HYCU, which supplies industry-respected knowledge backup, restoration and monitoring for hyperconverged IT infrastructures, is taking its enterprise one massive, intentional step at a time.
The Boston-based firm, branded Comtrade Software till it renamed itself after its No. 1 product two years in the past, on March 31—World Data Backup Day—introduced a serious addition to its new-gen Protégé SaaS providing, this time to accommodate workloads on the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform.
With the addition of the brand new purpose-built assist for Azure Cloud, the corporate stated, Protégé now supplies tightly built-in knowledge safety, migration and catastrophe restoration for Azure customers. The entire concept HYCU has is to supply extra choices for firms to pick out their cloud of selection for his or her knowledge the best way they might need to management it.
The addition of Azure follows the November 2019 addition for assist for Google Cloud Platform. HYCU began out life in 2017 as a purpose-built backup and data-retention package deal for Nutanix storage techniques, grew quick together with the expansion of Nutanix itself, after which added assist for VMware earlier than including the GCP possibility. So, with Azure, the corporate has made 4 massive additions over its HYCU historical past.
Elephant within the room?
Eventually, that elephant within the room, Amazon Web Services, might turn into the subsequent massive step for HYCU, though mum’s the phrase on the firm. If and when that does occur, eWEEK will likely be there to assist unfold the phrase.
“These additions all are really end-to-end (storage and data recovery) point solutions for these major clouds—both enterprise clouds and public clouds,” CEO Simon Taylor instructed eWEEK. “We wished to make all that knowledge extra accessible and priceless for patrons. So we’ve created one thing we name an inverted platform, the place we took the components–like keys on a piano–the Nutanix key, the VMware key, the GCP key and Azure key, and positioned all of them below one consolidated administration framework and created a single pane of glass, referred to as HYCU Protégé.
“What we’ve really built is a multi-cloud data management platform.”
In celebration of World Backup Day, and to deal with the rising want for firms to deal with the overwhelming influence of the rise in distant and at-home working in mild of the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus pandemic, HYCU is making its HYCU for Azure knowledge safety performance accessible freed from cost for the next three months, Taylor stated.
“With HYCU for Azure, customers will be able to migrate data from on-prem to the cloud, protect the data on Azure, make Azure a DR target for both applications and VMs running on-prem and also have a simplified DR solution for their applications on Azure,” Taylor stated.
Plenty of firms operating Azure
With 60 % of enterprise operating functions on Azure, Azure has skilled sturdy progress specifically with early stage cloud-adopters. In a latest casual survey of HYCU clients, greater than 70 % had been operating functions on Azure, the corporate stated.
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