HPE: Hybrid Cloud Data Protection and Copy Data Management Solutions for Nimble Storage and 3par

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) announced a hybrid cloud data protection and copy data management solutions for its storage portfolio.

These capabilities allow customers to increase operational efficiency by up to 95%^[1], enable faster backup to the cloud, and reduce cloud storage costs by up to 20x ^[2]:

Next generation of StoreOnce backup appliance portfolio increases BC with flash speed data protection in the data center and cost-efficient archive and DR in the cloud
Recovery Manager Central (RMC) 6.0 simplifies data protection and copy data management for Nimble Storage
StoreOnce with Commvault Systems, Inc. ‘s software integration reduces the storage footprint and network bandwidth requirements to the cloud
GreenLake Backup is enhanced with next-generation StoreOnce and Commvault software integration, offering consumption-based IT models and reducing costs by up to 30% ^[3]

StoreOnce appliances

As the engine of digital transformation, data is an organization’s most valuable currency. The ability to gain actionable insights and unlock the economic value of data is critical for driving business outcomes. However, managing and protecting that data is increasingly challenging. Exploding data growth, demanding SLA requirements, and an evolving threat landscape are putting pressure on IT to embrace an intelligent storage approach to protecting applications across their private and public cloud estate.

“Businesses need a built-for-cloud approach to data protection and copy data management on premises and in the cloud for simple and efficient data mobility,” said Patrick Osborne, VP, secondary storage and big data product management, HPE. “The solutions and services announced enable HPE 3PAR and HPE Nimble Storage customers to effortlessly orchestrate intelligent, multi-tiered data protection from on premises arrays to the public cloud – driven by policy and business need.“

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Next-generation StoreOnce optimizes cloud investment
An increasing number of organizations are now deploying a cloud-first strategy, mandating that their IT functions are built for cloud. StoreOnce systems deliver simple, cost-efficient and secure backup to the cloud. As a result, customers can leverage the benefits of the cloud for long-term retention of backup data to help with regulatory or governance compliance or DR, while continuing to use on-premises performance-optimized StoreOnce systems for short-term operational recovery, enabling fast restore.

“The significant performance, capacity and manageability improvements offered by the next generation HPE StoreOnce lets us and our customers protect more data, faster, and for less,” said Sebastian Koehler, solution architect, Godyo Enterprise Computing AG. “The new HPE StoreOnce systems enable simpler and more rapid provisioning of new data protection storage, while the introduction of the larger HPE StoreOnce VSA along with the new flexible License Server is game changing for the quick deployment and re-deployment of HPE StoreOnce as a virtual appliance. All of this coupled with the proven inbuilt performance and efficiency of HPE StoreOnce Catalyst and replication provides customers with the capabilities they need out of the box for fast, reliable operational recovery.“

Next-generation StoreOnce with Cloud Bank Storage improves the performance and agility of hybrid cloud data protection for environments including Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure by copying only unique data to the cloud, and stores encrypted, self-describing backup data for simple cloud DR. The StoreOnce platform reduces operational time by as much as 95%^[4] with an unified view of multiple StoreOnce systems – both on premises and in the cloud.

“Cloud is a strategic priority in every organization today, and data protection is a popular use case,” said Tad Brockway, GM, Azure storage, Microsoft Corp. “Next generation HPE StoreOnce with Cloud Bank Storage delivers simple, efficient and secure backup to the cloud. With the combination of Microsoft Azure and HPE StoreOnce, enterprises are able to move data faster and reduce downtime risk.“

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RMC 6.0 for Nimble storage delivers cloud agility at flash speed
Businesses are looking to leverage their backup data for more than just recovery. They are evolving their data protection process from being a reactive insurance policy to a proactive, value-added service for their organization.

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The RMC delivers a simpler, centralized copy data management solution currently available for 3PAR and extended to Nimble Storage. Using RMC 6.0 for direct backup from the firm’s storage arrays to StoreOnce delivers approximately 23X^[5] faster backup and about 15X faster ^[6] recovery with less cost and complexity than competing solutions.

