Presentations during VMworld 2020 will highlight how to integrate K10 data management platform into VMware for ITOps and DevOps Teams

LOS ALTOS, CA – September 22, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, a market leader for Kubernetes data management, today announced the integration of the K10 data management platform with VMware vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service. As a VMware design partner, Kasten will deliver an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of modern Kubernetes applications for VMware users.

“Cloud-native applications built on Kubernetes are growing dramatically, and VMware has doubled down on tightly integrating Kubernetes and making containers a first-class citizen in vSphere,” said Gaurav Rishi, VP of Product, Kasten. “The shift to cloud-native microservices has delivered major benefits like scalability, reliability, and agility. However, legacy data management offerings are still stuck with monolithic architectures that are often hardware centric. Kasten K10 addresses that head on, and we are thrilled to work with VMware to meet critical enterprise needs for backup and mobility of modern applications.”

Legacy data management solutions do not work in modern, cloud-native application environments. As a result, Kasten has worked closely with VMware to tightly integrate its Kubernetes-native data management capabilities with VMware’s Cloud Native Storage (CNS) constructs and First Class Disks (FCDs) to optimize backups with capabilities such as Change Block Tracking (CBT).

“The definition of an application has changed – enterprises today are building modern applications based on a micro-services paradigm, leveraging a variety of technologies including Kubernetes and modern databases. Kasten’s K10 is a highly scalable, secure, and easy to use data management platform for modern applications on vSphere. This partnership enhances VMware’s partner ecosystem for modern data protection, and supports our customers’ digital business and operations goals, regardless of where they are deployed,” said Lee Caswell, Vice President of Marketing, Cloud Platforms Business Unit, VMware.

Kasten K10 offers an enterprise-ready solution for managing data across multiple Kubernetes distributions on vSphere 6.7 U3 (and higher), as well as VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 4.x. K10 provides users a rich spectrum of backup consistency options including crash-consistent, logical database dumps, and coordinated log and replica capture. It also supports multi-layered application capture that integrates with extensible blueprints for NoSQL/Relational modern databases like MongoDB, Redis, and others to give users the freedom of choice across physical infrastructure and Kubernetes environments.

Kasten will join VMware in a joint, on-demand presentation at VMworld 2020, held virtually September 29 – October 1. The session “Data Management for Kubernetes and Modern Applications on VMware,” will provide guidance for enterprises looking to improve their data management approach as they rapidly adopt containerized applications. Gaurav Rishi, Kasten VP of Product, alongside Shobhan Lakkapragada, VMware Director of Product Management, will explore how firms can manage data through VMware’s ecosystem of partner solutions such as Kasten, in order to leverage Kubernetes backup, and protect their workloads as they implement a dynamic application deployment solution on VMware solutions.

Kasten will also participate in a live webinar with Veeam, a VMware ecosystem partner, in conjunction with VMworld 2020 on September 29. Gaurav Rishi will join Veeam experts on the panel, “2021 Are We There Yet? Preparing for the future of Data Protection,” where they will discuss the outlook for the IT industry for 2021, disaster recovery for growing multi-cloud environments and remote workforces, amounting security needs and the growing threat of ransomware, and the rise of containers for critical business infrastructure.

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About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Kasten K10 Enterprise Data Management Platform Earns Silver for Kubernetes Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Application Migration

LOS ALTOS, CA – September 10, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, the market leader for Kubernetes Data Management, was named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in the Cloud Storage and Backup Solution category in The 17th Annual International Business Awards®.

Kasten’s award, which comes after recently receiving recognition as a CRN Emerging Vendor in Storage and Disaster Recovery, acknowledges the growing demand for solutions like Kasten’s K10 enterprise data management platform as the development ecosystem for both cloud-native and hybrid applications running on Kubernetes continues to expand. Kasten was recognized by the International Business Awards for its ability to help enterprise operations teams solve Day 2 challenges through K10’s easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of Kubernetes applications.

“This award serves to affirm the work we’ve put into evolving our K10 platform to continually optimize Kubernetes deployments, recognizing the value added in ensuring flexible and scalable environments through the backup and restore, disaster recovery, and application migration services K10 provides,” said Niraj Tolia, CEO, Kasten.

The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – are eligible to submit nominations.

The 2020 IBAs received entries from organizations in 63 nations and territories. Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 250 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process from July through early September.

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About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com

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Advanced Backup Automation and Infrastructure Portability Capabilities Support Growing Kubernetes Adoption in Europe and Regional Data Sovereignty Laws

LOS ALTOS, CA – August 18, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, the market leader for Kubernetes Data Management, today unveiled new automation and infrastructure portability capabilities for its flagship solution, the K10 Enterprise Data Management platform at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2020. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, K10 provides enterprise operations teams with easy-to-use, scalable, and secure Kubernetes backup and restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility. The new capabilities will help organizations scale their cloud native infrastructure and Kubernetes applications in order to support global business growth and ensure compliance with regional data sovereignty laws, including GDPR.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has noted that Europe has the highest rate of container adoption worldwide. The increased adoption of DevOps methodologies in the region as well as associated cloud native technologies like containers and Kubernetes is having a profound impact on innovation and business transformation. As a result, the demand for Kubernetes-native solutions that address key business challenges – such as Day 2 operational challenges like backup and portability of Kubernetes applications in production – is accelerating.

Because of the growing demand for solutions that support more robust cloud native environments, Kasten’s newest capabilities in the K10 Enterprise Data Management platform improve the automation of data management and simplify infrastructure portability across varying cloud environments and geographies. These include:

• Automation with Policies: K10 supports extensible policies that provide consistency across a growing list of modern databases and storage infrastructures based on an application’s protection requirements. K10’s level of automation helps cloud and operations teams work seamlessly across multiple applications and apply forward-looking data policies that can automatically protect applications and ensure they comply with regional data regulations as they are deployed and scaled.
• Infrastructure Portability:  K10’s Application Transformation Engine empowers CloudOps teams to provide application portability benefits at a massive scale – across infrastructures and storage systems as well as geographies and regions. This capability has been further enhanced with pre-built templates and expanded support for Azure disks, GCE Persistent Disks and AWS EBS.
• Secure Self-Service: K10 introduces deeper RBAC integrations that improve self-service capabilities in Kubernetes. This provides teams with greater visibility and enhanced control over backup and disaster recovery policies for authorized applications to promote data protection and meet corporate and regulatory mandates.

“We’ve seen a rapid increase in demand for automated data management capabilities that can support operations across a growing deployment of cloud-native applications,” said Gaurav Rishi, head of product, Kasten. “K10’s automation workflows support massive scale and productivity gains to ensure that these capabilities can extend across all major Kubernetes distributions, both on-premises and public clouds. This also helps overcome the IT skills gap that is prevalent in Europe as much as it is elsewhere in the world. We recently had a large enterprise show us how just two of its ops team members were able to migrate and backup more than 170 diverse applications using Kasten K10 over a weekend.”

Kasten’s policy-based approach to Kubernetes data management is a major benefit for organizations faced with increasingly complex cloud-native deployments as the result of growth, regardless of staffing and scale. According to 451 Research’s Pathfinder Report: Kubernetes Backup and Application Portability — Modernizing Data Protection, a Kubernetes-native approach to security, data and application protection can reduce or eliminate some up-front challenges by using an automated, policy-based model. Portability is an additional major benefit of a containerized approach; it provides the ability to move applications across namespaces, clusters, regions, infrastructure providers or even different Kubernetes distributions.

“We selected Kasten K10 for its easy to use backups, simple UI interface, and cross-platform support for multiple clouds that could handle any type of workload,” said Moritz Kneilmann, Director Cloud Solutions, Demodern. “With our portfolio of global customers, having separate backups ensures that in case of disaster recovery each client has their own isolated environment, and K10 makes that possible with its very simple setup. It’s also useful for our developers to set up their own environments or have a ready to go production setup, which helps greatly to speed up the development cycle.”

For additional information on Kasten and how customers are using Kasten K10, please visit kasten.io. Visit Kasten’s booth at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2020, in the Start-Up Hall A.

About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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LOS ALTOS, CA – July 20, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, the market leader for Kubernetes Data Management, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Kasten to its 2020 Emerging Vendors list in the Storage and Disaster Recovery category. This annual list honors new, rising technology suppliers that exhibit great promise in shaping the future success of the channel with their dedication to innovation.

“We are thrilled to be recognized by CRN as a top storage and disaster recovery solution provider, as we focus on helping enterprises implement strategies to manage the data of cloud native applications and address the challenges of Day 2 operations,” said Niraj Tolia, CEO, Kasten. “The K10 platform provides unique capabilities for enterprise operations teams with an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and application mobility. These capabilities have been instrumental in helping our partners extend their data protection offerings.”

Kasten’s K10 Enterprise Data Management platform is purpose-built for Kubernetes, and provides enterprise operations teams with easy-to-use, scalable and secure backup/restore, disaster recovery and Kubernetes application migration. It leverages automated application discovery, policy driven automation, and compliance monitoring by integrating relational and NoSQL databases, Kubernetes distributions, to public and private clouds.

“We are proud to be working with our partners to deliver an innovative enterprise data management platform (Backup, Disaster Recovery and Application Mobility) specificity targeted toward clients in the midst of digital transformation efforts toward a cloud native service delivery model,” said Trevor Seim, Head of Sales. “The rapid growth of Kubernetes adoption is creating vast opportunities to create novel approaches to solve emerging challenges, like application portability and day 2 operations management. Kasten looks forward to continuing our work with our partners delivering capabilities to more customers worldwide.”

“CRN’s 2020 Emerging Vendors list recognizes vendors that are revolutionizing the IT channel with innovative solutions that meet the complex demands of our industry,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “It honors inspirational new vendors that are driving channel growth with state-of-the-art technologies that will continue to shape the channel into the future.”

Visit Kasten.io to learn more about Kasten, download a forever-free version of Kasten K10, or take a K10 Testdrive.

About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City. Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers, and end-users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequaled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com

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Virtual Breakout Sessions by CTO Vibhav Kamra to be Held June 17 and June 18

LOS ALTOS, CA – June 10, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, the market leader for Kubernetes Data Management, today announced that it will present at the VeeamOn 2020 virtual event to be held June 17-18. Veeam and Kasten recently announced a strategic partnership to address the critical challenges facing Kubernetes-native backup, allowing enterprises to ensure business continuity and freedom of choice across their workloads.

WHO: Vaibhav Kamra, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kasten, alongside Veeam Global Technologist David Hill, will provide guidance to enterprises looking to leverage Kubernetes backup to protect their workloads as they implement a dynamic application deployment solution.

WHAT: VeeamOn is the leading conference for IT professionals interested in Cloud Data Strategy and management. In its 6th year, this 2-day event brings together thought leaders in backup and restore, data management and disaster recovery. In this joint session from Veeam and Kasten, IT professionals can elevate their data strategies by learning best practices when employing a backup solution for applications built in the Kubernetes environment.

WHERE: This VeeamOn Breakout session will take place virtually on the Veeam website — https://www.veeam.com/veeamon

WHEN: Kasten is offering two opportunities to catch the featured breakout session Kubernetes Backup: Veeam and Kasten Essential Best Practices, on both June 17, 12:30 PM ET and on June 18, 3:30 PM ET.

About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Kasten takes home a silver “Stevie” award for their K10 Data Management Solution

LOS ALTOS, CA – May 18, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, the market leader for Kubernetes Data Management, today announced that its K10 data management platform was named the winner of a silver Stevie® Award in the Cloud Storage and Backup Solution category in The 18th Annual American Business Awards®.

The American Business Awards® are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.

Kasten’s win reflects the continued growth of Kubernetes infrastructure and its increasing relevance in developing both cloud-native and hybrid applications. Kasten K10, which was last week announced as a winner of a 2019 Backup and Disaster Recovery Award from Cloud Computing Magazine, has again proven that the future of storage and backup is in the cloud, by providing a purpose-built solution for applications that rely on Kubernetes.

“This award acknowledges the value we deliver to organizations that need to optimize their Kubernetes deployments to create resilient and scalable environments that ensure they can address the challenges associated with Day 2 operations.” Said Niraj Tolia, CEO, Kasten.

More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes from a variety of industry were submitted to this year’s American Business Awards for consideration in a wide range of categories, with more than 230 professionals worldwide participating in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

“Despite the toughest business conditions in memory, American organizations continue to demonstrate their commitment to innovation, creativity, and bottom-line results,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher.

About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com

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Kasten K10 Data Management Platform Recognized for Solving Day 2 Challenges in Kubernetes Environments

LOS ALTOS, CA – May 13, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, the market leader for Kubernetes Data Management, today announced that its K10 data management platform is a 2019 Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award winner recognized by TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine. The Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award recognizes technologies that empower businesses small or large to remain active and productive under even the most challenging conditions, minimizing lost business opportunities.

“Enterprises continue the rapid adoption of Kubernetes across cloud-native and hybrid environments, but find many complexities and challenges with data management,” said Niraj Tolia, CEO, Kasten. “Kasten is excited to be recognized as a winner in the Cloud Computing awards. This acknowledges the value we deliver to organizations that need to optimize their Kubernetes deployments to create resilient and scalable environments that ensure they can address the challenges associated with Day 2 operations.”

In cloud-native environments, traditional backup and disaster recovery solutions cause scalability issues and data loss. Kasten K10 is purpose-built for applications and infrastructure that rely on Kubernetes, providing enterprise operations teams with an easy-to-use, scalable and secure system for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility.

“Recognizing excellence in the advancement of cloud computing technologies, Cloud Computing magazine is proud to announce Kasten’s K10 as a recipient of the Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “Kasten is being honored for their achievement in bringing innovation to the market, while leveraging the latest technology trends.”

For more information about Kasten and to request a demo of K10, please visit www.kasten.io

About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Kasten K10 provides customers with Kubernetes backup and mobility

LOS ALTOS, CA – April 22, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, the market leader for Kubernetes Data Management, today announced that the company’s flagship platform, Kasten K10, is available on VMware Cloud Marketplace. Kasten’s collaboration with VMware enables enterprise IT and DevOps groups to immediately realize the benefits of a software-centric, Kubernetes data management solution. The K10 data management platform provides backup/restore, application mobility, and disaster recovery for vSphere customers with Kubernetes-based applications.

