Veritas CloudPoint 2.0 Snapshot-Based Data Protection Software Certified for Google Cloud Platform

Veritas Technologies LLC announced CloudPoint 2.0, the second release of the company’s snapshot-based data protection technology, now certified for the Google Cloud Platform.

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CloudPoint 2.0 adds enhanced data protection to Google Cloud’s native snapshot capabilities, providing joint customers with increased simplicity, improved search capabilities and enhanced protection of new workloads and applications in multi-cloud environments.

A year ago, as part of a global strategic partnership, the company announced a number of technology integration to advance data management capabilities for Google Cloud Platform customers. Today, as more enterprise customers choose Google Cloud for its core infrastructure, data analytics and machine learning capabilities, they also understand the need for a cloud-native way to ensure their data is protected and recoverable within Google Cloud.

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CloudPoint 2.0 is an enterprise-grade solution built natively for the cloud that automates discovery and protection of Google cloud workloads. With CloudPoint, the company brings application consistency to Google Cloud Platform’s Persistent Disk snapshots, indexing for single file restores, replication for DR readiness and search capabilities that make it easy to find and delete personally identifiable information (PII) to help meet global regulatory requirements.

“With data protection being a top priority for cloud-enabled enterprises, over the past year with Google, we have been helping our joint customers archive, discover and manage data in the cloud,” said Mike Palmer, EVP and chief product officer, Veritas. “Today, we are building on that partnership by layering Veritas’ powerful data protection expertise on top of Google Cloud Platform’s native snapshot capabilities to provide a simple, flexible, enterprise-grade data protection solution for Google Cloud-based workloads.“

“Enterprises today are always looking for ways to automate processes and simplify operations, and this extends to data protection in the cloud,” said Phil Goodwin, research director, IDC. “Veritas CloudPoint 2.0 is architected so that new workloads and applications can be auto-discovered and protected with snapshots, as soon as they launch, all through a central dashboard and across multiple cloud environments. This product is designed specifically for cloud-native data protection, yet based on Veritas’ heritage of providing enterprise data protection, it will be of particular interest to organizations with a Google Cloud Platform strategy.“

According to a recent company’s study, more than two-thirds of organizations say they use, or plan to use, two or more cloud providers, and 68% of those use a backup product from the same provider ⁽¹⁾. Many of these organizations also deploy legacy on-premises solutions for data protection as well, making the use of three or more backup tools at any given time very likely. In these multi-cloud environments, organizations are also often challenged with numerous, and often proprietary backup formats, as well as continuous and manual application and workload backup operations.

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With CloudPoint 2.0, organizations can benefit from:

• Simplified data protection – Customers no longer need to struggle with managing multiple backup tools for each cloud individually. In its second release, CloudPoint 2.0 adds critical enterprise data protection functions, such as granular search and recovery, agentless protection and expanded workload support that are managed and orchestrated through one intuitive, central dashboard.

• Reduced compliance risk – As a data protection solution that can discover, classify and provide agentless protection of Google Cloud Platform instances and delete PII, CloudPoint 2.0 is suited to help enterprise customers meet industry regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or HIPAA.

• Advancing DR and workload support – The latest release adds replication capabilities between regions of the same cloud service provider, which can advance DR efforts. CloudPoint 2.0 also provides expanded support for new workloads and applications, such as MongoDB, SQL and VMware.

Additionally, customers will be able to integrate the firm’s NetBackup software with CloudPoint to extend NetBackup snapshot management capabilities in the data center and bridge support to public clouds. CloudPoint 2.0 is also part of the company’s ‘Technology Ecosystem program’ that allows partners to certify solutions on CloudPoint and potentially attract new customers migrating to the cloud.

CloudPoint 2.0 is available through the company and its worldwide channel partners, with one freemium tier and two pricing tiers, based on an annual subscription model.

⁽¹⁾ Source: Results of a study commissioned by Veritas and conducted by Vanson Bourne, that surveyed 1,200 global business and IT decision makers in 2017.