High Performance Computing centers are broadly working to modernize their IT infrastructure to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Organizations across various industries are facing a pressing need to deliver high-performance, cost-effective, highly secure and robust backup and recovery solutions in their HPC infrastructures. This whitepaper discusses the considerations and advantages of using Bacula Enterprise as a central data backup and recovery system within a HPC environment, and how it can – and does – facilitate a specific, yet critical part in an HPC-using organization’s enterprise-wide approach to digital modernization.
Whitepaper Summary
- New Management and Project Development Styles
- IT Environment Complexity
- Technical and Demanding IT Environments
- Bacula: Support of Tape Libraries from All the World’s Main Manufacturers
- The Need to De-Risk Implementation
- Meeting RPO’s and RTO’s
- The Need for Especially High Levels of Security
- Ransomware
- Bare Metal Recovery as part of a Disaster Recovery strategy
- Different ways to interface with Bacula Enterprise
- Hybrid Cloud Technologies in HPC
- Stand-alone Capabilities, and “Air-Gapping”
- Container Technology and Kubernetes in HPC
- Avoiding Vendor Lock-In
- Scalability