VMware Cloud Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy validated, third-party solutions for VMware-based platforms – across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Once validated, partners can easily publish their solutions for VMware customers across platforms. Customers will be able to access these third-party partner solutions directly from their cloud environments, while also being able to experience the convenience of features such as notifications, reporting, and analytics.

Kasten architected Kasten K10 specifically to address Day 2 data management challenges for cloud-native applications. Kasten K10 provide VMware customers with a Kubernetes backup and mobility solution, including:

• Zero-touch Application Backup and Recovery: Kasten K10 with its unique application-aware approach dynamically maps data management policies to the current state of the application running on VMware PKS clusters. This can be accomplished without requiring any developer or CI/CD pipeline changes and K10 is pre-integrated with relational and NoSQL data services.
• Seamless Operations and Portability: Kasten K10 enables Disaster Recovery workflows across VMware PKS including cross-region application migration. Managed public cloud Kubernetes clusters are also supported with seamless data conversion between infrastructure formats when needed.
• Enterprise-grade Reliability and Ease of Use: Kasten K10 manages backups at scale through automation and a very easy to use graphical interface avoiding the need for custom scripting for data management and compliance. “Must have” authentication and authorization functions like RBAC are natively integrated into the solution along with extensible workflows.

“Kasten is very excited to be a part of the VMware Cloud Marketplace,” said Gaurav Rishi, Head of Product for Kasten. “We believe that the pace of Kubernetes applications in production will accelerate further with VMware’s recent Tanzu portfolio releases that make Kubernetes a first-class citizen in vSphere environments.”

“We are pleased to see Kasten K10 available on VMware Cloud Marketplace,” said Ramya Sarangarajan, Director within VMware’s Cloud Services group. “Validated technologies, such as Kasten K10, enable our customers to build, run and manage their applications effectively and efficiently. We’re excited to work with partners such as Kasten to empower customers to derive the most value from their cloud investments.”

For more information on Kasten K10 please visit kasten.io and try out Kasten K10 free directly from the VMware Cloud Marketplace.

About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Cloud-Native Transformation Framework with Application Transformation and Data Transformation Engines improves reliability, mobility, and automation for simplified Kubernetes data management

LOS ALTOS, CA – March 31, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, the market leader for Kubernetes Data Management, today announced the general availability of Kasten K10 v2.5. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, K10 provides enterprise operations teams with an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of Kubernetes applications. The new release incorporates Kasten’s Cloud-Native Transformation Framework to enhance the automation and reliability of application and data migration in Kubernetes environments.

“Cloud-native is a critical part of the Kasten DNA, and we’ve developed the transformation framework to optimize the benefits of Kubernetes application backup and mobility at scale,” said Gaurav Rishi, Head of Products, Kasten. “Our Kubernetes-native data management capabilities have created a new standard for data security, reliability, and performance in the backup and disaster recovery market. This has been instrumental in our customers’ efforts to protect data and accelerate workload migration.”

Traditional backup and disaster recovery solutions do not work in today’s cloud-native environments resulting in scalability issues and data loss. Kasten K10’s Cloud-Native Transformation Framework introduces new capabilities as part of its Application Transformation Engine that captures both underlying data and metadata for application backup and mobility in Kubernetes environments. These include parallel data transfers, lock-free algorithms, pluggable encryption and compression, advanced deduplication, and smaller fault domains that ensure backup efficiency and increased reliability for cloud-native applications and infrastructure.

K10’s new Data Transformation Engine also introduces additional metadata capabilities, such as intelligent resource transforms, that reduce the manual effort, complexity, and risk associated with migration of data, and workloads between Kubernetes environments. This critical capability simplifies backup and restore and disaster recovery, enabling enterprises with improved flexibility and adaptability by taking captured data and making it suitable for use in a different destination than where it originated.

“We initially started using Kasten K10 for backup and disaster recovery, but as its new capabilities for data migration were added, we’ve been able to apply it to successfully migrate hundreds of projects from not just OpenShift 3.11 to OpenShift 4.2 but also across storage systems,” said Michael Courcy, Architecte DevOps, Sopra Steria. “K10’s migration and intelligent transform capabilities delivered a powerful but simple, reliable and secure solution that matched our scalability needs as we made major updates to our infrastructure.”

K10’s application-centric approach and deep integrations with relational and NoSQL databases, Kubernetes distributions, and all clouds give IT teams the freedom of infrastructure choice without sacrificing operational simplicity. Policy-driven and extensible, K10 provides a native Kubernetes API and includes features such as full-spectrum consistency, database integrations, automatic application discovery, multi-cloud mobility, and a powerful web-based user interface.

For additional information on Kasten and K10 2.5, visit www.kasten.io/product

About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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New K10 release provides comprehensive security and increased operational simplicity for cloud-native data management for enterprises

LOS ALTOS, CA – November 5, 2019 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, a provider of cloud-native data management solutions, today announced the general availability of Kasten K10 2.0. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, K10 provides enterprise operations teams with an easy-to-use, scalable and secure system for backup & restore, disaster recovery and mobility of Kubernetes applications. The new release includes significant security features and greater ease-of-use for accelerated adoption of cloud-native applications.

“As many enterprises embrace cloud-native applications and adopt Kubernetes, they are finding that the transition can be challenging and often complex, especially in relation to data management of stateful applications and day-2 operations,” said Brad Casemore, VP of research for datacenter networks at IDC. “Kasten continues to develop its K10 platform to simplify ongoing cloud-native data management for these enterprise customers, addressing a growing number of important use cases in the process.”

Providing enterprise-grade cloud-native data management
Already resonating with enterprise operations professionals interested in addressing critical Day 2 issues, K10 version 2.0 includes important new features that address two of the greatest pain points plaguing expanding Kubernetes deployments today: security and operational simplicity.

With data security concerns being top-of-mind for users, K10 2.0 offers comprehensive, end-to-end security. K10 2.0 includes support for Kubernetes authentication, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), OpenID Connect (OIDC), AWS IAM roles, customer-managed keys, and integrated encryption of artifacts at rest and in-flight. K10 is built to protect and keep valuable enterprise data safe.

In addition, K10 2.0 boasts key features that provide users with advanced operational simplicity. Powered by an easy-to-use, state-of-the-art data management interface, the platform comes equipped with a Kubernetes-native API, auto-discovery of the application environment, policy-driven operations, straightforward multi-tenancy support, and advanced logging and monitoring, allowing teams to confidently operate their environments while supporting developers’ ability to use best-of-breed tools of their choice.

“Kasten is continuing to innovate to address the Day 2 challenges faced by some of the largest enterprises looking to benefit from the Kubernetes revolution,” said Vaibhav Kamra, co-founder and VP, Engineering, of Kasten, “I am proud of the agility with which our team continues to respond to pressing market needs.”

K10’s application-centric approach and deep integrations with relational and NoSQL databases, Kubernetes distributions and all clouds provides teams with the freedom of infrastructure choice without sacrificing operational simplicity. Policy-driven and extensible, K10 provides a native Kubernetes API and includes features such as full-spectrum consistency, database integrations, automatic application discovery, multi-cloud mobility, and a powerful web-based user interface.

For additional information on Kasten and K10 2.0, visit www.kasten.io

About Kasten
Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Salt Lake City, Kasten is funded by Insight Partners. For more information, visit or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Led by Insight Partners, the cloud-native data management company is positioned to take advantage of enterprise demand and accelerate their flagship product, K10

LOS ALTOS, CA – August 13, 2019 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, a market leader in cloud-native data management, today announced a $14 million Series A round led by Insight Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to $17 million to date. The Series A financing builds on an exceptional year for Kasten which saw a rapidly growing roster of enterprise customers that are scaling cloud-native deployments. The investment will be used to grow all areas of the company including sales, engineering, and marketing, in addition to creating an R&D center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Michael Triplett, managing director of Insight Partners, will join Kasten’s Board of Directors.

“We found Kasten’s innovative data management platform to be the best in the market, and it is perfectly timed to take advantage of the explosive ecosystem growth,” said Triplett. “We look forward to working closely with the leadership team as they scale the company and accelerate the adoption of Kasten’s platform across a wide segment of enterprise customers.”

Kasten’s K10 data management platform uses a novel application-centric approach to data management for cloud-native applications. It enables enterprises to meet business continuity and compliance requirements around stateful container-based applications running at scale on public and private Kubernetes deployments. Kasten’s solution provides enterprise IT and DevOps teams with much needed operational discipline and peace of mind when handling use cases like Backup and Recovery, Cloud Migration, and Disaster Recovery.

“In today’s hybrid and multicloud environments, effective data management for cloud-native applications is becoming increasingly important,” said Brad Casemore, Research Vice President for Datacenter Networks at IDC. “Kasten has responded to this need with an application-centric approach to data management for Kubernetes environments that addresses day-2 operations such as backup, disaster recovery, and application continuity.”

“This is an exciting time for Kasten as we are experiencing significant traction in the enterprise, and with the new funding we will be able to further accelerate our growth and take advantage of the large opportunity in front of us. Insight and Michael Triplett’s deep expertise in both the cloud-native and data management space make them the perfect partner to help us achieve this,” said Niraj Tolia, co-founder and CEO, Kasten.

About Kasten
Kasten reinvents the data management toolset for the modern cloud-native infrastructure for the purpose of empowering enterprises to easily build, deploy, and manage stateful containerized applications at scale. Founded in 2017 by experts in the areas of Kubernetes, storage, and distributed systems, Kasten is headquartered in Los Altos, CA with offices in Salt Lake City, UT. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

About Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to foster long-term success. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit www.insightpartners.com or follow @insightpartners on Twitter.

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LOS ALTOS, CA – July 18, 2018 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten, a cloud-native data management company, today announced its K10 platform is now available to all users of the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace (GCP Marketplace). The K10 platform provides customers with the ability to operationalize at scale data protection, disaster recovery, cloud migration, and copy management of stateful Kubernetes applications. For the first time ever, K10 is now available to deploy with one click to Google Kubernetes Engine with a usage-based pricing model. Commercial Kubernetes applications can be deployed on-premise or even on other public clouds through the GCP Marketplace.

K10 uses a novel application-centric approach to data management that enables enterprises to meet business continuity and compliance requirements around stateful container based applications running at scale on public and private Kubernetes deployments. Kasten’s solution allows infrastructure teams to bring much needed operational discipline and peace of mind when handling use cases like Backup and Recovery, Test/Dev Environments, Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery without sacrificing the flexibility and agility that developers have gotten accustomed to on a dynamic platform like Kubernetes.

“Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes at unprecedented pace and are increasingly using it as their primary infrastructure for both stateless and stateful applications. This has created tremendous demand for the Kasten K10 platform which simplifies the operational complexity around data management in this environment,” said Niraj Tolia, co-founder and CEO of Kasten. “We are excited to partner with Google Cloud to further simplify the process through which customers can deploy K10 both in the cloud and on-premises.”

GCP Marketplace is based on a multi-cloud and hybrid-first philosophy, focused on giving Google Cloud partners and enterprise customers flexibility without lock-in. It also helps customers innovate by easily adopting new technologies from ISV partners, such as commercial Kubernetes applications, and allows companies to oversee the full lifecycle of a solution, from discovery through management.

“To remain competitive and deliver on user demands, organizations adopting cloud need ready access to trusted, tested and portable applications that can run across their entire infrastructure. At Google Cloud we strive to make it as easy as possible for customers of all sizes to deploy, purchase and manage leading solutions in the cloud,” said Jennifer Lin, Director of Product Management Google Cloud. “The availability of commercial Kubernetes applications from providers like Kasten is a critical part of extending enterprise investments and can simplify adoption of container-based infrastructure no matter what environment they operate in, either on-premises or in the public cloud.”

Get started with Kasten K10 from the GCP Marketplace today!

About Kasten
Kasten reinvents the data management toolset for the modern cloud-native infrastructure for the purpose of empowering enterprises to easily build, deploy, and manage stateful containerized applications at scale. Founded in 2017 by experts in the areas of Kubernetes, storage, and distributed systems, Kasten is headquartered in Los Altos, CA. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Kasten Enables Enterprises to Build, Deploy and Manage Stateful Containerized Applications at Scale With Introduction of its K10 Platform and Open Source Project Kanister

LOS ALTOS, Calif. and AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 05, 2017 — /BackupReview.info/ — Today at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Kasten, the cloud-native data management company, emerged from stealth and released its K10 platform. K10 uses a novel application-centric approach to enable enterprises to meet business continuity and compliance requirements around stateful container based applications running at scale on public and private Kubernetes deployments. Additionally, the company announced an open source project called Kanister – an extensible framework for application-level data management. Kasten K10 and Kanister are used by enterprises, including a top 10 retailer in Europe and a leading global telecommunications provider.

The company is backed by well-known Silicon Valley angels and executives from Google, Amazon and Facebook. These include Amarjit Gill, who has more than $2 billion in exists as a serial founder plus multiple large exists as an investor, as well as Amit Singh, founder of Osmeta which Facebook acquired, and Dan Dobberpuhl, who is a serial entrepreneur and microprocessor luminary.

Amarjit Gill said: “Containerization of the enterprise is occurring at more accelerated pace than any other infrastructure change, including the transition to virtual machines. With this shift, enterprise-grade data management for cloud-native environments has emerged as a key area for IT organizations. I am honored to once again support this experienced enterprise-focused leadership team, and I believe that they are well positioned to capitalize on this massive opportunity.”

Kasten was founded by Niraj Tolia (CEO) and Vaibhav Kamra (VP of Engineering), who bring deep technical expertise in the areas of containers, Kubernetes, storage and distributed systems. Previously they held senior leadership positions and delivered multiple enterprise-ready solutions at companies like Maginatics (acquired by EMC), Dell EMC, HPE and Microsoft.

