Backblaze,
Inc. and HYCU, Inc. the fastest-growing data protection as a service company,
announced a new partnership to help protect workloads across on-prem and
public cloud IT environments. Together, the two companies are offering
affordable, agile data protection and recovery to customers worldwide.
"With
more applications in use across the modern data center, visibility and the
ability to protect that mission-critical data has never been at more of a
premium," said Subbiah Sundaram, Senior Vice President Product, HYCU, Inc. "Our
collaboration with Backblaze now offers joint customers a cost-effective and
scalable data protection solution combining the best in backup and recovery
with Backblaze's streamlined and secure cloud storage."
The average midsize enterprise uses upwards of 200 different sets of data or
"data silos" spread across a growing number of applications, databases,
and physical locations. HYCU gives customers the power to protect every byte
from ransomware or other data loss events and manage all their business
critical data in one place. Most importantly, it gives customers the ability to
recover from disaster almost instantly, keeping them on line and in business,
with the company sharing an average recovery time of less than 10
minutes.
By
pairing Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage-an S3-compatible object storage platform
that provides highly durable, instantly available hot storage priced at ⅕
of legacy provider pricing-with HYCU, the partnership offers the following
benefits:
- Performance: With a 99.9% uptime service level
agreement (SLA) and no cold delays or speed premiums, storing data in
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage means joint customers have instant access to
their data whenever and wherever they need it.
- Affordability: Existing customers can reduce
their total cost of ownership by switching backup tiers with interoperable
S3-Compatible storage, while others who may not have been able to afford
the solution can now protect their data. And Backblaze's industry-leading
provision of free download (also known as egress) means joint customers
don't need to worry about exorbitant fees for accessing or moving data.
- Compliance and Security: With Backblaze B2's Object Lock
feature, the partnership also offers an additional layer of security
through data immutability, which protects backups from ransomware and
satisfies evolving cyber insurance requirements.
"Backblaze
and HYCU is a game changer for higher education organizations and businesses
who need flexible data management and storage. This partnership brings together
HYCU's speed and Backblaze's affordability, and both platform's simplicity,"
said Elton Carneiro, Senior Director, Partnerships at Backblaze. "We're
excited to partner our storage cloud with HYCU to make data protection much
more affordable and accessible."
The companies shared that
integration of Backblaze into HYCU is the first step in their partnership, with
the intention to offer B2 Cloud Storage as a part of HYCU's other data
protection offerings in the future.