Google Cloud has named HICU the Data Protection Technology Partner of the Year

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In this cloud wars minute, guest host Kieron Allen reviews HICU's data protection developments as Google Cloud rewards it for its backup and recovery offerings. The Google Cloud Technology Backup and Disaster Recovery Partner of the Year award went to HICU, a data protection-as-a-service company.

The award recognizes how HICU, which runs its R-Cloud platform natively on Google Cloud, enables customers to accelerate their business goals by providing backup and recovery assistance for the widest range of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), database- as-a-services (DBaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) services for Google Cloud.

In a press release, HICU founder and CEO Simon Taylor commented, “HICU has built an industry-leading solution on Google Cloud to help customers extend dedicated data protection across multiple Google Cloud services and SaaS applications that their businesses rely on.” rely on.

HICU's R-Cloud platform shines in its ability to provide organizations with a fast and efficient way to build and unleash enterprise-grade data protection for new data sources. This scalability is critical for companies, such as Google, that consistently develop and release new innovations and services for customers.