On November 16, 2017, at a media exchange held by Veritas, Lian Zhihao, Senior Vice President of Veritas Asia Pacific and Japan, said that Veritas's strategic orientation is to unify the management of data within the enterprise through a 360-dimensional data management platform surroundings.
Lian Zhihao, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Veritas
Why has data management become so important? Yang Chen, President of Veritas Greater China, introduced us to the current enterprise IT environment. In a multi-cloud environment, enterprise data management is facing unprecedented challenges. However, digital transformation is imminent, so data management is becoming more and more important.
Adapting to the era Veritas helps customers solve data problems
About two years ago, Veritas separated from Symantec and officially operated independently, which also allowed Veritas to focus more on its business.
Lian Zhihao said that being independent gives Veritas a very special opportunity. First, the timing of independence happens to be in the process of IT market transformation, whether government agencies, state enterprises, or private enterprises are talking about data transformation and informatization. Second, the cloud has begun to mature, and cloud migration has become a major topic.
These technological trends have brought new business opportunities to Veritas-that is, the often mentioned big data analysis, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, etc., to promote business development through the information obtained through data mining. Due to the changes in the entire environment, including the dispersion of data sources, the increase in data volume, and different technologies to store data, a very complex data environment has been brought to enterprise managers.
Lian Zhihao said that Veritas is being spun off. After detailed research and according to the actual needs of the market now and in the future, Veritas plans to develop a strategic direction-through a 360 all-round data management platform to unify the management of the enterprise data environment .
Today, Veritas has many partners in the cloud field, including Microsoft, AWS, IBM, and local cloud partners in China. Veritas hopes that through the flexibility of the 360 data management platform and compatibility with the cloud, it will help customers to realize their value in the process of data transformation and informatization.
Veritas new way of data management in the multi-cloud era
If you look back at the nearly 30 years since the establishment of Veritas, what is the core element of success? It is that it can build a platform across many different environments. Veritas has always been adhering to a concept-hope to help customers build a complete set of data management platforms across data centers, private clouds and public clouds, so that customers can get rid of the pure dependence of the underlying.
Veritas research shows that 56% of global enterprises generally have a "cloud first" awareness and regard the multi-cloud environment as an important part of their business strategy when deploying new applications and managing workloads.
In this "multi-cloud or hybrid cloud" era, the challenges brought by it are inevitable. Customers will decide whether the company's data should be placed in a data center, a private cloud, or a variety of different public clouds based on their application characteristics. When it comes to a multi-cloud environment, it becomes very complicated-such as data migration and migration.
Veritas will first help customers format the data system; secondly, help customers realize data migration and scheduling; and thirdly, they will help customers achieve more flexible data management through some means. The comprehensive data management proposed by Veritas in the multi-cloud era is divided into six parts:
First, data visualization. Do you know where to put corporate data? Clearly understand the data distributed on different public clouds around the world.
Second, unified data protection. Data on the public cloud in the future will definitely need to be protected. Veritas will continue to expand through strong products such as NBU and BE products to allow customers to protect data on the public cloud.
Third, the portability of data and applications. Many vendors talk about going to the cloud but not going to the cloud. Why? This is because he wants to keep customer data on his own cloud forever. But from the perspective of maximizing customer benefits, the customer should be given a flexible means to allow him to have more choices and manage his data more flexibly.
Fourth, optimize storage. Data is growing every year, and now the annual storage growth rate even exceeds the rate of file creation. How to optimize the data in the storage and how to define the software? How to help customers save more costs? These are the problems that Veritas will help customers solve in the future.
Fifth, business continuity. In the traditional enterprise environment, high availability, business continuity, and in addition to ordinary data disaster recovery and backup, the business itself also needs to be restored in real time. Veritas has a very powerful product called VRP (Veritas Resiliency Platform), which can achieve one-click switching to ensure no downtime at any time.
Sixth, digital compliance is a big topic, which is closely related to everyone. Users have their own right to disappear on the Internet. If they want their personal data to be erased, they have this right to require companies to do so. This is also a new trend in the era of big data.
Combining these six major directions, the major technological innovation of Veritas 360's comprehensive data management solution suite. This innovation covers Veritas' flagship products Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Information Map and Veritas backup all-in-one, helping companies directly solve the above problems.
Summary: In the next three to five years, the IT environment of enterprises will become more and more complex. Veritas is transforming very quickly in the cloud era and big data era. It has keenly captured that the future environment is a multi-cloud environment, and launched a full range of solutions to help enterprise customers protect valuable data in multiple data centers, public clouds and hybrid clouds. Data assets help enterprises' digital transformation.