Information is More Important than Infrastructure
Recently, I attended the Veritas Conquer Every Cloud event on January 26th. Veritas has been in business for almost 40 years, starting out as Tolerant Systems in 1983, building fault-tolerant computer systems. It was interesting to learn that their software and hardware products enable 86% of the worlds Fortune 500 companies. Veritas helps these clients manage data across traditional data centers to private, public and hybrid clouds. 40 years is a long time in tech. Veritas has managed to stay current and relevant because their solutions are designed around a guiding principle ---information is more important than infrastructure.
For over 30 years, Veritas has been well known for data protection and back up solutions. But one thing you may not know is about their strong partnership with AWS.
One of the Fireside chats during the Conquer Every Cloud conference featured Deepak Mohan, Executive Vice President of the Veritas Products Organization and Kevin Miller, AWS General Manager, Amazon S3. During the conversation Deepak and Kevin discussed the ongoing and evolving partnership.
You also may not know that Veritas achieved APN Advanced Technology Partner status in 2017
Many enterprises have deployed a hybrid strategy. In fact, Forbes predicted in 2020 that 41% of enterprise workload would run on public cloud platforms, another 20% will be private-cloud-based, while 22% would rely on hybrid cloud adoption. That means most customers are somewhere along their cloud journey. As clients travel the cloud path, their data management thinking must encompass a plan to leverage the cloud for disaster recovery as well as identify and efficiently migrate workloads to run in the cloud
For the workloads that have already migrated, as well as new cloud native applications, data management planning needs to include considerations for protecting these mission critical workloads as well as ensuring visibility across all IT environments, no matter where the data resides
Veritas solutions directly integrate with AWS storage services to reduce operational complexity and cost. Using a Veritas/AWS solution, customers benefit because they immediately gain visibility across all virtual, physical and cloud data. They can then financially optimize that increased data visibility to select the most cost efficient storage while reducing data risks. Cloud workload migrations to or from AWS can be streamlined. This strategy allows for a unified data protection for on-premises and AWS-based workloads.
Let’s break down how the solution works. The Veritas NetBackup infrastructure can send data to a NetBackup CloudCatalyst server, which then stores data in optimized formats (e.g., deduplicated, compressed) on AWS. The CloudCatalyst server maintains optimization when sending data to AWS, thus maximizing both data transfer performance and reducing storage consumption. This powerful combination of Veritas and AWS helps organizations address long-term data retention issues while at the same time offering benefits such as high performance, compatibility with storage formats, reliability, ease of management and simplicity
For me, another piece of learning that came out of the conversation with Deepak and Kevin at the Conquer Every Cloud virtual event was idea that the Veritas/AWS solution can play a role in migration. After 4 years of working with end user clients deploying this solution with AWS, Veritas has found that the backup and protection solutions it provides often serve as a helpful on-ramp for companies seeking to migrate major workloads to the cloud.
According to Gartner, Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 18.4% in 2021 to total $304.9 billion, up from $257.5 billion in 2020. It’s clear that customers are continuing to see the value of cloud and that more and more mission critical workloads are moving and will continue to move to the cloud. What matters is the ability to optimize those workloads and to increase visibility across the entire footprint. Where and how information is housed is less important than optimizing and protecting the data or information.
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