Seagate Technology has updated its Hybrid Cloud Data Protection solutions, including Seagate Backup and Recovery Software, Cloud Backup and Recovery Services, Backup and Recovery Private Cloud, and Data Management Services, to enable customers to manage data growth and increasingly complex security needs easily and cost effectively.
 
"Organisations 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, data protection, 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 DR 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. What will be interesting to watch is the continued scale, speed and management innovation recently announced, as well as the portfolio assimilation by Seagate, as they continue to be in front of what IT is looking for in a disk-plus-cloud hybrid approach to data protection."
 
One of the challenges facing IT teams is the need to shorten backup and recovery times. Company's Backup and Recovery solutions can be deployed quickly, minimize the time required for backups, management and restore data instantaneously. The company is helping customers improve their TCO with Data Management Services that analyse data usage without manual intervention and advise 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.
 
Backup and Recovery Software and Cloud Backup and Recovery Services deliver up to 400% performance improvement in the speed of backup, restore and replication than the previous 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. The software is optimized to deliver the highest possible backup and recovery throughput, and can handle up to 6TB of compressed data per hour (read speeds) on a single module for a real-world mix of jobs.
 
Backup and Recovery Private Cloud is a scale out infrastructure for MSPs or large enterprises requiring a solution that supports the growing cloud-based backup requirements of many clients or departments. The Backup and Recovery Private Cloud supports multi-tenancy and delivers speed, virtually unlimited scale, and HA. MSPs or enterprise customers can start with the storage capacity they need and grow to petabyte scale, scaling up to 1PB in two racks of tier-1 storage and 2PB in one rack of tier-2 storage. The scale out aspect of company's Backup and Recovery Private Cloud has virtually no bounds.