Launches New Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Solutions for SMB to Enterprise Customers
Seagate Technology adds new and updated hybrid cloud solutions in Seagate’s portfolio, including: Seagate Backup and Recovery Software, Seagate Cloud Backup and Recovery Services, Seagate Backup and Recovery Private Cloud, and Seagate Data Management Services.
“Organizations of all sizes are moving to the cloud for a variety of reasons – and data protection is certainly among the top ones,” states Jason Buffington, senior analyst of data protection at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “To meet users’ expectations of data availability and recoverability, on-premises solutions are paramount, but the cloud absolutely has a role to play in backup and disaster recovery preparedness, as well as offsite/long-term data retention. It is worth noting that IT needs have finally caught up to what Seagate’s EVault technology has been offering for nearly a decade: a heterogeneous, turnkey backup appliance with tightly-coupled cloud extensibility.”
Seagate’s Backup and Recovery solutions can be deployed quickly, minimize the time required for backups, streamline management and restore data instantaneously. Seagate is helping customers improve their total cost of ownership (TCO) with new Seagate Data Management Services that analyze data usage without manual intervention and advice on the most cost effective storage tier the data should reside on. The service enables clients to meet compliance requirements, policy enforcement and data governance.
“Today our customers and partners are faced with explosive data growth, compliance requirements, the cost and complexity of non-traditional applications like the IoT, big data and the ongoing transition to software-as-a-service,” said Mike Palmer, senior vice president and general manager of cloud solutions. “At the same time IT budgets are not increasing, security threats continue to put organizations at risk and data center operations are taking more time away from the core business. Today we are responding to each of these challenges – through new performance, scale, availability and management solutions, which drive out operational complexity and give our customers and partner’s time back to run their core business.”
Seagate’s Backup and Recovery Software and Cloud Backup and Recovery Services now deliver up to 400% performance improvement in the speed of backup, restore and replication than the previous Seagate EVault offering, making it possible for organizations of all sizes to protect large and growing datasets within their standard backup window without impacting their production environments.
