Storage cloud Backblaze and data protection as-a-service firm HYCU are partnering to protect company workloads across on-premise and public cloud IT environments.
“With more applications in use across the modern data centre, visibility and the ability to protect that mission-critical data has never been at more of a premium,” said Subbiah Sundaram, senior vice president, product, HYCU. “Our collaboration with Backblaze now offers joint customers a cost-effective and scalable data protection solution combining the best in backup and recovery with Backblaze’s streamlined and secure cloud storage."
HYCU gives customers the power to protect every byte from ransomware or other data loss events, and manage all their business critical data in one place. It promises to give customers the ability to recover from disaster "almost instantly", with the company sharing an average recovery time of "less than ten minutes".
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is an Amazon Web Services S3-compatible object storage platform.
"Backblaze and HYCU is a game changer for higher education organisations and businesses who need flexible data management and storage. This partnership brings together HYCU’s speed and Backblaze’s affordability, and both platforms' simplicity,” said Elton Carneiro, senior director, partnerships at Backblaze.