DataCore Integrated SANsymphony SDS Platform With Veeam Software Universal Storage API Plug-In

DataCore Software Corp. announced at its 2020 European Partner Conference that the company has integrated its SANsymphony SDS platform with Veeam Software, Inc.‘s Universal Storage API plug-in.

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Through this integration, customers of Veeam Software Backup and Replication can take snapshots and backups of VMware data stores residing on SANsymphony virtual storage pools with minimum impact on production workloads.

The combined solution is valuable for organisations relying on a mix of high-performance, premium-priced hardware and low-cost, high-capacity devices to meet their primary and secondary storage needs. In these now-commonplace diverse IT environments, lack of hardware compatibility has resulted in disparate, error-prone backup processes that reduce their effectiveness.

With the two companies, customers can take low-impact snapshots and swift backups using the same integrated data protection services without regard to the make or model of the underlying storage hardware. Equally important, the hardware is not required to support the Universal Storage API or even have snapshot functionality, since the firm handles those actions on its behalf.

Separate SANsymphony nodes, ideally in a different location, can also perform the role of a Veeam Ready Repository where backup copies can be safely and economically stored. From there, users may offload older backup files onto lower-cost, elastic object storage through Veeam Cloud Tier as part of the Scale-out Backup Repository in the Veeam Availability Suite.

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DataCore specialises in pooling capacity and auto-tiering data across diverse storage equipment under a centralised control plane of SDS services. The device-agnostic functions include synchronous and asynchronous replication, zero-touch failover and failback for local and metro-clusters, advanced site recovery, as well as CDP and fast, lightweight snapshots. Veeam data management software brings backup, replication and restoration methods with rapid and granular application-consistent recovery for virtual, physical and cloud-based workloads. DataCore is a long-time member of the Veeam Alliance Partner Program.

The combination of SANsymphony SDS and Veeam Software solutions automates, simplifies and centralizes data protection, while enabling choice when shopping for storage technologies.

“Safeguarding multiple storage tiers has traditionally been very difficult to do, and is often performed manually and in isolation,” said Mike Ivanov, senior director, product marketing, DataCore. “The integration of DataCore and Veeam enables enterprises to consider a wider variety of primary and secondary storage options to gain the best value, while the procedures for day-to-day data protection, BC and DR remain unchanged and largely automated.“

The Universal Storage API plug-in integration of DataCore may be downloaded (requires Veeam login).

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