HYCU for Google Cloud: Expanding Application Coverage and Cost Savings

We are excited to share the news about our most recent update to our HYCU for Google Cloud solution.

This is a release that is primarily driven by customers pushing us to think hard about how we can save them long term backup storage costs and also how we can assist them in their use of Cloud for mission critical enterprise workloads.

Google has done a fantastic job of keeping Google Storage very price competitive and cost efficient for customers to adopt. But even with that, if customers have to keep their backup data for many, many years, then they need to find an efficient mechanism to store it. A traditional approach has been to run the infamous dedupe appliance on the web as is. While that sounds a logical choice, in practice it might not be a good choice because of the cloud economics. Unlike the on-premises world where the storage systems are expensive, in cloud the cloud storage is not expensive, but compute, memory and SSDs are expensive. For a dedupe appliances to work well, it needs a lot of compute, memory and SSDs. Thus, running dedupe appliances on the cloud to save cloud storage costs doesn’t seem to make economic sense. This is the reason, we decided to do it differently. We have built-in a compute-free always on incremental backup to our Google Cloud solution. The benefit for customers by doing this? They don’t pay anything extra, but still get the benefit of lower backup target utilization. This benefit is not just for backup, but also for Smart Archive.

In addition, HYCU also allows the customer to save cost by leveraging Google’s auto-tiering capability.

 

Starting with this update, HYCU backups will use CBT functionality to enable optimized bucket storage consumption.