Software 'submarine' surfaces data protection for the Nutanix hypervisor crowd

Comtrade Software’s HYCU is an app-aware data protection product tailored for Nutanix’s Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) with fast deployment, backup and recovery. HYCU (Hyper-Converged Uptime) is purpose-built for Nutanix systems and auto-detects applications running in virtual machines. But who or what is Comtrade Software? …

[thondwe]

Comrade

Is it just me reading Comtrade as Comrade???

[Alistair]

Comtrade

I'd be careful, very easy to misread as CONtrade.

and at $1K/socket, I'm going to have to ask what the maintenance on that would be - HCI doesn't tend to run on small numbers of sockets.

[unredeemed]

Re: Comtrade

You've never bought socket licensed software have you? That's super cheap compared to Veeam or DellEMC backup sw based on sockets by around half.

[John 104]

Silly me, I thought it was an article. Turns out, it was a marketing advert.

[Florida1920]

We all live in a software submarine

Never gonna make it to Top of the Charts.

[Anonymous Coward]

Interesting observation.

Comtrade was founded in the Soviet Union in 1990, and still has ties to Russia...

Nutanix depends on the U.S. Federal government for approximately 1/3rd of their annual revenue...

Yikes!