VeeamON: Infinidat Demos Rapid Recovery of Veeam Backup Repository

With the VeeamON conference taking place in person in Las Vegas, NV, and virtually on May 16-18, Infinidat Ltd is touting its position in the Veeam integration ecosystem to advance data protection in DR and cyber recovery.

In a live demo of its InfiniSafe capabilities earlier this year, it demonstrated the recovery of a Veeam backup repository in 12mn and 15s. This backup repository was 1.5PB in size, and it could have been larger − and resulting time is the same.

According to Infinidat, no other vendor can show Veeam dataset recovery in 12mn.

As a key part of an enterprise data protection strategy, recovery is important, given the increase in cyberattacks and the ever-widening threat landscape.

Christophe Bertrand, practice director for data protection, data management and analytics, Enterprise Strategy Group, has affirmed the importance and speed of recovery, as well as the need for the data to be accessible and free of malware and ransomware, so that infected data is not inadvertently recovered: “Against a backdrop of constant cyber threats, data recovery today goes beyond consideration of traditional RPOs and RTOs: it’s really becoming cyber recovery. This means IT needs to be able to provide the ability to recover ‘clean or unadulterated’ backup repositories at scale, quickly and reliably. Infinidat’s solutions provide Veeam customers the ability to recover repositories in minutes, regardless of size. Combined with Infinidat’s InfiniSafe technology, end-users can build a strong foundation for their cyber resilience solution.“

Veeam + Infinidat = Data Protection with Cyber Resilience
Veeam is in data management and protection capabilities for enterprises in a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud, and securing data. Infinidat is in enterprise storage and cyber resilience solutions.

“At Infinidat, we’ve worked diligently to establish our leadership position in cyber recovery capabilities and to extend our cyber resilient storage solutions, leveraging Veeam integration to add value to Veeam data management customers,” said Robert Cancilla, Infinidat’s EVP of business development and global alliances. “Infinidat and Veeam protect your most critical asset – your data – and ensure BC.“

Infinidat’s InfiniGuard and InfiniBox systems are foundational elements in providing a Veeam backup environment with fast recovery of an entire Veeam backup repository, regardless of size. That means the backup system, as a whole, has additional levels of protection for recoverability that stem from system errors, DR, and cyber resilience provided by InfiniSafe technology.

By leveraging snapshot integration and integrated backup proxies, it’s a matter of achieving fast and reliable backup with a minimal impact on production. Snapshots reduce RTO, allowing the recovery operation to be completed in minutes. Snapshot integration enables a tight backup schedule with potentially hundreds of recovery points each day, minimizing RPO.

InfiniBox and InfiniGuard technologies deliver storage solutions with HA, performance for both backup and recovery, and the low TCO at multi-petabyte scale.

“InfiniBox provides unprecedented value for modern enterprise storage,” Cancilla added. “Available in multiple configurations and in various consumption models, InfiniBox enables customers to acquire, store and analyze the most data to achieve a competitive advantage. You can have snapshot integration with InfiniBox to orchestrate backups as often as needed with no performance impact.”

Built on the same architecture as the InfiniBox, InfiniGuard adds inline and variable block de-dupe and provides fast and reliable backup and restore at scale. It essentially ensures that the data is always there when it is needed. Veeam customers can leverage the deep InfiniGuard-Veeam integration and use the InfiniGuard built-in Veeam proxy to eliminate the inefficiencies most legacy solutions suffer, achieving better backup and recovery performance.

Secondary storage solution – InfiniGuard – with variable block size de-dupe enables retaining multiple backups to meet an enterprise’s backup policy. At the same time, it reduces the required storage capacity and leverages economy-of-scale to provide a better TCO.