Bacula for HPSS Environments

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 HPSS HPC infrastructures. High performance features are needed for backing up HPC environments and Bacula does what most other backup vendorss cannot. This whitepaper discusses the considerations and advantages of using Bacula Enterprise as a central data backup and recovery system within a HPC environment, including those employing HPSS, and how an organization can benefit by modernizing its HPC infrastructure through Bacula’s unique capabilities.

• The Challenge of Backing Up an HPC Environment
• Why Bacula works so well with HPSS
• The Main Requirements of Backup Software in an HPSS Environment
• Hybrid Cloud Technologies in HPC
• The Need for Especially High Levels of Security