“Kasten was founded to solve the data management pain we experienced firsthand in working with stateful applications in containerized environments,” said Niraj Tolia, Kasten co-founder and CEO. “Kasten’s mission is to eliminate the friction and adoption roadblocks observed with enterprises when working with persistent state in container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. Our application-centric K10 platform has been purpose built to bridge both the tools and DevOps gap and reinvent cloud-native data management for the enterprise.”

Data management is the real hurdle for stateful workloads
Enterprises have derived tremendous business value from the agility, resiliency and portability that cloud-native platforms have unlocked. While running stateless application in this fashion has become commonplace, IT organizations are still struggling with the transition for stateful workloads which make up a significant portion of the traditional enterprise applications in production today. Having largely overcome the initial hurdles around storage provisioning in containerized environments, enterprises experience pain points related to ongoing data management and satisfying business continuity and compliance requirements which are inevitable with persistent data.

While the challenges partly stem from the fact that existing data management tools are very infrastructure and VM-focused and do not effectively translate to a cloud-native world, the primary issue is that proper data lifecycle management is at odds with most implementations of the DevOps model in the enterprise. Operators do not have the visibility and tools to do data management at scale, while relying on developers to address these requirements with sufficient depth is sub-optimal and insufficient. The result is ad-hoc and error prone processes without clear ownership which inevitably crumble at scale, impede business agility and often lead to severe production issues including data loss.

Kasten K10 is ops focused and dev friendly
Kasten addresses these challenges by introducing a unique application-centric data management platform. Starting with the application but also deeply integrating with the infrastructure, the solution balances the needs of both operators and developers. Operators control data protection and mobility for the entire application stack via dynamic policies and have global visibility into business requirements compliance. Developers can choose the most appropriate data store and remain focused on core application logic but are able to extend the platform to meet custom requirements using Kanister when needed. As a result, enterprises are finally free to fully adopt and reap the benefits of cloud-native platforms regardless of the type of workload.

“There has been a tremendous developer adoption of containers and cloud-native infrastructure over the last two years. However, to gain full production acceptance in the enterprise, containers need to work just as well for the needs of IT operations since a lot of the traditional IT requirements still apply, just in a much more dynamic and granular way,” said Torsten Volk, EMA, Managing Director. “Kasten K10 is a product that balances developer and operator focus and helps address the tools and skills gap that has emerged in this ecosystem.”

Key Capabilities

• Policy-driven Automation – In a cloud-native environment, applications come and go rapidly and scale dynamically. Even though IT operators may not be involved in some of these transitions, Kasten K10 makes it possible to proactively define policies and data management workflows that will be triggered automatically for both existing and future applications.
• Compliance Monitoring – Kasten K10 provides a unified view of data management operations across applications in a cloud-native environment. More specifically, it enables operators to monitor the compliance metrics they are responsible for and easily identify applications that need attention.
• Data Protection – Kasten K10 offers facilities for robust application-centric data protection. The platform captures and orchestrates life cycle management operations for both application configuration and persistent data. The Kanister framework allows for deep integration with specific applications.
• Data Mobility and Manipulation – To truly harness the power of cloud-native environments, stateful applications need to be fully portable, including the persistent data component. Kasten K10 delivers foundational mechanisms for moving data sets and performing customer-defined transformations.

Use Cases

• Test/Dev Workflows – The ability to provide developers with a high-fidelity replica of their production environment is key for identifying and correcting problems early. Kasten K10 simplifies the process of re-creating dev and test environments, while providing enterprise grade features like data masking and access controls.
• Backup and Recovery – While modern applications often utilize redundant highly-available data stores that are not susceptible to single point of failure, Kasten K10 layers the ability to protect and recover data in cases of accidental or malicious data loss, a key requirement for enterprises. Further, K10 enables the modernization of traditional applications by removing data protection operational roadblocks.
• Cloud Migration – For a number of reasons, including but not limited to achieving additional agility and resiliency or unlocking savings potential, enterprises are looking for workload portability. Kasten K10 makes it possible to move an entire application stack, including the data, within different regions of the same cloud and across public or private clouds.
• Disaster Recovery – Providing business continuity in the case of catastrophic failure remains a table stakes requirement for enterprises. Kasten K10 dramatically simplifies the ability to recover from outages by enabling policy based replication of data and application state between clusters for fast orchestrated recovery.

Availability
Kasten K10 is available starting today. For more information, visit Kasten at www.kasten.io. To download Kanister, go to https://github.com/kanisterio

About Kasten
Kasten reinvents the data management toolset for the modern cloud-native infrastructure for the purpose of empowering enterprises to easily build, deploy and manage stateful containerized applications at scale. Founded in 2017 by experts in the areas of Kubernetes, storage and distributed systems, Kasten is headquartered in Los Altos, CA. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Veeam to co-sell newly announced Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure and for Microsoft 365 with Microsoft which builds on the world’s #1 data protection solution protecting over 18 million Microsoft 365 users

SEATTLE, Wash. — March 07, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the #1 leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery by market share, today announced an extended, five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to innovate new solutions for protecting customers by integrating Veeam’s product family and Microsoft Copilot and AI services.

In addition to joint innovation, the companies will bring to market data protection for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure with the recently announced Veeam Data Cloud.

Through a multi-year engineering collaboration, Veeam and Microsoft will develop capabilities to keep organizations running in the face of increasing cybersecurity attacks, outages, and natural disasters. The combination of Veeam’s market-leading backup and recovery capabilities matched with the breadth of Microsoft’s innovation and scale will help customers ensure cyber resiliency.

“Organizations are driving transformation through investments in cloud computing and adoption of software-as-a-service,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. “Veeam protects 450,000 organizations – more than any other data backup and recovery vendor. Veeam’s solution for Microsoft 365 data protection provides the fastest data restores  available. Extending our partnership with Microsoft brings the benefits of Veeam technology – in both data protection and ransomware recovery – to even more customers using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. This partnership will also deliver incredible joint innovation, including bringing the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot to the Veeam product family.”

“As customers continue moving to the cloud and adopt generative AI capabilities, protecting their data remains our top priority,” said Judson Althoff, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Microsoft. “Together with Veeam, we are already helping millions of users fully protect their business data across Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. I am pleased to build on our collaboration by combining Microsoft’s copilot and Azure with Veeam’s data protection solutions to help our customers back up, protect, and recover their data estate better and faster than ever before.”

Veeam and Microsoft Partnership Highlights:
The collaboration between Veeam and Microsoft is expanding across multiple dimensions, including:

• Joint development work to bring additional AI capabilities to Veeam backup and recovery products, including integrating Microsoft Copilot for automated data analysis, cost-effective insights powered by AI and easier data visualization.
• Integrated support of the latest APIs for Microsoft 365 Backup Storage to enable accelerated backup and restore speeds within Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
• Joint go-to-market activities to co-sell Veeam’s protection and recovery capabilities for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure customers.
• Launch of new Veeam backup and recovery capabilities for Microsoft Azure.
• Accelerating on-premises customer migration to the Veeam Data Cloud hosted on Azure.
• Customer migration to and protection of Azure Kubernetes Services with Kasten by Veeam.

Veeam Protection and Ransomware Recovery Capabilities for Microsoft Customers
Veeam provides a broad set of capabilities to help customers protect and recover Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure data:

• Securely protect critical Microsoft 365 apps and data from cyberthreats with access controlled, logically air-gapped, and immutable backups – and assured, fast recovery every time.
• Restore anywhere, with the industry leader in rapid recoverability, and get business running 5x faster with advanced monitoring and reporting.
• Unified protection of Microsoft-hosted IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS data under a single, easy-to-use web console that scales to the largest enterprises.
• Speed time to value with instant readiness and intuitive, policy-based automation that starts protecting data in just minutes and provides over 50 recovery options.
• Lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) by storing compressed backups on cost-effective yet durable Azure Blob storage for cost optimization.

Veeam Data Cloud
Veeam Data Cloud, which is built on Microsoft Azure, delivers the confidence and reliability of the industry’s leading platform with the ease and accessibility of a cloud service. Veeam Data Cloud provides backup-as-a-service (BaaS) for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, enabling radical resilience and leveraging powerful data protection and security technology within a simple, seamless user experience.

Registration open for VeeamON 2024
Registration is now open for the 10th annual VeeamON event, June 3 – 5, 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Register now for a limited-time 10-year anniversary rate.

For more information on Veeam, visit https://www.veeam.com.

Customer Quotes 
“Alongside our customers, we push the boundaries of what control software can do. By protecting every facet of our environment with Veeam, from VMs to containers to Microsoft 365, we have the immediate access to data we need to maintain our position at the leading edge.” – Jan Fox-Gerlach, Information Coordination at ITK Engineering GmbH

“Veeam is the most complete backup solution for Microsoft 365. It’s scalable, easy to use and plays a significant role in our business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. By protecting Microsoft 365 data, Veeam helps us deliver the ultimate experience for our customers.” – Lazaros Kalafatas, Servers Engineering Manager at Piraeus Bank S.A.

About Veeam Software
Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

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Veeam Software
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – February 12, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam^® Software, the leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced the award of a $5 million contract with follow on options resulting in a total value of $21 million to provide data backup and recovery software to the U.S. Navy. Through the five-year Program Level Agreement Veeam is supporting PMW 160, the program office responsible for the Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) technology program that enables the fleet to communicate and share information. Veeam will provide configuration, maintenance, and testing of Veeam Data Platform and Kasten K10 for Kubernetes software solutions.

“Veeam is excited to be supporting our federal government and valued Navy partners through the delivery of our software to the CANES program,” said Anand Eswaran, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Veeam. “Over the past two years, we have made significant product investments to ensure our products are the most secure and reliable data backup and recovery solutions on the market. We believe this contract with the Navy demonstrates the success of those investments.”

CANES is the Navy’s next-generation tactical afloat network. As a program of record, it consolidates and replaces existing afloat networks providing the necessary infrastructure for applications, systems, and services required to dominate the cyber warfare tactical domain. CANES represents a key aspect of the Navy’s modernization planning by upgrading cybersecurity, command and control, communications, and intelligence systems afloat, and by replacing unaffordable and obsolete networks.

Veeam is committed to supporting its partners in the Federal Government, including the U.S. Navy. As the #1 provider worldwide in the Data Replication & Protection software market, Veeam has achieved some of the highest certifications for security. The Veeam Data Platform has achieved Common Criteria certification, validating alignment with the most stringent international cyber security regulatory requirements. Veeam has also attained the Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL) certification for Veeam Backup & Replication™ v12, validating Veeam’s commitment to meet the DoD’s most stringent security, interoperability, and supportability requirements for complex network environments.

Driven by an intense and unrelenting focus on governance and security, infrastructure and supply chain assurance, and compliance and certification, Veeam continues to fortify the security of its software platform to meet the evolving standards of the U.S. Government and Defense Industrial Base. Veeam is committed to evolving alongside the needs of the public sector, while also maintaining the highest industry standards of performance and security to support agencies’ data protection and recovery challenges as they continue to become even more critical and complex. This extended contract with the U.S. Navy sets a new standard in trusted, secure public / private partnerships.

For more information on these and other security certifications Veeam has achieved, please visit https://www.veeam.com/solutions/industry/government.html.

About Veeam Software
Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 73% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X@veeam.

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Veeam significantly upgrades cyber protection capabilities of its flagship platform, and introduces new Veeam Cyber Secure Program to give businesses confidence that they can thrive in an increasingly hostile world

COLUMBUS, Ohio — October 24, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam^® Software, the leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced the New Veeam Data Platform 23H2 update, including the New Veeam Backup & Replication™ v12.1 release, during the global VeeamON Resiliency Summit. Built on the principles of Data Security, Data Recovery and Data Freedom, the Veeam Data Platform 23H2 update includes more advanced data security, malware detection, automated recovery, and hybrid cloud capabilities to keep businesses running even in the face of increasing ransomware and cyberattacks .

“Cybercriminals are getting smarter and are specifically targeting backups,” said Danny Allan, CTO at Veeam. “The Veeam 2023 Ransomware Trends report shows that 93% of ransomware attacks target backups – with 75% of those attacks being at least partially successful. Threat actors are targeting backups because organizations are more likely to pay the ransom if hackers are successful in deleting or encrypting backup data. IT and Cybersecurity experts alike know that a critical component of a cyber-resiliency strategy must be a trusted, clean backup that you can access at any time, from anywhere. Our new Veeam Data Platform 23H2 Update enables radical resilience – to not just bounce back from an outage or data loss, but to bounce forward. By providing the shortest gap between incident and recovery, our customers can keep their business running, growing and moving ahead.”

As the #1 provider worldwide in the Data Replication & Protection software market, Veeam continues to demonstrate innovation in data protection and ransomware recovery, delivering innovative solutions that address the evolving needs of modern businesses. Veeam Data Platform 23H2 updates include new security and ransomware protection functionalities for Veeam Backup & Replication™, Veeam ONE™ and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator.

This new release delivers more advanced data security, malware detection, automated recovery, and hybrid cloud capabilities across the entire hybrid-cloud environment. Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1, the foundation of the Veeam Data Platform, now further reduces incident response time with proactive threat hunting for backups, integration SIEM platforms, YARA rules for ransomware pattern detection and guides to help customers implement NIST cybersecurity best practices. Organizations of all sizes can now achieve the radical resilience that can only come from complete confidence in protection, response and recovery.

Many of the new cyber security features and enhancements in the Veeam Data Platform 23H2 Update are designed to help all organizations prepare and plan for security incidents by uniting IT and security teams with the technology to confront, contain and conquer ransomware. These new cyber security features and enhancements include:

• Detect and identify cyberthreats: AI-powered and built-in Malware Detection performs low-impact inline entropy and file extension analysis during backup for immediate detection. Let your SIEM tool report infections directly into Veeam Incident API, which marks existing restore points as infected or triggers out-of-band backups in response.
• Respond and recover faster from ransomware: Perform point-in-time recovery to the moment before infection with I/O Anomaly Visualizer, which ensures the lowest possible data loss thanks to Veeam’s continuous data protection (CDP). Avoid reinfectionwith YARA content analysis and automate clean recovery by using malware-free restore points.
• Secure and compliant protection for data: Highlight threats, identify risks and measure the security score of your environment in the new Veeam Threat Center; Ensure recovery success with automated scans with the Security & Compliance Analyzer; Prevent accidental or malicious deletion or encryption of backups by employing expanded immutability support. This includes “four-eyes” backup protection, and immutable backups.

