Veeam has officially introduced Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive, a new capability designed for long-term backup retention (“cold data”) that helps organizations reduce storage costs while maintaining security and compliance.
Key Highlights
💰 Lower Storage Costs
- Stores infrequently accessed backups in a cost-effective Archive storage tier.
- Ideal for long-term retention (5, 7, 10+ years).
🔒 Enhanced Security
- Immutable backup storage.
- End-to-end encryption.
- Protection against ransomware and accidental or malicious deletion.
📋 Compliance
- Helps organizations meet regulatory and corporate retention requirements.
- Simplifies long-term data retention for audits and compliance.
⚙️ Simplified Management
- Fully managed by Veeam.
- No need to manually configure Azure Archive Storage or lifecycle policies.
- Seamlessly integrated with Veeam Data Cloud Vault.
📦 Best Use Cases
- Long-term backup retention.
- Cold data that is rarely accessed but must be preserved.
- Organizations looking to reduce cloud storage costs without compromising data protection.
Why It Matters
This new capability enables organizations to implement a cost-effective long-term retention strategy while keeping backups secure, immutable, and easy to manage through the Veeam platform.
From our perspective, this is a valuable enhancement that will help us support many customers in meeting their corporate backup retention policies, long-term data preservation requirements, and compliance obligations, while significantly reducing storage costs for archived backup data.
🔗 Official announcement:
https://www.veeam.com/company/press-release/veeam-launches-data-cloud-vault-archive-to-help-organizations-remain-compliant-while-reducing-the-cost-of-protecting-cold-data.html