HYCU,
Inc., a pioneering enterprise software company specializing in data
backup, recovery and monitoring for multi-cloud environments, announced
HYCU for Azure, its latest purpose-built data protection solution by
expanding
HYCU Protégé. With the addition of
purpose-built support for Azure Cloud, HYCU Protégé now provides tightly
integrated data protection, migration and disaster recovery for Azure users
broadening the capability for companies to leverage their cloud of choice for
their data the way they would want to control it.
In celebration of World
Backup Day, and to address the growing need for companies to handle
the overwhelming impact of the rise in remote and at-home working in light of
the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus pandemic, HYCU is making its HYCU for Azure data
protection functionality available free of charge for the following three
months.
"Our strategy has always been to select leading platforms, be
they enterprise clouds or public cloud, and to deliver purpose-built solutions
for each platform to give a true native service and value experience for the
customer," said Simon Taylor, CEO, HYCU, Inc. "We have now introduced a
purpose-built cloud data management solution for Azure. 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.
I couldn't be prouder of our engineering team for continuing to set the bar
high in what companies should expect from their cloud-native data management
solutions."
With 60 percent of business running applications on Azure, Azure
has experienced strong growth in particular with early stage cloud-adopters.
In a recent informal survey of HYCU customers, more than 70 percent were
running applications on Azure.
Highlights of HYCU for Azure include:
- True
as a Service Offering: As opposed to legacy backup solutions
that require a separate infrastructure to run in the cloud, HYCU for Azure runs
as a native service, available via subscription directly from Azure Marketplace
and billed as part of the Azure bill.
- Extends
and Leverages the Power of the Azure Platform:
Using native snapshots and integration with Microsoft's Active Directory, HYCU
for Azure is built on native APIs, supports all BLOB storage classes and auto
selects the right class of Azure BLOB storage for the policy the customer chooses.
- Simplified,
Impact-free, Enterprise Class Data Protection of VMs/Apps on Azure:
Agentless, HYCU for Azure provides flexible backup policies to meet different
SLAs as well as 1-click view of protected and unprotected Apps/VMs. Easy to
perform granular recovery, HYCU for Azure also leverages its own IP for Change
Block Tracking to provide incremental backups forever for extremely efficient
storage consumption.
- 1-click,
App Consistent Migration from On-Premises on to Azure and Back: As
both application aware and consistent, HYCU provides 1-click migration with no
worries about network constraints. Delivered as a true self-service, even for
migration and Test/Dev, HYCU for Azure requires zero compute resources on the
cloud during migration.
- 1-click
App Consistent DR for Customers Who Want to Use Azure as a DR target:
With simplified failover and failback, no limitations with network constraints
and no additional compute required on the cloud, HYCU for Azure is an extremely
efficient and cost-efficient DR service for users that need that capability.
"HYCU continues to evolve its solutions for both on-prem and
public cloud," said Christophe Bertrand, Data Protection Senior Analyst at ESG.
"While Microsoft provides native backup service for customers who want
protection for infrequent individual VMs/Apps, for customers that need
systematic backup and recovery for business-critical applications, HYCU now
offers a cloud-native and flexible solution. It's not just an interesting
solution to protect workloads between on-prem to Azure and back, but it also
allows to leverage the power of Azure as and when customers may need it. As I
have said before, much as HYCU has done for Nutanix, VMware and GCP, they are
delivering an innovative "natively-developed" solution that will be of interest
to the growing number of Azure users."
Pricing and Availability:
HYCU for Azure is
available immediately with data migration and disaster recovery functionality
generally available in 30 days. HYCU for Azure is available on Azure Marketplace
and through authorized AZURE Provider partners. Subscription and billing are
handled through Azure Marketplace. Pricing is determined by the amount of data
being protected and the frequency of backup.