HYCU picks a radical new approach for SaaS applications data protection

HYCU joined the recent IT Press Tour for the 8th time, confirming the value of the tour. And this time, they chose the tour to make a big splash, the launch of R-Cloud, their disruptive solution to protect users' data used by SaaS applications. They briefed us last week in San Jose, CA, for an official announcement today.

We saw for a few years vendors protecting always same SaaS applications, the famous Salesforce, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, and as the opportunity is big enough for all players, they don't really address other need or really incrementally. With bare metal, virtual machines, container, cloud-based workloads and now SaaS applications, the industry has created its own complexity and it becomes even more critical and tough to protect all these data with one solution. We see even users jumping into SaaS application without any information about data protection or believing it is included. It should be but it is not and it is a real scandal for SaaS. We understand the PaaS option and the IaaS different requirements.

For SaaS itself, the complexity is huge as not all SaaS application are covered and if so it is by different solutions. What a nightmare.

HYCU took some time to think about a solution to address this fast growing issue and they came back with a real innovative approach. At the root, the team realized that SaaS applications vendors know the best how to protect data, they know their service architecture and how their services consume data. So the idea is to offer, free of charge, to these vendors the capability to build their own agent/plug-in/driver/module... with a low code/no code approach and then managed and orchestrated by HYCU Protégé. It gives them the confidence to say that choosing their service is now risk free in terms of data loss as data may be recovered.

The second key element is R-Graph, a topology view of all SaaS applications used by a company to understand their need and things are protected.

The next key component is the Marketplace where all modules are displayed very easy to deploy. The service is sold under subscription between 1 to $3 per seat per month whatever is the volume of data.

This is a real disruption for the SaaS world and HYCU has initiated a new way to control that data protection aspect. The race has started and we'll see how the competition will react to this announcement. We'll also monitor the adoption of the HYCU solution.