During the VeeamON Resiliency Summit keynote, Allan highlighted new Veeam product releases for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud that are coming next month, and also teased the upcoming Kasten K10 6.5 launch. Fueling its history of innovation, Veeam recently announced BaaS for Microsoft 365 and Azure, and a new release for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is also planned for early 2024.

New Veeam Cyber Secure Program
The New Veeam Cyber Secure Program combines Veeam’s purpose-built technology with a team of experts to help customers protect and recover from ransomware. Available in early 2024, the program gives customers peace of mind that Veeam is implemented to the highest security standards and the assurance that they’re ready for a cyber incident. The Cyber Secure Program includes incident recovery services like advanced onboarding, design and implementation assistance, and quarterly health checks. During a cyber incident, customers have access to a dedicated Support Account Manager and Ransomware Response Team with 30-minute service level agreements (SLAs). Also included in the Veeam Cyber Secure Program is the Veeam Ransomware Recovery Warranty that covers up to $5 million USD in data recovery expense reimbursement. Veeam Cyber Secure Program means that you’re ready for the next cyber-attack, and can rest easy knowing your backups are clean, reliable, and ready for fast recovery. More information on the program is available at: https://www.veeam.com/products/veeam-data-platform/incident-recovery.html.

Availability
The New Veeam Data Platform 23H2 update will be released later this year. For more information, visit https://www.veeam.com.

Registration is now open for the 10th annual VeeamON event, taking place June 3 through June 5, 2024 at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Register now for a limited-time 10-year anniversary rate: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon.

Analyst Quote
“Keeping up with the pace of cyber-threat evolution is no easy feat for IT Operations or security teams today. As technologies and attack methods continuously evolve, remaining a step ahead is more difficult than ever before. Veeam is remaining true to its disaster recovery roots while helping customers to increase their cyber-resiliency, specifically helping in a couple of areas that we hear from customers are critical – reducing downtime and reducing data loss. Additionally, capabilities like the Threat Center and the Security and Compliance Analyzer will help organizations to move towards the ‘SecOps’ collaboration that has grown to be necessary.” – Krista Macomber, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group

About Veeam Software
Veeam^®, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 73% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at ?www.veeam.com?or follow Veeam on LinkedIn?@veeam-software? and X @veeam.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 31, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Alcion, a modern data management startup, today announced $8M in seed funding from prominent angel investors, and the public preview of its AI-driven Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. Developed with a product-led and community-driven focus, Alcion provides Microsoft 365 admins with an easy-to-use, intelligent, and secure SaaS platform to protect against ransomware, malware, corruption, and accidental data loss.

Alcion was founded by Niraj Tolia and Vaibhav Kamra, two serial entrepreneurs with deep domain expertise in data protection. They previously founded Kasten, the leading and award-winning Kubernetes backup company that was acquired by Veeam in 2020.

“We are thrilled to announce our market entry with a fully-managed AI-driven backup service for Microsoft 365 users,” said Niraj Tolia, CEO and co-founder. “This significant round of funding allows us to exit stealth mode, take our modern BaaS product to market, expand our community, and accelerate product development.”

Alcion provides comprehensive data protection using a modern and security-focused architecture that includes predictive Recovery Point Objective (RPO) reduction, integrated threat detection, and response algorithms. The high-value and increasing amounts of business-critical data stored in Microsoft 365 makes it a prime target for both internal and external malicious actors, including new classes of ransomware. While Microsoft ensures the reliability and availability of Microsoft 365 infrastructure, it does not protect against cases in which cyberattacks or accidents lead to data loss. Traditional Microsoft 365 backup solutions are often totally unaware of ongoing security threats, are limited to reactive action, and haven’t been designed with today’s threat environments in mind. Alcion directly addresses these challenges through its threat detection, automated responses, intelligent backup scheduling and default delete protection offerings.

“When it came to finding a backup solution for our Microsoft 365 data, ease of use was a top requirement,” said Bryan Whiting, CTO, Milestone Financial Engineering. “In fact, the complexity of setup and time investment required by other Microsoft 365 backup products had been a barrier to adoption at Milestone Financial Engineers. Alcion’s simplicity made setup a breeze and, without ever reading the documentation or undergoing training, we went from setup to backing up all our data in under 10 minutes!”

“Preventing downtime due to malicious intent has been top-of-mind for us,” said Ryan Elliot, VP of Client Solutions at K?STA I.T. “Alcion has allowed us to protect our critical business data from both potential internal threats and external cyber threats such as malware and ransomware.”

Leveraging community-driven product development and based on Corso, Alcion’s popular open-source project for Microsoft 365 backup, Alcion’s BaaS platform provides easy-to-use comprehensive backup and restore workflows, enabling reliable and fault-tolerant backups. Additionally, the Alcion BaaS solution supports XDR integration (e.g., 365 Defender) for proactive backups, includes ransomware detection, supports intelligent backup scheduling to reduce RPO, and more.

Alcion’s seed round was driven by several prominent angels including Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman of Walden International and Intel Board Member, Abhinav Asthana, CEO and founder of Postman, Debanjan Saha, CEO of DataRobot, and Amarjit Gill, serial entrepreneur and investor at Nepenthe Capital.

“Niraj and Vaibhav have a finger on the pulse of the solutions that modern businesses need to be more efficient and productive,” said Tan. “Alcion’s AI-driven BaaS platform serves a growing market need for intelligent data management, recovery, and threat detection that will surely come to be an industry standard.”

“Data protection is more critical than ever and, given my experience in building secure scalable platforms that are also easy to adopt, the companies that are successful in this space will be those that can effectively balance security with accessibility,” said Asthana. “I’m excited to invest in Alcion because of their innovative work at the intersection of data and security. With a highly-talented team focused on ease-of-use and security, I am confident they will make a significant impact on the field of data protection.”

For more information, or to try Alcion for free now, visit www.alcion.ai and join our community on Discord.

About Alcion, Inc.
Alcion solves data management challenges faced by companies running and storing business-critical data in the cloud including backup/restore, disaster recovery, and security. Purpose-built for managing data stored in third-party SaaS services, Alcion provides IT admins with an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure SaaS platform to protect their data. With a focus on data security, including ransomware protection, Alcion is using a community and open-source driven development approach to deliver a modern product focused on the needs of IT administrators. Founded in 2022, Alcion is a distributed company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Follow us on Twitter at @alcionai and join us on Discord.

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CITIC Telecom CPC wins Veeam Cloud & Service Provider partner of the Year, Hong Kong for 6 consecutive years

HONG KONG, May 11, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (“CITIC Telecom CPC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK:1883) that provides multinational enterprises the world over with highly scalable and tailored ICT solutions to meet their specific business requirements, announced today it obtained two Veeam Customer Ready competencies:

• Off-site Backup — https://www.veeam.com/managed-backup-as-a-service.html?ad=menu-solutions
• BaaS for Microsoft 365 — https://www.veeam.com/backup-as-a-service-for-microsoft-365.html?ad=menu-solutions

Their next goal is to earn a third credential: DRaaS — https://www.veeam.com/disaster-recovery-as-a-service-draas.html?ad=in-text-link

CITIC Telecom CPC partnered with Veeam in 2010 and was the first cloud service provider in Asia Pacific to offer virtual-to-cloud BaaS powered by Veeam Cloud Connect. The company has been crowned as a Platinum Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partner and received the VCSP Partner of the Year award for 6 consecutive years. These accolades reaffirm CITIC Telecom CPC demonstrates a strong collaboration with Veeam as well as professional expertise in supporting cloud-based solutions to meet the demand of clients.

“As one of our top VCSP partners, CITIC Telecom CPC serves multinational enterprises in nearly 160 countries,” said Dick Tang, Senior Regional Business Manager, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Veeam Software. “Multinational enterprises understand the value of Veeam Customer Ready competencies because they represent industry best practices. We applaud CITIC Telecom CPC’s continued double-digit annual growth of their SmartCLOUD(TM) BRR backup — https://www.citictel-cpc.com/en-hk/product-services/smartcloud-brr — replication and disaster recovery solution.”

CITIC Telecom CPC helps customers future-proof their businesses with cloud computing solutions that transform their IT environments and protect their data. As a Global-Local DICT Managed Service Provider (MSP), CITIC Telecom CPC offers a suite of highly customizable cloud offerings such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Anything as a Service (XaaS), multi-cloud connectivity and managed services. The company’s SmartCLOUD BRR provides a full range of on-premises and off-premises backup and replication services to prevent data loss and guarantee business continuity including Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).

Veeam Data Platform — https://www.veeam.com/service-providers-modern-solutions.html — and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 underpin SmartCLOUD(TM) BRR — https://www.veeam.com/backup-as-a-service-for-microsoft-365.html?ad=menu-solutions. They deliver safe, secure and simple data protection across platforms, as well as flexible and simple pricing. They also protect against ransomware attacks through data encryption and backup immutability to ensure all data is always accessible.

CITIC Telecom CPC uses Veeam Data Platform’s Veeam Backup & Replication(TM) to power SmartCLOUD BRR for versatile backup and disaster recovery solutions. Veeam Data Platform delivers a single data protection solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. In addition, CITIC Telecom CPC uses Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for flexible data recovery and powerful eDiscovery of individual Microsoft 365 items.

“Veeam’s comprehensive data protection empowers us to meet customers’ disaster recovery and business continuity requirements,” said Danny Tang, Senior Manager, Cloud Services, CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited. “Veeam supports backup and replication in every scenario: physical to cloud (P2C), cloud to cloud (C2C), virtual to cloud (V2C) and SaaS backup. Veeam’s support for ICT environments is extensive too. For example, some customers are moving from traditional virtual machines to containers, so Kasten K10 by Veeam — https://www.veeam.com/kubernetes-native-backup-and-restore.html — protects their Kubernetes workloads.”

Danny Tang said customers’ data is backed up, secured and recoverable, which is vital for meeting service level agreements (SLAs) and protecting against ransomware attacks. Customers can verify recoverability of backups — https://www.veeam.com/backup-security-capabilities.html and recover instantly — https://www.veeam.com/instant-vm-recovery.html. If their users accidentally or intentionally delete data in Microsoft 365, a self-service restore portal — https://www.veeam.com/blog/self-service-backup-copy-microsoft-365.html helps recover data immediately. In addition, CITIC Telecom CPC offers 24/7 monitoring and management services.

“We keep track of customers’ status, so if something goes wrong, we can take immediate action and mitigate the problem before it impacts their daily operations,” Danny Tang said. “These value-added services are a big reason why customers choose CITIC Telecom CPC as their MSP.”

Trustworthy partner to build data protection services
VCSP partners like CITIC Telecom CPC give organizations the power of choice when deciding what level of service is required for their data protection needs. From self-managed, off-premises backup storage options to fully managed BaaS and DRaaS solutions that include implementation, management, monitoring, testing and recovery, the level of service can vary; however, one thing is certain: Security matters.

“At CITIC Telecom CPC, we strive for security and innovation excellence,” Danny Tang said. “We are very honored to receive two Gold awards for Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat Detection – Asia and the Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company – Asia in the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2023. This incredible accomplishment is testament to our efforts to spark innovation and underscore our commitment to staying at the forefront of the cybersecurity industry.”

CITIC Telecom CPC remains steadfast in their motto “Innovation Never Stops.” Their award-winning AI Visual Security solution uses AI and visual computing to rapidly identify malware variants and catch malware families in a fast and accurate way. With an advanced patent-pending algorithm, their System and Method for Detecting Malware, which uses a 3D RGB color image algorithm, specialized autoencoder and weakly supervised learning network, is unique and allows security professionals to detect malware with the highest accuracy. This breakthrough enables the company to offer customers a faster and more effective way to handle complex malware analysis tasks while reducing their carbon footprint. These awards are important recognition that empowers the company’s ongoing innovation and growth, enabling CITIC Telecom CPC to maintain a unique position in the data protection space as a VCSP offering ICT solutions to customers so they can protect their data.

A survey — https://www.veeam.com/wp-cloud-protection-trends.html — conducted among 1,700 IT leaders using cloud services in both production and protection scenarios revealed organizations are moving from self-managed data protection to managed data protection. Forty-eight percent of respondents said they began with self-managed cloud backup but switched to managed cloud backup to leverage their MSP’s expertise. Veeam makes it easy for organizations to find MSPs that meet their precise needs, including CITIC Telecom CPC, through the VCSP Partner Directory — https://www.veeam.com/find-partner.html?country=HKG&search=citic

About CITIC Telecom CPC
We are CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (“CITIC Telecom CPC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883), serving multinational enterprises the world over by addressing their specific ICT requirements with highly scalable tailored solutions built upon our flagship technology suites, comprising TrueCONNECT(TM) private network solutions, TrustCSI(TM) information security solutions, DataHOUSE(TM) cloud data center solutions, and SmartCLOUD(TM) cloud computing solutions.

With the motto “Innovation Never Stops,” we leverage innovative technologies, embracing AI, AR, Big Data, IoT, and other cutting-edge emerging technologies to transform technical potential into business value for our customers. As an enterprise digital transformation partner, we strive to help our customers achieve industry-leading positions, high agility, and cost-efficiency through digitalization.

With our Global-Local capabilities, we are committed to providing our customers with one-stop-shop ICT solutions with superior quality. Having a worldwide footprint across nearly 160 countries, including Asia, Europe and America, Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, our global network resources connect over 160 points of presence (POPs), 60 SDWAN gateways, 21 Cloud service centers, 30+ data centers, and three dedicated 24×7 Security Operations Centers (SOCs). We are certified with a series of international certifications, including SD-WAN Ready, ISO 9001, 14001, 20000, 27001, and 27017, to ensure our services compliance with international standards and resources for enterprises. We offer local professional services, superior delivery capabilities as well as exceptional customer experience and best practices through our global presence and extensive industry know-how, becoming a leading integrated intelligent ICT service provider to enterprise customers.

