Modernize hybrid cloud data protection

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Learn about HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery for backup as a service that simplifies on-premises data protection for VMware virtual machines (VMs) and cloud-native workloads across hybrid cloud.

You know it’s true: data is the lifeblood of any organization. Data loss and application disruptions can take a significant toll on organizations of every size. Much like turning on a car engine, we simply expect that data will be available when we need it. But think about the last time your car didn’t start, and how suddenly everything changed. It’s the same for data: no one pays much attention until it becomes unavailable or is hijacked in cyberattacks like ransomware.

In many ways, traditional backup and recovery has been pushed to its limits. It can’t solve today’s problems, let alone address the demands of tomorrow. Today’s backup and recovery offerings are a fragmented mix of point solutions for backups, target storage, and long-term data retention. This makes for a complex scenario that’s less than optimal, since each of these silos are designed on proprietary hardware and/or software that has its own maintenance and support contracts. In many cases, you are only able to perform backup jobs once a day, with such jobs sometimes bleeding into your production windows. The result? Performance degradation. And should recovery be necessary, it can take multiple hours, which is inefficient and can have a serious revenue impact. This is a recipe for business tragedy should disaster strike.

Modernizing your backup and recovery

Modern data protection, by contrast, is key to keeping pace with today’s changing hybrid cloud environments and ensuring data and applications achieve always-on availability. Modern data protection solutions simplify operations with cloud operational experience, meet demanding SLAs, and neutralize threats helping customers quickly back up and recover their data and maximize the value of their backup data, all while reducing costs.

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery is backup as a service designed for hybrid cloud. It simplifies how you protect your on-premises VMware virtual machines (VMs) across hybrid cloud, bringing with it the cloud experience and flexibility of software delivered as a service.

Earlier this year at Discover 2022, we introduced an extension to HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery with cloud-native backups. We ran a successful beta program, and we received a lot of interest from you, our customers. Thank you for helping us with your feedback. We have made significant enhancements to the service based on your feedback and we are happy to inform you of the availability* of cloud-native backup feature to protect your Amazon EBS Volumes and EC2 Instances.

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery enables you to consistently protect on-premises VMs or cloud native workloads with Global Protection Policies, eliminating data silos, multiple administrative touch points, and point solutions delivered on a secure platform with built-in protection from ransomware and other threats

Protect in minutes

With HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery, there is no hardware or software to size, configure, manage – or even buy. One single service seamlessly protects VMs, Amazon EBS and EC2. No scripts or code to develop, just with few clicks start your protecting your workloads in minutes.

A single cloud console manages all your backup and recovery operations. This is intuitive and extremely easy to use. The cloud console has a dashboard that provides a quick view of protection status and the need to take actions to ensure protection.

Lower TCO with unmatched storage efficiency

This service incorporates proven HPE Catalyst technology which provides space efficient backups enabling HPE Greenlake for Backup and Recovery to deliver better storage efficiency compared to alternate backup solutions – up to 8x better storage efficiency** or the need to use as less than 15% of the capacity other protection solutions require.

Storage efficiency benefits include:

• Less storage to purchase and manage for backup data
• Reduced network bandwidth costs
• Faster finish time for backups
• Ability for users to retain more with predictable costs and cloud scale

With this service you get a 100% consumption-based, pay-as-you-go experience – or a fixed commitment for 1-5 years to get the lowest unit price. Forget about complex licenses, cloud infrastructure to manage, hidden costs, forecasting and lack of visibility of pricing. We believe in transparency and simplicity where you only pay for what you consume - eliminate overheads and lower your overall TCO.

Mitigate threats

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery further improves the reliability of backup data with security features including

• Backup data encryption – In transit and at rest, making backup copies inaccessible and unreadable should they be compromised
• Configurable backup data immutability – Stopping backup data from being deleted or modified before the configured retention date
• Dual authorization – Preventing users deleting recovery points without the second approver

This service can store your backup data outside your production environment in an ‘air-gap’ manner ensuring that hackers or cyber criminals cannot compromise the backup copies.

Wait there’s more! Integration with HPE StoreOnce for on-premises protection

This integration with HPE StoreOnce Systems provides users an alternative to the service defined On-premises Protection Store.

For many users of the HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery the service-defined On-Premises Protection Store, which consumes resources from the user’s vCenter environment, is an effective and simple solution. For other users HPE StoreOnce is better choice to store on-premises recovery points when there's:

• A requirement of large capacity of on-premises backup
• A single primary storage system where the recovery points need to be stored on a separate system for protection against storage system failure
• An all-flash environment where the backup storage performance requirements can be met with lower cost media
• An existing HPE StoreOnce customer with available capacity in the user environment

Still not convinced? Try HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery for free

I recommend you evaluate HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery with no obligation free 90-day trial and experience the benefits for yourself. All features of the service with HPE support are available during the trial period, and after evaluation, you can easily purchase the subscription.

The bottom line

Data plays an increasingly important role in today’s modern enterprise. As organizations leverage the hybrid cloud to grow and innovate, the volume of data requiring protection continues to expand, and providing that protection becomes more complex and costly. When architecting a data protection strategy and evaluating new technologies, a modern backup as a service like HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery offers cost efficiency, simplicity, performance, scalability, and future readiness.

To learn more

Check out the technical paper: HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery – Backup-as-a-Service built for the hybrid cloud

Watch the demo video on hybrid cloud data protection with HPE Backup and Recovery Service:

Other resources:

• IDC paper
• Infographic
• Solution brochure

*Cloud-native backups are initially supported in U.S. regions. It will be rolled out in other geographies soon.

**Based on HPE internal testing conducted in October 2022 comparing HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery with four competing on-prem and AWS cloud-native backup solutions.

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Ashwin Shetty
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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