Veeam Software, the innovative
provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On
Enterprise, today announced that the company will expand existing
storage integration to include Nimble Storage as part of the new Veeam
Availability Suite version 9.5, to be released later this year.
The cost and consequences of downtime and lost data pose a significant
challenge to meeting modern service level agreements (SLAs) for the
Availability of applications and data. In addition to existing
integrations with enterprise storage offerings from HPE, NetApp and EMC,
Veeam will add integration with Nimble Storage in Veeam Availability
Suite version 9.5, resulting in increased Availability and improved
operational performance for all Nimble Storage users.
“Nimble Storage continues to execute its strategy of accelerating
topline growth,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “Veeam and Nimble
have a strong partnership that already demonstrates success, and further
integration between the two technologies will enable our mutual partners
and customers to experience more than just backup and storage. Veeam and
Nimble Storage’s integration opens up the Availability conversation to a
much wider ecosystem and I am excited at what we can achieve together.”
“Extending our partnership with Veeam provides cost-effective data
protection for our rapidly expanding enterprise customer base. We are
now enabling our joint partner ecosystem to sell a best-of-breed
integrated solution for customers looking to deploy flash in their data
centers and the cloud,” said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO, Nimble Storage. “The
Nimble-Veeam integration expands the value of the Nimble Unified Flash
Fabric, which enables replication from All-flash to Adaptive (hybrid)
flash arrays at one-third the cost of backing up to competitive
all-flash arrays. Nimble and Veeam solutions can not only coexist in
modern data centers but simplify IT operations at a lower total cost of
ownership.”
By further leveraging IT investments in modern storage, the new
integrations with Nimble Storage will move enterprises beyond backup and
into the new era of Availability, helping them to meet recovery time and
point objectives (RTPO) of less than 15 minutes for all
applications and data. These include:
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Backup from Storage Snapshots: Lower the additional impact from
backup activities on production storage by retrieving virtual machine
(VM) data from Nimble Storage snapshots on primary storage or their
replicated copies on secondary storage;
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Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots: Recover individual
application items, guest files or entire VMs quickly and efficiently
from periodic Nimble Storage snapshots and their replicated copies
created by Veeam jobs or with the native scheduler;
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On-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots: Use storage snapshots
on primary and secondary storage systems to create complete isolated
copies of production environment in just a few clicks, for fast and
easy developing, testing and troubleshooting.
This new integration will be released with Veeam Availability Suite
version 9.5 – coming later this year – with a set of features that will
increase Availability and improve operational performance in both Veeam
Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup Essentials. Register for an
upcoming VeeamLIVE
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“Veeam empowers Nimble Storage partners to expand beyond just ‘backup,’
which is the overall purpose of Availability,” said Andy Vandeveld, Vice
President of Global Alliances at Veeam Software. “Veeam and Nimble
Storage’s integration at the primary storage level expands opportunities
into disaster recovery (DR), backup and replication for remote offices,
cloud and archive. Partners are now able to deliver an end-to-end
Availability solution with integrated hardware and software
technologies.”