HP Autonomy Enhances Adaptive Backup and Recovery Solution

HP Autonomy has enriched its Adaptive Backup and Recovery solution offering with two enhancements to address the demanding needs of the modern data center.

HP Data Protector now features integration with the HP Helion OpenStack, an open and extensible cloud platform, and NetApp, Inc.‘s storage arrays via a flexible and extensible snapshot integration framework. Together, these enhancements help organizations create and maintain agile IT infrastructures that can adapt to the dynamic nature of always-on data centers.

Agile cloud backup integration with Helion OpenStack
Virtualization and cloud services are increasingly considered a best-practice for managing rapidly-growing volume of business data. HP Data Protector’s native integration with Helion OpenStack provides organizations with secure off-site backup and restore capabilities for VMware workloads and automatic cloud backup replication.

Key feature enhancements include:
Automatic, secure off-site copy to cloud: Protects essential business data loss from disaster through automatic and secure off-site copy to Helion Public Cloud. All data transmitted to the cloud is securely encrypted and compressed before and after being stored.
Optimized backup and recovery process: A tiered recovery architecture enables administrators to determine the most appropriate and economical storage tier option depending on data type, usage and service requirements.
End-to-end HP solution: Customers can take advantage of buying backup solution stack that includes integrated infrastructure, software, services, and support – all from HP.

Advanced snapshot management for NetApp storage
Many organizations face a critical need for backup and recovery solutions capable of supporting a broad spectrum of storage and protection hardware components. To address this need for heterogeneous vendor support, HP Data Protector is announcing support for organizations who rely on NetApp storage arrays.

This enhancement is powered by an extensible snapshot framework with several key capabilities:

• Non-disruptive, hardware assisted backup: Delivers rapid, non-disruptive, and efficient storage-based snapshots of user and application data regardless of environment powered by HP Data Protector’s Zero Downtime Backup capability.
• NetApp storage device support: Creates, deletes, and manages of snapshots on NetApp storage devices (physical and virtual) running Data ONTAP or Clustered Data ONTAP, supporting backup of VMs running on vSphere.

“At the heart of Adaptive Backup and Recovery vision is a commitment to addressing the needs of the transforming style of IT,” says David Jones, GM, enterprise data protection, HP Autonomy. “HP Data Protector is continuously advancing to accommodate the agility, scalability, and security needs of today’s data centers.“

HP Data Protector, a data protection solution, utilizes real-time operational analytics as well as integration with applications and infrastructure to optimize backup and improve BC and resiliency. The solution helps organizations meet backup and recovery challenges and business requirements with an architecture designed to scale from SMBs to the largest and most complex enterprise IT environments.

Integration with HP Helion OpenStack and NetApp storage will be available beginning August 2014.