For more information, please visit www.citictel-cpc.com

About Veeam Software
Veeam provides organizations with resiliency through data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments that give businesses peace of mind their apps and data are protected and always available so that they can keep their businesses running. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 72% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers, service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

Media Contact:
Catherine Yuen
CITIC Telecom CPC
(852) 2170 7536
Email: catherine.yuen@citictel-cpc.com

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The program offers enhanced solution-oriented training and go-to-market capability development that increase credibility and visibility in the local marketplace 

COLUMBUS, Ohio — April 4, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam^® Software, the leader in Modern Data Protection, has enhanced its ProPartner Network strategy with the launch of the Veeam Competency Program for Veeam Value-Added Resellers (VVARs) and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners. The new program provides dedicated expertise and resources to support customers and fellow partners using the recently launched Veeam Data Platform, a single platform delivering more advanced data security, recovery and hybrid cloud capabilities with Veeam Backup & Replication™ (VBR) v12 as the foundation. Program alumni will be recognized with Veeam credentials for their technical and go-to-market offerings that help differentiate their portfolio in the market.

Modern Data Protection requires a customized approach to effectively support business continuity. This is especially true with the combination of rising data complexity across different systems and the risks posed by cyber-threats. The Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2023 found that 55% of global organizations are focused on improving the reliability and success of backups to meet their internal Recovery Point objective (RPO), Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) needs. Companies are often lacking the necessary in-house skills and resources to optimize their existing IT strategy. An ecosystem of certified partners fills that gap, and the Veeam Competency Program connects the right skills for the specific demands of both customers and fellow partners.

“Our success is built upon working closely with our partners to provide customers with the best protection and recovery for their data,” said Larissa Crandall, Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances at Veeam. “We bring unsurpassed innovation and combine that with the expertise of our partners to offer customers a perfectly matched solution for their needs. As a 100% channel-driven organization, Veeam is committed to ensuring our partners have access to the most valuable resources and training to deliver first-rate outcomes for customers. That’s why these new program enhancements have been designed in collaboration with our partners to expand their capabilities in a way that enables them to tap into the potential of the total addressable market.”

The Veeam Competency Program initiative aims to build “ProPartner Competency” through a high-value partner network across the globe. The program is designed in a simple but robust way: eligible VVARs¹ and VCSP partners² that have developed first-class solutions can apply to have their use case specific offering audited by Veeam. Every go-to-market and technical competency achieved will be rewarded with a verified Veeam badge. This new data protection proficiency level will be highlighted by a premium placement on the Veeam ProPartner Directory on Veeam.com, a partner list facilitating the process for customers looking for a suitable IT business partner.

VVAR competency categories include:

• Ransomware and Disaster Recovery Competencies: Enable partners to help organizations implement transparent and actionable Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service strategies for detecting suspicious activities, protecting data with immutable backup options, and rapidly recovering backup data.
• Public Cloud Protection Competency: Nurtures a strong understanding of the cloud-native backup solutions market and customer challenges. A qualified VVAR is able to represent the public cloud Backup as a Service capability supported by all Veeam cloud-native backup solutions and deploy the adequate solution for the customer.
• Microsoft 365 Protection Competency: Understands that Microsoft’s responsibility ends at application uptime, leaving the customer responsible for data loss avoidance. The trained VVAR supports the customer to protect against the risk of losing access and control over their most critical processes with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
• Container Protection Competency: Warrants that a VVAR can implement the protection and mobility of customers’ containerized workloads and help future-proof their customers’ cloud-native strategy through knowledge development supported by Kasten by Veeam.

VCSP Customer Ready competencies recognize partners that provide Veeam-powered “as a service” solutions to customers. VCSP Reseller Ready competencies connect service providers with VVAR partners who are looking to resell cloud services. Existing VCSP competency categories include:

• Off-site Backup
• Disaster Recovery as a Service
• Backup as a Service (BaaS) for Microsoft 365
• Managed Service Provider (MSP) Backup (Reseller Ready only)

Today, Veeam is announcing new VCSP competencies, available for both Customer Ready and Reseller Ready partners:

• Backup as a Service (BaaS) for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Backup as a Service (BaaS) for Microsoft Azure

The Veeam ProPartner Network is a global ecosystem of partners that work directly and indirectly with one another to build, market, and sell Veeam’s on-premises, off-site, and cloud consumption models. VVAR and VCSP partners have access to customized programs, tools and resources designed to enable them to become more profitable and drive growth according to their business models and objectives. For partners interested in learning more or signing up for the Veeam Competency Program, please visit the Veeam ProPartner portal.

The Veeam Competency Program will be exclusively featured during VeeamON 2023, the community event for data recovery experts, which will take place May 22 – 24 in Miami, FL and online. Designed by and built for the backup and recovery professional, attendees will expand their skills, celebrate with the community, and share industry knowledge with exclusive content from AWS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and more. Registration for the in-person event is now open.

For more information, please visit www.veeam.com/propartner

Supporting Quotes
“While 85% of channel partners believe partner programs play an important role in their relationship with a vendor, programs are under pressure to recognize partner value in new ways. Hybrid partner models and the growth of managed services mean co-sell, ease of doing business, and technology support are more important than ever when it comes to partner program effectiveness. The challenge for vendors is partly in recognizing the breadth of the partner landscape while also rewarding partners across these different models, who engage with the technology in different ways. A good program, with the right collaborative philosophy at its heart, can be a real differentiator for vendors at any time, but particularly during a time of economic uncertainty.” – Robin Ody, Senior Analyst at Canalys

“Probax provides modern data protection solutions and services exclusively for managed service providers (MSPs). We combine partner enablement and support with continuous innovation and integration among industry-leading technology vendors, including Veeam and Microsoft. Veeam´s Competency Program validates our offering, and we´re proud to include this additional proof point to our current and future customers, making Probax a gold standard. Being a 100%-channel company, these Veeam-verified competencies help us to leverage our turn-key as a Service portfolio for DraaS, Off-site Backup, Managed Backup Services or BaaS for Microsoft 365 for MSP prospects. More and more MSPs are opting for our BaaS for Microsoft 365 offering which contributes to our revenue growing 5% month over month.” – Sam Meegahage, Chief Operating Officer at Probax and Platinum Veeam VCSP Partner

About Veeam Software
Veeam^® provides organizations with resiliency through data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments that give businesses peace of mind their apps and data are protected and always available so that they can keep their businesses running. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 72% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers, service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

[1] – A reseller needs to be a Silver Level VVAR or higher to apply to be certified in these competencies.

[2] – A VCSP partner in good standing at a minimum program level of Silver; Reseller Ready competencies are by invitation only.

Contacts:
Veeam Software
Director, Global Public Relations
Heidi Monroe Kroft, 614-339-8200 x8309

Holly Abbott
Babel PR for Veeam
veeam@babelpr.com
+44 (0) 7527 521057

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Veeam Announces ProPartner Award Winners for 2022 in Middle East and CIS

DUBAI, UAE – 17^th March, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader Modern Data Protection, has announced the winners of the Veeam ProPartner Awards for 2022 in the Middle East and CIS region. The awards are held annually to reward the outstanding success and the commitment of Veeam ProPartner Value-Added Resellers (VAR) and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners. As a partner-centric organization, Veeam recognizes partners that leveraged customer support and Veeam expertise to deliver Modern Data Protection in increasingly complex IT environments so that the most diverse workload types, data, and applications are protected.

Kinda Baydoun, Manager of Channels, Distribution and Alliances – Middle East & CIS at Veeam, explained: “2022 added to the challenges businesses were already facing as they emerged from the global pandemic. Chief among them was the ever-present and rising incidence of ransomware attacks, that left only 15% of organisations in Middle East and Africa unaffected. With secure, immutable backups the last line of defence against ransomware, protecting enterprise IT across all ecosystems is essential to keep businesses running.”

“Satisfying the myriad demands modern business processes and exposures place upon our customers needs a multi-faceted network of ProPartners with a rich variety of competencies, and Veeam has the best in the business. Their skills, underpinned by the Veeam Data Platform – a single solution to protect Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes applications – gives customers the resilience, availability and business outcomes they need. I am proud of our fantastic local ProPartner network, without whom we would not enjoy the success that we do. As a 100% channel-focused organization, our Middle East and CIS ProPartner Award winners have delivered exceptional results through close collaboration in 2022. It is my pleasure to thank them for their loyalty, excellence and trust in Veeam.”

The following Veeam partners received honors for the 2022 Veeam ProPartner Awards:

• UAE Top Partner of the Year: Alpha Data

For partners in UAE with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and highest commitment towards investing to grow their business with Veeam through enablement and joint marketing activities. Who always position strategic products such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Kasten.

• South Gulf Top Partner of the Year: Almoayyed Computers

For partners in South Gulf with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and highest commitment towards investing to grow their business with Veeam through enablement and joint marketing activities. Who always position strategic products such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Kasten.

• Saudi Arabia Top Partner of the Year: Al Nafitha

For partners in Saudi Arabia with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and highest commitment towards investing to grow their business with Veeam through enablement and joint marketing activities. Who always position strategic products such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Kasten.

• Qatar Top Partner of the Year: Mannai – HP Solutions

For partners in Qatar with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and highest commitment towards investing to grow their business with Veeam through enablement and joint marketing activities. Who always position strategic products such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Kasten.

• Levant Top Partner of the Year: ProTech

For partners in Levant with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and highest commitment towards investing to grow their business with Veeam through enablement and joint marketing activities. Who always position strategic products such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Kasten.

• Egypt Top Partner of the Year: eSkyIT

For partners in Egypt with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and highest commitment towards investing to grow their business with Veeam through enablement and joint marketing activities. Who always position strategic products such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Kasten.

• CIS Top Partner of the Year: SoftwareOne

For partners in CIS with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and highest commitment towards investing to grow their business with Veeam through enablement and joint marketing activities. Who always position strategic products such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Kasten.

• Middle East Top Partner of the Year: Natcom

For partners in Middle East with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and highest commitment towards investing to grow their business with Veeam through enablement and joint marketing activities. Who always position strategic products such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Kasten.

• Middle East Growth Partner of the Year: Global Business Solutions (GBS)

For partners in Middle East who demonstrated a significant growth in their Veeam business (2022 vs. 2021) and who show a high level of interest to grow further.

• Middle East Top Distributor of the Year: Ingram Micro Gulf

For distributors in Middle East with the highest revenue achievement in 2022 and who also have the largest channel coverage (active partners) and have opened new revenue streams through new routes to market.

• Middle East Growth Distributor of the Year: Redington Saudi Arabia

For distributors in Middle East who demonstrated a significant growth (2022 vs. 2021) and extended their coverage into the Enterprise segment for the first time in 2022.

The Veeam ProPartner Network is a global ecosystem of partners that work directly and indirectly with one another to build, market, and sell Veeam-powered services and solutions. Veeam is dedicated to helping its partners succeed. ProPartner VAR and VCSP partners have access to customizable programs, tools and resources designed to enable them to become more profitable and drive business growth, customer trust and competitive advantage according to their business models and objectives. To learn more about the ProPartner Network, please visit https://www.veeam.com/partner-with-veeam. Existing ProPartners can explore further here: https://propartner.veeam.com.

Veeam will recognize its partners as part of VeeamON 2023, the community event for data recovery experts, which will take place May 22 – 24 in Miami, FL and online. Designed by and built for the backup and recovery professional, attendees will expand their skills, celebrate with the community, and share industry knowledge with exclusive content from AWS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and more. Registration for the in-person event is now open.

For more information, visit www.veeam.com.

About Veeam Software

Veeam^® provides organizations with resiliency through data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments that give businesses peace of mind their apps and data are protected and always available so that they can keep their businesses running. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 72% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers, service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

Contacts:
Veeam Software
Director, Global Public Relations
Heidi Monroe Kroft, 614-339-8200 x8309

Holly Abbott
Babel PR for Veeam
veeam@babelpr.com
+44 (0) 7527 521057

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Johannesburg, South Africa – 15 March 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader Modern Data Protection, has announced the winners of the Veeam ProPartner Awards for 2022 in South Africa, Johannesburg. The awards are held annually to reward the outstanding success and the commitment of Veeam ProPartner Value-Added Resellers (VAR) and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners. As a partner-centric organization, Veeam recognizes partners that leveraged customer support and Veeam expertise to deliver Modern Data Protection in increasingly complex IT environments so that the most diverse workload types, data, and applications are protected.

Lisa Strydom, Senior Manager: Channel and Alliances for Africa at Veeam Africa, explained: “2022 added to the challenges businesses were already facing as they emerged from the global pandemic. Chief among them was the ever-present and rising incidence of ransomware attacks, that left only 14% of Middle East & Africa (MEA) organisations unaffected. With secure, immutable backups the last line of defence against ransomware, protecting enterprise IT across all ecosystems is essential to keep businesses running.”

“Satisfying the myriad demands modern business processes and exposures place upon our customers needs a multi-faceted network of ProPartners with a rich variety of competencies, and Veeam has the best in the business. Their skills, underpinned by the Veeam Data Platform – a single solution to protect Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes applications – gives customers the resilience, availability and business outcomes they need. I am proud of our fantastic local ProPartner network, without whom we would not enjoy the success that we do. As a 100% channel-focused organization, our Africa ProPartner Award winners have delivered exceptional results through close collaboration in 2022. It is my pleasure to thank them for their loyalty, excellence and  trust in Veeam.”

