Veeam Intelligent Data Management partners with Cisco HyperFlex

Veeam Software has expanded its collaboration with Cisco to deliver Veeam High Availability on Cisco HyperFlex – a new, highly resilient data management platform that provides seamless scalability, ease-of-management, and support for multi-cloud environments through Cisco support services.

The new solution combines the Veeam Hyper-Availability Platform with Cisco’s industry-leading Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution, HyperFlex, to meet the needs of enterprise IT organizations that are struggling with unreliable legacy technologies that cannot scale and are unable to provide the hyper-availability.

This highly resilient data availability platform provides enterprise IT with a scale-out solution stack that can not only be used as a Veeam repository, but can also run the entire Veeam Availability Platform. Benefits include:

· Hyper-Availability for all workloads – virtual, physical and cloud

· Seamless scalability and reduced operational costs

· Reduced risk and accelerated time to value

· Simplified and optimized deployment: a single Cisco SKU that includes all installed software and right-sized hardware

· Simple single point of acquisition and support from Cisco

Peter McKay, Co-CEO & President, Veeam, says, “Our partnership with Cisco has only continued to strengthen and expand. We are Cisco’s ISV Partner of the Year and have had strong market success winning together, and now we are collaborating on this new solution to meet customer demand for even more innovative ways to modernize their data centers. Veeam Availability on Cisco HyperFlex responds to feedback from large enterprise customers and service provider partners who have asked for additional integrated solutions with Cisco. Customers will have the benefit of purchasing from one vendor as this solution will be offered directly from Cisco."

According to Siva Sivakumar, Sr Director of Data Center Solutions, Cisco, “As the data protection market evolves to more software defined and scale-out, the need for a scalable Enterprise-ready platform and feature-rich software stack is critical to ensure customer success. Veeam’s intelligent data management capabilities combined with the industry-leading performance, flexibility and easy deployment of Cisco HyperFlex provide the perfect solution to address this need. Our joint goal is to continue expanding the solution with new capabilities that address modern IT recovery, retention and resiliency requirements.”

The new Veeam Availability on Cisco HyperFlex will be offered through Cisco and is backed by Cisco Solution Support, which provides support for the entire solution stack, enabling customers to deploy with confidence and peace of mind. Veeam Availability on Cisco HyperFlex is expected to be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2018.