Bacula Integrated Backup and Recovery Module for OpenStack

Expanding its business in performance backup and recovery for large enterprises and MSPs, Bacula Systems SA announced its backup and recovery module for OpenStack, further broadening its compatibility with diverse technologies.

Bacula Enterprise architecture
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This aids IT directors with large or sophisticated IT environments seeking protection using a single backup and high speed recovery platform.

Some of its backup capabilities for OpenStack are:

Agentless backup and recovery of OpenStack data and applications
Full, incremental and differential block level image backup
High flexibility, via a choice of both agent and agentless backup
Snapshot-based – for hot and consistent backups

Enterprise OpenStack users can benefit from the strong security technologies in Bacula Enterprise, such as:

Linux-based backup system
Storage Daemon Encryption
SIEM integration
Automatic data poisoning protection (backup, restore, verify)
Rich security metrics
SNMP monitoring integration module
NFS Immutability support
Immutability and append-only disk-based backups for maximum protection
Immutability and archive storage backups for Oracle Cloud
Compatibility with a range of different storage media

“OpenStack users need a highly secure, customizable backup and restore solution that is fully integrated into a scalable, centralized and cross-platform backup system across their entire organization. Bacula is probably the only solution in the world to offer this degree of functionality, scalability and performance with OpenStack backup and recovery. Bacula also helps large enterprises significantly improve security levels and reduce costs. This is critical in an industry where many other backup vendors are struggling to eradicate ransomware and data poisoning damage,” said Frank Barker, CEO.

“Bacula has no capacity-based licensing, supports 34 operating system versions, leads in security, scales massively, offers in-Cloud functionality and works with more hypervisor and container types than any other backup vendor. Its flexibility is unparalleled, and this quality is especially bringing benefits to our military, government, E-commerce, ISV, and HPC customers,” said Jorge Gea, CTO.

The company’s customers include NASA, Navisite, Texas A&M University, Sky PLC, Warner Bros, and Locaweb.