The following Veeam partners received honors for the 2022 Veeam ProPartner Awards:

• The Value Added Reseller of the Year, South Africa: Datacentrix www.datacentrix.co.za
  For partners (VARs) who have demonstrated the highest growth in Veeam sales during 2022.
• The Best Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Reselling Partner, South Africa: First Technology KZN www.firsttech.co.za
  For partners (VARs) who closed the most successful Veeam Backup for M365 deals in 2022
• The Best Kasten Reselling Partner of the Year, South Africa: Datacentrix www.datacentrix.co.za
  For partners (VARs) who closed the most successful Kasten deals in 2022.
• The Best SMB Reselling Partner of the Year, South Africa: Datacentrix www.datacentrix.co.za
  For partners (VARs) who close the greatest number of SMB deals in 2022
• The Best VCSP Partner of the Year, South Africa: Saicom www.saicom.io
  For partners who made a great contribution to the popularization of cloud technologies in 2022 and are meeting the following requirements – biggest points consumption growth, certifications, product diversity.
• The Best Veeam Backup for M365 VCSP Partner, South Africa: Silicon Sky www.siliconsky.com
  Partners (VCPSs) who closed the most successful Veeam Backup for M365 deals in 2022
• The Best Kasten VCSP Partner of the Year, South Africa: Cyberlogic www.cyberlogic.co.za
  For partners (VCPs) who closed the most successful Kasten deals in 2022
• The Aggregator of the Year Award, South Africa: First Distribution www.firstdistribution.com
  For the aggregator who achieved the most growth and drove the most effective cloud business during 2022.
• The Distributor of the Year Award, South Africa: Axiz www.axiz.com
  For the distributor who achieved the most growth & drove the most effective distribution support and business during 2022.
• The Value Added Reseller of the Year, Rest of Africa: Blanche Birger www.birger.technology
  For partners (VARs) who have demonstrated the highest growth in Veeam sales during 2022.
• The Best Veeam Backup for M365 VCSP Partner, Rest of Africa: Evail
  Partners (VCPSs) who closed the most successful Veeam Backup for M365 deals in 2022
• The Best Kasten Reselling Partner of the Year, Rest of Africa: Business Connexion Namibia www.bcx.co.za
  For partners (VARs) who closed the most successful Kasten deals in 2022.
• The Best SMB Reselling Partner of the Year, Rest of Africa: Blanche Birger www.birger.technology
  For partners (VARs) who close the greatest number of SMB deals in 2022
• The Best VCSP Partner of the Year, Rest of Africa: Layer3 www.layer3.ng
  For partners who made a great contribution to the popularization of cloud technologies in 2022 and are meeting the following requirements – biggest points consumption growth, certifications, product diversity.
• The Best Veeam Backup for M365 VCSP Partner, Rest of Africa: Complete Enterprise Solutions www.cesict.com
  Partners (VCPSs) who closed the most successful Veeam Backup for M365 deals in 2022

The Veeam ProPartner Network is a global ecosystem of partners that work directly and indirectly with one another to build, market, and sell Veeam-powered services and solutions. Veeam is dedicated to helping its partners succeed. ProPartner VAR and VCSP partners have access to customizable programs, tools and resources designed to enable them to become more profitable and drive business growth, customer trust and competitive advantage according to their business models and objectives. To learn more about the ProPartner Network, please visit https://www.veeam.com/partner-with-veeam. Existing ProPartners can explore further here: https://propartner.veeam.com.

Veeam will recognize its partners as part of VeeamON 2023, the community event for data recovery experts, which will take place May 22 – 24 in Miami, FL and online. Designed by and built for the backup and recovery professional, attendees will expand their skills, celebrate with the community, and share industry knowledge with exclusive content from AWS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and more. Registration for the in-person event is now open.

For more information, visit www.veeam.com.

About Veeam Software
Veeam^® provides organizations with resiliency through data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments that give businesses peace of mind their apps and data are protected and always available so that they can keep their businesses running. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 72% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers, service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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• 500+ new features and enhancements for Veeam Backup & Replication v12, the foundation of the Veeam Data Platform, including direct-to-object storage backup, trusted immutability, advanced cyber resiliency and unmatched hybrid cloud protection
• NEW Veeam Ransomware Warranty now available with Premium Edition of the Veeam Data Platform

COLUMBUS, OH – February 14, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader in Modern Data Protection, today announced the NEW Veeam Data Platform, a single platform delivering more advanced data security, recovery and hybrid cloud capabilities than ever before. The Veeam Data Platform, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™ (VBR) v12, provides best-in-class secure backup and fast reliable recovery that keeps business running. It brings together the latest features offered from Veeam into a single robust solution that is offered in three enterprise-grade editions for protecting Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes applications across complex and expanding IT environments and the increasing set of challenges facing every organization from outages to errors and ransomware.

Veeam Data Platform delivers the three key requirements to keep a business running: data security, data recovery and data freedom to backup and use data from anywhere without platform or cloud lock-in. There are three enterprise-grade editions: Foundation, Advanced and Premium. All editions contain Veeam’s award winning VBR and Instant Recovery; Advanced and Premium editions also deliver advanced resiliency features including monitoring, analytics and recovery.

• Foundation Edition offers the industry’s most complete data protection with VBR v12 which adds more than 500 new features and enhancements.
• Advanced Edition combines VBR with Veeam ONE (ONE) to give customers deep, intelligent monitoring and observability to identify and resolve any backup or recovery problems before they begin.
• Premium Edition offers ultimate enterprise Modern Data Protection and recovery capabilities as the premier offering with VBR, ONE and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO). Building on the other editions, Premium adds the full automation of complex data recovery process with near-zero Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) while automating testing and providing complete data resiliency with the confidence of one click recovery. Premium edition customers are also eligible for the new Veeam Ransomware Warranty which covers the cost of data recovery, up to $5 million dollars, in the event of a ransomware or cyber-attack.

“Organizations are more vulnerable than ever. Over the past twelve months, 85% of organizations were attacked at least once; up from 76% in last year[i],” said Danny Allan, CTO and Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam. “We understand IT leaders feel they aren’t sufficiently protected and as IT environments continue to grow more complex and demanding, it’s now obvious that Modern Data Protection must be integrated into the overall cyber preparedness plan. The Veeam Data Platform brings the best of Veeam solutions together to deliver a single platform with relentless security, reliable data recovery and trusted data freedom, and is designed to give our customers the choice to leverage the right solution that fits their needs and keeps their business running.”

All editions of Veeam Data Platform leverage the very latest industry-leading backup and recovery technology of VBR v12 as its foundation. New functionality that advances enterprise-grade recovery capabilities ensures confidence in the face of disaster or cyber-attacks across the hybrid cloud, including:

• NEW Direct-to-object storage backups: Take full advantage of the unlimited scalability of on-premises and cloud object storage without sacrificing performance. Send backups directly to Veeam’s broad ecosystem of object storage partners on-premises with the performance needed to meet goals or backup your edge locations directly to cloud object storage.
• Trusted immutability for every workload: Ensure backups can always be restored after a cyberattack with comprehensive, enterprise-grade immutability options from trusted vendors, including on-premises object, block and file storage, hardened repositories and deduplicating storage appliances, cloud object storage and tape.
• Cyber resilient: Enable the fastest response to ransomware attacks by identifying, alerting and restoring only clean data, including automation and proven recovery orchestration for all workloads. Empower a zero-trust journey with multi-factor authentication (MFA), password-less service accounts (gMSA) for Windows and single-use credentials for Linux, and fortify defense against cyberattacks with Kerberos-only and IPv6-only environment support.
• Hybrid-cloud optimized: Achieve even greater efficiency and security across the hybrid cloud with immutable backups for cloud-native AWS and Microsoft Azure workloads, new cloud-integrated agents for lift-and-shift workloads, and unified cloud monitoring and reporting.
• Ecosystem Excellence: Veeam Universal Storage API 2.0 and NEW Smart Object Storage API provide even more future-proofing for enterprise scalability and offsite resiliency. Ecosystem vendors include Pure Storage, Scality and Object First as the inaugural launch partners that integrate with these new APIs.

Veeam’s comprehensive monitoring and analytics solution delivers intelligent insights and visibility within the NEW Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium Editions to help identify and resolve issues before problems arise, ensuring the highest protection of critical data. The latest version expands on new capabilities and includes support for more Veeam backup solutions (including Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365). Additionally, new monitoring and visibility capabilities include immutability reporting and data protection statuses for multi-cloud. These new advances deliver more value and insight into businesses’ data protection strategy than ever before.

The NEW Veeam Data Platform Premium Edition also includes recovery orchestration, one of the most powerful tools to cut down time to recovery delivering confidence in business resiliency. By automating planning, testing and orchestrating the steps needed to recover from a disaster, businesses can simplify operations and prove backup compliance. The Veeam Data Platform now delivers automated, orchestrated recovery to Microsoft Azure, instant restore of Veeam Agents backups as virtual machines (VMs), and an automated recovery rollback for clean, ransomware-free data recoveries.

Platform extensions may be added to any of the Veeam Data Platform editions, or operated standalone, including backup for Kubernetes with Kasten K10 by Veeam, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, and Veeam Backup for Salesforce.

NEW Ransomware Warranty
As the go-to partner in ransomware recovery, Veeam takes a multi-layered approach to ransomware so that businesses are confident and prepared for worst-case scenarios. The NEW Veeam Ransomware Warranty, which complements the Veeam Data Platform, is a commitment to Veeam customers that in the event of a ransomware attack, Veeam will cover the cost of data recovery, up to $5 million dollars. For eligible users[ii], the Veeam Ransomware Warranty includes a 30-minute support service level agreement (SLA), a dedicated support account manager, quarterly health checks for best-practice operations, and optional design and installation services through a Veeam Accredited Service Provider. In addition, Veeam will deploy the Veeam Ransomware SWAT team — a dedicated team of security support experts trained in ransomware recovery — to help fight for your business in the event of an attack.

Join Veeam experts on Tuesday, February 14 at 10 a.m. ET for the premier launch event as they discuss the NEW Veeam Data Platform and hear from key customers on how Veeam keeps their businesses running and ensures confidence in the face of disaster and cyberattacks.

Register here for FREE — go.veeam.com/v12

For more information, visit www.veeam.com

Supporting Quotes
“As hybrid cloud becomes the deployment architecture of choice, and cyber security threats become pervasive, the need to robustly provide backup and replication is crucial to enterprises. Veeam has been a market leader in this space and the new Veeam Data Platform launch demonstrates the company’s commitment to innovation.” – Steven Dickens, Senior Analyst, Futurum Research

“52% of businesses are now utilizing containers in production environments[iii]. Kasten K10 by Veeam has emerged as the leader in providing backup, disaster recovery, and application mobility solutions for containers operating in Kubernetes environments. The new Veeam Data Platform provides organizations with a centralized solution that offers seamless data protection operations and investment protection, while also addressing the unique requirements of Kubernetes environments, giving organizations ultimate data freedom.” – Gaurav Rishi, vice president of Product Management, Kasten by Veeam

“As organizations increasingly invest in modernizing their technology infrastructures, flexibility is a key need for their applications and data to avoid risk. Together, with the expanded integration for USAPI and Veeam Direct to Object, Veeam and Pure Storage are enabling joint customers to benefit from unmatched disaster recovery performance, granularity and simplicity, and ultimately empowering these organizations to strengthen their cyber resilience in today’s complex and dynamic business environment. We’re excited to continue partnering with Veeam to deliver innovative, secure solutions across all industries.” – David Harvey, Vice President of Solutions and Alliances, Pure Storage

“Ranked as the number one object storage solution for the backup use case by Gartner, Scality is excited to be an early supporter of the new Veeam Data Platform. Veeam continues to set the standard for Modern Data Protection by strategically building object storage into its platform to provide customers with simpler, more cost-effective, and more resilient solutions. Scality’s partnership with Veeam has deep roots, and we feel privileged to be one of the object storage vendors to support the Smart Object Storage API, which enables customers to take advantage of the unlimited scalability of object storage without sacrificing performance.” – Wally MacDermid, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Scality

“Ransomware is a top concern for all organizations and backups are increasingly becoming the number one target. The newly released Smart Object Storage API in the new Veeam Data Platform enables Veeam users to send their backup data directly to Object First’s immutable and reliable ransomware-proof storage. By combining Veeam with Object First, organizations can rest easy knowing their backups are ransomware-proofed with a simple, powerful, and affordable data protection solution.” — David Bennett, CEO, Object First

“With the new Veeam Data Platform we can orchestrate recovery directly to public cloud, reducing our costs and overall footprint by completely removing the need for additional equipment.” – Robbie Hudec, CISO & Senior Vice President, Technology Operations, Ciox Health

About Veeam Software
Veeam^® provides organizations with resiliency through data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments that give businesses peace of mind their apps and data are protected and always available so that they can keep their businesses running. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 72% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers, service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam

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DUBAI, UAE – 28 November, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader in Modern Data Protection, hosted 200 registered attendees, customers, partners and industry experts at its VeeamON Tour in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia recently. The event at Al Ammariyah Hills Resort connected leading IT experts and visionaries throughout the region to share and learn about the hottest topics in the market, including Modern Data Protection, ransomware, native cloud and Kubernetes.

Mohamad Rizk, Regional Director, Middle East & CIS at Veeam Software who presented the keynote address entitled ‘The Future to Modern Data Protection’ said, “With the current digital transformation trend and emergence of the hybrid workplace, cloud, virtualization, Kubernetes and SaaS have all seen rapidly growing adoption by regional enterprises in the Middle East. They are seeking to bring flexibility, scalability, simplicity and cost benefits into their IT infrastructures by moving away from legacy data centre architectures. As such, they recognize how vital it is to have a comprehensive strategy that embraces and protects vital data across all these environments. Eliminating data protection gaps, engaging automation, and moving to an autonomous system reduces risks, improves productivity, and creates robust business continuity.”

Product Innovation
“With increasing threats from ransomware attacks and data security challenges relating to multi-/hybrid-cloud architecture adoption, we, as a community, have rallied together to deliver the most robust solutions to our customers. Veeam provides a single platform for all data environments. Ensuring data security, protection and integrity is deeply rooted in our DNA and our continuous technology innovation has helped us reach the status of being the #1 provider in EMEA during 2H’21 in IDC’s DR&P market. VeeamON Tour Riyadh has been an excellent forum to showcase all our innovations that will help customers drive business efficiency and agility, protect their data, and ensure that they are well prepared for the next stage of their digital transformation. Our software-defined approach means there is no lock-in to proprietary hardware and works with our customers’ existing architecture, both on-premises and in the cloud.”

