Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 Certifies Backup and Recovery Solution

Veritas Technologies, LLC announced that NetBackup 8.1.2 has received certification for protecting Docker container based workloads.

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Customers will be able to protect their containerized data and other legacy or modern workloads like SAP Hana, Hadoop or MongoDB in multi cloud, virtual and physical environments.

Containerization of modern workloads are becoming the norm for organizations all around the world as an efficient way to develop and deploy applications.

Gartner expects that “by 2020, more than 50% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, up less than 20% today.“¹

This rapid deployment is leading to questions about data integrity as an increasing number of new containerized applications are designed to create and modify persistent data. This evolution is emphasizing the need for mature backup and recovery processes that protect containerized data and applications wherever they reside.

“With certification for the Docker Enterprise container platform, Veritas once again proves its capabilities to broadly and quickly cover new modern workloads,” says Glen Simon, product and solutions marketing, Veritas. “Customers can protect their critical data across on premise deployments and in private and public cloud environments and they will benefit from Veritas’ long term strategy to rapidly support any upcoming new workload in the future.“

Flexible Backup and Restore for Containers
In container-based application architectures, some containers are designed to create or modify persistent data. In this case, the protection of the data would be critical but it also allows for other scenarios where data can be safely excluded from backup processes.

As a Docker Certified Container for backup and recovery, Veritas offers three different ways to protect containers with NetBackup, to enable maximum flexibility. It has developed a containerized NetBackup client that can be deployed as a container and utilized to protect persistent application data in this dynamic environment. Certification to the Docker Enterprise platform ensures a deployment for the customer with cooperative support from both Docker and Veritas for production environments.

Customers can also protect their physical environments as well as their modern virtual and multi-cloud deployments with enterprise scale performance as NetBackup 8.1.2 supports Docker and other next-generation workloads like Hadoop, Nutanix, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, HBase and MongoDB.

The backup and restore operations in these heterogeneous complex architectures are being managed through a simplified user interface that enables authorized employees to protect and monitor their own data and applications, wherever they reside.

Customers using NetBackup version 8.1 or later can download and use the certified NetBackup client for Docker Enterprise to protect their containerized application data. It is downloadable from Veritas.com or from the Docker Hub.

White paper: Protecting Containerized Applications with Veritas NetBackup

¹ Source: Gartner, Inc., Best Practices for Running Containers in Production, Arun Chandrasekaran, Dennis Smith, 25 July 2017.