Veritas promotes Autonomous Data Management

Veritas Technologies, the enterprise leader in data protection, joined The IT Press Tour yesterday for the very first time. This session at the Santa Clara HQ was the opportunity to understand the strategy around its flagship product. NetBackup, to mention it, represents more than 65% of the company revenue so it perfectly legitimates by itself a strong comprehensive vision.

This last element finally hides other products and InfoScale in particular. We have to recognize that NetBackup plays in a very dense category where the competition is super hot and is clearly the #1 in its category. We heard that Veeam is claiming to be in that position, by the number of installations probably but not by the revenue. On the other hands, with current IT infrastructure and cloud, InfoScale is not so easy to promote event if its components are clearly product leaders on the market. We all remember VxVM and VxFS, the most famous volume manager and file system on the planet. The other argument relises on the fact hat Veritas is one of the pioneers of the Software-Defined Storage market wave.

NetBackup is much more than a product, Veritas has made some serious developments and additions to it and today it represents a real product family.

Data protection with NetBackup is already fully automated for decades, the product works by itself deployed in complex, heterogeneous and large data environments. But the company has identified a new fundamental attribute to it, the need to be autonomous, to fully introduce a new dimension to data management leveraging AI and ML models in a cloud world. And by data management we cover here the secondary storage data management as everything happens as soon as data lands on the secondary storage tier.

The team insisted on 3 key components to be qualified of an autonomous solution:

1. Automated Cyber Resilience with AI, ML, ransomware proof and things like CICD,
2. Multi-Cloud Optimized to run anywhere being multi-tenant, elastic and containerized and
3. Intelligent Protection to meet business goals with auto-healing and As-a-Service capabilities.

This strategy is partially covered today with NetBackup 10 but the full coverage will arrive with 10+ release.