Veeam Cloud Connect Hosted by brightsolid

brightsolid, part of DC Thomson Group, offers cloud backup product Veeam Cloud Connect.

Brightsolid  Aberdeen data centre

The company has announced the inclusion of backup product Cloud Connect into its product portfolio. The addition will provide brightsolid customers with an industry cloud backup repository solution.

Veeam Software, Inc., provider of backup and DR solutions, advocates a 3-2-1 rule for its backup products: three copies of your data, on two types of storage, with one copy held offsite. However, getting backups offsite can be challenging due to limited bandwidth, large data volumes and a lack of resources to build or maintain a true offsite repository. Cloud Connect has been specifically designed to overcome these issues, allowing users of Backup and Replication (v8 onwards) to add an offsite cloud backup repository hosted by brightsolid.

Hosted in Brightsolid’s wholly-owned, tier 3+ UK data centres, Cloud Connect provides affordable backup and BC that scales. Users have control of their on-demand restores through Veeam’s customer portal, and are assured that data is secure with company’s ISO27001:2013 security accreditation. Due for release in the second half of 2015, Cloud Connect v9 will include advanced image-based VM replication, providing customers with a cloud-based DR-as-a-service (DRaaS). Users will be able to replicate their IT estate from within the Veeam console and the solution will further improve recovery times.

“We are delighted to announce that Veeam Cloud Connect is now part of our applications product portfolio,” said Lisa Clark, head product, brightsolid. “At brightsolid we are dedicated to providing our customers with the right solutions for their immediate needs and future digital roadmap ambitions. I’m proud to say that our internal R&D team have successfully acquired another product to add to our growing portfolio. Veeam customers can take advantage of our new addition that takes the headache out of backing up, allowing IT departments to concentrate on innovation rather than ‘keeping the lights on’.”