Availability of JetStream DR Software for Azure VMware Solution With Azure Blob Storage

JetStream Software Inc. announced its disaster recovery software, JetStream DR, which supports Microsoft Azure VMware Solution, is available through the Azure Marketplace.

The company has integrated its offerings with Azure Portal to deliver DR capabilities for Azure VMware Solution, employing JetStream DR software along with Azure Blob Storage.

JetStream DR protects VMware VMs in the customer’s on-premises data center with failover and VM recovery in Azure VMware Solution. Additionally, VMware VMs already deployed to and running in Azure VMware Solution can be protected with VM failover and recovery to an alternate Azure VMware Solution data center.

“By combining Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Azure VMware Solution, and JetStream’s VMware-certified software, we can fully transform the economics of DR for the enterprise,” said Tom Critser, co-founder and CEO. “At the same time, we are providing a compelling cloud-based solution ensuring enterprises can have the protection they need, both now and for the future.“

“Microsoft Azure is committed to working with leading third-party vendors to ensure our customers have the best options to meet their needs. We are pleased JetStream DR completed our rigorous testing process and is now available,” said Eric Lockard, corporate VP, Azure dedicated, Microsoft Corp. “DR and protection vs. ransomware are paramount issues for small and large businesses alike. JetStream DR provides a world-class solution utilizing the power and capabilities of Azure.“

Enterprises that choose JetStream DR benefit from CDP in a DR service offering with lower infrastructure costs as the data from protected VMs are maintained in Azure Blob Storage.

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Support for Azure NetApp Files
For customers who need to fail over quickly and recover large amounts of data, JetStream DR supports integration with Azure NetApp Files, the scalable storage file service in Microsoft Azure. This enables a much faster recovery time at a lower cost than provisioning additional vSAN hosts solely for the purpose of storage.

Meeting market needs
It enters availability amid a coalescing of trends. DR is suited to move to the cloud, however, this transition has proven complex from a technical standpoint. It is designed for the cloud, enabling it to support capabilities such as maintaining recovery data in object/blob storage and dynamically provisioning compute resources when needed. This is something other first-gen DR companies can’t offer.

Additionally, it is expensive for enterprises to replicate data into a redundant system. If they can replicate data into an object store, as with JetStream DR, enterprises pay only a fraction of the cost per gigabyte compared to file system-based storage. This is advantageous at a time when enterprises are expected to do more with less.

Furthermore, with risks arising daily magnified by new threat vectors, finding the scalable DR solution has become a business imperative.

How JetStream DR for Azure VMware solution works
JetStream DR provides CDP for vSphere environments. The cloud-native software platform is designed to provide the software infrastructure for an enterprise-grade DR service offering from a MSP or CSP).

Validated for Azure VMware solution and is VMware-ready, offering capabilities amongst DR solutions, including:

Cost-effective DR: Maintains VMs and their data in Azure Blob Storage, enabling enterprise-grade DR at a lower cost of operation.
Agentless CDP: Captures and replicates data continuously via VMware IO Filters for CDP without VM agents.
vSphere to vSphere Recovery: Supports Azure VMware Solution, so customers no longer need to maintain their own failover site. They can fail over to Azure VMware Solution ad fail back when the original protecte data center is restored.
Storage-independent: Protects VMs with any VMware-compatible datastore types: block, file, vSAN, VVOL and third-party HCI.
Live failback: Returns VMs to the protected site from Azure VMware Solution without interruption to VMs’ operation or protection.
Decoupled design: Azure Blob Storage is more than just a journal or ‘cold data tier’ – it is the repository for all VMs, data, configuration metAdata: and recovery policies.

JetStream DR is available. It can be purchased through the Azure Marketplace or directly from the company. License subscription pricing is based on the number of virtual machines protected. To deploy the software, customers will also need an Azure Blob Storage subscription and a VMware vSphere cluster in Azure VMware Solution.