2025

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1. The Open Resilience Standard
2. This is an interactive session : please ask questions Today’s agenda : • 30 to 40-minute structured presentation • An interactive demonstration of Plakar • Q&A Two goals : • Share how we see the data resilience deadlock and why it matters now • Announce the preview of Plakar Enterprise, our unified control plane for backup posture
3. French company Funding : €3M (March 2025) Lead investor : Seedcamp Backed by : Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Solomon Hykes (Docker), Pierre Betouin (Sqreen)... With participation from: helloworld, Kima Ventures, Galion.exe, Irregular Expressions, OPRTRS CLUB, Motier Ventures, Purple, Pareto Holdings, Osorno Capital… Open Source project supported by a company VC-backed The Open Resilience Standard Backup anything. Store anywhere. Restore everywhere.
4. Gilles Chehade (CTO) Julien Mangeard (CEO) Operational at scale Hello, we are Plakar co-founders Plakar is essentially a synthesis of what we wished we had as CTO and as architect. Security and Engineering excellence 20+ years in tech leadership (telecom, fintech, ecommerce) Former CPTO at Veepee (8 years, thousands of engineers) Experiences in bootstraps and restructuring 20+ years as systems and security engineer Founder of OpenSMTPD and long-time OpenBSD core committer Deep experience in secure systems, storage, networking, and distributed architectures.
5. 50 most active developers Among the top 50 most active developers worldwide on GitHub 100 years Over 100 years of combined experience in building secure, open-source infrastructures Europe-based team, Worldwide Community Plakar team is: European core team Worldwide community 1.4k+ stars ⭐ 550+ members Fast growing community:
6. Plakar’s mission is to establish a new standard for secure and effortless data protection Our goal is simple: protect as many businesses as possible, as fast as possible.
7. Data loss incidents are at an all-time high 2 4 Human error & Operational mistakes Ransomware & Advanced cyberattacks Cloud misconfiguration & Complexity Shadow IT & SaaS/AI Proliferation Insider threats & Account compromise Third-Party & Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Hardware & Infrastructure failures Accidental deletion, migration failures, automation errors, mass operations Encryption attacks, double extortion, backup targeting, snapshot destruction Multi-cloud sprawl, permission errors, lifecycle policies, auto-deletion Unmanaged services, AI agents, ungoverned tools Malicious insiders, credential theft, privileged access abuse, targeted deletion Vendor compromise, component corruption, dependency attacks, software supply chain Server crashes, storage failures, physical disasters, network outages 1 3 5 6 7
8. AI increase pressure on data resilience • Fully autonomous attack chains. • Deepfake, phishing, credentials extorsion • AI-coded malware AI raises pressure at the edge • Rogue AI agents • Immature AI supply chain (like MCP) AI increase risks and attack surfaces Attack Defense Attackers got massive edge on your data ⬇ Cost ⬆ Quality ⬆ Speed ⬆ Cost ⬆ Complexity ⬆ Automation
9. Companies are under fire with limited defense budget Backup delivers survival for a fraction of companies security budget In an indefensible landscape, rapid restore is the LAST LINE OF DEFENSE against extinction. The threat explosion Attack surface increase +45% • Expanding External Vectors (Saas, Cloud, AI threat…) • Expanding Internal Vectors (AI, loT, Identities…) The threat explosion Security budget increase +15%
10. We have to fight against complexity and safety illusion Data recovery failure rate post-attack 43% 69% Overestimates their readiness (1) Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends Report (2) 69% of IT professionals believe their leadership overestimates their readiness for a major cyber event - Dell - Cyber Resilience Insights 2025 1 2 • Coverage gaps are hidden by : ◦ Data source fragmentation (on-premises, multi-cloud, SaaS) ◦ Patchwork of incompatible data protection solutions • Illusion of safety : Resilience plan is too often more a perception than a reality
11. End-To-End backup encryption is a must Regulations are converging on stricter protection of data (GDPR, NIS2, DORA, SEC rules) Backup servers, catalogs and repositories are priority target for ransomware attacks Data size is doubling every 3 years Legacy backup architecture are not scaling at peta or exa scale Budgets and teams do not double every 3 years Most teams cannot manage resilience alone to: Routinely test full recovery Manage offsite and offline copies Maintain cross cloud and SaaS coverage Backup : modern constraints
12. Plakar: One Posture View, Zero Trust Delegation Unified Resilience Posture Management • Single view of protected and unprotected resources across on premise, multi cloud, and SaaS • Backed up, verified, and recoverable data you can browse, query, and restore from one interface • Provide the broadest and open ecosystem of data source integrations Decoupled backup and resilience with the Vault Storage Protocol • Zero-Trust protocol that lets third party providers manage retention and replication without ever seeing data or encryption keys • Enables a global ecosystem of service providers and cloud providers delivering resilience services while customers keep full sovereignty Our primary objectives for data resilience
13. Market is fragmented, no standard, no ecosystem • Vendors never turned their format into a neutral standard • No dominant standard in enterprise backup • Open Source backup is powerful but fragmented Plakar, the missing foundation layer of IT infrastructure The solution: an Open Resilience Standard • Trust, auditability and credibility • Adoption and standardization • Security and quality benefits • Commercial and GTM leverage • Strategic differentiation vs incumbents We enable a new economy where Cloud Providers & MSPs build "Resilience-as-a-Service" on top of the Plakar Standard.