Nimble Strorage appliance

“Our research shows that fragmented, inefficient secondary data copy sprawl is putting pressure on costs and intensifying risk for many organizations,” said Christophe Bertrand, senior data protection analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “HPE storage-integrated copy data management with RMC 6.0 helps solve the challenges of copy data proliferation and manual data provisioning with fast, automated and zero-impact data access for recovery, archive, analytics and application development.“

Commvault integration extends StoreOnce software partner ecosystem
Commvault’s backup and recovery software integration with StoreOnce provides backup to the cloud. Commvault customers can benefit from up to 20x^[7] lower cloud storage costs, faster backups, and approximately 95%^[8] less backup storage and network traffic.

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“This announcement further strengthens the partnership between Commvault and HPE, providing our mutual customers with a simple, efficient, fast and secure hybrid cloud data protection solution,” said Owen Taraniuk, head, WW partnerships and market development, Commvault. “The combination of Commvault software and the next generation HPE StoreOnce platform seamlessly extends the datacenter to the cloud, enabling organizations to move data where it needs to be.“

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Optimized cloud economics

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The company’s customers can gain from applying cloud economics to the security and control of their on-premises infrastructure with a consumption-based IT billing model that aligns and grows with business needs. The consumption-based IT models and GreenLake Flex Capacity planning strategies with GreenLake Backup will be enhanced with the next-generation StoreOnce and the Commvault integration, delivering 30% savings with GreenLake Flex Capacity ^[9]. The complete backup solution is designed, operated and implemented by the firm’s Pointnext.

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Additionally, advisory and professional services for Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud offered by Pointnext help customers define and implement a hybrid IT backup strategy that delivers end-to-end support for the customer environment from primary storage to StoreOnce and Microsoft Azure.

Pricing and availability:

StoreOnce is available starting at $4,800 for a StoreOnce virtual storage appliance
RMC 6.0 will be available December 2018 and comes standard with every 3PAR and Nimble Storage array
Commvault integration with StoreOnce is available ^[10]
GreenLake Backup is available.

Resources:
HPE data protection solutions
StoreOnce
Recovery Manager Central (RMC)
GreenLake backup
Blog: HPE and Commvault: Simplified backup and recovery for your business
Enhance data protection with HPE storage and HPE Complete Commvault software
HPE GreenLake Backup—Back up on-premises and on-demand
HPE StoreOnce Catalyst: A Solution for Enhanced Data Protection WP
Video: Defining HPE StoreOnce Catalyst: Backup Appliance and Data Protection Solution
Blog: Simplifying hybrid cloud data protection with new solutions
Blog: Protect and manage copies of your database with HPE storage solutions
Blog: HPE RMC 6.0: Storage-integrated data protection and copy data management at the speed of all-flash
Blog: How next-gen HPE StoreOnce simplifies hybrid cloud data protection

^[1] Based on management of federation of 20 StoreOnce Next Gen appliances compared to management of 20 x StoreOnce G3 appliances independently (In cloud or on premises)
^[2] Assuming de-dupe ratio of 20:1 as compared to a fully hydrated backup
^[3] A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic Impact of HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, May 2018. Results are for a composite organization based on interviewed customers.
^[4] Based on management of federation of 20 StoreOnce Next Gen appliances compared to management of 20xStoreOnce G3 appliances independently (In cloud or on premises)
^[5] Based on HPE testing comparison between HPE Recovery Manager Central and traditional backup environments
^[6] Based on HPE testing comparison between HPE Recovery Manager Central and traditional backup environments
^[7] Assuming de-dupe ratio of 20:1 as compared to a fully hydrated backup
^[8] Assuming de-dupe ratio of 20:1 as compared to a fully hydrated backup
^[9] A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic Impact of HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, May 2018. Results are for a composite organization based on interviewed customers.
^[10] Commvault support for HPE Cloud Bank Storage will be available November 2018.