Veritas Technologies is adding tools that address data visibility and migration challenges in multicloud environments as the company continues to build upon its separation from Symantec.
The Mountain View, California company last week updated its Veritas Information Map with an S3 connector that gives users visibility into their unstructured data residing in the Amazon cloud. The Information Map visualization tool helps identify risk, waste, and complicated migration paths between clouds.
Previously, Information Map only provided visibility of data protected by Veritas NetBackup software.
"This is the first time we have announced a new data source that is not part of Veritas' portfolio," said Alex Sakaguchi, senior director of global solutions for cloud solutions at Veritas. "Customers can now get a view of their data even if NetBackup does not touch them. In a sense, it was a limitation because the data had to be backed up through NetBackup.
"So now with the S3 Connector, you can get a visual of your data from an extra data source as long as it exists in an S3 cube," he said.
Sakaguchi said Veritas will add additional connectors beyond S3 this year.
Beyond Backup in Administration and Migration
Jason Buffington, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said Veritas Information Map is a key tool to address regulatory compliance. This can be especially valuable with the approaching deadline of 2018 to comply with the guidelines of the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR).
"The broader story of Veritas is managing the data," Buffington said. "It's about managing your data and you can not manage what you can not see, you can not manage it if you do not know where it is [Veritas Information Map] can help with any regulation." Many people are trying to get their heads around [now]. "
Veritas CloudMobility's new automation tool enables enterprises to migrate complex workloads from their data center to the cloud and, if necessary, back to a local cloud with a single click. CloudMobility connects a product site to a standby site.
"We developed this migration capability of Veritas Resiliency Platform technology," Sakaguchi said. "The product allows users to do a pre-migration test and can also support the infrastructure in a just-in-time manner."
Veritas also added CloudPoint snapshot data protection for more aggressive data recovery goals. CloudPoint manages snapshots while implementing consistent data protection policies in a multicloud environment. This product moves Veritas beyond the traditional backup with its well-known NetBackup and Backup Exec software. Replication Director in NetBackup does not allow the administration of snapshots between clouds and multivendor products.
"CloudPoint adds the management of all shadow copy providers," Sakaguchi said. "Then we add a cataloging and indexing layer of snapshots, which is the piece of data protection based on snapshots."
With updates from Veritas Information Map and other new capabilities, ESG's Buffington said the company is moving quickly toward its goal of becoming a data management provider.
"I know it's okay to say they're evolutionary," he said. "At first glance, they seem incremental ... [but] this is a little boost."
