Veeam Availability Suite 9.5

Veeam Software AG announced that Availability Suite 9.5, engineered to support enterprises seeking the ability to run their businesses uninterrupted as they adopt more virtualized, cloud-first technologies, is available for customers across the globe.

This version of company’s solution, an integral part of Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud, heralds an era for enterprise scalability and performance with more than 175 new features that are designed to deliver enhanced agility and flexibility by ensuring 24x7x365 availability of all workloads and applications no matter where they may reside – on-premises or in the cloud.

More than 60,000 customers registered to be the first to know about the v9.5 features and enhancements illustrating exponentially expanding IT investments in modern storage, hyper-converged systems and hybrid cloud, and the need to keep these new technologies available.

According to recent IDC research, data protection strategies designed for legacy client/server environments no longer meet the dynamic needs of evolving virtual computing/cloud business models, and with the average cost of downtime for the typical enterprise exceeding $100,000 per hour, they [enterprises] are actively seeking true availability solutions that can improve RTPOs (recovery time and point objectives) to deliver enhanced efficiency, agility and reliability across their entire operations.

“Veeam Availability Suite has always been at the of innovation, and as enterprises embrace a more virtualized, cloud-first era, our approach to 24.7.365 availability is becoming the standard-bearer for the market,” said Peter McKay, president and COO, Veeam. “As the amount of data and number of cloud workloads continues to grow at exponential rates, I am proud that with Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 we are dramatically enhancing our enterprise scalability to protect tens of thousands of VMs and petabytes of data.“

IDC also reported that in comparison to other providers, the company enables businesses to cover more workloads, be more aggressive on SLAs for larger sets of workloads, and meet those more aggressive SLAs more often. In fact, almost 90% of customers experienced lower RTPOs with Veeam than with their previous provider and nearly three-times as many respondents had a zero backup job failure rate after Veeam as compared to before. Building on performance and reliability, and with powerful enhancements which deliver enhanced scalability, Availability Suite 9.5 is suited for the needs of the Always-On Enterprise.

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Availability Suite 9.5 include:

Enterprise scalability enhancements – the growth of data and provisioned IT services is forcing businesses of all sizes to rethink their availability strategy. Through a host of new enterprise enhancements, the firm is now capable of helping enterprises scale more efficiently and effectively, regardless of environment size being able to protect tens of thousands of VMs and petabytes of data
Businesses can modernize their private cloud platform and enterprise applications through an integration with Microsoft 2016 data center technologies such as Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016, Nano server and Storage Spaces Direct
Advanced ReFS integration, which offers performance and capacity efficiencies for large-scale data sets while ensuring backup data resiliency and the protection of business critical applications
Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure delivers cloud restore for Veeam backups in support of our ‘Cloud First’ strategy to optimize resource allocation and minimize cost. This solution enables businesses to take on-premises Windows and Linux-based VMs, physical servers and endpoints, and restore or migrate them to Azure
Company delivers Availability for the Always-On Enterprise through integrations with enterprise storage offerings from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP , NetApp, Inc. and Dell EMC, part of Dell Technologies, and extends this integration to Nimble Storage, Inc. in Availability Suite 9.5

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Included in Veeam ONE 9.5 (part of Availability Suite), enterprises and service providers can leverage charge back and billing reports for virtual and backup infrastructures to help calculate the cost of compute and storage resources within their organizations or service offerings, and charge individual departments or customers based on usage

Availability Suite 9.5 is available.