Bacula V.18 Backup and Recovery Software for HPCs and Large Enterprises

Expanding in high security, high performance backup and recovery for HPC, super computing and other demanding IT environments, Bacula Systems SA announced a range of performance capabilities and features in the latest version of its backup and recovery software.

Bacula architecture

Some of these features further build on company’s already leading security qualities, others expand on solution’s ability to achieve a complete technology fit with even the most complex IT environments.

Of the many new features in this major release, one is BGuardian, in the area of added security. BGuardian further compliments firm’s already especially strong security qualities. It has new security tools such as data poisoning detection, centralized encryption and an all-new cybersecurity dashboard for single-pane security control across an entire organization.

The company’s software modular architecture is due in part to a choice of technology-specific modules.

Its wide and flexible fit into complex environments grows even further with the introduction of Version 18’s new modules:

• OpenStack Module

• Amazon EC2 Module

• Hyper-V WinAPI Module

• Exchange EWS Module

Enterprise Version 18 also introduces upgrades to the offer’s previously available Kubernetes, VMware and Oracle backup modules and expands its range of storage immutability capabilities. It delivers an increase in vendor’s multi-tenancy feature-set and also includes a range of new automation features.

“Organizations using complex and high performance IT environments need more automation, much higher security and to drive costs down. Bacula is uniquely equipped to upgrade the backup and recovery strategy of large organizations and to ensure they avoid capacity-based licensing of backup software, to streamline their IT spending,” said Frank Barker, CEO.

“Bacula’s highly scalable architecture complements its non-capacity-based licensing to offer enormous savings to users. At the same time, it brings entire, complex IT environments into the safe-harbour of BGuardian; Bacula’s advanced security technology for unprecedented protection against ransomware and data poisoning. Our military, government, Research, ISV, and HPC customers have chosen Bacula for its extraordinary security levels, its cloud-agnostic approach and its compatibility with a vast range of different storage media,” said Jorge Gea, CTO.

Bacula’s customers include NASA, Navisite, Texas A&M University, Sky PLC, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Locaweb.

Resources:
Blog: OpenStack Backup and Recovery: Best Practices, Built-in Methods and Solutions   
Blog: HPC Data Centers