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Data Protection as a Service for Google Cloud

Backup your business-critical data with Google Cloud (GCP) snapshots due to HYCU’s complete app consistent backup, migration and disaster recovery.

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Subbiah Sundaram
Published on
February 18, 2021
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Purpose Built Data Protection, Data Migration and Disaster Recovery for Google Cloud.

HYCU for Google Cloud provides application aware data protection, data migration and disaster recovery.

This applies to Google Cloud customers with workloads running on Google Cloud, data migration of workloads to Google Cloud and using Google Cloud as a DR target for on-prem workloads.
With application-consistent backup, recovery and migration for on-prem and public cloud environments, HYCU for Google Cloud offers a true enterprise class multi-cloud data protection solution.

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Data Protection for Google Cloud

HYCU for Google Cloud provides a cloud-native, application consistent backup and recovery functionality for all instances running on Google Cloud. HYCU delivers this via 1-click simplicity, tight platform integration, application awareness and built-in compliance as-a-service on Google Cloud.

 

Data Migration for Google Cloud

HYCU for Google Cloud provides the ability to seamlessly lift and shift production workloads in an application consistent manner, from on-prem or a public cloud datacenter to a Google Cloud project.
HYCU effortlessly enables self- service on-demand migration or staged migration to Google Cloud.

 

Disaster Recovery for Google Cloud

Customers looking to leverage Google Cloud as a DR target can now use HYCU to seamlessly DR to Google Cloud from their on-prem or public cloud datacenters. HYCU eliminates the need to pay for compute and high-performance storage until customers actually need to failover to Google Cloud.

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Purpose-Built for Google Cloud

Zero performance impact

Achieve impact-free backup and recovery due to tight integration with Google Cloud which leverages Google Clouds’s snapshots.

Integration with Google Cloud IAM

Efficient use of Google Clouds’s Identity Access Management (IAM) for single sign on capabilities and automatically inherit Google Clouds IAM’s security rules.

Integrated with Google Cloud billing

HYCU’s as-a-service delivery for Google Cloud perfectly fits into Google Clouds’s billing model and is readily available for subscription from Google Cloud marketplace.

 

Designed with Simplicity

Deploy with ease

No need to waste time and money on professional services as HYCU is delivered as-a-service on Google Cloud which can achieve the protection-readiness-objective (PRO) instantaneously.

Zero management overhead

Being delivered as-a-service, customers don’t have to waste any time in software maintenance and upgrades.

1-Click to Backup/Migrate/DR

Simplify the most complicated data protection, migration and DR workflows with out of the box policy management.

 

Application Aware Solution

Applications First

Effectively backup your business-critical data with Google Cloud snapshots due to HYCU’s complete app consistent backup, migration and disaster recovery.

Lift and Shift

Seamlessly move business critical workloads to Google Cloud from on-prem or public cloud vendors in an application consistent manner.

Agentless by Design

Avoid operational chaos with zero agent/plugin installs or upgrades with HYCU’s Intelligent remote communication capabilities with Google Cloud instances.

 

Self-service for Operational Efficiency

Multi-Tenancy

Secure backups in a sand-box style environment via GCP’s projects, as HYCU can quickly discover and honor all projects within a Google Cloud account.

Role-based Access Control

Increase organizational agility by task delegation – DBAs restoring their DBs or helpdesk restoring data to end-users – via HYCU’s integration with Google Cloud’s IAM.

Empower Application Owners

Enable DevOps style organizations to work effectively in their test-dev environments with HYCU’s clone and migration capabilities.

 

Reduced TCO

Zero Deployment

No infrastructure costs required for install and management as HYCU is delivered as as-a-service in Google Cloud

Dynamic Scaling

Customers can pay as they need and not pay upfront for unused resources as HYCU can automatically scale up and down based on application needs.

Leverage Existing Infrastructure

No egress charges by using regional Google Cloud object storage and cost effective multi-regional backups using HYCU’s proprietary incremental-forever backups.

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SVP of Product

Subbiah Sundaram is the SVP, Product at HYCU. Subbiah spearheads product management, product marketing, alliances, sales engineering, and customer success with more than 20 years' experience delivering best-in-class multi-cloud data protection and on-premises solutions. A Kellogg Management School MBA graduate, Subbiah has worked with leading companies such as EMC, NetApp, Veritas, BMC, CA, and DataGravity.

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