Backup e Disaster Recovery As a Service su Google Cloud Platform
Scalability, data management and protection, these are some of the focuses addressed at the new Better Together event, organized by power2Cloud with Google Cloud and HYCU, Tuesday evening at the MAVV (Museum of the Art of Vine and Wine), at the Reggia di Portici.
Selected companies were invited to engage with the power2Cloud team and the two technology partners on Backup and Disaster Recovery As a Service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Linked in from Dublin was Giacomo Perini,Territory Manager Google Cloud, while from Belgrade there was no shortage of Biljana Rancic, Account Executive Italy HYCU. In the room, Felice Giusti, co-founder and CTO of R-Store, talked about the use of both solutions in her company.
When the work was completed, Maria Paola Sorrentino, the third generation of a family of winemakers at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, led a tasting of wines from Cantine Sorrentino.
For the guests, a journey of discovery of three labels, Caprettone, Dòrè, Vigna Lapillo, which stimulated all the senses, between mineral and fruity scents, up to tastings of some local delicacies from the Dispensa del Re - an organized network for small producers in Campania - and the sweets, really special, of Mon Sciù.
"Optimize resources, protect your data with Back up and Disaster recovery As a Service"
"Today digitization is a goal, not a choice," to Paola Canozo, Sales Manager power2Cloud, the task of opening the panel discussion.
As a digital partner of companies in every industry and vertical in Italy, power2Cloud over the years has pursued a software selection enhancing SaaS solutions, security, omnichannelity and tailor made projects.
Better together is a philosophy that fits with our cloud ecosystem and the way we operate, which we have fostered from our first partnership with Google Cloud, to our most recent partnership with HYCU, a BaaS and DraaS solution.
Business needs of course differ but it is important to rely on reliable and scalable solutions, promote training and integrations, native or tailored, not forgetting compliance and data security.
A partner who already has vertical expertise, such as power2Cloud, is the key to change, to optimize investments and resources, recommend solutions, and meet strict security criteria, because data and careful analysis can determine business strategy and optimize all flows."
"Data management and security, open cloud, collaboration, and sustainability: Google's 5 challenges"
What are the focuses of digital transformation? The floor was given to Giacomo Perini, Territory Manager Google Cloud, who shared an image of the Palace of Portici at the opening, recalling the five challenges Google is responding to for the success of every organization.
"How can we imagine combining art with digital? Thanks to the platform of Google Arts & Culture we can also show the beauty of Naples. Google," he reminded, "did not start out as a cloud provider, but has gained experience offered through data analytics and artificial intelligence, which it has made available to people and companies with more than ten applications of one billion users each.
We thus start with the value offered by data, but also choosing the infrastructure to keep up with the market and customer needs.
Google's road map is different, we have made the cloud open, providing for on premise, cloud and multicloud environments,toavoid lock-inwe also think about opportunities such as those offered by Kubernetes or TensorFlow, which have revolutionized the way we do applications, but also artificial intelligence."
Another aspect promoted by the Mountain View giant is the collaboration, which, with the Google Workspace suite, allows the entire team to improve their work.
Without forgetting another strategic aspect, data security. How can I protect corporate data?
"Google boasts the world's most extensive wired network, with data centers across the planet and undersea cables offering data sovereignty all the way to the service provider's cabin that each organization uses.
In addition, this year we inaugurated two data centers in Italy, one in Milan (SAP and SURPRise certified, so open to public administration, PNRR European funds and those to come) and one in Turin, which will be ready in the first half of 2023.
In addition to data security," Giacomo concluded, "the constant goal for Google is to reduce consumption and unused resources, therefore, we are pursuing a plan not only for sustainability, but for zero impact by 2030."
With HYCU protected backups, thanks to a solution for multi-cloud environments
Biljana Rancic, HYCU Italy Account Executive, introduced the platform that deals with protection, data migration and disaster recovery.
"HYCU is an American company headquartered in Boston and has more than 300 employees worldwide.
We work on multi-cloud environments and have native integration with on-prem, public cloud and software as a service applications. Our goal is to help our customers with secure backups through on-prem and cloud services!
To date," he recalled, "more than 3,200 companies have relied on our technologies, enjoying important benefits: saving time to devote to value-adding activities, protecting against ransomware, optimizing costs, protecting business-critical cloud resources, and speeding recovery."
At the end of his speech, Biljana announced a special offer (valid until the end of September),which makes available to power2Cloud customers a free 1TB GCP backup for life (to take advantage of this promotion just register on this link).
Backup and disaster recovery on GCP with HYCU, two simple scenarios
To deepen these focuses, Massimo Zito, CTO power2Cloud, brought testimony of two practical cases, recounting the use of HYCU on Google Cloud Platform.
