Veritas is deeply committed to enabling organizations to leverage and transition to the cloud as easily as they manage their on-premises infrastructure, delivering highly flexible, cost-effective and secure data storage. We help customers move faster to the cloud, something that is now reinforced by the recent announcement of the integration of NetBackup™ and Enterprise Vault™ with Oracle Archive Storage Cloud Service, Oracle Extends World’s Most Comprehensive Enterprise Cloud Portfolio. This comes at the heels of a series of recent Veritas announcements supporting additional cloud integrations.
This suite of services makes it much easier for developers, IT professionals, business users and analysts to build, extend and integrate cloud applications, and easily move existing on-premises workloads to the cloud. What they get is seamless, secure, on-demand access to enterprise-grade cloud storage. All delivered at speed.
What are the critical factors behind this? Most of all, to help resolve the biggest trend impacting those customers right now: the shift to a hybrid cloud future. We have taken our heritage managing heterogeneous environments to help ensure customers can transition to hybrid clouds by continuing to provide management solutions across those environments, at scale.
As far as backup goes specifically, we have been investing in solutions that allow customers to use NetBackup (7.7 being the latest version), while leveraging third-party clouds as storage repositories. Customers may depend on our solutions, but they also want the flexibility of cloud. That is why, in addition to Oracle Archive Storage Cloud Service, we support many hybrid-cloud deployments leveraging Amazon Web Services, Google Nearline and many more. This is something our customers are increasingly asking us to ensure is readily available to them. And we are delivering against that, with NetBackup 7.7 providing a tiered storage model, and up to 30x faster backups and restores when compared to previous NetBackup releases.
All of this performance is greatly enhanced by NetBackup Open Storage (OST) platform – a robust set of APIs that deliver an ecosystem by enabling third party storage platforms to take full advantage of the advanced feature set that NetBackup offers thus allowing our customers to realize the potential of their heterogeneous environment. These features help ensure a robust, enterprise-class protection and recovery experience. This includes the ability for sophisticated data reduction to drive down the cost of transmitting and storing data, along with granular recovery capabilities to expedite restores and minimize resource consumption.
The OST platform also enables integration between NetBackup and the advanced feature set on the storage platform itself, so that NetBackup customers can manage features such as snapshots and replication without ever leaving the NetBackup operating environment.
For archiving and retention management, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud Service has the potential to be used as a long term storage tier once certified for Enterprise Vault, so old or infrequently accessed data can be moved off your more precious resources. In addition, if integrated with Oracle platform’s service capabilities, Enterprise Vault workloads could be moved onto the Oracle cloud service virtual environment.
The upshot? You would be outsourcing the hardware and server maintenance, freeing up your IT staff, which can instead be deployed on more strategic projects. In the process, you will move the cost to an operating expense, rather than a capital expense.
Gather all of these paybacks together and it is not hard to see why so many customers are starting to move in this direction.