Orchestrated Backup IN the Cloud Arrives with HYCU for GCP

Companies are either moving or have moved to the cloud with backup TO the cloud being one of the primary ways they plan to get their data and applications into the cloud. But orchestrating the backup of their applications and data once they reside IN the cloud… well, that requires an entirely different set of tools with few, if any, backup providers yet offering features in their respective products that deliver on this requirement. That ends today with the introduction of HYCU for GCP (Google Cloud Platform).Regardless of which public cloud platform you may use to host your data and/or applications, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, GCP, or some other platform, they all provide companies with multiple native backup utilities to protect data that resides on their cloud. The primary tools include the likes of snapshots, replication, and versioning with GCP being no different.What makes these tools even more appealing to use is that they are available at a cloud user’s fingertips; they can turn them on with the click of a button; and, they only pay for what they use. Available for any data or applications hosted in the cloud, they give organizations access to levels of data availability, data protection, and even disaster recovery for which they previously had no means to easily deliver and they can do so for any data or application hosted with the cloud provider.But the problem in this scenario is not application and/or data backup. The catch is how does an organization do this at scale in such a way that they can orchestrate and manage the backups of all their applications and data on a cloud platform such as GCP for all their users. The short answer is: organizations cannot.This is a problem that HYCU for GCP addresses head-on. HYCU has previously established a beachhead in Nutanix environments thanks to its tight integration with AHV. This integration well positions HYCU to extend those same benefits to any public cloud partner of Nutanix. The fact that Nutanix and Google announced a strategic alliance last year at the Nutanix .NEXT conference to build and operate hybrid clouds certainly helped HYCU prioritize GCP over the other public cloud providers for backup orchestration.