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Veritas is both unfamiliar and familiar to many people. Founded in 1989, it is one of the earliest IT companies in Silicon Valley in the United States. Information management, backup and data protection are very important business at the beginning of its establishment. In today's big data era, enterprises are undergoing a huge digital transformation, which forces IT leaders to rethink the meaning of data protection. Information is a double-edged sword, which can not only push the enterprise forward, but also hinder the development of the enterprise. Whether it is power or resistance, the key lies in the way enterprises protect and manage information.

In digital enterprises, data protection has a new meaning. The amount of data is increasing, and the data is moving all the time, migrating from traditional data centers to more fragmented hybrid cloud environments. Technology trends such as cloud computing and software-defined data centers (SDDC) are creating a highly integrated infrastructure layer that can be repurposed as needed. In an enterprise hybrid cloud environment, private and public clouds do not go their own way, but private and public clouds coordinate at the same time. The following is a classic usage scenario: enterprises make use of storage, database, and service processing in the private cloud, while making full use of the public cloud to meet data processing requirements during peak demand periods without purchasing additional hardware. At present, many enterprises are moving towards this hybrid cloud architecture, which is also the key to maximize profits.

The key factor in a hybrid cloud is whether data can be properly managed and protected in any storage location. VERITAS can help us simplify and accelerate hybrid cloud migration, easily unify and scale workload and data management anywhere, whether it is on-premises, in the cloud, or widely distributed remotely. Below we analyze the protection of enterprise hybrid cloud big data from three aspects.

I. the predicament and demand of data protection in enterprises

The first is the increasing surge of big data. For enterprises, with the rapid development of mobile Internet and Internet +, the amount of data generated in one year is equivalent to that produced in 5 or 10 years of the Lunar New year. For these new data, how to keep it for a long time with a very good performance-to-price ratio is a difficult problem. Many enterprises find it difficult to meet with the traditional way, and it takes a huge storage investment to keep a large amount of data for a long time. For manufacturers, on the one hand, we need to increase our technical support for data compression and data de-weighting, and we hope to achieve more efficient data management through better management methods, such as differentiated treatment of different data. From the perspective of information security, we need to identify which data can be protected on the private cloud within the enterprise. Now we can consider protecting the data on the public cloud. At the same time, the backup strategy of the enterprise can be applied to all these internal and external clouds. Another is how to invigorate the assets of these data from burdens to assets that generate business value.

In the face of this dilemma and demand of enterprises, it is a huge opportunity and new challenge for backup storage manufacturers, so can Veritas help us in this field? The answer is yes. In general, enterprises can be divided into four stages from traditional IT to hybrid cloud-based IT. First of all, the first stage is what we call basic protection, through the cooperation between backup manufacturers and integrators, install and deploy to the enterprise's local computer room, protect locally, restore and monitor when needed. This is a traditional and daily practice. Next, the second stage is the transformation of enterprises to the cloud, using these IaaS platforms of private and public clouds. What backup manufacturers mainly do in this step is to enable data protection solutions to keep up with the pace of enterprise IT transformation and to apply the previous protection to the new environment. The third stage is the integration stage, in which different data are stored on different platforms and unified management becomes more transparent, so that enterprises can discover some value from these data. The last stage is to make it into an open platform, through data integration, big data modeling and analysis in a unified platform, really invigorate the data assets. Because no matter how perfect the enterprise technology is, it is difficult to complete such a large platform on its own, and we hope that more professional manufacturers can use this unified platform to provide interfaces and play greater value for users.

Strategic requirements and solutions for enterprise hybrid cloud data protection

Digital enterprises need to reconsider their data backup protection strategy under the hybrid cloud, looking for various ways to make full use of backup data protection to solve a variety of problems, rather than limited to recovery. Let's start with the strategic requirements for enterprise hybrid cloud data protection.

1. Simplicity

Excessive complexity will only lead to high costs and difficulties in management. Therefore, enterprises need a simple solution that enables efficient management and affordable maintenance, while leveraging a hybrid backup infrastructure to improve efficiency, shorten time to value, and implement intelligent automation to reduce human errors. adapt to the changing environment.

2. Scalable

The data is growing much faster than the budget. This makes it difficult for enterprises to keep up with the needs and changes of the infrastructure and prevent business disruptions caused by long backup periods. Therefore, enterprises need a scalable solution to meet future needs.

