Veeam Software is collaborating with NetApp to create a new data protection solution for the modern data centre to enable always-on business.
"In an effort to control data protection costs, and to get more value out of their backup data, customers are increasingly looking at snapshots to increase their storage efficiency. NetApp is pleased that Veeam is working with us to bring greater value to our joint customers," says AJ Mahajan, senior director, NetApp product management.
According to Veeam, businesses require access to applications 24/7, from any place and any device, with no outages or data loss. The result is the expectation and demand of an always-on, always-available business, challenging IT in an unprecedented way to provide non-stop services.
The company states that it first took server virtualisation, a key technology of the modern data centre, beyond its initial application of server consolidation and turned it into a robust, transformative platform for data protection. Beginning with VMware and later with Hyper-V, Veeam provided data protection that "just works" - introducing capabilities such as Instant VM Recovery, automatic backup verification, and an on-demand sandbox that helps mitigating risks by providing a production-like environment for testing applications and updates before actual deployment into the data centre.
Now, Veeam is transforming a second key enabling technology of the modern data centre - the storage array with hardware based snapshot capabilities - to make the always-on business a reality. Storage snapshots allow backups to take place during business hours without affecting production of virtual machines (VMs), permitting a very low recovery point objective (RPO).
In addition, the snapshots themselves are small, taking up relatively little space. But storage snapshots alone are not sufficient to provide the level of data protection that the modern data centre requires.
This integration, according to the company, will bring together the low RPO enabled by NetApp Snapshot, which lets enterprise IT back up the production environment to other storage options every 15 minutes with no impact on performance, and the low recovery time objective (RTO) capability enabled by Veeam Backup & Replication, whose Explorer for Storage Snapshots provides quick and convenient item-level recovery from NetApp Snapshot, SnapMirror and SnapVault.
Backups directly from storage snapshots can be completed 20 times faster than with competing solutions, and the integration provides an efficient means to meet the 3-2-1 best practice of data protection by instantly storing one of the backup copies in SnapVault.
Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, concludes that the collaboration creates an important milestone and a disruptive advance in modern data protection.
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