Veeam availability suite V10: A Revolutionary Solution

As per Sandeep, V10 is a much awaited offering from Veeam. Essentially, there are major enhancements when it comes tofile share and file server backup. They are looking at complete bulletproof protection against ransomwareand then helping customers to move into large scale cloud migrations and protection of workloads on the cloud.

He points out, “Invariably every conversation today that I am having with my customer base around data protection availability, and making applications and data highly available, has an element of cloud in it. It means the requirement of the customers have changed over a period of timeand because data is no longer confined to the data center, it is moving between the clouds, the requirement on availability is changed. It has a lot of cloud element to it and this is exactly where customers can reap benefits out of V10.”

Anthony Spiteri, Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy, Veeam Software while explaining about the latest product said that,as their vision is to be the leader in Cloud Data Managementthey have introduced the concept of being able to manage that data. Stressing on the data protection.

Anthony further says, “We want our customers to understand that they shouldnot feel like their data and their workloads are locked into a certain platform. The v10 certainly enables that. When we talk about ransomware and more malicious intent, the features that specifically talk to this in the v10 is NAS, which is effectively a file share that holds data of some sort, typically files but more unstructured and mining data. That has been a massive target recently for ransomware. Usually, theransomware sits there dormant.We will back up anything that is presented as a file share, and then bring it into our backup format. The positives is that basically if you have an incident, you can restore very easy. We have built in some very smart mechanisms to be able to restore to a point in time very quickly, but not only restore that to a point in time that was saved before ransomware attack or before a malicious software was placed onto a system that could sit there dormant for years or months. Alsowe have the ability to recover it to any other locations.”

Compatibility of v10 Suite

Sandeep Bhambure finds v10 as one of the key differentiators. The credit assessor as well as the competitive offerings out there in the marketplace is the extensibility of the platform.

He comments, He says, “We support different flavors of VMs like Vmware and Acropolis and Hyper V etc. We have support databases, we have further enhancements into backing up Oracle databases and SAP HANA, the different cloud offerings, including cloud offerings from our cloud service providers, the Indian born cloud service providers. We offer integration with them and the different flavors of databases on Linux. So, the platform extended to offer availability on cloud, on SaaS, on virtual, on physical, it's much broad based than it was before.”

Partners and v10

With more than 700 partners across the country,Sandeep Bhambure feels this is a very big upside for the partners as they can have a more relevant and contemporary conversation with the customer when it comes to driving availability for workloads that are on prem as well as in the hybrid cloud.

“The partners are going through their own set of transformation because as the IT landscape is changing and moving to the hybrid cloud, partners also are transforming themselves to be able to help their customers meet the challenges that hybrid cloud world is throwing at them.With the v10 capabilities or NAS backup, it allows the partners to get into a fresh conversation with customers in protecting this unstructured information and helping the customers reduce the exposure there. And it would also allow the partners to get into conversations around compliance, orchestration and automation of the hybrid cloud environment,”perceives Sandeep.

In context with v10,Veeam plans a great opportunity to grow. Veeam’s performance in Q4 last year was like triple digits growth over the same quarter they had the previous year. Geoexpansion is going to be one of the top priorities for Veeam this year. Healthcare is going to see a lot of uptake of Veeam software. The government and PSUs are going to continue spendingin upgrading their infrastructures and moving to cloud and cloud based offerings. “At the same time, we are looking at financial services;whether into private banks, public sector banks, cooperative banks, non-banking financial companies. All thesesub segments of the FSI, which are scattered across the country in tier two and tier three cities, we see that these are the businesses that could adopt cloud and hence we see a need to protect in all their workloads on cloud, or even on prem and Veeam sees a potential to grow in these markets.”, concludes Sandeep. 

Veeam’s new offering Availability Suite v10 has enhanced features with complete protection against cyber threat. It delivers next generation of data protection capabilities that increase data availability, portability, and extensibility. In a chat with VARINDIA, Sandeep Bhambure, Vice President and Managing Director, Veeam Software India & SAARC and Anthony Spiteri, Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy, Veeam Software have discussed about the latest offerings,its compatibility and how partners can leverage it

Sandeep Bhambure
VP and MD, Veeam Software India & SAARC

Anthony Spiteri
Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy, Veeam Software