HP's Autonomy division announced Thursday HP Data Protector 8.1, the latest release of its backup and recovery software.

It uses real-time operational analytics and defined business requirements to monitor, adapt and optimize how an organization manages its storage infrastructure, resources and data policies.

Among enhancements in the latest release is integration with SAP Hana, a popular in-memory database technology. The HP software provides backup and recovery to Hana databases, recreates logs while the database is online and restores data and performs database recovery to a state at the specific point in time or the most recent restorable state.

David Jones, general manager of data protection at Autonomy, said, “HP Data Protector delivers the industry’s first self-aware, self-healing and self-managing solution that will transform how forward-thinking organizations power and protect the modern data center.”

Other enhancements include disaster recovery capabilities, integration with HP StoreOnce compression technology, Microsoft's Active Directory and VMware vCenter.

HP expects to make the product generally available in January 2014.

HP's long-term strategy for backup solutions consists of four components: prioritization, prediction, recommendation and automation.

Prioritization enables organizations to set backup strategy and policies based on data and application priority and criticality. Prediciton leverages operational analytics to proactively set backup resource utilization. Recommendation provides actionable suggestions to the IT manager to reduce potential conflicts and ensure SLA objectives. Automation enables automated backup and recovery provisioning adjustments based on operational analytics from a self-learning system.