VeritasNetBackup to support Google Cloud StorageNearline

Veritas (the planned spinout of Symantec’s Information Management business) announced that it will be working with Google Cloud Platform to bring key information management use cases to life for customers.The new offering is designed to provide businesses quick backup data retrieval, limitless storage capacity and simplified access to information at an extremely low cost, the press release said.

Veritas NetBackup 7.7 (in beta) will natively support Google Cloud Storage Nearline as a backup target. As our customers further embrace the hybrid cloud model, the planned support of Google Cloud Platform’s new service will allow enterprises to optimize business agility and information availability.

In the press release, Symantec / Veritas said the offering is attractive to NetBackup customers for the following reasons:

• Enables use of cloud storage as an alternative to tape when choosing long-term storage of backup data
• Allows backup of large volumes of data at a low cost, and access to it any time
• Integration, through NetBackup’s unique OST layer, allows NetBackup to continue to monitor and manage all backup information, regardless of location – disk, tape or cloud
• NetBackup lifecycle management capabilities also manage when and how information is moved from online disk to Google Cloud Storage Nearline
• NetBackup records all metadata from the information it protects, including data stored on Google Cloud Storage Nearline

Cloud Storage Nearline is a new offering by Google to provide businesses quick backup, data retrieval, limitless storage capacity and simplified access to information at an extremely low cost.