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Introducing Veeam Data Platform

Veeam provides organizations with data resiliency through secure backup and fast, reliable recovery solutions for their hybrid cloud. We integrate seamlessly with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud and offer native backup and application mobility for Kubernetes. Additionally, you can protect Microsoft 365 and Salesforce data to get the recovery flexibility you need.

 

 

Veeam Data Platform delivers the five key requirements to keep a business running: Data Backup, Data Recovery, Data Portability, Data Security and Data Intelligence. The Veeam Data Platform is built on these five pillars.

 

 

 

 

Data Backup

The basic foundation of data resilience is backup – but just because it’s ‘basic’ doesn’t mean it’s a given. In the chaos of digital transformation, workloads are being left under-protected and vulnerable to cyberattacks, platform outages, and other disruptions.

 

Data Recovery

From accidental deletions to cyberattacks and natural disasters, disruption can come from anywhere. On any given day a critical service could experience an outage, leading to downtime, data loss, and possibly job loss.

 

Data Portability

Data is spreading like wildfire across cloud and endpoints, and managing it all feels like an impossible task. Making matters worse, many vendors are locking you in, while hiking up the price.

 

Data Security

75% of organizations were hit by ransomware last year. Most are unprepared to recover. The best defense is IT and Security teams joining forces to spot threats early, react swiftly, and recover with clean data to avoid reinfection. 

 

Data Intelligence

Advancements like AI and ML have sped-up an already rapid rate of change for many industries. The need to extract more value from investments is palpable, and your team is likely looking for ways to enhance decision making and reduce errors.

 

Available in three comprehensive enterprise-grade editions — with our most powerful premium option bringing you the complete, secure protection that can only be achieved with Veeam Data Platform.

 

More Than Just Backup

Backup is your best line of defense but when data disruptions happen the Veeam Data Platform empowers you to bounce forward with radical resilience. Here's how we do it:

 

Secure Backup and Fast Recovery

So why Veeam? Because you must own and control your data no matter where it resides. Secure backup and fast recovery are at the heart of a well-executed - data protection strategy, and Veeam does it best with:

  • Encryption and immutability for all backups, you are always protected with a secure backup

  • The ability to meet recovery objectives to minimize business disruption with Instant Recovery

  • As well as protecting and recovering your data in any scenario, Veeam’s portable data format enables multi-cloud mobility - from on-prem to cloud, cloud to on-prem, or cloud to cloud.
Proactive Monitoring and Analytics

With Veeam, you stay in control with proactive management and analytics. You’ll know you can recover when large and small disasters strike. Veeam gives you complete visibility for recovery success with the following: 

  • Intelligent diagnostics and a library of pre-set alarms that alert you of issues before they become threats with Real-time Monitoring
  • A fast response to malware by identifying abnormalities in your environment and your backups with Suspicious Activity Alerts 
  • We are enabling more backups to complete with automated, self-healing, policy-based fixes for common issues with Automated Remediation.
Proven Recovery Orchestration

Veeam delivers peace of mind by automating both testing and recovery. Always be sure if your team is ready to recover or how they will do it. Recovery orchestration eliminates the manual process that often results in human error and delays with:

  • Zero-impact DR tests, either scheduled or on-demand, to ensure your required RTOs and RPOs can be met with Automated Testing
  • Automatically generated DR Documentation that proves readiness and compliance with Automated Documentation
  • And minimize human error and avoid costly mistakes when seconds count with Veeam’s orchestrated One-Click recovery

 

Hypervisor Support

Veeam Backup & Replication supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat Virtualization and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, and Proxmox Virtual Environment hypervisors.

 

VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere, the leading enterprise virtualization platform, has extensive support from Veeam. Veeam integrates seamlessly from vSphere 6.x to the latest vSphere 8.0 versions, with key features that include:

  • Agentless backups: By eliminating the need for agents on each virtual machine (VM), Veeam simplifies the backup process and reduces overhead, resulting in streamlined and efficient data protection.
  • Instant VM Recovery: Veeam’s technology enables users to run VMs directly from their backups. This significantly reduces recovery times and ensures minimal downtime for critical business operations.
  • SureBackup: Through the automation of backup verification, this feature ensures that your backups are recoverable without manual intervention. This enhances the reliability and dependability of your data protection strategy. Hybrid cloud integration: Through the support of VMware Cloud Director and various other cloud-based vSphere deployments, Veeam aims to provide comprehensive and reliable protection for hybrid cloud environments.
  • Application-aware processing: Veeam ensures transactional consistency for applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and Oracle databases, making restores dependable and efficient.
  • Snapshot management: Veeam’s ability to leverage VMware snapshots allows for consistent backups that don’t disrupt ongoing operations, which ensures data integrity and minimal performance impact.

 

Please be aware that although every care has been taken in this course to include features broadly available to all hypervisors, some features may not be available or possible due to the way that that particular hypervisor works. It's a good idea to check the resource pages below.

 

Let’s review the software that makes up the Veeam Data Platform: Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator.

 

 

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) is an automation and orchestration layer. While Veeam Backup & Replication handles the backups and replication, Veeam ONE gathers data and metrics, VRO, acting on data gathered from Veeam ONE can automatically enact recovery actions to get back to business as quickly as possible and without human error.

  • Automated Disaster Recovery Plans: VRO allows you to create detailed automated DR plans that include all the steps required to recovery your applications and data.
  • Orchestrated Recovery: VRO can orchestrate the entire recovery process from powering on virtual machines in the correct sequence to configuring network settings and verifying application functionality.
  • Non-Disruptive Testing: VRO enables you to regularly test your DR plans without impacting you production environment. This helps ensure your plans are up to date and will work as expected in the case of an incident.
  • Detailed Documentation: VRO automatically generates comprehensive documentation for your DR plans including step by step instructions and diagrams simplifying audits and compliance reporting.

 

Veeam ONE

Veeam ONE is a monitoring and analytics solution designed to provide visibility into your entire IT environment.

  • Real-time Monitoring: Keeps a constant eye on your infrastructure tracking key metrics like CPU usage, memory consumption, storage performance and network activity.
  • Alerting: Notifies you of potential issues with fully customizable alarms so you can address issues proactively before they escalate.
  • Performance Optimization: Helps you identify bottlenecks and data on resource allocation to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
  • Capacity Planning: Provides forecasting and 'what-if' analysis to help you plan for future growth and avoid capacity shortages.
  • Documentation and Reporting: Can automate documentation and the egeneration of detailed reports on various aspects of your environment to support optimization efforts and compliance.
  • Ransomware Protection: Includes advanced ransomware detection capabilities to help identify and mitigate potential threats.

 

Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication is the core software solution that supports Veeam Data Platform.

  • Comprehensive Data Protection: Veeam Backup & Replication can protect a wide range of workloads including virtual machines, physical servers, cloud instances and SaaS applications.

  • Fast and Reliable Recovery: Enables quick recovery of entire systems, individual files or application items within minutes, minimizing downtime and data loss.

  • Advanced Replication Capabilities: Can replicate data between different locations for disaster recovery purposes, ensuring business continuity in case of unexpected incidents.

  • Cloud Integration: Integrates with major cloud providers allowing for efficient cloud-based backup and recovery.

  • Enhanced Security: Provides security features including encryption, ransomware protection and immutability to safeguard data against cyber threats.

 

 

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