Veritas Backup Exec Certified for Azure and Windows Server 2019

Veritas Technologies, LLC, announced that its unified data protection solution Backup Exec has obtained certification for Microsoft Azure and Windows Server 2019.

The latest version of Backup Exec will empower organizations of any size to tailor their data protection with support, wherever their data resides, be it on physical or VMs or in the cloud.

DR is the last line of defense in digital world as it enables organizations to restore their data and critical applications in the case of an IT disaster, ransomware attack or data loss.

“Although there is no magic answer on how much impact downtime will have on your business, current industry surveys have shown that the average enterprise organization estimates an impact cost of approximately $5,600 for every minute of unplanned downtime in its primary computing environment,” according to a Gartner report¹. 

To avoid massive financial losses and reputational damage, organizations need to recover their business critical infrastructure to the latest point as fast as possible, wherever the applications and the data reside.

Veritas shares more than 25 years of collaboration with Microsoft, allowing customers to meet increasingly data protection and DR objectives. With the latest certification for Backup Exec, joint customers can implement a tailored protection with customizable SLAs for Azure and Windows Server 2019 based environments to optimize their protection and cost.

Day One support for Windows 2019
Backup Exec is a data protection solution achieving certifications for Azure and Windows Server 2019, giving customers full coverage from day one of its availability across cloud, virtual and physical deployments. With this unified data protection solution, organizations of any size can centrally manage and tailor the protection needs of their applications and modern workloads.

For business critical systems, Backup Exec adds an extra layer of protection by leveraging the cloud-based DR service Azure Site Recovery (ASR) from Microsoft. It uses its integrated feature Instant Cloud Recovery to interact with this service and create and update off-site replicas of critical VMs within ASR. When a critical system failure occurs on premises, Backup Exec customers will be able to execute a failover to Azure. No investment in secondary sites or upfront licenses is needed to benefit from this additional layer of protection. To optimize their backup processes and costs, customers can also run tests of their DR routines for confidence.

All backup and restore operations are simple to configure and manage through the GUI of Backup Exec. This will help organizations reduce the complexity of all their backup and recovery tasks. The certified version of Veritas Backup Exec is available for download starting at $39 per Front-End Terabyte (FETB) per month.

“With these industry leading certifications for Microsoft Azure and Windows Server 2019, Veritas once again proves its capabilities to quickly protect new key platforms and workloads,” says Simon Jelley, VP product management, Veritas. “Veritas and Microsoft are working closely together, so that customers can protect their critical business applications across on premises, private and public clouds. Customers will also benefit from Veritas’ long term strategy to broadly support any upcoming new workload in the future.”

“Having day one support for Windows Server 2019 from Veritas Backup Exec helps ensure our customers can embrace our new releases and leverage new capabilities to help modernize their infrastructure,” says Guada Casuso, CTO ISV business, Microsoft. “Customers can be confident that workloads in the cloud or on-premises have that extra layer of protection from Veritas to help them on their digital journey to cloud.“

¹ Source: Gartner, Inc., Three Moves for CIOs to Lower Business Costs With Cloud, Ron Blair, October 15, 2018