Veritas in Technology Alliance With AWS

Veritas Technologies LLC announced a technology alliance with AWS to deliver Veritas 360 Data Management capabilities to enterprises leveraging AWS infrastructure – accelerating migration to the cloud and improving the management of applications and data across hybrid cloud environments.

This collaboration further supports the commitment from Veritas to enable data management capabilities across hybrid architectures for customers, and to help enterprise IT organizations navigate their journey to the cloud. As customers continue adopting cloud into their architectures, Veritas, through its software-driven approach, helps enterprises to integrate and move data and applications environments at their desired pace while protecting legacy hardware and software investments, retaining visibility and governance over data, and future choice over infrastructure.

“Our customers are consistently looking for ways to run their existing on-premises services across their AWS deployments,” said Bill Vass, VP, storage services, AWS. “Many enterprises today rely on Veritas technologies for application resiliency, performance, and DR. These customers will now have even greater opportunities to reduce costs and increase productivity while accelerating their journey to the cloud.“

Expediting migration to cloud with strong business impact
The collaboration includes technology integrations between Veritas 360 Data Management solutions and AWS.

The Veritas Resiliency Platform orchestrates the entire migration or failover/failback operation to/from AWS, helping to save customers time and money, simplifying the user experience, and increasing DR readiness. Enterprises often consider the cloud as a recovery target in order to reduce on-premises facilities, infrastructure, and operational costs. With the Veritas Resiliency Platform, organizations are able to simply move and automate the recovery of virtualized infrastructure to AWS with a single click. This enables organizations to consolidate standby data centers to the cloud.

With Veritas InfoScale for AWS, enterprise applications like SAP and Oracle can run in AWS while preserving on-premises performance, resiliency, and scalability. This gives customers a viable alternative to completely refactoring each application, which can be costly and time consuming. Organizations choosing to keep certain applications on premises can also benefit from the hybrid capabilities of InfoScale, enabling applications to be anchored to the data center while bursting to the cloud to meet spikes in demand. All of this is accomplished through an unified management console, simplifying the customer experience.

For application owners leveraging AWS, Veritas Access provides performance and cost-optimized software-defined storage for unstructured data workloads. Customers are able to use Veritas Access ad Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a low-cost storage tier for unstructured data workloads and optimize data migration to AWS. In the coming quarters, customers will also be able to run Veritas Access as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance and automatically provision the right tier of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) or Amazon S3 storage to meet application performance requirements. Veritas Access identifies highly-accessed data and caches it locally to boost application performance and enable the provisioning of lower cost tiers to meet the same requirements. When data is no longer being accessed, it can be moved to additional tiers via customer-defined policy, further optimizing the environment.

For customers looking to protect their hybrid cloud data, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec offer a data protection experience. As previously announced, AWS customers can use the NetBackup Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for a pre-configured and customizable cloud deployment. Veritas will continue investing in unified data protection and further integration of AWS services with respect to both NetBackup and Backup Exec.

Organizations are on a fast-track to embrace cloud infrastructure as digital transformations accelerate at an unprecedented pace, while the focus on cost management has never been greater.

“Growth of public cloud is supported by the fact that organizations are saving 14% of their budgets as an outcome of public cloud adoption,” according to Gartner’s 2015 cloud adoption survey.

“Veritas 360 Data Management for the cloud gives customers powerful, simple and highly cost effective ways to quickly drive greater business value from the cloud,” said Mike Palmer, EVP and chief product officer, Veritas. “Enterprises leveraging Veritas on AWS as a part of their hybrid IT strategy can utilize data management capabilities to help boost application performance, maintain BC with improved resiliency, and optimize their investment in AWS infrastructure.“

“The technology alliance between AWS and Veritas presents a promising opportunity for companies that want to achieve accelerated migration to the cloud and want to do so in a simple, scalable, reliable and cost effective manner,” said Bob Worrall, CIO, Juniper Networks, Inc.. “As a company that is both a customer of AWS and Veritas, and understands first-hand the advantages of moving certain operations to the cloud, Juniper is excited to consider alternatives provided through this alliance that deliver additional levels of business agility while maintaining performance and existing operational SLAs.“

“This announcement accelerates the cloud initiative for our mutual customers who today are using NetBackup, InfoScale and other Veritas technology, and at the same time are also deploying on AWS,” said David Cintron, VP of managed services, dcVAST, Inc., a Veritas channel partner and customer – and AWS partner network consulting partner. “The new alliance with Veritas and AWS allows channel partners like us to broaden our conversation with customers to help them optimize application performance, enhance DR and seamlessly move their data to the cloud.”

The Resiliency Platform and Infoscale for AWS are both available. Veritas Access on premises with storage tiering to Amazon S3 is also available. Veritas Access running on AWS will be available in the coming quarters.

With dedicated teams in major cities across the US and worldwide, customers will benefit from an improved engagement/support model and simplified, flexible purchasing with bundled offerings that will include subscription, consumption, or traditional enterprise licensing.