VERITAS-DATA BACKUP IN STYLE

Better data protection from the ground up

Your information is what drives your business and the availability of your information is what makes you successful.

But today’s digitalization is deepening the reliance on information even more, while exponentially increasing the sheer volume of information you have to manage. Your information is now hyper-fragmented across clouds, countries, and continents. The inevitable parallel result of this fragmentation is a creeping change to your legacy data protection, making it extremely complex and a costly burden to assure the availability of your information, putting your business at risk. Consequently, a new data protection approach is required.

We have always understood this at a fundamental level – because for over 25 years Veritas is in the business of creating the foundations that help the world’s largest organizations to manage, protect, and identify their data, even in the most complex environments. We’ve done this by focusing on the information. For your business to participate in the new digital world, you need fundamentally better data protection. That is why we - together with our trusted partners - have radically reimagined data protection from the ground up with Backup-as-a-Service Powered by Veritas – data protection built for the future in which virtually everything will be delivered and consumed ‘as-a-service’.

IT as Business Enabler

Digital business transformation forces IT to adapt and change. New trends are making it easier and more appealing for areas of the business to source services from outside the company. Unfortunately, this results in greater risks that business units may not appreciate or adequately prepare for. These services can offer the business greater agility and efficiency if they are managed properly, but in order to do that, IT needs to transform from a traditional cost center to a business enabler. The only way to make that transformation is by embracing new services and agility paradigms so they can more quickly deliver quality services that business demands, all while keeping an eye on risk exposure.

? Cloud service providers – In many cases, cloud service providers can offer a higher quality of service or equivalent service at a lower cost. IT organizations that can safely exploit these opportunities will improve their agility and cost-efficiency. IT will take on the role of a “service broker” helping business units make the best decisions on whether to utilize cloud services or leverage in-house infrastructure. For protecting data, cloud storage services are fast becoming an attractive way to store data cheaply for long durations, ideal for archiving. 

? As-a-service delivery – Service-based or “utility” delivery models enhance the quality of service for business users by providing more rapid and flexible response to user requests, regular feedback to users on status, and opportunities for IT to better gauge demand and chargeback service costs to their users, analogous to a typical domestic utility service such as power or water. The default mode for most cloud service providers, internal IT organizations are learning how to present their services in a similar manner to enhance the user experience, a concept known as “IT as a service.” For many IT services, this often includes a user-based “portal” where self-service requests can be initiated and monitored independently by users.

? Situational awareness – As business units become more independent in managing their own services, IT needs to maintain a holistic view on the overall business to ensure risk profiles and cost efficiencies are kept healthy. Management tools must evolve to give IT the proper perspective of how the overall business is operating in order to take corrective action before costs and risks running out of control.

Stop compromising, start doing

No matter whether you’re a medium enterprise or large multi-national enterprise, your digital ambitions should never be held back by your data protection solution.

Moving your data protection to a Veritas partner is the best option to assure you get uncompromised enterprise-class backup-as-a-service - all with the confidence that comes with proven Veritas technology. Our partners offer a wide range of deployment architectures, management options, pricing packages and value-added services that can be tailored to your unique business needs.

Key capabilities that characterize your backup-as-a-service solution are:

1. Central management and policy-based automation is the only way to drive operational efficiency and scale. NetBackup provides a single pane of glass to manage all aspects of your data protection from one point, while policy-based management helps automate your data protection goals to reduce the need for manual intervention.

2. Heterogeneous coverage. Your organization today is comprised of a heterogeneous IT environment and in order to reduce complexity, you must consolidate the numerous disjointed backup solutions that are used to protect it. NetBackup delivers the most comprehensive platform support in the industry, so you know your solution will reliably scale across any mix of heterogeneous systems and infrastructure – be that physical, virtual on-premises or public, private cloud, or a hybrid of all.

3. Backup speed. The key to successful backup is protecting your data without disrupting the business, within allowable backup windows. NetBackup provides advanced technologies that dramatically reduce backup times, from Accelerator that identifies and replicates only changed blocks to Replication Director that orchestrates hardware snapshots.

4. Fast, easy access to your data. NetBackup fully indexes the contents of your backups to enable you to quickly search through backup data and initiate restore operations. Individual objects, such as files, emails, or documents, can also be indexed and searched for quick granular restore.

5. Deduplication efficiencies. To keep storage and network bandwidth costs down NetBackup provides intelligent deduplication to reduce storage and network bandwidth requirements by as much as 99%. Data retained for long periods of time can be automatically moved to cheaper storage that is optimized for archiving using storage lifecycle policies.

6. NetBackup Appliances. Large on-premises data sets and network latency concerns may put you off using an offsite backup-as-a-service solution. The NetBackup Appliance delivers a turnkey replacement for your traditional build-your-own on-premises backup infrastructure, while it also functions as a backup gateway to your offsite backup service. This delivers fast on-premises backups and restores, as well as offsite backup copies for disaster recovery.

7. Disaster recovery. Within the backup-as-a-service solution, the combination of auto-image replication, physical-to-virtual conversion, and instant recovery functions enables virtualized disaster recovery in any cloud or on-premises environment that is based on VMware.

8. Information awareness. NetBackup integrates with Veritas Information Map, giving you a high level view of all information within your organization, how much there is, where it’s located, who owns it, who’s been accessing it, and other helpful attributes associated with that data, allowing you to make better-informed decisions and respond more quickly to business needs.

Conclusion

Backup-as-a-Service Powered by Veritas delivers the perfect blend of superior performance, unmatched scalability, heterogeneity, and easy use. With Veritas NetBackup at the foundation, you unleash the power and flexibility of backup-as-a-service in an unprecedented way taking your data protection to the next level. It gives you full protection over virtually any workload regardless of its location, all controlled from an easy to use a single pane of glass. Unique capabilities give assured backup and recovery performance and scalability yielding the predictability, agility and efficiencies your business requires, not just today but well into the future. With the right foundation, you can focus more on your business, less on your infrastructure. Welcome to the Backup-as-a-Service solution that says you can.