Veeam updates the backup solutions for Microsoft's cloud platforms

Thinking that relying on cloud infrastructures to eliminate the need for backup is a widespread opinion, but far from reality. Surely the data centers of the giants that offer these services are managed by extremely competent and redundantly saved people, but a company cannot afford to entrust one of its most important assets to the case: a further security copy is always fundamental, even if only to be able to recover information faster in the event of a disaster. Also because cloud providers are not always responsible for the data they have: Microsoft for example responsible for the operation of the Office 365 cloud infrastructure, but leaves responsibility for the management and protection of information to its customers.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is updated to version 4

The Veeam solution dedicated to Office 365 data backup integrates with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, offering an economical and scalable solution. It is a product already available, which has now been updated to its fourth version. introducing performance improvements for Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive for Business.
Leaning on Blob Storage allows to contain costs, thanks to the simplicity of implementation and the adoption of a pay as you go model, and to enjoy one virtually unlimited scalability.
"With 114% year-on-year growth, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 continues to be the fastest growing product in Veeam history" – he has declared Ratmir Timashev, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Veeam – "Exactly as it happens on-premise, even in the presence of SaaS solutions it is essential to protect and backup information of critical importance for business operations. Veeam Backup for Office 365 meets this need and the rapid increase in Azure adoption that we are seeing from our customers, confirms Veeam's strategy to continue the work done with Microsoft and provide a native backup solution specifically developed for workloads Azure".

Veeam Backup extends support for Microsoft's Azure platform

In the coming months Veeam will launch Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, a solution that extends the reach of Veeam Backup & Replication also to the Microsoft cloud. Again we have native cloud protection that relies on Microsoft Azure Blob and offers the following features:

• Protection of cloud-native data for Microsoft Azure workloads, with support for native snapshots and Veeam backups, and cloud optimized for long-term data retention in Microsoft Azure Blob
• Reliable restoration technologies to achieve top-level RTO goals, including file-level recovery of native snapshots and Veeam backups, as well as the ability to restore to an on-premise data center or any other Veeam-supported environment
• Check your savings, thanks to a cost estimation tool, which allows you to simulate the presumed costs before starting the backups

"Microsoft has a long-standing relationship with Veeam and the agreements of this global collaboration include support for Veeam innovations including Microsoft Office 365 and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure" – he has declared Tad Brockway, corporate vice president for Azure, Storage, Media and Edge at Microsoft – "As cloud storage becomes increasingly popular as a data backup strategy, Veeam's support for Azure Blob Storage enables companies to eliminate the need for on-premise storage, enabling faster RTO goals, improving availability, reducing costs and reducing costs. accelerating our customers' journey to the cloud".

Veaam at VMworld Europe 2019 in Barcelona

In conjunction with the announcement of the partnership with Microsoft, Veeam participated in VMworld Europe 2019 which was held in Barcelona. It was an opportunity to meet Daniel Fried, General Manager, Senior Vice President of EMEA and Worldwide Channels of Veeam, who told us: “Veeam was born as a backup solution for VMware vSphere, but since then we have worked for build partnerships and support different platforms, following the needs of customers. Technology is changing: VMware, hypervisor, cloud, hybrid cloud … and now the new password is multi-cloud. In fact, for the user, multi-cloud means using different types of clouds and moving data from one to the other. And this is what Veeam does ”.

Stimulated by the consideration of Edge9 that a true multi-cloud is not yet real, given the obstacles that exist to move dynamically from one platform to another, Daniel Fried replied: "It's true, we're not there yet, but the situation is evolving very quickly. The announcement of the partnership with Microsoft goes in this direction. With the Veeam solution a customer can move data from the on-premise to Azure and vice versa. It should also be considered that we work with all hyperscalers and they know what we do and in any case they decide to make partnerships with us. Hyperscalers know that a Veeam customer can use our tools to remove data, but they accept Veeam. Better to be "open" because in this way everyone can develop your business. We are seeing an acceleration in giving customers more flexibility. "