What Is CopyStorm?

CapStorm Technology Now Part of GRAX

I’ll work my way to “What is CopyStorm” but what I want to start with is: Most of our customers can achieve 3–5 minute replication windows for analytics and reporting purposes in near real-time.

When it comes to managing your business’s critical data, Salesforce is the clear leader, enabling companies to manage customer relationships with ease. Yet, as powerful and reliable as Salesforce is, no system is entirely immune to potential data loss or outages. When you’re relying solely on Salesforce’s default data protection measures and neglect the importance of a self-hosted backup solution, you’re inadvertently navigating treacherous waters without a safety net.

CopyStorm was originally part of the CapStorm platform and is now included in the GRAX data management platform, bringing its core capabilities into a broader solution for Salesforce data control, protection, and reuse.

It acts as your protector, helping to ensure your Salesforce data remains verifiable and accessible even in the face of unforeseen disasters or mishaps. But you may still be asking yourself, “What is CopyStorm?” Well, here’s your chance to find out.

CopyStorm is Your Problem Solver

Problem #1: Managing Massive Amounts of Sensitive Data

For one of our customers, the problem is how to manage and anonymize massive amounts of sensitive data on-prem while making it available at high frequency for advanced analytics and machine learning. They need all this, and they need it without a big investment in engineering time on their side.

The Solution: CopyStorm, now part of the GRAX platform, provides a flexible, self-hosted approach to replicating Salesforce data off-platform. Paired with governance capabilities (formerly CS:Govern), it allows organizations to extend data classification rules, enforce controls, and securely manage sensitive data within their own infrastructure. All of this happens continuously, without introducing additional operational overhead.

Problem solved – new problem, please.

Problem #2: Leveraging Amazon Redshift Analytics Tools

Another customer faced the challenge of wanting to leverage Amazon Redshift’s powerful analytics tools on their Salesforce data. However, achieving this required a complex and time-consuming process, which lacked schema resiliency. Despite overcoming various roadblocks, the solution would only work temporarily, provided no changes were made to Salesforce objects or fields. But let’s be honest, organizations often make changes to their Salesforce objects or fields.

The Solution: CopyStorm integrates seamlessly with data platforms like Amazon Redshift, moving Salesforce data directly into analytics environments with full schema fidelity. As part of the GRAX platform, this capability ensures that metadata changes are automatically handled, eliminating the need for constant rework. Maintenance concerns are reduced, and data becomes continuously available to powerful analytics tools without the cost and fragility of traditional ETL pipelines. The result: reliable, near real-time access within 3–5 minute replication windows.

Now, it’s time to tackle another problem.

Problem #3: Establishing a Data Resilient Backup Solution for DRBCP

The third customer wanted a data- and schema-resilient backup solution for Salesforce Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning, and they wanted to spend very little time managing it.

The Solution: This customer told me that they had been responsible for the daily backup using CopyStorm for 18 months, and there was a secret they didn’t want anyone to know. Their predecessor had set up the application in a virtual environment somewhere on-prem, and they didn’t actually know where it was. For 18 months, they were able to see that the hourly backup was working correctly by checking the database, but the system had been running without a hiccup or any human intervention.

That’s the value of a self-hosted, automated approach to Salesforce data protection—now carried forward and expanded within the GRAX platform, where backup, recovery, and data reuse are all part of a unified strategy.

No problem…

Gain True Data Ownership With CopyStorm

Simply put, CopyStorm is the best pathway to owning your Salesforce data.

Now as part of GRAX, those same capabilities extend even further, supporting not just backup and recovery, but analytics, compliance, and AI-ready data strategies built on complete control and visibility.

Whether it’s for analytics, integrations, compliance, or backups, CopyStorm remains a foundational approach to taking ownership of your Salesforce data. After all, your data is yours; you should use it to drive value for your business beyond the existing value of the data in Salesforce. With this approach, your Salesforce data stays within your database, behind your firewall, providing the ultimate data protection.

CopyStorm helps organizations ensure the availability and integrity of their Salesforce data and provides a way to create offline backups for disaster recovery and compliance purposes—all now delivered as part of the broader GRAX platform.

With GRAX, that means more than protection. It means confidence, capability, and control over how your Salesforce data is stored, accessed, and used.