Today, Seagate announced new Hybrid Cloud Data Protection products and product enhancements that will help organizations master five key elements of modern data protection.
When moving away from operationally complex, physical silos of storage and disparate backup and recovery products and toward automatic, streamlined, modern data protection there are five elements your organization cannot afford to overlook:
- Simple Operation
- Backup-Restore-Replication Speed
- Virtually Unlimited Scale
- Strategic Data Management
- End-to-End Encryption
These are important because each allows IT teams to provide fast, secure and streamlined data protection without straining resources.
1. Simple Operation: Backup and recovery solutions that are simple to install, manage and monitor are the hallmarks of modern data protection. Simplicity is often overlooked and underrated, but with data volumes doubling every 18 months, managing islands of physical storage with a suite of unrelated backup and recovery apps is so complex that it is likely consuming more and more of your IT team’s time and budget. Simple backup and recovery operation is engineered into Seagate’s solutions.
Today, Seagate introduces additional enhancements to the simplicity of installing, managing and monitoring its Cloud Backup and Recovery Services and Cloud Backup and Recovery Software.(1)
2. Backup-Restore-Replication Speed: As data growth continues unabated, backup windows cannot increase without impacting production environments. Speed is an organizational and cultural discipline—and fundamental to modern data protection.
Today, Seagate announced a 400% performance improvement for data backup, restore and replication in the Seagate cloud. This ensures you can backup growing quantities of data in the same backup window. Seagate Backup and Recovery Software is optimized to deliver the highest possible backup and recovery throughput, handling 6TB of compressed data per hour (read speeds) on a single module for a real-world mix of jobs.(2)
3. Virtually Unlimited Scale: For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and large enterprises that must deliver uninterrupted backup and recovery services, the ability to scale storage capacity with virtually no limits and without application intervention is essential.
From today, Seagate will offer the its Backup and Recovery Private Cloud—a solution that enables MSPs and enterprises to start with an entry-level storage solution that grows organically as their clients’ data grows, with no application intervention. The Seagate Backup and Recovery Private Cloud includes built-in high availability and resiliency, and customers can buy only the necessary storage capacity and scaling out as needed—virtually without limits.
4. Strategic Data Management: Data governance results in faster time-to-market and reduced TCO, and enables you to retire older storage systems. To get the greatest value from your data and the lowest TCO from your data protection solution,
As part of today’s announcement Seagate’s data management services will analyze your data to determine its age and how often it is accessed, and then report on where your data would be most cost-effectively stored—on-premise on a Seagate Backup and Recovery appliance, or in the Seagate Cloud.
5. End-to-End Encryption: Today, it seems that not a week goes by when a highly public and costly security breach has not taken place. It’s likely the data at risk in these scenarios has not been encrypted. To mitigate risk and maintain customer loyalty, end-to-end encryption cannot be overlooked. Many data protection vendors endorse encryption, but it is essential to determine if their capabilities do, in fact, deliver end-to-end encryption rather than client-side-only encryption—which will not cut it against data security threats.
Today’s announcement reinforces that Seagate’s Cloud Backup and Recovery Services delivers end-to-end encryption. Data is encrypted before it is transmitted, while it is being transmitted over a secure VPN, and while it is being stored in the Seagate cloud. For added security, only your organization holds the key.
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1 – Formerly known as Seagate EVault
2 – Performance under lab conditions—10 Gbps network, compression and deduplication ratios of 2X-8X
