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Veeam With Availability Platform for Hybrid Cloud

To ensure availability for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads in hybrid cloud

Veeam Software AG announced Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud.

veeam_availability_platform_hybrid_cloud_1According to IDC (1), enterprises are engaged in a continuous digital transformation process as they adapt to or drive disruption by leveraging digital competencies. To enable this, we are already at the stage where switching to a cloud-first strategy is a necessity for survival, not a strategy for competitive advantage. By 2019, most organizations around the world will need to complete the shift to a predominantly cloud-based IT environment, and this places a huge pressure on availability tools to deliver a constant experience across multiple environments.

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In a game-changing move to address these challenges, Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud provides businesses and enterprises of all sizes with the capabilities to ensure availability for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads in the hybrid cloud through the following capabilities:

  • Enterprise continuity: Recovery Service Level Objectives (SLOs) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data; DR orchestration

  • Workload mobility: Availability for workloads across any cloud or location, to maximize IT investments and increase flexibility

  • Compliance and visibility: Proactive monitoring, reporting, testing and documentation to ensure business and regulatory requirements are met

Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud represents an inflection point for Veeam,” said Peter McKay, president and COO, Veeam. “In today’s digital world, we know that nothing less than 24.7.365 access to data and applications is acceptable, and as enterprises embrace new technologies to deliver what their users demand, Veeam has yet again risen to the challenge. More than 200,000 Veeam customers have embraced our availability solutions over the past 10 years, and as we look to the future, Veeam Availability Platform dramatically expands our capabilities and market penetration. It marks a new era in how we address enterprise requirements for a comprehensive Availability solution for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads. It strengthens our position as a principal innovator and a leader in enterprise availability for years to come.

“Enterprises are engaged in a continuous digital transformation process as they adapt to or drive disruptive changes in their customers and markets. Success in these digital transformation efforts depends upon data and application availability in the hybrid cloud” said Phil Goodwin, research director, protection, availability and recovery, IDC. “A recent worldwide survey of Veeam customers conducted by IDC revealed solid availability business results, including significant improvements in SLA compliance, downtime, and IT operations management time as compared to other solutions used prior to Veeam.

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Availability Platform in detail:
Availability Platform delivers the next generation of availability for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads, providing:

  • Private cloud and virtual server workload availability with Availability Suite.

  • Public cloud and physical server workload availability with agent for Linux and for Windows.

  • DR orchestration with Availability Orchestrator.

  • A cloud-enabled management console for service providers, managed cloud and distributed enterprise environments with Availability Console.

veeam_availability_console_one_pagerAvailability Platform solution is comprised of:

  • The Availability Suite is firm’s product, providing availability for private cloud and virtual workloads via Backup and Replication and ONE. Approximately 100 new features and enhancements are being introduced in Availability Suite 9.5, which is expected to be available in October.

  • Included in the Availability Platform is the Availability Console, a cloud-enabled platform for service providers and distributed enterprise environments. Leveraging Cloud Connect, this management console offers enterprises a way to easily manage ROBO and other distributed locations, allows service providers to deliver Veeam-powered Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) services to their customers, and enables partners and resellers to launch a service provider business.

  • Agent for Windows provides availability for public cloud and physical workloads hosted by Windows-based servers on-premises, in branch offices or in the public cloud – as well as Windows-based workstations on-premises, in home offices, or belonging to mobile users.

  • Agent for Linux provides availability for public cloud and physical workloads hosted by Linux-based servers and workstations – either on-premises or running in the public cloud.

  • Availability Orchestrator provides DR orchestration for the enterprise, including orchestration of Veeam backups and replicas through a defined DR plan, policy-driven DR testing, and compliance & documentation.

  • Cloud Connect streamlines backup and recovery of cloud-based workloads, providing an integrated, fast and secure way to backup, replicate, and restore to and from the public, private, and managed cloud.

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Veeam already provides us with a great Availability platform and gives us many different routes for recovery in the event of a disaster,” said Harley Carter, solutions architect, Scania Ltd. (Great Britain). “Being able to automate the process to a much higher degree and hence take out some of the more detailed knowledge and specialist support staff that we currently require, will put us in a much safer place should we really need to invoke DR. The ability to automatically generate DR documentation and plans will allow us to much more easily meet our audit requirements around DR and BC. As systems and infrastructure is a constantly moving target, keeping manual DR documentation constantly up-to-date is an impossible task, meaning that there are always likely to be small differences between documentation and the real world situation. In a disaster, you obviously do not want to be worrying about documentation and its validity.

Having knowledge of what the future will look like, with an understanding of the Veeam product roadmap is key,” said Mario Angers, manager, systems, University of British Columbia (UBC). “It allows us to develop the roadmap for our community cloud service offering, which we can then communicate to our clients. Our goal is to offer a 100% self-service offering within our community cloud. The No. 1 item our clients have been requesting is self-restores of their backups, with the launch of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5, we continue to get closer to that 100% self-service goal. By giving more control to our clients, we continue to lower our support costs and can re-invest those dollars back into our community cloud. Also, with 9.5, Veeam moves further into the Enterprise space, which is key for us, giving us the scalability needed to continue growing our community cloud.”

The company also unveiled capabilities supporting Microsoft Office 365. Backup for Microsoft Office 365 enables an enterprise to work anywhere and at any time without the need to maintain its own email infrastructure. However, it does not replace the need to have a local backup of email data. With Office 365, the data is owned and controlled by the business so the business is also responsible for protecting it. The Backup for Microsoft Office 365 mitigates the risk of losing access to email data and ensures email data Availability to users and the business.

With this product, customers can:

  • Securely backup Office 365 email data back to their environment.

  • Quickly recover individual mailbox items with best-of-breed granularity.

  • Efficiently perform eDiscovery of email archives with advanced search capabilities and flexible recovery and export options.

Integrated with Backup & Replication, this new product also allows users with hybrid environments to easily migrate mailbox data between Office 365 and on-premises Exchange. Expected to launch in Q4 2016, a free one-year subscription of Backup for Microsoft Office 365 will be available for customers of Availability Suite and Backup & Replication of all editions. In addition, customers of Enterprise Plus edition of Availability Suite and Backup & Replication will receive a free three-year subscription. (2)

Also announced, additional primary storage integration with the IBM Storwize family and IBM SVC platform will be included in Availability Suite v10.

(1) Source: Developing a Cloud Strategy for Digital Transformation: Solve the Three Clouds Problem, IDC, June 2016
(2) Offer ends December 31, 2016

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