Verizon Launched Cloud Backup Service Powered by Actifio

Verizon Enterprise Solutions (Verizon Communications Inc.) and Actifio, Inc. have joined forces to launch a cloud backup service which will enable enterprise customers to embrace hybrid cloud, accelerate application development and improve business resiliency.

The premise to cloud backup offering builds on Actifio’s growing relationship with Verizon, and is designed to support customers using virtualized infrastructures – including a combination of co-location, hosting, off-premises servers and other public clouds – to enable a unified hybrid cloud environment where data is easy to manage, access and protect.

“The complexity of legacy infrastructure limits the ability of many enterprises to innovate around their data,” said Dan Jablonski, director, cloud and IT solutions, Verizon. “We chose Actifio’s class-leading copy data virtualization technology to power this new offering because it means we can now offer customers a simple, single solution to protect, move and store data in our cloud. Together with Actifio, we’re helping clients to be more agile so they can deliver better experiences to their own customers.“

Service brings full suite of Actifio’s capabilities to Verizon’s
global customer base, giving them more control to:

Manage: Makes it easy to move data back and forth between the customer premise and company’s cloud-based infrastructure, meaning application workloads can be allocated wherever it makes the most sense.
Access: Allows for self-serve instant access to data while enhancing data control, adding business value by allowing higher quality applications to be developed faster.
Protect: Improves resiliency and availability by protecting data across the range of conventional protection use cases, allowing customers to improve internal SLAs while reducing cost, risk and complexity.

“Data is the lifeblood of business, and it’s essential to have access to the data and applications you need when and where you need them,” said Ash Ashutosh, founder and CEO, Actifio. “This next step in our relationship with Verizon will enable us to provide exactly that to more customers around the world, more easily and efficiently than ever before. We are thrilled to take this step forward with what is becoming one of our most important and valued cloud service provider partnerships.“

Verizon Premise to Cloud Backup service will be available in June, 2016 in North America with availability in Europe and AsiaPac by the fall.