HYCU announced major
enhancements to its award-winning backup and recovery SaaS offering for
Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As one of the industry's leading
cloud-native, software as a service backup and recovery solutions, HYCU
now delivers one of the most cost-efficient data backup and cloud target
utilization for backup workflows for GCP.
"Since the successful
introduction of HYCU Backup as a Service for Google Cloud, we still felt
there was a more efficient way of managing and protecting data,
leveraging the power of Google Cloud without having to stand up a dedupe
appliance or using unnecessary hardware or software infrastructure to
support GCP data protection efforts," said Simon Taylor, CEO at HYCU,
Inc. "With no additional hardware or infrastructure required, and
delivered as a native service on GCP, we now offer an extremely
efficient way to manage, protect and recover data, VMs, apps and
services for companies that rely on GCP. We are extremely excited about
our latest innovation and this builds on the work our teams have been
doing with Google Cloud for the past year and-a-half."
According to a
recent research note, "Data Protection Strategies for Google Cloud
Platform with HYCU," from industry analyst firm ESG, the adoption of
Google Cloud Platform by many organizations as their primary cloud
partner or as part of a multi-cloud strategy adds a new platform to
protect to the enterprise backup equation. With 58% of organizations now
reporting using public cloud in the form of
infrastructure-as-a-service, a 28% increase since 2017.
"Cloud is
not just here to stay, but it is becoming more and more meaningful for
organizations as they move mission-critical workloads to the cloud,"
said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst, data protection, ESG. "In
particular, as applications, data, and services are increasingly
consumed on GCP, backing up and recovering data can be significantly
simplified with the "cloud-native" purpose-built HYCU software
solution."

Starting with this update, HYCU backups will use CBT functionality to enable optimized bucket storage consumption.
"HYCU has been one of our strategic and fast-growing
data protection ecosystem partners over the past year," said Bader
Hamdan, Head of Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud. "It's been
impressive to see their momentum and continued innovation for GCP
customers. With these new enhancements, GCP customers will have an
attractive GCP native SaaS solution to address their backup and recovery
needs."
The latest enhancements to HYCU Backup as a Service for GCP include the following:
- Optimized Cloud-native Incremental:
With a new and enhanced way of addressing incremental backups and
archives for GCP workloads, GCP customers now have one of the most
cost-efficient data protection solutions available on the market today.
- Enhanced Efficiency for Data Transfer and Storage:
Aside of being a pure cloud service with no additional backup
infrastructure costs for GCP customers, and having dynamic and elastic
data mover allocation, HYCU does not require caching storage - resulting
in optimal data transfer cost for backup workflows and more efficient
use of cloud storage for dramatic cost savings.
- Dynamic Scaling Optimized for Backup, Storage and Compute:
As customers need to scale their infrastructure dynamically, they need
their data protection software to accordingly scale as easily and
efficiently. With enhancements to dynamic and scale out logic, this
results in one of the fastest and the most cost-efficient data transfers
for both small and large disks greater than 1TB+. HYCU's advanced logic
automatically adjusts the data transfer parameters (streams and
computing resources) to the size of the protected disks. This is far
more efficient than legacy solutions that are pre-allocated in-cloud
backup infrastructure and leave a static configuration of the data
transfer workloads.
- Enterprise Applications for Mission Critical Workloads: Customers can leverage the same power for applications like SAP HANA protection for GCP.
- Flexible Pricing Plans:
Annual subscription plans - Customers can now change the Entitlement
plan and use annual subscription with token-based pricing plan
- Enhanced Reporting: With built-in backup reporting added, customers can now schedule reports based on generations versions.
Pricing and Availability
HYCU Backup as a Service for Google Cloud is available on the GCP
Marketplace and through authorized Google Cloud Service Provider
partners. Subscription and billing are handled through the GCP
Marketplace. Pricing is determined by the amount of data being protected
and frequency of backup.