Verizon
Enterprise Solutions has joined forces with Actifio to launch a new
cloud backup service using the copy data virtualization leader's
technology platform.
The service will support
customers using virtualized infrastructures - including a combination of
colocation, hosting, off-premises servers and other public clouds - to
enable a unified hybrid cloud environment where data is easy to manage,
access and protect.
The new Premise to Cloud Backup offering
builds on Actifio's growing relationship with Verizon, and demonstrates
the business impact of their joint capability around three key use
cases: enabling hybrid cloud, building higher quality applications
faster, and improving resiliency and availability.
"The complexity of legacy infrastructure limits the ability of many enterprises to innovate around their data," said Dan Jablonski,
director of cloud and IT solutions, Verizon Enterprise Solutions. "We
chose Actifio's class-leading copy data virtualization technology to
power this new offering because it means we can now offer customers a
simple, single solution to protect, move and store data in our cloud.
Together with Actifio, we're helping clients to be more agile so they
can deliver better experiences to their own customers."
The service brings the full
suite of Actifio's best-in-class capabilities to Verizon's global
customer base, giving them more control to:
- Manage: Makes it easy to move data back and forth between the
customer premise and Verizon's cloud-based infrastructure, meaning
application workloads can be allocated wherever it makes the most sense.
- Access: Allows for self-serve instant access to data while
enhancing data control, adding business value by allowing higher quality
applications to be developed faster.
- Protect: Improves resiliency and availability by protecting
data across the full range of conventional protection use cases,
allowing customers to improve internal service level agreements while
reducing cost, risk and complexity.
"Data is the lifeblood of
business, and it's essential to have access to the data and applications
you need when and where you need them," said Ash Ashutosh, founder and
CEO of Actifio. "This next step in our relationship with Verizon will
enable us to provide exactly that to more customers around the world,
more easily and efficiently than ever before. We are thrilled to take
this step forward with what is becoming one of our most important and
valued cloud service provider partnerships."
Verizon Premise to Cloud Backup service will be available in June of 2016 in North America with availability in Europe and Asia-Pacific by the fall.
For more information, visit http://www.verizonenterprise.com/products/cloud/index.xml.