Key features and benefits

The following features make HYCU for Google Cloud a solution that can transform your business—achieving complete compliance and data protection:

  • Protection against data loss

    Delivers native data protection for Google Compute Engine instances, applications running on Google Compute Engine instances and Google Kubernetes Engine clusters, and Google Cloud Storage buckets, ensuring data consistency and easy recoverability.

  • Data protection in a few minutes

    Data protection can be enabled in a few minutes after you subscribe to HYCU for Google Cloud, with no deployment and configuration concerns.

  • Application discovery and protection

    In-built application discovery provides new-found visibility into Google Compute Engine instances and Google Kubernetes Engine clusters, pinpointing where each application is running. The application‑specific backup and restore flow ensures that the entire application data is protected and can be recovered to a consistent state and a specific point in time.

  • Predefined policies and options for policy customization

    Simplifies implementation of data protection by providing predefined policies and includes options for policy customization that can address your special data protection needs.

  • Scheduled backups

    Automatic backup scheduling provides data protection based on your recovery point objectives (RPOs).

  • Centralized data protection management and monitoring

    You can join Google Cloud projects related to the same service subscription into protection sets to establish centralized data protection management and monitoring.

  • Lower impact on the environment

    Agentless architecture reduces backup load on production instances. In addition, backup windows enable you to completely avoid the impact of backup activity on your production environment during peak hours.

  • Use of data archives

    When you create an archive of data, you ensure your data is isolated from your current activity and safely stored for future reference.

  • Restore of individual files

    A possibility to restore one or more files is an alternative to restoring the entire instance.

  • At‑a‑glance overview of the data protection environment

    The HYCU for Google Cloud dashboard helps you to identify potential problems and bottlenecks to improve the performance of your data protection environment.

  • Optimized consumption of storage space

    The HYCU changed block tracking feature slows down the growth of backup data on targets, resulting in significant space savings and consequently reduced storage cost.

  • Integration with the Google billing system

    Cost of data protection is billed by Google through existing billing accounts, without requiring you to provide additional billing information.

  • Business continuity of your data protection environment across different infrastructures

    HYCU Protégé ensures data resilience by using the SpinUp functionality to migrate protected data between the on-premises and Google Cloud infrastructures. In the event of a disaster in your on-premises environment, HYCU Protégé provides disaster recovery of data to cloud. For details on the supported on-premises infrastructures and how to employ HYCU Protégé, see HYCU for Enterprise Clouds documentation.