Veritas Expands Partnership with Microsoft
Veritas Technologies is building on its strategic partnership with Microsoft to bring new capabilities to joint Veritas and Azure customers.
In addition, the company is making updates to its 360 data management portfolio, including NetBackup 8.1, new deduplication technology with NetBackup Cloud Catalyst, new connectors for Information Map, and a new NetBackup Appliance.
The expanded Microsoft partnership includes new technology integrations that enhance joint customers’ business continuity and disaster-recovery readiness, enable hybrid cloud scale-out storage optimization, and dramatically increase customers’ ability to visualize data across disparate sources.
With the Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP), customers can monitor and failover/failback multi-tiered applications to and from Azure with a single click. This enables organizations to use the cloud as a recovery target, increasing disaster recovery readiness while reducing the cost and complexity associated with on-premises facilities. In addition, with Veritas Access, customers can automatically migrate old data to the cloud for cost-effective long-term storage, or easily mix on-premises and Azure cloud storage to create a single scale-out file system for efficient storage management with no disruption.
With the Veritas Information Map connector for Azure, customers can now also get a real-time picture of their unstructured data stored on Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and Microsoft Azure File Storage as well as determine which data must be preserved to help meet stringent compliance regulations. Information Map connectors will support a variety of other Microsoft and third party data sources.
Offering data protection optimized for the cloud, with Veritas NetBackup, the company’s flagship data protection solution for the enterprise, customers can migrate and protect data stored on the Azure platform. As part of Veritas NetBackup 8.1, customers can use deduplication technology to help reduce backup times and lower long-term data storage costs. Customers can also leverage their NetBackup investment and backup and recovery infrastructure as a foundation to deliver 360 data management. With Veritas Backup Exec, midsized and smaller businesses achieve integration with Azure for backup to, from or in the cloud. Backup Exec provides a single platform and console across virtual, physical and cloud environments to optimize customers’ productivity and includes deduplication to Azure for improved performance with reduced cost. With Veritas CloudPoint, customers can easily orchestrate Azure-based snapshots for quick recovery in the cloud. The CloudPoint interface provides a clean, central location from which they can manage snapshot operations across a variety of on-premises and cloud-specific technologies.
With Veritas CloudMobility, customers can migrate complex workloads from their data center to the cloud of their choice—including Azure—with a single click. CloudMobility also provides pre-migration testing, giving customers advance knowledge of how an application will perform in the cloud. And finally with Veritas Enterprise Vault, customers can use archiving technology to assign retention policies, do rapid search and streamline eDiscovery requests. Organizations can migrate archived content to Microsoft Azure Blob storage or transition from Enterprise Vault on-premises to Enterprise Vault running on Azure.
Separately, Veritas also announced enhancements to the company’s 360 data management portfolio to help organizations gain greater benefit from their data in a complex, multi-cloud world.
Veritas NetBackup 8.1 will introduce new deduplication technology—Veritas NetBackup CloudCatalyst—to enable customers to take greater advantage of the cloud while saving money. The new deduplication technology will be available in multiple form factors as part of NetBackup 8.1, either as licensed software or the NetBackup Cloud Catalyst 5240 Appliance to automate a customer’s path to multi-cloud environments. Also new in NetBackup 8.1 is Veritas NetBackup Parallel Streaming, a capability that enables rapid data protection of in-demand, cloud-based, scale-out workloads and applications, such as NoSQL, Hadoop and Cassandra.
In addition, the visual experience of Information Map will be enhanced with connectors for 23 new data sources for both on-premises and cloud-based data storage repositories. The new connectors will include Microsoft Azure Storage, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Oracle Database, Box and others. Additional product integrations will also be available with Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas Enterprise Vault and Veritas Access. Information Map is available as a stand-alone purchase or as part of the Veritas 360 Data Management Suite.
And finally,Veritas NetBackup 5340 appliance will offer all the benefits of NetBackup 8.1 in a reliable, high-performance integrated appliance, as well as the ability to scale and easily protect tens to hundreds of petabytes of data. NetBackup appliances and virtual appliances continue to provide the ultimate choice for customers.
Additional product details as well as information on availability and general availability timing can be obtained from the Veritas website at www.veritas.com.