Veeam Expanding Google Cloud Partnership

Veeam Software, Inc. has expanded its public cloud support with the availability of its Backup for Google Cloud Platform – completing its support for all 3 major public cloud providers.

With the majority of organizations running hybrid or multi-cloud environments and 72% of those using public cloud currently having more than one vendor in place¹, Google Cloud is one of the top 5 largest public cloud infrastructure providers worldwide². With this offering, Veeam delivers a single platform to protect, secure and manage all applications and data – cloud, virtual and physical – enabling organizations to accelerate hybrid-cloud adoption.

“Veeam recognizes the strategic importance of the cloud to our 400,000+ global customers and we are committed to providing broad platform support and choice,” said Danny Allan, CTO and SVP of product strategy. “As we now expand public cloud support even further with the availability of Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, we have simultaneously expanded our partnership with Google Cloud, enabling Veeam to jointly engage customers through the Google Cloud Marketplace. Additionally, with Veeam recently acquiring Kasten, customers can also acquire Kasten’s K10 data management platform, purpose-built for Kubernetes, through the Google Cloud Marketplace.“

Veeam helps customers address security and data protection responsibilities by delivering Google Cloud backup and recovery to protect and secure applications and data, utilizing and automating Google Cloud-native technologies to overcome any cloud data loss.

New functionality of Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform includes:

• Google Cloud-Native: Simple yet powerful web UI, deployable from the Google Cloud Marketplace starts protecting data in minutes; Policy-Based Automation of Google Cloud-native snapshots for fast and frequent recovery points, and rapid full- and file-level recovery options to overcome any cloud data loss.
• Cost Optimization: Industry-first cost calculation to align service-level objectives (SLOs) with budgets while avoiding cloud overspend; backup to Google Cloud object storage for long-term retention and compliance.
• Security: Overcome security threats including ransomware as well as insider threats by isolating backup data from production (cross-project/cross-region); layered security to protect vs. brute force attacks with multi-factor authentication (MFA).
• Hybrid-Ready: Portable data format and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication external repositories enables recovery outside of Google Cloud; utilizes flexible Veeam Universal Licensing (VUL) to simplify license management and enable Cloud Mobility.

New Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform FREE edition (up to 10 Google Cloud workloads can be backed up with unlimited restore options and basic support) and BYOL edition (VUL with flexible cloud data management and production 24/7 support) is available in the Google Cloud Marketplace.

“As customers migrate their most business-critical workloads to the cloud, data protection and management are top of mind. With the expanded availability of Veeam’s backup solutions on Google Cloud, customers can quickly deploy and manage these applications at global scale, while benefiting from Veeam’s capabilities in data protection,” said Manvinder Singh, director, partnerships, Google Cloud.

“Organizations leveraging hybrid cloud infrastructure can increase both the value and performance of their workloads by taking advantage of data movement across on-premises and cloud environments. However, this environment requires complex data protection solutions to meet customer demands for data recovery and resilience. While solving this problem has historically been the responsibility of the enterprise, providers like Veeam can help by adding granular levels of automation and data protection which allow organizations to ensure they are prepared in the event of data loss or downtime. Veeam can also provide organizations with abstracted tools to help better understand their resource usage and cost in hybrid cloud environments. When it comes to cloud infrastructure deployment, cost and data resilience remain two of the most difficult challenges facing organizations. Veeam’s updates show it is dedicated to helping organizations understand and overcome these challenges,” said Andrew Smith, research manager, cloud infrastructure services, IDC.

¹ 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence – Covid-19 Update: 2020 Trends in Managed Services & Hosting
² IDC Semi Annual Public Cloud Services Tracker, 1H20