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What’s new with HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery?

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery delivers the simplicity of the cloud experience while seamlessly protecting on-premises and cloud-native workloads. This SaaS-based approach to backup and recovery leverages global protection policies to consistently protect workloads across your hybrid cloud infrastructure. Take a look at what’s new now with the latest version. The good news: the updates happen automatically!

Agile, resilient data protection is critical to ensuring an always-on application in today’s dynamic hybrid cloud environments. While every organization has its ownHPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery-updates -BLOG.png set of requirements, most focus on cost efficiency, simplicity, performance, scalability, and future-readiness when evaluating and architecting a data protection strategy. 
 
HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery delivers the simplicity of the cloud experience while seamlessly protecting on-premises and cloud-native workloads. This SaaS-based approach to backup and recovery leverages global protection policies to consistently protect workloads across your hybrid cloud infrastructure. In doing so, you will eliminate data silos, centralized what was once multiple administrative touch points to easily wrangle the management of your backup and recovery operations.

Never worry about updating this service either, as HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery automatically updates you with the latest and greatest version of the service, giving you access to new capabilities faster.  

More details on what’s new with HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery

Protection of Microsoft SQL Server database for physical servers

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery now protects Microsoft SQL Server databases for physical servers running on storage arrays managed through the Data Services Cloud Console (DSCC). It is now easier to register new hosts and Microsoft SQL Server databases to HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery. Protection can be enabled individually on each protected host or databased or as part of a Protection Group. 

Protection of your workloads in Microsoft Azure Blob

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery now provides you with the flexibility to protect your workloads in Microsoft Azure Blob storage. Cloud Protection Store offers options for selecting Azure Blob regions in addition to AWS S3 regions as a destination for cloud protection stores. Users will enjoy the same benefits of cost-efficient cloud protection, global protection policy for consistent protection, simplified management, and long-term retention in the cloud with the flexibility to select either AWS S3 storage or Microsoft Azure Blob storage to back the Cloud Protection Stores.

Enhancements to Volume Protection

Two enhancements:

  1. HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery offers Volume Protection, a fast and efficient way to protect contents of the target volume provisioned from DSCC managed storage. Leveraging snapshots and replicas, configured using the Data Ops Manager now enables users to back up their workloads directly from HPE Alletra Storage MP. 
  2. Adding custom scripts to the Volume Protection process is now available and can be before or after snapshot creation. This enables the protected application to be made “backup ready” before any volume protection snapshot operations occur and after. 

Extending long-term retention capability

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery now allows users to retain their backups for up to 10 years.

Application Centric Backup Designed for Rapid Recovery

An application is not made up of just one virtual machine (VM). That is why HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery makes it easy to protect VMs at scale by organizing them into Protection Groups. These Protection Groups enable users to apply a protection policy to multiple VMs or datastores in a single operation. For fast and efficient recovery, all, or some of the VMs in a Protection Group can be recovered in a single operation.  

Air-Gapped Recovery Management

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery now enables users to restore backups from an on-premises location in event of disconnection from the internet or the cloud console. This capability is a necessary layer of security particularly when recovering from a crippling ransomware attack while offline. is required when the internet connection is disrupted. 

Interested in giving it a try?  

You can try HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery with 90-day free evaluation and experience the benefits for yourself. All features of the service with HPE support are available during the evaluation period and after evaluation, you can easily purchase the subscription. 

Want to learn more?

Check out this case study: How HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery has simplified data protection for Maryland Auto Insurance 

And watch: Explainer video and Demo video  


Ashwin Shetty
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Ashwin Shetty is a Product Marketing Manager in HPE Storage. In this role, Ashwin is responsible for helping customers understand the value of modernizing their data protection with HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery, HPE StoreOnce, HPE Solutions with Commvault, and HPE StoreEver Tape. Follow Ashwin here:: @ashwinkshetty. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn.