Veritas NetBackup Solves Cloud Management Problems (Without Creating New Ones)

Article in partnership with Veritas Technologies LLC.

Without realizing it, our “solutions” to complex problems are often just partial steps in the right direction. Solving one problem eventually gives rise to another. Here, I have in mind the massive advances in cloud configurations, and virtualization more generally — with its increasingly complex innovations and architectures that solve many problems and allow us to respond to app requirements with accuracy, precision, and targeting.

Consider edge computing and cloud services that allow us to decentralize application functions and data processing where events actually occur. The hybrid cloud is another prime example, insofar as it is made up of apps and data whose management is divided between our home and the cloud. Still, we go further. Emerging data sovereignty issues are revolutionizing how data is processed and stored. Although countries’ laws vary, these processes often take place locally, and the corresponding data must remain locally.

Initially, the multi-cloud was embraced as a single, heterogenous architecture that was capable of housing a variety of cloud computing and storage services from different vendors. But now, almost a decade later, organizations are left to manage, control, and store a broad variety of solutions with different configurations. And so, the solution to the initial problem of cost and efficiency has created new, unexpected issues.