VeeamON: Veeam Availability Orchestrator V2 Enterprise-Grade DR

Veeam Software, Inc. announced the availability of Availability Orchestrator v2.

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The latest version expands its orchestration and automation capabilities to a broader set of applications and VMs, helping organizations address a variety of operational and DR and data migration scenarios.

Never have organizations been so dependent on their data, and yet DR used to only be achievable by the largest of enterprises or for only the most critical applications. With the expanded capabilities within Availability Orchestrator v2, the company’s Availability Platform brings DR, operational recovery and platform migrations to any organization that is leveraging the firm’s backup and replication capabilities. The announcement was made during VeeamON 2019 taking place in Miami, FL.

“Our new version of Veeam Availability Orchestrator eliminates the challenges of manual processes by introducing reliable orchestrated recovery of production VMs, whether they’re protected by backups or replicas,” said Danny Allan, VP, product strategy, Veeam. “This also includes the ability to quickly and efficiently leverage protection data to prove recoverability and compliance, whether standards are imposed internally or by governing regulations like HIPAA, SOX, GDPR and more.“

Approximately 80% of businesses experienced an incident during the past two years that required use of an IT DR plan ⁽¹⁾. It is imperative that organizations protect, plan and prepare themselves to overcome any outage, as Veeam customer research reveals that downtime of just a single mission-critical application costs an organization more than $102,000 per hour on average. The ability to automatically test, document and reliably recover entire sites, as well as individual workloads from backups in an orchestrated way, lowers the TCO of DR. With this version of Availability Orchestrator, the company has democratized DR by enabling organizations of all sizes to achieve comprehensive and compliant DR for all their applications and data, no matter how they’ve been protected.

Other features delivered in Availability Orchestrator v2 include ability to:

• More easily prove – and proactively remediate where necessary – SLA attainment for internal and external compliance regulations and audits with enhanced reporting and compliance capabilities.

• Automatically leverage both backup and replica protection data for use cases beyond recovery verification, such as DevOps, patch and upgrade testing, analytics and more.

• Empower business units, application owners and operations teams with their own secure access to orchestration planning and testing resources through advanced delegation and role-based access control (RBAC).

Veeam Availability Orchestrator v2 is available.

“Our research shows that application and data recovery SLAs are top of mind for enterprises on-premises or in the cloud. Overcoming complex recovery orchestration challenges is needed to test recovery processes and their effectiveness, deliver on mission-critical recoveries and lower business risk. This new version of Veeam Availability Orchestrator is raising the bar across multiple dimensions, such as automation, reporting, migration capabilities and the ability to truly establish SLA-driven tiered recovery workflows. Recoverability is everything and Veeam is making strides in simplifying the process,” said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst, ESG

“We purchased Veeam Availability Orchestrator for its automated testing and reporting capabilities. With just a few clicks we can safely test our entire DR plan and automatically deliver a detailed report to executives that proves our preparedness,” said David Drake, manager, IT, Central States Industries

“With Veeam Availability Orchestrator now available to Veeam Cloud & Service Provider partners, we are able to deliver a fully-orchestrated, automatically tested and documented DR strategy to our customers. The unique ability to deliver true DR capabilities to backups and not just replicas is really exciting for us,” said Matt Chesterton, CEO, OffSiteDataSync, a Platinum Veeam Cloud and Service Provider (VCSP) partner.

⁽¹⁾ Gartner Designing a DR Strategy. Published: 26 September 2018 ID: G00367055. Analyst: Jerry Rozeman