Veeam Software has announced the next generation of Availability: Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud which provides businesses and enterprises the capabilities to ensure availability for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads in the hybrid cloud.
The platform enables availability through enterprise continuity, workload mobility, compliance and visibility.
For enterprise continuity, Availability offers Recovery Service Level Objectives (SLOs) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data; as well as Disaster Recovery (DR) orchestration.
The platform also promises Availability for workloads across any cloud or location, to maximize IT investments and increase flexibility. Another feature is proactive monitoring, reporting, testing and documentation to ensure business and regulatory requirements are met.
“Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud represents an inflection point for Veeam,” said Peter McKay, President and COO at Veeam. “In today’s digital world, we know that nothing less than 24.7.365 access to data and applications is acceptable, and as enterprises embrace new technologies to deliver what their users demand, Veeam has yet again risen to the challenge. More than 200,000 Veeam customers have embraced our availability solutions over the past 10 years, and as we look to the future, Veeam Availability Platform dramatically expands our capabilities and market penetration. It marks a new era in how we address enterprise requirements for a comprehensive Availability solution for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads. It strengthens our position as a principal innovator and a leader in enterprise Availability for years to come.”
“Enterprises are engaged in a continuous digital transformation process as they adapt to or drive disruptive changes in their customers and markets. Success in these digital transformation efforts depends upon data and application availability in the hybrid cloud” said Phil Goodwin, Research Director Protection, Availability and Recovery at IDC. “A recent worldwide survey of Veeam customers conducted by IDC revealed solid availability business results, including significant improvements in SLA compliance, downtime, and IT operations management time as compared to other solutions used prior to Veeam.”
Veeam Availability Console
Included in the Veeam Availability Platform is the new Veeam Availability Console, a cloud-enabled platform for service providers and distributed enterprise environments.
Leveraging Veeam Cloud Connect, this management console offers enterprises a way to easily manage remote and branch offices (ROBO) and other distributed locations, allows service providers to deliver Veeam-powered Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) services to their customers, and enables partners and resellers to launch a new service provider business.
Support for Microsoft Office 365
Veeam today also unveiled new capabilities supporting Microsoft Office 365. NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 enables an enterprise to work anywhere and at any time without the need to maintain its own email infrastructure. However, it does not replace the need to have a local backup of email data.
With Office 365, the data is owned and controlled by the business so the business is also responsible for protecting it. The new Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 mitigates the risk of losing access to email data and ensures email data Availability to users and the business.
Integrated with Veeam Backup & Replication, this new product also allows users with hybrid environments to easily migrate mailbox data between Office 365 and on-premises Exchange.
Expected to launch in Q4 2016, a free one-year subscription of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 will be available for customers of Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup & Replication of all editions. In addition, customers of Enterprise Plus edition of Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup & Replication will receive a free three-year subscription.