Data protection for the enterprise - how good is good enough?

In today’s data-driven enterprise environment, the reliance on IT to sustain business continuity is more acute than ever. As cloud capabilities improve, businesses are moving more data and workloads to the cloud and taking advantage of cloud-hosted solutions, making multifaceted data management and protection essential.

Enterprise IT commonly includes a wide variety of platforms, applications and infrastructure that often grows with the size of the enterprise. Any backup and recovery solution selected must, therefore, support a vast array of environments and integrate with every layer of the infrastructure stack to ensure a unified data protection strategy.

The turbulent world we’re living in right now adds another dimension. Keeping data secure, compliant and available - regardless of where it lives - is vital. With much of an enterprise workforce currently working remotely, your customers need the ability to protect and rapidly recover business-critical data across hybrid, physical, virtual and multi-cloud environments.

Also, empowering employees to continue operating productively and safely is incredibly important. IT resiliency and efficiency are critical - preferably with reduced complexity, cost and risk.

Challenges your customers might be facing

Uncover some of the business challenges that might drive your customers to evaluate and select an enterprise-class data protection solution. 

• Their cloud service provider not providing cloud backup.
• Governance and security concerns.
• Deployment of cloud workloads requiring a more granular level of recovery than cloud-based snapshots allowing them to continue their hybrid cloud.
• The need to eliminate IT cost/complexity.
• Changing or evolving regulatory requirements.
• Increased risk (of downtime/unprotected workloads).

Veritas NetBackup 8.3

Long recognised as the market leader in enterprise backup and recovery software, Veritas NetBackup™ eliminates the cost and complexity of point products while scaling to any size workload. The latest release (8.3) delivers breakthrough capabilities for virtualised and cloud-based deployments that go well beyond what traditional backup practices can achieve. It provides unified data protection from edge to core to cloud to optimise business resiliency, recover at scale, protect any workload, and reduce risk. It provides enterprises with protection from the unforeseen and offers several key benefits, including:

• Business risk management - rapid recovery from catastrophic business events, including everything from lost files and ransomware attacks to data centre downtime. From backup appliances to cloud storage, NetBackup integrates at every point in the technology stack to maximise reliability and performance.
• Confidence that “it just works” - the most popular enterprise data protection software for over a decade, NetBackup has been named a leader in every Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Enterprise Data Protection, published now for the 15th time. Veritas has a history of innovation, and a large global team and community to help customers and partners keep their data safe, accessible and compliant.
• Reduced cost and complexity - a single, unified solution to protect every data asset, eliminating the need for point products. Support for virtually every server, storage, hypervisor (direct integration with VMware vSphere®, Microsoft® Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat Virtualization, Docker, Azure Stack and OpenStack), database, application and cloud platform used by enterprises today.
• Future-proofed - with hundreds of patents covering cloud, containers, backup, recovery, virtualisation, I/O optimisation, deduplication and snapshot management, NetBackup continues the long Veritas tradition of bringing advanced technologies to market first. Customers can integrate with future technologies and adapt as environments change.

NetBackup 8.3 - what's new? 

NetBackup 8.3 is a feature-rich release providing unified data protection for any size environment to optimise business resiliency, recover at scale, protect any workload, and reduce risk. It comes at a critical time when demand for cloud computing and standardisation is skyrocketing so it’s more important than ever to help your customers scale their data protection into the cloud. Some key new features include:

• Strengthened ransomware resiliency.
• Support for public cloud agentless snapshot based protection for AWS, Azure and GCP compute and storage.
• Now bundled with Veritas Resiliency Platform enabling automation for large scale recovery actions.
• Cloud-to-anywhere with orchestrated disaster recovery using VRP integration.
• Expanded workload support for total control of discovery, backup, restore, and automation at scale.

What can your customers expect?

Customers selecting Veritas NetBackup 8.3 can expect enterprise-class scale, performance, and extensive workload integrations. Veritas also has strategic alliances with top cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, IBM and Oracle. Reported benefits include:

• Enhanced IT reliability/resiliency.
• Faster cloud backups with reduced complexity.
• Improved protection and availability.
• Improved scalability.
• Improved visibility wherever data lives (uncovering dark/redundant data).
• Increased storage and application performance.
• A single point of management (a considerable benefit in hybrid cloud environments).
• Reduced overall and storage costs.
• The ability to recover data when and where needed.
• Identification of unstructured data risk in the cloud (with AI and user behaviour analytics).

How Dicker Data helps 

The team at Dicker Data supports ANZ partners in designing data protection and recovery solutions for enterprise clients across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Dicker Data has 18 licencing specialists including qualified product and business development managers.

If you'd like to speak to one of our representatives, please contact our team.