"Let's start with the HYCU services used to implement these two practice cases: HYCU for Enterprise Cloud and HYCU for Public Cloud.
The first is a module that installs in the On-Prem data center, which allows you to back up by finalizing it to Google Cloud Storage, while the second allows you to back up an infrastructure that is already on GCP, using GCP storage.
To elaborate on these focuses, Massimo Zito, CTO power2Cloud, brought testimony of two practical cases, recounting the use of HYCU on Google Cloud Platform.
"Let's start with the HYCU services used to implement these two practice cases: HYCU for Enterprise Cloud and HYCU for Public Cloud.
The first is a module that installs in the On-Prem data center, which allows you to back up by finalizing it to Google Cloud Storage, while the second allows you to back up an infrastructure that is already on GCP, using GCP storage.
On top of these there is a component that interfaces with both the Enterprise Cloud and the Public Cloud part: HYCU Protégé, with which you can do a restore of a Virtual Machine (VM) for which there is a backup on Cloud Storage, as a VM in the GCP context. So a lift and shift restore of an on-prem VM to a VM in GCP."
The R-Store
scenario.
Massimo then introduced the first practical scenario of using HYCU for R-Store, which needed to activate this solution to protect data and have protected backups.
"To get the HYCU service up and running, the first thing R-Store did was simply to subscribe to the service through GCP's MarketPlace. This allows with a few simple steps to configure everything necessary to create backups of all VMs that are in service at that time.
Finished the installation phase and completed a few backup cycles, it is possible to restore the entire VM image or even just some files that may have been damaged or deleted by mistake.
Everything in the environment will be ransomware-proof, what HYCU uses on GCP is for the exclusive use of the backup platform. This means that if there were to be the presence of any kind of malware resulting in an attack on the VMs or any component under the control of Google Cloud, it would not affect the operation of HYCU.
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In addition, HYCU automatically chooses the most suitable backup class to preserve the type of data in the enterprise, also taking into account the price.
Another advantage is to retrieve information quickly without complexity, if the cloud zone where numerous VMs have been installed becomes unavailable, for example, it only takes a few simple clicks to schedule recovery to another zone and resume business quickly.
The LiuJo MAN
scenario.
Another scenario was LiuJo UOMO.
"In this case," continued Massimo Zito, "the goal was to restore on GCP a specific VM in the event of a disaster and thus unavailability of the on premise service."
The first thing to do is to deploy the VM dedicated to HYCU in the customer's Enterprise Cloud and configure it to back up first locally to NAS or SAN and then move it to Cloud Storage (Google Cloud Platform).
Once the backup is finalized and transferred to GCP, it is necessary to subscribe to the service through the MarketPlace.
Subscribing to the service, allows you to instantiate a HYCU controller in the customer's GCP project that will be dedicated to VM recovery operations should a disruption occur.
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Next, once the incident in the customer's Enterprise Cloud has been resolved, the instance running on GCP can be backed up to run again on premise.
At this point it is possible to divest all those resources, which clearly have a cost, used for these operations. So the expense, in terms of GCP resources, for disaster recovery is limited only to the period of time it takes to resolve the problem.
The advantages of this type of scenario are basically twofold: the TCO ( Total Cost of Ownership ) is definitely optimal, as the only resources needed within the customer's infrastructure are computational computation and disk space, and alsothe cost to deploy this solution is close to zero, as deployment is simple, training is immediate (it involves using a very simple web interface ) and updates are performed with a single click."
"The importance of data and technology: R-Store recounts the use of GCP and HYCU"
Significant also was the testimony of Felice Giusti, Co-founder and CTO R-Store, who recounted the path of growth and adoption of digital tools, particularly with GCP and HYCU.
R-Store is one of Italy's leading Apple distributors, a company that started twelve years ago in Naples but has grown rapidly throughout the country. In addition to retail it provides consulting, assistance and training, offering customers the best customer experience.
"Technology and a partner such as power2Cloud have accompanied R-Store's growth, the choice so far has proven successful!
The shift from on-premise virtual machines to the cloud," he urged reflection, I believe it is an unstoppable process, Google services offer reliability, flexibility and innovation and bring even entities that do not have a particularly structured IT department or expertise closer together."
In the midst of a pandemic and with stores closed, R-Store experienced a sudden 150 percent growth that could not have been managed without an infrastructure like Google Cloud Platform.
"A partner such as power2Cloud is strategic to support business goals as the opportunities for a cloud provider such as Google are many."
R-Store has thus moved from using a server, to on-premise virtualization to Google's cloud, which gives it scalability for its business.
With the Google Cloud Platform, the adoption of a service such as HYCU has enabled R-Store to configure everything in one environment so that disaster recovery is always possible for all their services.
"We are now moving away from virtual machines and starting to use microservices. In the future? The goal is to rely onmachine learning for data analysis.".
