Veeam and HPE Expand Partnership as Customers Embrace XaaS and Kubernetes

Veeam Software, Inc. has won the HPE Ezmeral Software Momentum Marketplace Partner of the Year 2021 for modern data protection solutions growth and leadership.

The award recognizes Veeam within the HPE partner ecosystem and underscores the continued momentum of Veeam Availability Suite v11 and Kasten K10 solutions being integrated with HPE storage offerings and HPE GreenLake cloud services.

“This award is testament to our partnership with HPE, and another proof point of how organizations are turning to Veeam for the most advanced modern data protection solutions for cloud, virtual, SaaS, Kubernetes and physical workloads,” said Jim Kruger, CMO, Veeam. “More and more customers across the globe, including Havmor, Datev, Alpha Bank, Invado and Agnitio, are realizing the true value of the combined benefits of industry-leading technologies from both Veeam and HPE.“

“The partnership between Veeam and HPE helps our end users reduce downtime, increase agility and help achieve digital transformation,” said Jim Jackson, CMO, HPE. “Together, we deliver better data availability, streamlined IT operations, reduced risk of data loss, and significant financial and competitive benefits for customers.“

Announced during HPE Discover 2021, the award represents one of several milestones in the expansion and success of the relationship between the two partners.

To continue exceeding customer outcomes and expectations, several new partnership capabilities have been added:

• The joint GreenLake and Veeam offering has continued to evolve and provides customers with a robust as-a-service experience. This enables GreenLake and Veeam deliver an end to end as-a-service experience with a platform for data protection that reflects customers’ evolving desire for the cloud experience. This also empowers organizations to streamline their data transformation agenda, with the safeguards of backup and replication. Through GreenLake, Veeam’s Universal License (VUL) brings the portable license and pricing into harmony.
• With the recent announcement of Backup & Replication v11, Veeam introduced faster backup and restores with asynchronous snapshot replication support for HPE Primera mission-critical storage, driving catalyst copy improvements for HPE StoreOnce and HPE Cloud Volumes Backup, and enabling the fastest Veeam all-in-one backup platform performance when using the HPE Apollo 4510 Gen10 System. HPE engineering has seen doubling of performance through testing of this optimized V11 code with Apollo.
• Kasten K10 by Veeam, available from HPE, enables enterprises to confidently run and protect cloud-native applications on Kubernetes, across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Ezmeral Container Platform applications can also be recovered and redeployed across clusters and sites to facilitate effective DR strategies.
• The Veeam Universal Storage API plug-ins for both the HPE XP Platform and HPE SimpliVity will provide storage snapshot integration, enabling customers to realize faster and more frequent backup and replication of vSphere VMs without any performance impact on production workloads, driving efficiencies and lowering costs in data safeguarding strategies.
• HPE North America is a Veeam Accredited Services Partner (VASP), which strengthens HPE’s capabilities to sell, deploy and support Veeam solutions, and ensures enterprises realize satisfaction through HPE PointNext Advisory and Professional Services.

“Whether in the data center, cloud or combination of both, you must build the right type of infrastructure to protect your data, and downtime can’t be tolerated in the modern economy… the consequences are too grave. ESG research shows that loss of employee productivity is the number one impact of downtime as reported by 46% of organizations among many other business and operational impacts. Veeam is well positioned with HPE to safeguard data to ensure it’s always on, and always protected. Over the last 10 years, Veeam has developed HPE specific portfolio integrations creating ease of use, reliability and scalability of data protection, and we believe Veeam will continue to invest in future integrations for years to come,” said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

“A key element of data protection as-a-service is ensuring a seamless experience for the customer. With Veeam Data Protection via HPE GreenLake, we offer customers a broad portfolio solutions to match specific use cases or workloads. Veeam’s commitment to as-a-service with HPE will help customers address their most immediate challenges and unexpected demands,” said Arwa Kaddoura, HPE GreenLake VP of WW sales and go to market.

“The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and Kasten by Veeam partnership ensures customers can build solutions in repeatable patterns across a wide array of Kubernetes ecosystems, and be confident that deployed workloads are perfectly protected and recoverable due to unforeseen events. Kasten K10 is designed from the ground up to run natively in Kubernetes and yields much better returns in scale, security, and manageability than other traditional data management tools,” said Gaurav Rishi, VP of product, Kasten by Veeam.

“HPE North America is honored to have become a Veeam Accredited Service Provider. Data protection has never been more important than now, with security threats on the rise and remote workforces needing flexibility with how they access data. This accreditation allows HPE to better serve our joint customers and ensure your data is always on, always protected and your enterprise is always able to rapidly recover should a situation arise – from human error to malicious attack,” said Jas Sood, VP and GM, NA infrastructure and services sales.