Veeam Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver
Availability for the Always-On Enterprise, today announced
Veeam Backup for Linux,
a free standalone agent that delivers backup and recovery for Linux
servers running in the public cloud, as well as for a few remaining
physical Linux servers running on premises. Customers can use this tool
to back up individual cloud instances and restore them on premises, or
back up on premises and restore in the cloud.
Linux remains the
go-to choice for the cloud, with 75 percent of enterprises reporting
they use Linux as their primary cloud platform. Existing solutions
often require a manual process to execute or are complex and expensive,
which means the availability of many of these Linux servers is at risk.
“Backing
up and recovering Linux servers is often a complicated and costly
process, frequently needing manual intervention or consuming too much of
an IT administrator’s time,” said Doug Hazelman, Vice President of
Product Strategy at Veeam. “Moreover, as hybrid cloud increasingly
becomes the industry standard and more enterprises look to run more
workloads in the public cloud, it is important to ensure that these
public cloud server instances are backed up and can be recovered easily
and quickly in order to ensure availability and avoid business
disruption. The Veeam community has asked us for an easy to use tool to
ensure the availability of their Linux cloud instances and restore them
anywhere. We are not only meeting this need for them, but are also
adding it to the Veeam portfolio of free tools for the IT community that
solve real challenges.”
Veeam Backup for Linux, a standalone tool, provides the following benefits:
- Backup anywhere: Back up Linux instances running in the cloud or on premises.
- Flexible recovery: Perform on-premises restores from backups of individual cloud instances, or cloud restores of on-premises backups.
- Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication v9:
Take full advantage of Veeam backup repositories as target locations;
leverage existing Veeam Backup & Replication capabilities for
granular recovery.
A closed beta version of Veeam Backup for Linux
will be available in the first half of 2016 on a first come, first
serve basis. To be one of the first to get access to the beta code,
please sign up here: http://go.veeam.com/linux.
For more information on Veeam Availability Suite v9 and to sign up for updates on the availability solution, please visit http://go.veeam.com/v9.