Trilio Supports Red Hat Virtual Central Office Solution

Trilio Data, Inc., in data protection and recovery solutions for OpenStack, is announcing its support and compatibility with Red Hat‘s new virtual central office solution.

Telecommunications companies can deploy, backup, and manage complete workloads within their VCO environment leveraging NFV infrastructure using Trilio’s OpenStack-native backup and recovery solution, TrilioVault.

The Red Hat virtual central office solution was developed as a way to help create services that can better support the delivery of residential, business, and mobile services for telecommunications companies. With this solution, telcos have a common platform to deploy services at the network edge.

“As mobile network operators move to embrace the role of a modern open telecommunications service provider, they are frequently looking to move services from the core network closer to their customers by virtualizing their edge network,” said Darrell Jordan-Smith, VP, global information and communications technology, Red Hat. “The Red Hat virtual central office solution is designed to provide both a path for service providers to follow and an open pluggable framework upon which to build their next generation services by leveraging our partner ecosystem’s strengths and technologies.“

The vast majority of NFV deployments contain at least some legacy applications that have been ported over by IT administrators who don’t have the luxury of rewriting their entire functional layer. Those workloads are at risk if they’re not being backed up.

Protecting the NFV environment based on the Red Hat virtual central office solution enables users to recover from data damage or disaster faster than by re-deploying an entire VNF from scratch.

TrilioVault:

• Captures point-in-time snapshots of VNFs, so users can restore complete environments including VM flavors and network topology/configurations
• Supports deployment via Red Hat OpenStack platform director, so administrators can deploy the two solutions together using a single tool
• Leverages incremental forever snapshots that include changed block tracking
• Is certified for Red Hat Ceph Storage
• Covers both backup/recovery and DR scenarios

Trilio makes it easy for users to recover and restore VNFs from a well-known point-in-time backup. With multi-tenant support and OpenStack integration, TrilioVault fits into existing NFV cloud workflows. Its application-aware snaps capture entire workloads, including the VMs, flavors of the VMs, network settings, and all the volumes attached to those VMs. With DevOps tools plus historical fixes, patches, and tweaks per machine, you can bring the environment back to present day without the need for low-level scripting or manual refactoring.

“Telecommunications companies are using NFV to push their networks as far to the edge as possible,” says Tom Lahive, GM for sales and alliance partners, Trilio. “With Red Hat virtual central office solution and Trilio, they can modernize their infrastructure with enterprise-grade management tools and data protection.“

More about Trilio’s support for NFV environments

TrilioVault’s agentless, software-only solution is native to Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Virtualization, providing self-service protection and recovery of complete workloads to the users of each platform. Architected for the cloud, TrilioVault can scale quickly with zero performance degradation. With it, businesses have total control to backup their clouds in a way that’s easily recoverable and requires little-to-no central IT administration.