“Entire industries face a data protection emergency and businesses are looking for ways to accelerate their strategies to protect data, remediate cyber-attacks and recover from systems outages. Companies who succeed in accelerating their adoption of a Modern Data Protection strategy will put in place solid foundations to gain competitive advantage from digitization. It will enable them to experience the lower cost points and flexibility of public cloud, leverage the security and proximity of private cloud, and fast-track their development cycles by deploying Kubernetes, with the assurance that their data is protected across their entire infrastructure. Organizations should also understand that they can be vulnerable to vendor lock-in due to exponential business growth with the data protection requirements that once worked before now being, outdated and no longer viable to their current business model. Data protection solutions, like in the case of Veeam, should be flexible and scale with the customers business without the extra cost of vendor lock-in or complexity,” said Mohamad Rizk.

VeeamON Tour attendees were given a demonstration of Veeam’s latest technologies including:

• Veeam Backup & Replication™ v12 – the latest version of the award-winning backup solution that is at the epicenter of the future of modern data protection. New capabilities introduced with V12 will include:
  • Backups going direct to object storage and cloud-based agents are also available as cloud-accelerated features
  • With immutability everywhere, ransomware can be recovered and threats against cyberattacks can be stopped even faster; Improves efficiency at scale with additional enterprise application support and innovations
  • A new Veeam Backup & Replication plug-in for Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.0 provides visibility and management for Kubernetes data protection.
• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7
• Newly launched Veeam Backup for Salesforce
• Kasten by Veeam K100, the most complete enterprise data management solution to date purpose-built for Kubernetes; and cloud-native solutions (for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud).

Kubernetes on the rise
The session, ‘Kubernetes the Next wave of Infrastructure’, provided insights on the growing adoption of Kubernetes, the de facto platform for orchestrating containers today. According to findings of the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022, 69% of UAE organizations and 76% of Saudi Arabian organizations are already running containers in production, while 29% and 22% respectively plan to do so in the next 12 months. Containers and Kubernetes have greatly simplified operations for DevOps teams, accelerating the rate at which companies can go to market with new applications and technologies, internally or externally. Kubernetes also enables organizations to create self-healing, highly available applications. As more companies adopt containers and do their orchestration using Kubernetes, the potential attack surface will grow. This is why regional enterprises need to expand their Modern Data Protection strategies with technologies that work against a wide range of Kubernetes application stacks and deployment methods, such as Kasten K10, that completes their ability to protect these new cloud-native workloads and the business growth they support.

The last line of defence against ransomware
The incidence of ransomware is on the rise, regionally, 88% of UAE and 84% of Saudi Arabian organizations fell prey to ransomware attacks in 2021. Against this backdrop VeeamON Tour Riyadh presented ‘Ransomware Best Practices for Secure Backup & Recovery’. Attendees discovered how secure backup is an organization’s last line of defense against ransomware and what they can do to counter the need to pay a ransom to recover their data. For businesses in the Middle East to win the ransomware battle, they must do three things – educate their employees, implement the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule requiring 3 copies of data and have a remediation plan of a full Backup and Disaster Recovery strategy, that gives them the ability to recover data in event of a ransomware attack.

Findings from the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022 that were shared with attendees included the fact that 98% of UAE organizations and 97% of Saudi organizations experienced unexpected outages within the last 12 months and on average, 17% of UAE organizations’ and 18% of Saudi organizations’ data is left completely unprotected.

Key sponsors of VeeamON Tour Riyadh included platinum sponsors Exagrid, Scality, Nutanix, Redington and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Gold sponsors included Pure Storage, Defined Solutions, Intel, Lenovo, CT4, Ingram Micro, Alnafitha IT and National Computer Systems Co. (NATCOM).

About Veeam Software
Veeam® is the leader in Modern Data Protection. The company provides backup, recovery and data management solutions through a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected from ransomware, disaster and harmful actors and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects 450,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 72% of the Global 2,000. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – November 2, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Scality announced that it has been ranked #1 by Gartner for the Backup use case in the 2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities report for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, among 18 storage vendors. Scality was also recognized as a Leader in the just-issued 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage1 — for a seventh year in a row.

In addition to being ranked #1 for Backup, Scality is #2 in the Cloud-Native Applications use case, among 13 vendors. Scality also ranked 4th and 6th in two other use cases — Archiving and Hybrid-Cloud Storage.

“We are honored that Scality was recognized again in the Gartner Critical Capabilities. Ransomware attacks on backup data are on the rise, making backup and data protection among the most business-critical capabilities that IT teams provide. Scality’s ranking as #1 in the Backup use case, we feel, reflects what our customers already know — that having an on-premise object storage solution for backup brings undeniable advantages, including freedom from lock-in, bulletproof data protection, and fast recovery.” – Paul Speciale CMO, Scality

As stated in the Gartner report, “Critical Capabilities” are attributes that differentiate products/services in a class in terms of their quality and performance. Gartner recommends that users consider the set of critical capabilities as some of the most important criteria for acquisition decisions.

Global organizations, including Électricité de France, Natixis and the National Library of Scotland, are using Scality as the foundation of the stack that keeps their data protected. Surging ransomware threats elevate the importance of encryption, authentication and data immutability in object storage to protect sensitive data and enable teams to get back to business fast.

Scality’s RING and ARTESCA solutions create unbreakable cloud storage for data centers — preserving 100% data availability against ransomware attacks and enabling organizations to meet data sovereignty, data protection and business intelligence needs via the creation of data lakes.

Scality solutions go beyond the 3-2-1-1 “golden rule” of backup (3 copies of data on 2 different media with 1 copy being off-site). Scality offers simplified access to object storage for air-gapped, tamper-proof backup data and partners with a wide range of leading security, data protection and backup providers — including Veeam, Commvault, Zerto, Veritas, Kasten, HYCU and Rubrik — to build integrated, complete solutions for real-world workloads. With Scality, organizations have an all-in-one solution that protects their data while extracting business value.

Download the 2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities report for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage here — https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2BIX6GCN&ct=221028&st=sb

Gartner Disclaimer
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, By Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, Chandra Mukhyala, Jeff Vogel, 19 October 2022.

Gartner and Magic Quadrant are registered trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Scality
Scality® storage propels companies to unify data management no matter where data lives — from edge to core to cloud. Our market-leading file and object storage software protects data on-premises and in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With RING and ARTESCA, Scality’s approach to managing data across the enterprise accelerates business insight for sound decision-making and maximum return on investment. To compete in a data-driven economy, IT leaders and application developers trust Scality to build sustainable, adaptable solutions. Scality is recognized as a leader by Gartner and IDC. Follow us @scality and LinkedIn. Visit www.scality.com, or subscribe to our company blog.

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DUBAI, UAE – 21 September 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, today announced its participation at GITEX GLOBAL 2022, taking place between 10 – 14 October at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The company will use the event as a platform to share its vision for the future of data protection and deliver live demonstrations of its flagship single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments.

Speaking about the company’s presence at this year´s GITEX, Mohamad Rizk, Regional Director, Middle East & CIS at Veeam Software said: “Against the backdrop of the pandemic, we have witnessed an acceleration of digital transformation initiatives across regional enterprises. This has brought with it a multitude of challenges and complexities relating to multi-/hybrid-cloud architectures and Kubernetes adoption. The incidence of ransomware is also on the rise. Within the region, 88% of UAE and 84% of Saudi Arabian organizations fell prey to ransomware attacks in 2021. As a global leader in Modern Data Protection with #1 market share in EMEA and as the tied #1 provider worldwide¹, we will use GITEX to showcase the innovations that will help our customers drive business efficiency and agility, protect their data, and ensure that they are well prepared for the next stage of their digital transformation.”

Veeam is the tied #1 provider worldwide during 2H’21 in IDC’s DR&P market. In the latest IDC Semi-annual Software Tracker, 2H’21, Veeam had the fastest revenue growth in the worldwide data replication and protection (DR&P) market among the top five vendors, all other vendors combined, and overall market average. In fact, Veeam’s YoY growth was more than double its nearest named top five competitors in the market.

Veeam Platform is the leading data protection platform for ALL workloads today. It ensures bulletproof ransomware protection, accelerates migration to the hybrid cloud, helps meet recovery time and point objectives (RTO / RPO) while reducing cost and complexity and  protects workloads whether physical, virtual, NAS, IaaS, SaaS, or Kubernetes. “According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022, organizations aim have 52% of their workloads in the cloud by 2024. We’ll be demonstrating how Veeam Platform will enable them to achieve this with confidence and know that, no matter where their workloads exist, our clients can control, backup and recover them anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud,” said Rizk.

Over the past year, Veeam has unveiled more than 30 product updates. Trade attendees visiting the Veeam stand D-20, Hall 7 # at GITEX can expect to learn more about the following innovations among others:

• Veeam Backup & Replication™ v12: Released as the most advanced data protection solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes workloads, Veeam Backup & Replication v11 has been downloaded by more than 850,000 users. The company has continued innovation and expansion of its expansive feature set with V12 by further hardening the capabilities customers need in today’s ever-changing IT ecosystem. The new version, planned for GA in the next few months, expands the ability to reduce business risk through improved data and systems security recoverability at scale.
• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7: As the Microsoft 365 backup market leader, with over 11M users under paid contract, the new version will include enterprise-grade monitoring and reporting capabilities as a result of integration with Veeam ONE, helping to keep systems and infrastructure running smoothly thanks to built-in intelligence.
• Veeam Backup for Salesforce: Following the success of its Microsoft 365 product, the company will provide a demo of Veeam Backup for Salesforce, a much sought-after addition to Veeam’s SaaS portfolio. With the ability to back up in the cloud and on-premises, the new offering eliminates the risk of losing Salesforce data and metadata.
• Kasten by Veeam K10 v5.0: The most complete enterprise data management solution to date purpose-built for Kubernetes. This latest release is focused on delivering a comprehensive risk management strategy, streamlined CI/CD pipelines and new ecosystem advancement details that optimize and de-risk Kubernetes investments. These advancements all aim to help the expanding Kubernetes community work more efficiently and securely in cloud native applications.

Veeam will also look to engage and enter into high level discussions with its ecosystem of channel partners at GITEX. Providing advice to the channel community, Kinda Baydoun, Manager of Channels, Distribution and Alliances – Middle East & CIS at Veeam commented: “The cloud market continues to expand, and we are seeing more and more hyperscalers investing in the Middle East region by building their own in-country datacentres. I believe a challenge our partners will face will be around having the right skills within their IT staff to help customers meet their aim of accelerating their journeys to the cloud. Many channel partners are still adopting the traditional model of being a one-stop shop for a number of vendors. This model is no longer viable in today’s market, as customers look for specialist partners that are experts and advisors. Channel companies need to invest in building these capabilities if they are to remain competitive and relevant.”

Veeam will have its own dedicated booth in Hall 7 stand number D-20 at DWTC. To schedule a meeting with the Veeam team at GITEX, partners and customers are invited to register here – https://go.veeam.com/meet-us-gitex-2022

For more information, please visit https://www.veeam.com

About Veeam Software
Veeam is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected from ransomware, disaster and harmful actors and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects 450,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the Global 2,000. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers and alliance partners. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

¹ 2H’21, IDC’s Data Replication & Protection market – IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide software market when there is a difference of 0.5 percentage-point or less in rounded revenue market share among two or more vendors.

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Veeam named by Gartner as a Magic Quadrant Leader and positioned Highest in Ability to Execute three years in a row

COLUMBUS, OH – August 3, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions. Not only does this mark the sixth consecutive time Gartner has recognized Veeam as a Magic Quadrant Leader, but it is the third consecutive year Veeam is positioned highest overall in ability to execute. With over $1 billion in annual bookings and 450,000+ customers of all sizes and locations, Veeam continues to provide its diverse community with the most advanced data protection across all environments – Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes – plus the highest levels of customer and partner support.

“Veeam continues on an amazing growth trajectory, reporting its 18th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth with an annual recurring revenue (ARR) increase of 22% year-over-year (YoY), on a constant currency basis, for Q2’22,” said Danny Allan, CTO and Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam. “Now a Magic Quadrant Leader for the sixth time in a row, we believe our innovation and ability to execute validates our solid standing as the #1 trusted provider of modern data protection. Over the past year, Veeam has unveiled more than 30 product updates including Veeam Backup & ReplicationTM v11a which includes cloud-native solutions to protect data across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. We continue to set the very highest product standards and respond to customer demands for redefining security, achieving resiliency and delivering future-ready solutions.”

Consistent innovation and product-led growth were recently on full display at VeeamON 2022, the Modern Data Protection Conference of the Year. Veeam demonstrated key innovations expected in 2H’22 of cloud-native solutions (for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) and SaaS offerings (Microsoft 365 and Salesforce), as well as deeper integration of Kasten by Veeam K10 for Kubernetes protection and, of course, the highly anticipated Veeam Backup & Replication™ v12.

