Veritas Technologies, a multi-cloud data management company, has announced the release of new technology to support its cloud-optimised, Autonomous Data Management strategy, which will simplify data management and automate ransomware protection. Veritas unveiled its Autonomous Data Management approach at its Conquer Every Cloud 2022 event, in which NetBackup uses artificial intelligence and hyper-automation to self-provision, self-optimise, and self-heal in multi-cloud environments. Veritas Cloud Scale Technology, a new generation of the industry-leading NetBackup architecture that has been modernised to work at web scale, reaffirmed this promise right away. The latest version of the company's flagship NetBackup programme will have this cutting-edge capability.
Andy Ng, Vice President and Managing Director for Asia South and Pacific Region at Veritas Technologies said: “Accelerated digital transformation and cloud adoption is delivering benefits to businesses. However, a new joint advisory from the Australian, US and UK security services highlighted that hackers are increasing the impact of their ransomware attacks by targeting cloud services and data. As businesses push for digitalisation, it is critical to adopt a proactive stance against cyber exploits and malicious actors. To address these challenges, Veritas is charting its strategy that will help to optimise cloud footprint and costs, keep data safe from ransomware, and pave the way to Autonomous Data Management.”
Cloud Scale Technology
Veritas Cloud Scale Technology, powering NetBackup, will be the foundation that delivers this strategy. Cloud Scale Technology delivers a containerised, programmable, and AI-powered microservices architecture that offers automated, unified data management services across any cloud. With the release of NetBackup 10, the advantages of Cloud Scale Technology become clear.
NetBackup 10
Powered by Cloud Scale Technology, NetBackup 10 is the industry’s first cloud-optimised, at-scale data management solution that applies web scale technologies and automation to deliver more cost-effective, efficient and secure data management in multi-cloud environments.
Lowered TCO through cloud-optimisation
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NetBackup 10 features enhanced multi-cloud storage and orchestrated tiering capabilities, including deep support for Amazon Web Services and expanded support for Microsoft Azure, to reduce the cost of backup storage by up to 95%.
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NetBackup’s leading deduplication services have been upgraded to help further minimise its cloud footprint, while elastic multi-cloud compute services deliver the exact scale needed by businesses at the right time, further reducing costs.
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With support for all major Kubernetes distributions, NetBackup 10 now provides multi-cloud cross-platform recovery, allowing users to recover the data they want to any Kubernetes distribution.
Increased efficiency through simplified, automated operations
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NetBackup SaaS Protection is now integrated with NetBackup 10 to provide a single-pane-of-glass view of a customer’s entire data protection estate for governance and compliance purposes.
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NetBackup 10 includes a new fully integrated no-cost base version of NetBackup IT Analytics, formerly known as Veritas APTARE, to provide comprehensive artificial intelligence-driven analytics and reporting that streamlines data protection services and mitigates risks.
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NetBackup 10 features new automated detection and protection for more platform-as-a-service workloads, including Apache Cassandra, all major Kubernetes distributions and Microsoft Azure Managed SQL and Azure SQL.
Enhanced ransomware resiliency through integrated malware scanning
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NetBackup now provides automatic malware scanning during backups and restores to ensure infection-free data recovery.
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NetBackup’s already powerful, artificial intelligence-driven anomaly detection can now automatically initiate malware scanning. This combination of ransomware detection services in NetBackup 10 provides content-aware, granular flexibility that delivers rapid restoration of clean data.
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NetBackup 10 expands support for immutable storage, including Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.
By automating data management workflows, Veritas thinks it can tackle the issues that businesses face as they deal with the volume and variety of workloads and data they must manage. Veritas envisions a future in which its technology can provide, optimise, and repair data management services autonomously while also empowering end-users to perform self-service data protection and recovery, freeing IT employees to focus on strategic and transformational initiatives.
Christophe Bertrand, Practice Director, ESG, said: “It’s easy for organisations to end up with a patchwork of piecemeal data protection solutions in the cloud, where individual workloads and applications have been deployed by new functional decision makers and managed in silos. But, over time, these add up, creating a continually growing cost and management burden that quickly becomes unsustainable at scale. In order to avoid this, enterprises need a long-term solution that can help to reduce the footprint of their cloud backup and automate its management.”
Everton da Costa, IT Manager at Prodesp, IT Company from São Paulo State, said: “The number of different clouds, SaaS applications, platforms and tools we’re using is growing rapidly, exposing our data across a broad and diverse landscape. Our IT team has to constantly anticipate and manually address the challenges this creates before they become financial and infrastructure burdens. The long-term solution cannot be to simply expand our environment, but to evolve our approach in an intelligent way so it autonomously adapts to our increasingly complex infrastructure needs. Veritas’ vision for multi-cloud optimised data management aligns with our goals and will help us ensure that we are prepared for any challenges ahead.”
