Veritas Advanced to 360 Data Management Portfolio

Veritas Technologies LLC announced advancements to the company’s 360 data management portfolio to help organizations harness the power of their data in a complex, multi-cloud world.

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According to findings from the firm, the majority of global organizations, 56%, have a cloud-first mentality and are embracing the multi-cloud as a key component of their business strategy when it comes to deploying new applications and managing workloads. ⁽¹⁾

However, as organizations migrate on-premises data and workloads to the cloud, they face challenges and pain points, including visualizing their data, migrating data to the cloud in a simple and cost-effective manner, and protecting workloads in the cloud, in complex hybrid environments and on-premises with no vendor lock-in.

This announcement addresses these challenges with innovations to the firm’s 360 data management portfolio spanning NetBackup, Information Map and appliances.

NetBackup 8.1 protects data and workloads, ushers in ultra-fast deduplication technology
Backup and recovery remains a fundamental business requirement and grows in importance in a multi-cloud world. As a core capability of the company’s 360 data management portfolio, NetBackup 8.1 provides unified data protection for multi-cloud, virtual and physical environments that can be globally managed from a single console.

Available at the end of the month, NetBackup 8.1 will introduce deduplication technology – NetBackup CloudCatalyst – that enables customers to take advantage of the cloud while saving money.

Many organizations understand the value in using the cloud to reduce complexity and increase agility, but they are eager to reduce recurring costs associated with storing massive volumes of secondary data on a long-term basis across multiple clouds.

By deduplicating or removing duplicate copies, NetBackup Cloud Catalyst will help customers shrink the size of that data nearly three times faster ⁽²⁾ than alternative solutions in the industry. Once duplicate copies are removed, customers can then store data in the cloud at potentially much lower costs while making no physical changes to the network. With Cloud Catalyst, backups can be executed more quickly and extra cost savings can be realized when migrating data to hybrid, private or public clouds.

This deduplication technology will be available in multiple form factors as part of NetBackup 8.1, either as licensed software or the NetBackup Cloud Catalyst 5240 appliance to automate a customer’s path to multi-cloud environments.

Also new in NetBackup 8.1 is Parallel Streaming, a patented capability that enables rapid data protection of in-demand, cloud-based, scale-out workloads and applications, such as NoSQL, Hadoop and Cassandra. With others, the process to backup these critical big data workloads takes extensive amounts of time, particularly for organizations that must adhere to data protection requirements, like financial or healthcare institutions. Parallel Streaming delivers on-demand protection for the rapid deployment of these next-generation workloads.

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Information Map with data connectors takes data visibility mainstream
Information Map provides customers with a real-time picture and interactive view of their data assets. With this announcement, the immersive, visual experience of Information Map will be enhanced with connectors for 23 data sources for both on-premises and cloud-based storage repositories, enabling customers to see what data they have across an array of environments. This visibility enables customers to make better decisions about what data to retain, migrate or delete and can also help ensure compliance with data regulations around the world, such as HIPAA and the European Union’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation.

This connectors will be available in the coming quarters, at no additional cost and include Microsoft Azure Storage, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, SQL Server, Microsoft Office 365, Exchange, Google Drive,Google Cloud Storage, Oracle Database, Box and others.

Additional product integrations will also be available with Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault and Access, providing visibility into data, regardless of where it resides. Information Map is available as a stand-alone purchase or as part of the company’s 360 Data Management Suite.

To deploy the new connectors, customers will be able to leverage Information Map’s Connection Center a central interface for managing all data store connectors that also includes a sharable, plug-and-play framework to accelerate development and delivery of these and future connectors, from the company and his technology partners.

NetBackup 5340 appliance delivers customer choice
with scalable and resilient data protection
Many organizations prefer a hardware appliance form factor for their data protection and management as a means of simplifying and accelerating deployment, whether in the data center, a remote office or in the multi-cloud. The NetBackup 5340 appliance, available in the coming quarter, will offer all the benefits of NetBackup 8.1 in a reliable, performance integrated appliance, as well as the ability to scale and protect tens to hundreds of petabytes of data.

“We are living in the age of multi-cloud, where organizations require a policy-driven data management strategy to protect valuable data assets across multiple data centers, public and hybrid clouds,” said Mike Palmer, EVP and chief product officer, Veritas. “Today, with more than 20 new connectors in Information Map and advancements to NetBackup 8.1, organizations can now protect more cloud-based workloads, reduce storage costs in multi-cloud environments and gain increased visibility of data that historically has been hard to identify-all critical components of a successful multi-cloud strategy.“

“With over 16 years of industry experience, as a Veritas Platinum partner and managed services provider, we work with clients to host and deploy solutions on-premises or in the cloud. It’s imperative today to have a technology that enables businesses and government agencies to protect and manage data, archive what’s required, and expire what isn’t both on-premises and in the cloud,” said Matthew Edwards, president, bluesource, Inc. “Veritas offers new capabilities in NetBackup 8.1 that include industry-leading insight, availability and data protection technology to help customers protect petabytes of data and quickly find and recover critical data at a moment’s notice.“

⁽¹⁾ Source: Results of a study commissioned by Veritas and conducted by Vanson Bourne, that surveyed 1,200 global business and IT decision makers in 2017.
⁽²⁾ Source: Veritas internal benchmark testing in 2017 that compared NetBackup CloudCatalyst with competitive backup software
⁽³⁾ Source: Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions, Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen, Robert Rhame, July 31, 2017
⁽⁴⁾ Source: Gartner, Inc., Market Share Analysis: Data Center Backup and Recovery Software, Worldwide, 2016, JP Corriveau, Dave Russell, August 9, 2017