Seagate brings hybrid cloud data protection solutions

BANGALORE, INDIA: Seagate Technology plc, has announced new and updated Hybrid Cloud Data Protection solutions that enable customers to manage explosive data growth and increasingly complex security needs easily and cost effectively.

The new and updated hybrid cloud solutions in Seagate’s portfolio include: Seagate Backup and Recovery Software1, Seagate Cloud Backup and Recovery Services2, Seagate Backup and Recovery Private Cloud, and Seagate Data Management Services.

These solutions will be delivered by Seagate, its value added resellers (VARs) and managed service providers (MSPs) to customers from small and medium sized businesses up through large enterprises for private, public and hybrid cloud deployments.

“Organizations 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 of data protection at the 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 disaster recovery 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.”

Seagate is helping customers improve their total cost of ownership (TCO) with new Seagate Data Management Services that analyze 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.