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Automation & Analytics

Backup that runs itself. Verifiably.

Compass automates daily backup administration — scheduling, retries, healing, capacity tiering, patching. Not a copilot that suggests. Automation that does.

What does Compass automate? Compass automates daily backup administration, so teams stop babysitting jobs and stop running upgrade projects.

  • Policy-driven scheduling and failed-job retry logic
  • Self-healing of the backup infrastructure
  • Automatic cloud tiering to AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, or GCP
  • Continuous patching and upgrading of the platform itself — always current
  • Staying current also removes a common hacker entry point
What Gets Automated

The work Compass does for your team

Job management

Scheduling, monitoring, retries, and escalation — handled by policy, not people.

Self-healing

Compass detects and remediates failures in the backup environment before they become missed SLAs.

Cloud tiering

Data flows automatically to the right storage tier across AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and GCP.

Patching & upgrades

Continuously current. No maintenance windows, no version-upgrade projects, ever.

A Decade of Analytics

Automation that runs backups — not a chatbot that talks about them

Competitors are launching AI assistants that answer questions about your backup environment. Compass has spent a decade using analytics to operate the environment: anomaly detection in Cyber Shield™, predictive healing, and policy optimization across 9M+ backup jobs a month.

  • Analytics engine tuned on millions of production backup jobs monthly
  • Anomaly detection that flags ransomware behavior automatically
  • Centralized policy management across every workload and site
  • Automated compliance reporting — audit-ready without spreadsheet work
Compass analytics console

Frequently asked questions

How much backup administration does Compass eliminate?
Compass automates daily backup administration tasks through policy-driven automation, self-healing, and continuous currency. Teams typically redeploy backup admin time to higher-value work.
Do I still need to patch or upgrade Compass?
No. Compass and Compass Vaults are continuously current — patches, updates, and upgrades are applied automatically as part of the SaaS service. This also removes unpatched backup software as an attack vector.
Is Compass automation an AI assistant?
Compass automation is operational, not conversational. Its analytics engine schedules, retries, heals, tiers, and patches automatically — decisions executed by the platform, informed by a decade of production backup telemetry.

How much time could your team reclaim with automated backup administration?

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