Making the move to modern data protection

Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, has announced a new campaign to help organisations make the move to Modern Data Protection™.

According to Gartner, by 2016, one-third of organisations will change backup vendors due to frustrations over cost, complexity or capability. At the same time, Gartner reports that server virtualization is now over 60% penetrated and on the way to surpass 80%. Veeam’s Modern Data Protection – a powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solution Built for Virtualization™ – sits at the junction of these two industry trends.

Most backup tools were built for the physical environment, and this constrains how they support virtual environments. For example, these retrofitted tools don’t leverage the virtual environment to verify backups, and they require agents in virtual machines (VMs) for granular recovery, application-consistent backups and other essential functions.

Findings from Veeam’s annual “Virtualization Data Protection Report,” released yesterday, illustrate how physical backup has created significant challenges for IT in an increasingly virtualized world:
o Capabilities: 88% of CIOs identified capability-related challenges that are impacting their ability to backup and recover their virtual infrastructures;
o Complexity: 84% of CIOs said that they are experiencing complexity-related challenges with backup and recovery of virtual environments; and
o Cost: 87% of CIOs are also facing cost-related challenges with backup and recovery of virtual servers beyond those costs already incurred by lengthy downtime.

Veeam Backup & Replication™ addresses these challenges with powerful, easy-to-use and affordable data protection Built for Virtualization from the ground-up and already proven in more than 60,000 organisations around the world.
o Powerful: Catalent Pharma Solutions (success story link) reduced backup time by 95% and recovery time by 97%.
o Easy-to-Use: Euler Hermes (success story link) deployed Veeam alongside IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to take full advantage of VMware vSphere and meet backup frequency requirements.
o Affordable: Flybe, Europe’s leading regional airline (success story link), eliminated costly downtime by recovering an important aircraft maintenance application from a regular backup in just a few minutes with Veeam.

Veeam has released new materials to help IT managers master and evangelise the key concepts of Modern Data Protection. Materials include:
o A white paper titled, “5 Fundamentals of Modern Data Protection” by David Davis, VMware vExpert and best-selling author.
o An independent lab review of Veeam Backup & Replication by IT analyst firm ESG.
o A 10-point comparison of Veeam Backup & Replication versus physical backup tools.