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Nutanix Mine with HYCU, invisible backup-as-a-service

Nutanix Mine with HYCU has a low total cost of ownership by offering a truly all-inclusive packaging.

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Subbiah Sundaram
Published on
December 17, 2020
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Make Backup Invisible with Nutanix Mine with HYCU.

Nutanix Mine with HYCU is a hyper-converged backup appliance with Nutanix’s platform strength, plus HYCU’s natively integrated backup service with one-click simplicity, and application awareness. The combined platform provides complete coverage for customer
workloads, eliminates the need for a dedicated backup team and delivers management of the entire production and backup infrastructure from one console.

Nutanix Mine is the first Integrated Nutanix based backup appliance focused at the secondary storage market.

Combined with HYCU, this is the first tightly integrated and dedicated appliance offering for users that need the performance and cost advantages of an appliance model. It also delivers an integrated backup solution to eliminate additional
complexity associated with legacy secondary and/or backup software solutions.

Nutanix Mine with HYCU is the only hyper-converged backup solution that:

  • Makes backup and recovery as a native service of the platform
  • Eliminates the need for siloed infrastructure for backup
  • Allows you to modularly grow backup capacity
  • Assures application availability and eliminates the need for a dedicated backup team
Nutanix Mine graph showing how Nutanix Cloud OS and Integrated HW combine with HYCU-X Software come together

 

Nutanix Data Protection chart showing the data protection layer from HYCU and from Nutanix

Simplicity

Nutanix Mine with HYCU offers true simplicity by allowing customers to leverage Prism as the single pane of glass to manage both production and backup infrastructure. It’s also easier to use for non-Nutanix VMware deployments and Windows Physical Servers than other similar solutions. Using an interface IT staff are already familiar with, i.e. Nutanix Prism, frees them to focus on truly mission-critical tasks instead of managing backup devices.

 

Coverage of End-to-End Secondary Storage Needs

Secondary storage appliances aren’t new, but fully integrated ones are. Nutanix Mine with HYCU is ideal for enterprise apps and workloads across all Nutanix led-datacenter infrastructure. The solution offers tight, native integration with Nutanix Volumes and Nutanix Files and leverages the power of Nutanix snapshots for memory-intensive VM’s, eliminating any production workload impact.

 

Rapid Application Discovery and Recovery

Nutanix Mine with HYCU is ideal for service providers and large organizations to enable self-service. Using patented Automated Application Discovery technology Nutanix Mine with HYCU assures key workloads are protected, making application backup and recovery
effortless. In addition, the solution leverages Nutanix Replication to eliminate unnecessary
backup traffic over WAN and is the first and only solution to leverage Nutanix Change Block Tracking to eliminate VM stun for both AHV and ESXi.

 

Low Total Cost of Ownership

IT leaders see dollar signs when they see the word appliance - Nutanix Mine with HYCU has a low total cost of ownership by offering a truly all-inclusive packaging. There’s no need to purchase additional licenses for the backup appliance, such as Windows, SQL Server or for antivirus systems.

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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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