14. Plakar vibrant ecosystem Protect anything Objects Filesystems SaaS Databases OS agnostic Protocols agnostic SFTP S3 R-Clone Hybrid by design Protect everybody Enterprises Providers (Cloud, MSPs) Community
15. The Industry’s Structural Deadlock Why 30 years of architectural debt prevents Zero-Trust Resilience. Zero-trust security Interoperable Cost efficient The "Smart Infrastructure" Trap (Veeam, Veritas, Commvault) • The Conflict: Encryption breaks Deduplication • The Flaw: Central servers cannot optimize data they cannot read (Client-side encryption) • The Penalty: The Storage Tax. You must choose: be efficient or be secure The "Walled Garden" Trap (Rubrik, Cohesity) • The Conflict: Security requires Lock-in • The Flaw: Data is sealed inside proprietary "Black Boxes" • The Penalty: The Data Hostage. You pay a perpetual license just to read your own history
16. Cost efficient “More frequent backup with less storage and less network” Zero-trust security “End-to-end encrypted, verifiable, immutable” Interoperable “Storage agnostic, geo-replicable, vendor-neutral” Simplicity = + + Instant access “Browsable, searchable, fast granular restore” + The Impossible Equation, Solved
17. Inside plakar secret (public) sauce Objects Filesystems SaaS Databases Integration layer Plakar agent Self-contained Portable Immutable Verifiable Encrypted Deduplicated Compressed Browsable Searchable Kloset store backup restore Snapshot Restore Deduplicate Rehydrate Compress Uncompress Encrypt Decrypt OPEN SOURCE OPEN SOURCE Read Write End-to-end audited encryption Kloset does for data what Docker containers did for compute The Plakar agent packs data into portable Klosets, ready for shipment across your resilience infrastructure.
18. Ptar, Kloset in a flat file
19. Plakar Vault Storage Protocol for MSPs & Cloud Providers Client Side (The Trust): Data is encrypted before leaving the premises. You retain the keys; the provider never sees them. Provider Side (The Service): The provider manages SLAs, storage tiers, and replication strategies on opaque data blobs, optimizing costs via source-deduplication. Plakar Vault Storage Protocol introduces a standardized protocol allowing teams to delegate the infrastructure of resilience without ever delegating the access to data. Operational burden: Most teams struggle to maintain robust 3-2-1 strategies and guarantee SLAs internally. The trust gap: Delegating to providers (external or internal) is often blocked by compliance risks and the danger of creating a centralized "data honeypot" for attackers. The delegation dilemma The solution: Trustless resilience offloading
20. S3 certified cloud Plakar agent Low cost NAS Tape robot Plakar agent Egress savings Storage savings Low cost NAS sync sync The challenge: high costs & compliance traps • Massive Data Growth: Petabytes of medical imaging (DICOM) in expensive, HDS-certified Cloud Storage • The Resilience Gap: Need an off-site, affordable backup copy, BUT low-cost storage (standard NAS/Tape) is not compliant for raw patient data Plakar solution: portable compliance with 80% cost cut • Unlock low-cost tiers: Plakar's End-to-End Encryption turns any standard NAS or Tape into a compliant secure vault • Slash egress costs: Source-side Deduplication drastically reduces data leaving the expensive cloud • Bridge the Tech Gap: Seamlessly backup modern S3 Object Storage directly to legacy Tape/File Systems Use case: data resilience in a private healthcare group
21. We are proud to introduce Released and announced December, 16th
22. Plakar Enterprise elevates the standard to enterprise needs Role based access Multi user access Secret management (KIMS, Vault…) Plakar Proxies (O knowledge agents) Advanced security Premium support Compliance audits Legal proofs Compliance Plakar for Vault Storage provider protocol Multi Kloset store orchestration Centralized administration Backup Posture Management SLA managements Orchestration
23. Delivered as a virtual appliance, easy to deploy Plakar version Centralized UI with multi-user, multi-store management Advanced orchestration with RBAC and monitoring Reinforced security: Vault, KMS, zero-knowledge agents Compliance and audit-ready Only one license & one support option Plakar Enterprise Our customers “License costs are negligible compared to the savings in network and storage.” BEST FOR SMB AND ENTERPRISES Most used integrations (FS, S3, SFTP…) Backup, restore, browse with Plakar agent Single-store orchestration End-to-end encrypted, portable, scriptable Backed by an active community Plakar Community Free forever (ISC license) BEST FOR INDIVIDUALS & SMALL BUSINESSES Audited by top crypto experts
24. “Backups are too strategic to be vendor-locked” You, tomorrow Open source core forever Plakar enterprise: backup under license, restore for free forever Plakar Zero Vendor Lock-in Guarantees
25. Product demo
26. Plakar 4 months roadmap December 25 Plakar Enterprise Core - Multi-Store Integration - Scheduling - Secret managers - Proxies (Zero-Trust Agents) Plakar Community 1.1 January 26 Plakar Enterprise For AWS - Posture Management - Agentless - EC2 / S3 - SSM Community - Point-In-Time Restore - New TUI - PostgresQL Integration - MySQL Integration Compliance - SOC 2 - ISO 27001 February 26 Plakar Enterprise Core - SLA - Advanced RBAC Plakar Enterprise For OVH Community - Kubernetes Integration - Proxmox Integration March 26 Plakar Enterprise For GCP Community - Oracle Integration - Microsoft 365 Plakar Vault Storage Protocol - First Cloud Provider Integration (TBA)
27. We are building a strong data resilience ecosystem We are building Kloset: open immutable data store that unlocks true zero-trust Plakar: open toolchain to protect your data Plakar Vault Storage Protocol: open protocol to delegate data resilience Plakar Enterprise: unified backup posture management We are enabling Resilience as a Service: Backup and Encrypt your data and delegate the resilience to third parties: internal teams, MSPs or cloud providers. Unified Backup Posture Management: A consolidated view of all your data and its protection across on-premises, cloud and SaaS
28. Email us For general inquiries and support: hello@plakar.io Support For help with your existing Plakar installation: support@plakar.io Sales inquiries For pricing, enterprise plans, and custom solutions: sales@plakar.io THANKS N