Veritas Boosting Application Performance and Data Protection and Management on AWS

Veritas Technologies LLC announced at AWS re:Invent capabilities for InfoScale and NetBackup designed to optimize enterprise application migration and simplify data protection deployment within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

InfoScale delivers software-defined storage for the cloud and helps ensure application performance, scale and resiliency requirements are met. Additionally, protecting these applications and other cloud-based workloads has now been made easier with the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for NetBackup. These latest capabilities join a host of existing company’s cloud data management solutions that support a variety of AWS use cases, from data governance and protection to migration and DR.

As organizations look to shift from upfront Capex investments to pay-as-you-go Opex models, many are prioritizing AWS resources to replace costly on-premises infrastructure. In fact, according to the company’s research, 53% of mission-critical applications will be in the public cloud this year.

This accelerating shift shows that before refreshing on-premises hardware, organizations are looking first to the cloud.

However, one major roadblock to simply ‘lifting and shifting’ applications like Oracle, SAP, and other resource intensive workloads is the performance and resiliency tradeoffs. While IT has the option of refactoring these applications to work natively in the cloud, doing so can be both a massive time commitment and an expensive undertaking.

InfoScale enables the speed and cost-effectiveness of lifting and shifting to AWS while helping ensure the performance, scalability and resiliency of those enterprise applications. The NetBackup AMI simplifies data protection deployment-both in and out of the cloud-as part of the NetBackup platform’s single pane of glass experience and comprehensive solution to protect all physical, virtual and cloud-based workloads.

Announcement serves as an point of company’s strategy to deliver cloud data management solutions that address major areas of cloud transformation:

Information Map

• Global data visibility – Blindly moving data and applications to the cloud can drive up cost and increase risk. In fact, 52% of enterprise storage budgets are already spent on storing dark data. With Information Map, businesses understand what data they have, who owns it and how old it is, providing the insight needed to ensure they are moving the right data, to the right location, at the right time.

• Simple cloud migration – Without the proper tools, migrating data and application workloads to the cloud can prove to be a complicated and costly exercise. To provide simple and cost-effective cloud migration, the company leverages the knowledge of data and application interdependencies built into InfoScale to alleviate storage bottlenecks and enable seamless and intelligent data migration to the AWS cloud. Organizations with hybrid-cloud strategies can now gain the same increased workload portability, resiliency and control in the cloud that they are used to on-premises.

• Optimized application performance – Lifting and shifting enterprise applications to the cloud can impose performance tradeoffs. The application-awareness and intelligent data caching built into InfoScale software-defined storage offerings alleviates those trade-offs, giving customers an accelerated, yet enterprise-ready environment to maximize mission-critical application performance in the cloud. This means that organizations with mission critical tier-one applications such as Oracle, TIBCO, SAP and other OLTP/OLAP workloads, can take advantage of the scale and economics of AWS infrastructure without sacrificing performance and reliability.

• Unified data protection – The complexity of protecting data using point products is exponentially higher with the adoption of multiple cloud infrastructures. NetBackup delivers a reliable and unified data protection experience that siloed and disparate products cannot provide. With the release of NetBackup 8.0, AWS customers can leverage the NetBackup AMI for a preconfigured and customizable cloud deployment of NetBackup in minutes.

“Our customers are leveraging Veritas solutions to integrate Amazon S3 into their data lifecycle management strategy,” said Mike Palmer, EVP, chief product officer, Veritas. “Interest in moving tier-one enterprise applications such as Oracle and SAP to the cloud is growing. Veritas is leading the efforts to enable these organizations have a seamless, scalable and cost-effective solution to access, share and leverage cloud storage without having to sacrifice performance or resiliency.“

“As more organizations increasingly turn to various types of clouds to run some or all of their mission-critical applications, the ability to migrate and manage data between and across platforms-not just at all, but simply-becomes vital,” said Mark Peters, practice director and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “By creating solutions for these hybrid cloud environments, and specifically building-in support for AWS, Veritas is providing customers with an efficient way to both manage their data and also to gain seamless access to the world’s largest public cloud provider.“