Veeam has added support for IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris operating systems to its availability solution portfolio in a move which extends the vendor's availability platform to Unix workloads.
Veeam's support for IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris operating environments will be available in 2018, with the support via a technology partnership with Cristie Software.
The company says enterprise customers can now replace their legacy backup solution with Veeam Availability Platform to protect mission-critical applications, systems and data that exist in enterprise environments.
"Enterprises need to enhance business efficiency and security, while embracing the cloud, but many mission-critical databases and applications are still running, and will continue to run, on AIX and Solaris, says Peter McKay, co-CEO and president at Veeam.
"As we expand the Veeam availability platform to meet the needs of our growing enterprise customer base, we are pleased to extend support for physical workloads in these environments, in addition to Windows and Linux. Enterprise customers can now replace legacy backup solutions with a single comprehensive data protection and availability solution from Veeam."
Says Catia Brunetto, director BU Infrastructure IT for Econocom Products and Solutions: "While the share of Unix-based systems in the enterprise has continued to decline in recent years, there is still a significant number of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies that continue to use Unix-based systems in their data centres."
"These enterprise organisations can be found in any industry and vertical, including banking, retail, public sector and government, telecom, insurance, manufacturing, automotive and other, and choose AIX and Solaris based on application performance, reliability and security."
The South African business unit of Veeam Software saw its growth reach 31% year-on-year for the second quarter of 2017. Veeam now plans to become $1.5 billion revenue company in 2020.