Seagate Unit Seamlessly Integrates Backup and Recovery Service

The core idea behind the E-Vault Cloud Connected Services Platform is to simplify the backup and recovery process by making it a function within any given application environment versus a separate discrete activity.

In addition, companies such as CA have signed on to extend their on-premise backup and recovery capability with the cloud computing services provided by i365. The Seagate service will be integrated with CA’s ArcServe software.

According to senior vice president Terry Cunningham, the new i365 program extends an application programming interface (API) for its cloud computing service that i365 originally developed in partnership with Microsoft to other software vendors.

As IT organizations continue to struggle with copious amounts of data, Cunningham says they will need to develop the equivalent of a hierarchical storage management (HSM) not just for backup and recovery purposes, but also to meet compliance and archiving requirements.

This shift, he adds, is inducing most companies that provide storage products to offer storage services in the cloud that augment those capabilities simply because most IT organizations will not be able to acquire and manage all the storage products they would need to manage increasingly huge amounts of data.

The i365 service is built on top of Seagate storage arrays running alongside hardware from EMC and Nexsan. The service will be available in the first half of 2010.