Protect Data with HPE Storage and Veeam Data Platform V.12

By Parissa Mohamadi, product manager, storage data protection solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Data protection with HPE Storage and Veeam Data Platform v12 is here. The integration of Veeam Backup and Replication V.12 with HPE StoreOnce and StoreEver provides an end-to-end data protection solution, delivering secure, fast cloud backups. Learn more about it.

The massive amount of data that is growing 35%-to-45% ^(*) annually must not only be harnessed to draw business value, but more importantly, be safeguarded and quickly recovered in the event of data loss or disaster. Data is now more pervasive, too, with 48% of data in the core, 29% in the cloud, and 19% at the edge. ^(*) This data, of course, must be protected no matter where it resides.

Complicating the situation even further, data is subject to more threats and risks than before. Ransomware attacks are on the rise – with more than half of organizations having now been attacked by ransomware with only a third being able to recover without paying the ransom. In half of the attacks, backups were also targeted, and half of those backups were compromised. ^(*)

Don’t forget that data is not only growing but also scattered across multiple platforms, data types, and clouds
Like many organizations, you may have decided to adopt point solutions drawn from your data protection toolkit. But soon, the complexity of managing and deploying the various components can become a nightmare. Although you strive to tightly integrate backup software with the underlying storage infrastructure, coordination of staffing, validation, and product release cycles from multiple vendors soon becomes increasingly complex.

The ideal data protection solution integrates software and storage hardware to deliver simple, reliable, and fool-proof protection. The combination of HPE storage and Veeam software fits the bill.

What’s new with Veeam Data Platform v12?
It focuses on trusted immutability, cyber resiliency, and hybrid cloud optimization. That’s exactly why its integration with HPE storage offerings delights our customers. From immutability everywhere to one-click cloud deployment of Veeam infrastructure to flexible data management for the entire hybrid ecosystem, Data Platform couldn’t get stronger.

Count on:

Trusted immutability

• Rapid identification and recovery of affected data
• Immutability everywhere
• Maintaining control and avoiding lock-in

Cyber resiliency

• Identifying, alerting, and restoring with clean data
• Automation and orchestration of workload recoveries
• Empowering your zero-trust journey with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and passwordless service accounts

Hybrid cloud optimization

• New application consistency options for cloud workloads
• Low-recovery point objective and multi-cloud monitoring helping accelerate initiatives
• Direct to object backup

Why HPE storage and Veeam software is winning solution?
For more than a decade, HPE and Veeam have embarked on a co-innovation journey driving numerous integration points between Veeam Backup and Replication and HPE storage and server portfolios. The result is a rapid, efficient, scalable, and secure backup and recovery throughout the lifecycle of data generated by myriad workloads.

Here’s what Patrick Osborne, SVP and GM, cloud data infrastructure, HPE storage, has to say about Data Platform v12: “Our customers are managing massive amounts of data and need robust data protection solutions that reduce risk and protect against malicious threats. Continuing our long-standing alliance, with Veeam Data Platform v12, HPE and Veeam are delivering new data protection solutions that help our joint customers deploy multi-site high availability solutions, reduce data risks, and improve backup and restore performance.“

What you get with Data Platform?
Available to purchase from HPE or consume via HPE GreenLake, Data Platform is integrated with the HPE storage portfolio, including Alletra data storage arrays, StoreOnce backup appliances and StoreEver tape storage.

You’ll reap benefits of integration as you are able to:

• Reduce your backup data footprint – Your backups of de-duped data transfer over LAN, WAN, and FC are not only efficient, but also 95% storage space efficient. Synthetic full backups are created quicker with simplified metadata reconstruction, true-per VM backup chain, fixed block chunking for pre-aligned backup data and underlying StoreOnce systems flash tier. Surebackup granular recovery and recovery operations from backups residing in the Catalyst Stores are also faster.
• Store and egress your data in the cloud affordably – With StoreOnce Cloud Bank Storage (CBS), you can create offsite copies of data in multiple public or on-premises low-cost cloud object storage targets for long term retention without relying on an appliance or a storage gateway and without burdening the Veeam Back and Replication infrastructure components – all with significant cost reduction.
• Protect your backups from ransomware – Your backups are invisible to host systems and can’t be changed thanks to retention lock and object-level immutability set by Veeam software leveraging the Catalyst client APIs. This coupled with StoreOnce dual authorization and compliance mode stops cryptographic and key-logger attacks in their tracks when they want to modify or delete your backup data.   
• Safely keep your backups long-term – With a shelf life of more than 10 years, StoreEver tape library family provides cheap, scalable, and highly dense archival of cold data. With automatic vaulting and write-protection by Veeam tape jobs, the tape media serves as perfect targets for long-term air-gapped data retention.

Resources:
Solution brief that highlights how the new integrations between HPE and Veeam Data Platform v12 protect your data – and ensure rapid recovery at the most granular level – via updated cyber resilience capabilities, cloud acceleration, and enterprise performance.
Infographic: How joint HPE and Veeam customers derive real value from the HPE+Veeam solution
And always remember to check out the latest on HPE and Veeam solutions that power your data from edge to cloud with a cloud experience for every workload.
HPE data protection portfolio of on-premises cloud-based data protection solutions and services.

^(*) Source: The Business Value of Veeam and HPE storage and servers – IDC – September 2022 (registration required)