Veeam Launches Recovery to Microsoft Azure With Powered Network

Veeam Software, Inc. announced the availability of Recovery to Microsoft Azure with Veeam PN (Powered Network).

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This on-demand turnkey solution ensures BC that is fast, easy to use, simple to deploy and affordable. It includes the free product, Veeam PN, an easy to use, light-weight software defined networking (SDN) solution to eliminate complicated VPN installation and simplify network configuration to create the recovery site on Microsoft Azure.

Businesses depend on IT to have a plan in place to maintain operations when disaster strikes or outages occur. According to Gartner, Inc., “Although there’s no magic answer on how much impact downtime will have on your business, current industry surveys have shown that the average enterprise estimates an impact of approximately $5,600 for every minute of unplanned downtime in its primary computing environment.“ ⁽¹⁾

This adds up to over $300,000 per hour. Unfortunately, for many enterprises, backup and recovery contingencies are insufficient. For one thing, the cost of maintaining and supporting a remote recovery site for a mirrored system with duplicate hardware and software is prohibitive given the high capital expense. For another thing, backup and recovery is labor-intensive and time-consuming.

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Recovery to Microsoft Azure provides a simple, highly secure means to recover on-premises workloads to the public cloud. With the company’s Availability Suite, IT can automatically spin-up an Azure cloud instance, and securely connect the business to customers, partners, and employees regardless of their location, all without the cost of a redundant standby system. This complete solution delivers cloud restore for Veeam backups, and is enhanced with PN, an easy-to-use, lightweight software defined networking (SDN) solution that simplifies network configuration and eliminates the need to set up a complex VPN to create a recovery site in Microsoft Azure. Recovery to Microsoft Azure with PN provides complete cloud-based data recovery to help organizations overcome the high capital expense and challenges of building and maintaining a remote recovery site.

“The last year was a terrible year for natural disasters around the world, from hurricanes and wildfires to earthquakes and floods,” said Danny Allan, VP, product strategy, Veeam. “But while organizations have known they needed to prepare for any type of failure, setting up a redundant site has proved prohibitively expensive for many. With Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure, enterprise executives can sleep soundly, knowing that, if disaster strikes, the business will keep operating in the public cloud – without breaking the bank or taking up all of IT’s time.“

Recovery to Microsoft Azure with PN is designed to simplify and automate the setup of a recovery site in Microsoft Azure by reducing the complexity of VPN deployments. The solution provides cloud-based data recovery to help organizations overcome the capital expense and challenges of building and maintaining a remote recovery site. Recovery to Microsoft Azure is designed for businesses of all sizes, including service providers. It provides seamless and secure networking between on-premises and Azure-based IT resources, and delivers easy-to-use and automated site-to-site network connectivity.

“Veeam has continued to stand out as one of our top global partners by creating solutions like Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure. This new solution will help make it even easier for customers to leverage Microsoft Azure as a recovery site for their virtual and physical workloads,” said Tad Brockway, GM, Azure Storage, Microsoft Corp.

“Organizations in many industries are eager to make greater use of today’s scalable and on-demand cloud services to enable more robust and cost-effective recovery, but they frequently struggle with coordinating the tasks such as network configuration that are required to get started and stay current over time. Solutions like Veeam Powered Network make it much easier for organizations take full advantage of public cloud for recovery more quickly and more comprehensively.” said Rick Villars, VP, datacenter and cloud research, IDC.

“Being able to restore Veeam backups directly to Microsoft Azure lets us leverage Azure as another data center for DR. Making sure our MES system is available 24.7.365 is even easier,” said Arnold Keizer, system administrator, Avebe Group.

⁽¹⁾ Gartner, Three Moves for CIOs to Lower Business Costs with Cloud, Ron Blair, 24 March 2017.