3. Agility

Due to the inability to keep up with the rising service expectations, resulting in the inability to achieve the SLA service level, the IT department has finally become an obstacle to the development of enterprises. Therefore, enterprises need an agile solution to improve service quality and responsiveness:

Instant recovery to quickly resolve data usage interruptions; provide self-service to give users more functionality and enhance user experience; and integrate with hybrid cloud architecture to enable users to use cloud services on demand.

4. Insight

If the data insight is not accurate, it will lead to incorrect decision-making, further increase the risk and aggravate the risk of data leakage. Therefore, enterprises need an insightful solution to guide how to adequately protect, manage, and retain data:

Quickly find the required content, speed up the document analysis process; intuitively display data, quickly understand the stored content and its management mode; control the risk in order to take correct corrective action in time.

Next, we will focus on the solution of enterprise hybrid cloud big data protection. First of all, the solution is based on the hybrid cloud, with part of the data in the local data center and the other in the third-party data center in the public cloud. In view of such a scenario, it is recommended to deploy a front-end backup all-in-one machine. Through this device, we can integrate new and old clients, including the latest virtualized platforms, including mainstream databases, applications and some Unix devices, locally to the all-in-one machine for backup. Deduplicated and compressed locally to improve storage utilization and save costs. On the other hand, we can save some recent data, so that the recovery of some short-term data from the local priority will be faster. Of course, we also need to retain these historical data, at this time, we can transfer the data incrementally or fully to the public cloud through the local front device, and it is safer to have one more backup. In the process of transmission, there is an AIR, a data optimization scheme based on WAN, which can better improve the efficiency of transmission.

For public cloud operators, software-based solutions, based on open storage architecture, build a centralized, cloud-based backup management platform to manage users' information uniformly. At this time, the isolation of all levels can be customized according to the needs of users to meet the needs of each scenario. This solution is not only reliable and cost-effective, but also agile and easy to manage, with many advantages. First of all, it can help users to achieve remote data protection, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises to build a remote data center is not cost-effective, if purely used for backup will be more wasteful, relatively high cost. Through such a solution, a more professional backup team can manage backup solutions, while releasing users, especially IT departments, from these areas to do some more forward-looking and innovative work. Another is the cost. An open and unified backup management platform can realize the separation of management and backup operation, facilitate data analysis and data life cycle management. The data backup management of different businesses is clear at a glance, according to the continuous level of data protection, hierarchical management of data, data longer than the life cycle can be cleaned and deleted in time, so that the storage and utilization is more effective, but also make the data more streamlined.

Finally, it can be integrated. The unified and open platform can be tightly integrated with some IaaS platforms such as VMware or OpenStack. At the same time, through the portal based on Web independent service, users can make a special subscription to his part of the system involving some core data when defining the IaaS virtual machine, and restore it through the integrated platform. Lifecycle management done within the enterprise can also be extended to public cloud data protection scenarios. For the special data protection requirements of many business systems, it can also be integrated into the operator's own portal through API to do further integration to achieve data linkage.

After the enterprise uses cloud backup, the backup data he needs to manage is not physical, they will be distributed everywhere. Logically, we hope that this data will be managed in a unified way for users as always. In addition, after these backed-up data are usually backed up before, they are like a black box, and these data can only be stored and restored only when needed, but in many cases there is no further value. The visualization of data can help us have a better insight into the data in the backup and facilitate the mining and insight of the value of the data. The innovative solution of Innformation Map in Veritas can also show you what you want in a visual way. By backing up the original data in the data set, enterprise users can gain insight into the data in the backup, especially involving a large amount of unstructured data, which generally accounts for more than 80% of the enterprise. Then insight into the data, provide it for users to use in various scenarios, and show the data to users in a visual way, with the same view to help users and management team understand the data in real time, while providing self-service functions to maximize efficiency and facilitate users to make judgments, analysis and predictions. Another is to provide this information to third-party tools and manufacturers for further development and mining by means of legal authorization and API, so as to present more value for enterprise users, and at the same time achieve a win-win situation for enterprises and manufacturers, but also deliver flexible, scalable, fast and value-added.

Successful enterprises never stand still. In the hybrid cloud era, in the digital transformation of enterprises, how to protect and manage the data and information that is critical to the success of enterprises is very important. Experienced IT professionals know that there is only a sound data protection strategy between failure and success. Without it, new services cannot come online and business will stagnate. Now, companies must make bold decisions to respond to the changing digital transformation with leading data protection strategies. The backup infrastructure must be very simple and inclusive. A unified and open backup management platform will help enterprises to achieve efficient data management, resolve various challenges and risks, and make enterprises more confident and robust to the future.

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