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Veeam delivers hyper-availability for Nutanix AHV
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New joint solution provides businesses with simplified IT operational management , lower costs and accelerated Digital Transformation .
Veeam Software , a leader in Intelligent Data Management for the hyper-available enterprise , has announced Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV , a data availability solution for applications and data hosted on the Nutanix AHV Hypervisor . The combination of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software and the Veeam Hyper-Availability Platform will deliver a hyper-available enterprise cloud that provides enterprise-class availability and scale-out capabilities , better enabling customers to focus on transforming their business . The Nutanix software and Veeam platform will enable enterprises to more easily and confidently modernise their data centre environments by delivering the agility and simplicity of the public cloud , and the security , control and availability they require in a private cloud . Specifically , customers will benefit from :
• Availability of all applications and data , minimising the risk of data loss
• Enterprise-class , web-scale architecture to more effectively carry out their business objectives
• Operational simplicity to eliminate the costs and complexity of legacy infrastructure , virtualisation and data protection management
“ Over the last year , our partnership with Nutanix has enabled thousands of enterprises to leverage the power of multicloud environments ,” said Peter McKay , President and Co-CEO at Veeam . “ A year after being named the premier availability solution provider for Nutanix virtualised environments , our collaboration has accelerated and we will enhance this position with Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV . We expect Nutanix will continue to be a pivotal part of our success in building the industry ’ s most extensive partner ecosystem and product integration programme in support of delivering the leading platform for intelligent data management .”
Sudheesh Nair , President at Nutanix , said : “ Nutanix and Veeam combined deliver a best-in-class , simple solution that enables businesses to focus on outcomes , freeing them from traditional and problematic infrastructure and data protection headaches . This joint solution will offer the agility and availability required by constantly changing environments , where applicationfirst thinking is a must .”
Through this new solution , Nutanix AHV users will gain the same reliable backup and rapid recovery capabilities that Veeam users running vSphere and Hyper-V already count on , including :
• Recovery granularity : Ensures minimum disruption to business operations by providing users with multiple restore options to drive low recovery time objectives ( RTO ). Options range from recovery of an entire VM or individual files and application items
• Optimised user experience : Purposebuilt with the Nutanix user in mind , the powerful web-based UI was specifically designed to look and feel like Prism – the management UI for the Nutanix Infrastructure stack ensuring a streamlined and familiar user experience
• Decreases data loss exposure : Minimises the risk of data loss , as backups are taken from Nutanix VM-level snapshots . By leveraging snapshots , users can perform fast and efficient backups on a more frequent basis to achieve low recovery point objectives ( RPO )
“ It is exciting to see Veeam , whose name is synonymous with virtualisation protection , providing the same availability solution outcomes for Acropolis hypervisors that it delivers for vSphere and Hyper-V ,” said Edwin Yuen , Senior Analyst for Systems Management and Data Protection at Enterprise Strategy Group ( ESG ).
“ ESG ’ s research shows that the vast majority of organisations leverage the same VM backup capabilities across their HCI and traditional virtualisation infrastructures for consistency and efficiency . Meanwhile , 89 % of virtualised environments complement VM backups with replication and / or snapshotting , so combining Veeam ’ s capabilities with those built into Nutanix is one more reason that this partnership makes sense .”
As organisations modernise from selfbuilt virtualisation infrastructures to the purpose-built hyperconverged platforms from Nutanix , the industry ’ s leading hyper-availability solution will assure that workloads are consistently protected , even as VMs move between hosted architectures . Since Veeam software protects physical servers and cloud-hosted workloads , protection of the Nutanix platforms is assured within a holistic intelligent data management strategy . •
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