Veeam Availability Console Available, for Free

Veeam Software, Inc. announced the availability of its Availability Console, a free management console for service providers delivering Veeam-powered services, such as Backup as a Service and DR as a service, to more efficiently manage, track and invoice for these services.

In addition, the console expands opportunities for resellers and new MSPs looking to launch a managed backup service business to capture new revenue streams. It can also be used by distributed enterprises operating in an IT service delivery model and wanting to offer efficient, centrally managed backup, data protection and DR services across a distributed multi-cloud environment including on-premises or private cloud, public cloud, ROBO, as well as mobile or home workforces.

As cloud adoption grows, the ability to deliver, manage, and monitor IT infrastructure can be difficult. Availability Console simplifies this and allows service providers to add value by provisioning, managing, and monitoring Veeam virtual, physical, and cloud solutions for their customers. This in turn enables these partners to generate new revenue streams by offering fully-managed BaaS and DRaaS alongside their traditional business lines.

“Veeam is dedicated to our 16,700 service provider partners who are delivering BaaS and DRaaS services to their customers,” said Danny Allan, VP of product strategy, Veeam. “Veeam Availability Console makes it easy to deploy, manage and monitor all of their customers’ Veeam-powered services, whether they provide Availability for applications and data in the cloud, in a virtual environment, or on a physical server or laptop. Our strategy is to make it as easy as possible for our partners to provide valuable and profitable services to their customers, and the release of Veeam Availability Console is part of delivering on that strategy.”

Key features of Availability Console include:
• Simplified customer on-boarding, with the ability to centrally provision and manage all customers in one place;
• Remote network discovery of customer environments to deploy Veeam’s virtual, physical and cloud-based availability solutions;
• Supports virtual, physical and cloud-based servers and endpoints;
• Remote management and monitoring of Veeam backups and replicas for customers in an all-in-one dashboard view;
• Tracking, billing and invoicing to ensure complete, real-time visibility of consumed resources, with white-label invoices;
• Self-service management and status monitoring using a multi-tenant portal by partners and end customers;
• RESTful API to integrate Availability Console functionality into existing management portals and workflows, and automating common management tasks

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Availability Console license is free, supported for Veeam Cloud and Service Provider (VCSP) partners.

“With Veeam Availability Console we are now able to extend our Veeam-powered cloud offerings even further. Veeam Availability Console delivers even more self-service options, so our partners are able to login and maintain their own customers without having to involve us, making our offerings more agile and easier to manage,” said Benjamin Elveng, CTO, any.cloud, a platinum VCSP partner.

“As a Veeam cloud provider, we rely on API access to the Veeam product set to automate processes in our console, such as VM restores and DR failover plans. With the addition of the new Veeam Availability Console API, we can further implement enhanced functionality in our console, to provide a richer experience to our IaaS and DRaaS customer base,” said Justin Giardina, CTO, iLand, a platinum VCSP partner.

“Veeam Availability Console proves Veeam’s dedication to its cloud solutions, enabling cloud service providers with a unique tool to manage other Veeam services with a multi-tenancy approach,” said Jakub Sevcik, senior support manager, G2 server, a platinum VCSP partner.

“Providing efficient, secure and effective managed services to MSPs is critical for our success, and we are excited that Veeam is committed to our success by developing tools that help us build our business. Veeam Availability Console will be a great tool that we can use to deliver a secure, cloud-enabled solution for Availability of our customers’ virtual, physical and cloud-based workloads,” said Kevin Allan, CTO, Probax, a gold VCSP partner.