May the 4th Be With You at #OpenStackSummit Boston
Data has a dark side and enterprises must battle to digitally transform! So we’re travelling to a galaxy not so far away (Boston, MA) for #OpenStackSummit Boston 2017 and we want to prepare you for what’s to come at the conference as we guide Enterprises to strike back and transform through visibility into their data. Learn what's ahead next week.EP62: The Access Appliance: Flexibility of Software Defined Storage and Appliance Ease of Use
Why is Veritas offering a storage appliance for long term retention? Customers need the flexibility of software-defined storage but want the ease of use of an appliance. Harsha and Roger dig in to the need for simplicity and how the Access Appliance provides the benefits of software defined storage and appliances.Veritas Appliances receive ENERGY STAR certification
Combining Corporate Responsibility with innovative data management solutions, the Veritas Manufacturing and Supply Chain team worked closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and partners to attain ENERGY STAR certification for NetBackup 5340, Access 3340, and Flex 5340 appliances.
Breaking News! Veritas Doubles Appliance Offerings
Its big news! Since March we’ve double our appliances portfolio, launched our first storage system the Access 3340 Appliance, and the Flex Appliance, our first containerized data protection solution. The Access Appliance is a purpose-built storage solution for long term retention of backup and, archive data and other retention-type use cases such as video surveillance and healthcare PACs image data. Not surprisingly, The Access Appliance is built on our popular Veritas Accessscale-out NAS software. The Flex Appliance is a very clever platform for delivering Veritas data protection services including NetBackupand CloudCatalyst. Rather than running these appson dedicated servers, with the Flex Appliance, multiple data protection services are deployed in containers on a single appliance. Turn on a data protection or cloud tiering service as needed, without touching additional hardware. The containerized, microservices architecture of the Flex Appliance even goes a lot further than hyperconverged when it comes to simplifying infrastructure and the speed and ease of deployment as it supports multiple NBU domains and CloudCatalyst instances simultaneously. I can guess what you’re thinking. Why is Veritas offering more and more appliances when everything Veritas has been software defined? The primary reason; many of you in the community have asked us to. Particularly for Access. There’s a unique aspect to our appliances. A secret I'll share with my readers. Shhhhh. They’re still software defined. The software license is decoupled from the hardware we deliver it on. Here’s a couple examples of what I mean. Let’s say you purchase an Access 3340 Appliance, and a year from now you find a shiny, new storage server. You can move the Access software license to that new hardware. It also works the other way around. Maybe you’re running NBU software today on a white box server but want to upgrade to the Flex Appliance. No problem. That license you already have can be used to enable NBU on Flex (assuming minimum supported version, of course). Veritas appliances are really the best of both worlds. All the benefits of a software-based solution with the peace of mind that you’re not locked into Veritas hardware. I’m thinking we should have called them un-appliances. What do you think? Please add your thoughts and comments to the discussion.
Tape Elimination with Veritas Access
A significant number of my NetBackup customers are currently looking to eliminate tape within their environments. For a long time people have been saying that tape is dead but until recently I never believed it because of the amount of data you could store on an LTO tape and the performance of the drives, made it cheaper than an average disk array. With the introduction of deduplication technology, tape elimination started to become a reality but the cost to keep the data beyond a few months on deduplication pools was not cost effective and meant that tape still had a place within the environment for long-term retention. With Veritas Access this is about to change as customers are now able to send their long term backups via S3 to a cost effective scale-out NAS solution. This effectively creates a two-tiered storage platform for the backup environment, with primary backups sent to high performance storage while leveraging advanced features such as client-side deduplication and Accelerator synthetic backups to reduce backup windows. Any backups that need to be kept for long-term retention would be automatically duplicated to Veritas Access via S3. This approach reduces the amount of primary storage required, eliminates tape, including all the operational costs associated with it and if using NetBackup Appliances or custom built Media Server Deduplication Pools (MSDP), provides a single vendor backup solution. With this new approach to backups, tape elimination may become a reality after all.
