HYCU announced a new global reseller agreement with Lenovo. This agreement will provide Nutanix customers that purchase HYCU
Data Protection for Nutanix with Lenovo offerings directly from Lenovo and its
resellers in a single transaction. HYCU's integration with Lenovo solutions
provides a compelling and cost-attractive data protection solution that
delivers IT simplicity and multi-cloud management for the Nutanix-led data
center.
"For today's modern data center, IT organizations look for easy to
deploy and use data protection solutions that maintain a great user experience.
Our agreement with HYCU reinforces our customer-first approach and helps us
deliver high value solutions to our customers," said John Majeski, who leads
the Software and Solutions business at Lenovo Data Center Group. "Our
experience shows that our customers want IT simplicity while gaining maximum
value from their infrastructure solutions. HYCU's solutions deliver both IT
simplicity and multi-cloud data protection and when combined with Lenovo
solutions, and Nutanix, accelerate the move to the multi-cloud data center
while maximizing cost."
With HYCU, Lenovo customers gain the industry's first and only
purpose-built data protection and back-up software solution for Nutanix IT
environments by using HYCU Data Protection for Nutanix's easy to deploy and
manage software solution.
"Today's enterprises need data protection solutions that are easy
to use and deploy, are automated, can be delivered as a service and work in
multi-cloud environments," said Simon Taylor, CEO, HYCU, Inc. "Our partnership
with Lenovo is solid proof in how HYCU is helping joint customers back-up and
recover critical application data without needing unnecessary software licenses
or redundant infrastructure. This is also a reflection of the adoption of HYCU
as the emerging backup and recovery platform of choice for Nutanix customers."
HYCU Data Protection for Nutanix delivers the following benefits
and capabilities:
- Software only
solution that runs right on a Nutanix cluster
- Automated,
configuration-free application discovery, application aware backup and recovery
- Prism like look
& feel and a hypervisor-agnostic architecture to protect Nutanix and
non-Nutanix virtualized environments
- 90% faster
Nutanix Files, formerly AFS, backup that is impact free and agentless
- WAN-free backup
for Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) sites eliminates WAN network bandwidth
by up to 50%
- Application
aware storage level snapshots not just for efficient backup, but also for
rapid, infrastructure free recovery
- Human
understandable data protection policies that assures SLO compliance
- Full deployment
right from Nutanix CALM Marketplace
"Today's data centers require robust and service level-oriented
data protection solutions. The availability of HYCU for Nutanix on Lenovo
offerings will provide a robust combination for customers. From a market
perspective, we see organizations looking for eco-system optimizations for
their data protection initiatives," said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst,
Data Protection at ESG. "This newest partnership by Lenovo and HYCU is focused at
the growing number of Nutanix customers looking to deploy Nutanix Enterprise
Cloud that need a tightly integrated data protection solution. The
inherent characteristics of this solution support business and IT
objectives: agentless, application-focused, and easy to deploy and use."
Availability:
The new reseller agreement is currently available to any Lenovo
and HYCU partner. Additional information is available at https://www.hycu.com/partners/reseller-program/.