Veeam Using Microsoft Azure and VMware vCloud Air

Veeam Software, Inc. announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft Corp. and VMware, Inc. to help partners extend their availability offerings to the cloud.

Specifically, Veeam is working with both Microsoft and VMware to ensure that Veeam Cloud Providers (VCPs) will be able to deploy Veeam Cloud Connect in Microsoft Azure and VMware vCloud Air.

Backup/recovery software revenue grew 6.8% in 2013, reaching $4.7 billion1. The growth was, in part, a result of the demand for integrated solutions for cloud-enabled backup/recovery and the increased need for information management. As businesses look to extend their operations into the cloud-public or hybrid-data protection is a good candidate. Through its close partnerships, Veeam continues to deliver a robust solution.

“Across the globe, customers and resellers alike are looking to the cloud to grow their businesses,” commented Ratmir Timashev, president and CEO, Veeam. “Placing critical assets outside your ‘walls’ is a leap of faith, but with Microsoft Azure and VMware vCloud Air, resellers and service providers have two offerings that help them take the cost, complexity and concern out of data center design and deployment. Veeam has long-standing partnerships with both Microsoft and VMware, and our teams are tightly integrated to ensure that together, we are able to provision the Always-On Business.“

Veeam recommends that IT organizations follow the 3-2-1 rule: Three copies of data on two different kinds of media, one of which is off site. Veeam enables IT to satisfy the offsite requirement without having to invest in offsite infrastructure or management, since cloud resources are available on demand.

As part of its commitment to deliver cloud-based availability, Veeam announced Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP) partners that will provide support for cloud backup with Veeam Cloud Connect on the first day of Veeam Availability Suite v8 availability, eliminating the need for customers to deploy costly off-premises infrastructure.

Integration of Veeam Cloud Connect with Azure and vCloud Air will be of particular interest to existing and new members of the Veeam ProPartner network who want to become service providers and offer availability in the cloud, without investing in their own cloud infrastructure.

Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8, gives customers an integrated, secure and efficient means to move backups to an offsite backup repository managed by the service provider of their choice; thus avoiding the upfront capital investment of their own offsite infrastructure. Service providers get a platform to deliver fast and secure backup to the cloud for over 111,500 Veeam customers. In fact, Veeam Cloud Connect is so simple to set up that any Veeam ProPartner can become a service provider and offer offsite backup services to customers in less than ten minutes using the service provider’s own cloud infrastructure or VMware vCloud Air or Microsoft Azure.