Magic Quadrant reports are a culmination of rigorous, fact-based research in specific markets, providing a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the providers in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct. Providers are positioned into four quadrants: Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players. The report included analysis of 14 enterprise data backup and recovery solutions vendors. Access the full report here: https://www.veeam.com/2022-gartner-magic-quadrant.html

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Supporting Quotes
“As a leading international manufacturer of military and business jets, we needed a world-class data management platform to protect our virtual and physical environments, ensuring that enterprise applications are always operational. Veeam helped to design our next-generation datacenter to create a more simplified and streamlined approach, which will reduce costs and increase productivity. Veeam is also our trusted advisor, allowing us to take advantage of the enhanced NAS backup features and latest AIX Agent capabilities, meaning that our data is always protected and will enable us to continue pioneering new prototype aircraft for our customers across the globe.” – Stéphane Ardouin, Platform Technical Architecture Team Lead, Dassault Aviation

“Our IT priorities are simplification, centralization, cloud migration, cost reduction and optimization. We looked for a backup solution that would match our priorities and offer scalability, license portability and hardware and storage neutrality. We didn’t have to look far because Veeam set the gold standard.” – Frank Buiskool, Hosting and Cloud Operations Manager, Canon Europe

“Even though the Veeam solution is really easy to use, we don’t have to compromise on functionality: we can protect our VMs and physical servers from data loss and cyberattacks from a single point of control.” – Maria Fricher, Systems and Architecture Technology Team, Naturgy

“It was time to bring backup on-premises. We also wanted workload portability for cloud integration and backup immutability for ransomware protection. We considered Symantec NetBackup because some of us had used it before, but we had also used Veeam, and we knew Veeam would fit the bill.” – David Loveless, Infrastructure Manager, Admiral

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About Veeam Software
Veeam® is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected from ransomware, disaster and harmful actors and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects 450,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the Global 2,000. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers and alliance partners. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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Veeam CTO Danny Allan highlights current and future-ready Veeam innovations as part of VeeamON 2022, including Veeam Backup & Replication v12, Veeam Backup for Salesforce and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7

LAS VEGAS, NV: VeeamON – May 18, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, hosted day two of its annual user conference, VeeamON 2022, the Modern Data Protection Conference of the Year, by delivering sought-after insight into its product roadmap through the remainder of 2022. Veeam provided a select preview of the future, showcasing innovations around upcoming updates to its single platform to protect all data across all environments — cloud, virtual, SaaS, Kubernetes and physical. Expected 2H’22, Veeam demonstrated key innovations of cloud-native solutions (for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) and SaaS offerings (Microsoft 365 and Salesforce), as well as deeper integration of Kasten by Veeam K10 for Kubernetes and, of course, the highly anticipated Veeam Backup & Replication™ v12.

“We help more than 450,000 customers all over the world protect their data from malicious actors, and eliminate down time and data loss,” said Danny Allan, CTO at Veeam. “With Veeam, you own, control and securely backup and recover your data anywhere in the hybrid cloud. Veeam enables organizations to confidently move to the cloud, avoiding lock-in with cloud mobility. This is the definition of Modern Data Protection. Our consistent innovation and product-led growth are on full display at VeeamON 2022 as we continue to set the very highest product standards and respond to customer demands for redefining security, achieving resiliency and delivering future-ready solutions.”

Veeam Backup & Replication v12
With more than 850,000 downloads of Veeam Backup & Replication v11, Veeam has continued innovation and expansion of its expansive feature set with the highly anticipated Veeam Backup & Replication v12. For the first time, Veeam unveiled V12 at VeeamON 2022, previewing even more capabilities in cloud, security and enterprise focus areas.

Veeam is further hardening the capabilities customers need in today’s ever-changing IT ecosystem, including the new capabilities below:

• Additional cloud accelerated features including direct writes to object storage and cloud-based agents
• Immutability everywhere provides greater control and protection for even faster ransomware recovery and protection from cyberthreats
• Additional enterprise applications support and innovations ease day two operations and optimize for greater efficiency at scale
• Centralized visibility and management of Kubernetes data protection with the new Veeam Backup & Replication plug-in for the new Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.0.

“Against a backdrop of increased cyber threats, exponential data growth and relentless cloud adoption, protecting data and systems at scale, wherever they live, has become a must-have for organizations (of all sizes) around the world,” said Christophe Bertrand, program director at ESG Research. “Our research shows that there are significant data protection disconnects – and therefore data loss risks – when it comes to cloud-resident data, applications, containerized services, and as-a-service platforms. That’s why this new release of Veeam V12 is significant: it not only builds on their proven platform but expands the ability to reduce business risk through improved data and systems security recoverability at scale.”

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7
In addition, Veeam demonstrated advanced monitoring and reporting for the upcoming Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7, expected later this year. As the Microsoft 365 backup market leader, with over 11M users under paid contract, the new version will include enterprise-grade monitoring and reporting capabilities as a result of integration with Veeam ONE, helping to keep systems and infrastructure running smoothly thanks to built-in intelligence.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 provides:

• Total visibility: Single view of all Microsoft 365 backup architecture and components
• Proactive management: Real-time alerts to quickly resolve data vulnerabilities
• SLA confidence: Detailed reports provide peace of mind and protection

Veeam Backup for Salesforce
Following the success of its Microsoft 365 product, Veeam has provided the first sneak peek into Veeam Backup for Salesforce, a much sought-after addition to Veeam’s portfolio. With the ability to back up in the cloud and on-premises, the new offering eliminates the risk of losing Salesforce data and metadata.

Key highlights include:

• Control and flexibility: Own your data, avoid backup and storage lock-in and deploy your backup environment anywhere you choose
• Salesforce-native backup and recovery: Purpose-built for Salesforce using native APIs. Restore Salesforce records, hierarchies, fields, files and metadata.
• Quickly recover from data loss: Protect against human error, integration issues and other common Salesforce data loss scenarios

“I’m excited to show these new innovations for the first time to our customers and partners at VeeamON 2022,” added Allan. “The fact that Veeam moved more data in the first quarter of 2022 than we did in all of 2020 proves that organizations need better intelligence, data mobility, an ecosystem of collaboration and a hybrid world. We understand the power that data has to solve real-world challenges, to change the course of history and its impact on individuals. To hold that data for hundreds of thousands of organizations all over the world is a responsibility we are honored to be trusted with.”

All solutions demonstrated at VeeamON will be generally available later in 2022. Registration for VeeamON 2022 is still open for virtual attendees. For more information, visit https://www.veeam.com

About Veeam Software
Veeam® is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected from ransomware, disaster and harmful actors and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects over 400,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the Global 2,000. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers and alliance partners. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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Bangkok, Thailand – 14 March 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, today announced that Kasikornbank (KBank), a Forbes Global 2000 company and one of the largest and most successful banks in Thailand, has replaced its legacy backup solution with Veeam Availability Suite™. Veeam protects data required by the bank’s technology subsidiary — Kasikorn Business Technology Group (KBTG) — to build the digital bank of the future for 16.5 million customers. Veeam also supports compliance with data privacy regulations from the Bank of Thailand, and it saves 900 administrative hours each month and $70,000 in IT costs each year.

“Digital transformation is a business priority for KBank,” said Surapan Chaimahapruek, Assistant Managing Director, KBTG. “One critical requirement for digital transformation is modern data protection, but the bank’s legacy backup solution wasn’t capable. Backup required us to manually verify the success or failure of every backup and rerun the failed ones. Recovery was another issue. It was difficult and slow. In certain cases, we could spend more than four hours recovering a single database, which didn’t meet business requirements or support regulatory requirements.”

The legacy solution presented an additional challenge. It was agent-based, so IT administrators spent up to four months installing, maintaining and patching agents in individual systems and applications. Systems and applications run 24/7, so administrators had to request downtime for each one. Chaimahapruek said coordinating agent upgrades was difficult and time-consuming.

Systems and applications are at the core of KBank’s business operations. A customer information system helps employees manage customer relationships, a payment processing system lets customers pay bills and business intelligence tools analyze data used to develop and enhance digital offerings. “Digital transformation requires modern data protection, and Veeam not only modernizes data protection, but it also ensures consistency of data protection and improves operational efficiency because it’s reliable and easy to use. Veeam’s product maturity and commitment to the industry are admirable,” Chaimahapruek said.

Veeam backs up 2 PB across 1,800 virtual machines (VMs) and 120 physical machines to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) StoreOnce in a secure onsite cloud. StoreOnce replicates data to a separate site for regulatory compliance and disaster recovery (DR). Because Veeam integrates with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst, backup is fast and reliable, and recovery take minutes — not hours like the legacy solution.

Chaimahapruek said Instant VM Recovery® and Veeam Explorers™ for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server are among administrators’ favorite features because they reduce recovery time by 300%. Another favorite is Veeam DataLabs™ because administrators can create isolated environments to verify the recoverability of backups (SureBackup®) and replicas (SureReplica) for regulatory compliance. Before deploying Veeam, verifying recoverability for compliance took months, but now it takes one week. “Veeam has dramatically improved operational efficiency,” Chaimahapruek continued. “It also helps us resolves IT issues proactively. Veeam provides visibility through monitoring, reporting and capacity planning, enabling us to protect the business by resolving an issue before it develops into a problem.”

Protecting the business is critically important, so administrators also use Veeam Staged Restore to scan backups for malware before restoring them. Chaimahapruek said next they’re considering Veeam’s hardened Linux repository for immutable backups to increase ransomware protection, and they’ll test Veeam Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to improve resiliency among critical workloads. They’re also interested in container capabilities that Kasten, the technology company acquired by Veeam Software, offers for Kubernetes backup and DR. “There are so many ways Veeam improves efficiency to save time, but it also saves money,” Chaimahapruek said. “Integration with HPE StoreOnce increases our deduplication ratio to 4:1, which saves on backup storage, and Veeam saves on annual licensing costs too.”

To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com/success-stories.html

About Veeam Software
Veeam® is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects over 400,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 69% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers, and alliance partners and has offices in more than 30 countries. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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New Data Management Solutions with AWS, VMware, Veeam and Other Partners Address Customers’ Hybrid Cloud, Modern Apps and Ransomware Challenges

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Feb. 24, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Cloudian® today announced its seventh consecutive year of record bookings, with a particularly strong second half that resulted in the two best quarters in the company’s history. In addition, Cloudian grew its worldwide customer base to approximately 700. Other highlights for the year included:

New and Enhanced Solutions

• Storage for AWS Outposts hybrid cloud environments-Designated as AWS Outposts Ready, Cloudian object storage software enables AWS Outposts customers to employ on-premises, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)-compatible storage to serve use cases that demand scalability, data residency and low-latency data access.
• Interoperability with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) and Tanzu Greenplum -Cloudian provides enterprise-grade persistent storage for modern, cloud-native applications that TKG customers run on-premises or in public clouds and delivers the limitless scalability, robust security and cost efficiency needed to support modern enterprise analytics applications in VMware Tanzu Greenplum data warehouse environments.
• Support for Red Hat OpenShift -Similar to the solution with VMware TKG, Cloudian gives OpenShift customers a highly scalable, secure and cost-effective persistent storage platform with the agility and ease-of-management needed for cloud-native applications.
• Integration with Kasten by Veeam -In conjunction with the Kasten K10 Kubernetes data management platform, Cloudian provides fully S3-compatible, exabyte-scalable data backup and ransomware protection for container-based workloads, on-premises or in a hybrid cloud.
• Cloudian-WEKA solution -Combined with the WEKA Data Platform for AI, Cloudian enables rapid processing of analytical workloads and saves 1/3 in costs over traditional storage systems.
• HyperIQ enhancements -Additions to Cloudian’s HyperIQ observability and analytics offering include cross-region replication monitoring, federated management and ransomware protection.

Industry Recognition and Customer Wins

• Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage,,* based on feedback and ratings from end-user professionals (Cloudian is the only company to receive this distinction for two consecutive years).
• Two more industry awards for Cloudian’s S3 Object Lock ransomware protection solution: Best Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solution in the 2021 SC Awards, widely recognized as the gold standard of excellence in cybersecurity, and CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award for Data Security Solution of the Year.
• Key customer wins and expansions, including at a multinational pharmaceutical company, a global leader in commercial real estate services, an international bank, a top financial technology company, multiple television networks and productions, a large U.S. life insurance provider, two major European automobile manufacturers and government ministries in Asia and the Mideast.

“Our record financial results reflect our success in providing enterprises and service providers with the foundation they need to meet their evolving data management needs,” said Michael Tso, Cloudian CEO. “Through our deepening partnerships with other technology leaders, we’re bringing the benefits of our award-winning object storage solutions to more customers around the world.”

“We will continue to build on this success in the coming year, helping organizations take advantage of cloud-native applications and data analytics—on-premises and in a hybrid cloud model—while protecting their data against ransomware and meeting their data sovereignty demands.”

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Cloudian
Cloudian is the most widely deployed independent provider of object storage. With a native S3 API, it brings the scalability and flexibility of public cloud storage into the data center while providing ransomware protection and reducing TCO by up to 70% compared to traditional SAN/NAS and public cloud. The geo-distributed architecture enables users to manage and protect object and file data across sites—on-premises and in the cloud—from a single platform. Available as software or appliances, Cloudian supports conventional and containerized applications. More at cloudian.com

* Gartner defines distributed file systems and object storage as software and hardware solutions that are based on “shared nothing architecture” and that support object and/or scale-out file technology to address requirements for unstructured data growth.

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NEWTON, Mass. – Feb. 15, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Global technology media and purchase intent data and services company TechTarget, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTGT) announced the winners of the “Storage Products of the Year” 2021 Awards for the 20th year in a row.

These awards recognize the best data storage products in the industry and our editorial staff appointed a team of independent experts and editors to select this year’s winning products. The team evaluated the products according to their innovation, value, performance, functionality and ease of use.

The awards cover the following five categories of the storage market: Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware, Software and Services; Cloud Storage; Disk and Disk Subsystems; Hyper-converged and Composable Infrastructures; and Storage System and Application Software.

The full list of winners was announced in the February issue of Storage Magazine^TM and on SearchStorage.com^TM

Only products released or significantly upgraded during the previous year were considered.

The Winners

Category: Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware, Software and Services
Gold: Druva Cloud Platform
Silver: Veeam Backup & Replication v11
Bronze: Kasten K10 v4.5

Category: Cloud Storage
Gold: MinIO
Silver: Nasuni Cloud File Storage 9.3
Bronze: Ctera 7.0

Category: Disk and Disk Subsystems
Gold: Tintri VMstore T7000 Series
Silver: Infinidat InfiniBox SSA
Bronze: Dell EMC PowerStore 500 with PowerStoreOS 2.0

Category: Hyper-converged and Composable Infrastructures
Gold: Dell EMC VxRail P Series
Silver: HPE Nimble Storage dHCI
Bronze: Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.1

Category: Storage System and Application Software
Gold: Portworx Enterprise 2.8
Silver: Pavilion HyperParallel Data Platform
Bronze: Komprise Intelligent Data Management 4.0

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