Veeam Data Platform Enhanced to Keep Businesses Running as Ransomware Continues to Increase

Summary:

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

Veeam Software, Inc. announced its updated Data Platform, a single platform delivering more advanced data security, recovery and hybrid cloud capabilities.

The Data Platform, which includes Backup & Replication (VBR) v12, provides secure backup and fast reliable recovery that keeps business running. It brings together the latest features offered from the company into a single solution that is offered in 3 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.

The Data Platform delivers the 33 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 3 enterprise-grade editions: Foundation, Advanced and Premium. All editions contain the firm’s VBR and Instant Recovery; Advanced and Premium editions also deliver advanced resiliency features including monitoring, analytics and recovery.

Foundation Edition offers a 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 enterprise 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 RPOs while automating testing and providing complete data resiliency with the confidence of 1-click recovery. Premium edition customers are also eligible for the Veeam Ransomware Warranty which covers the cost of data recovery, up to $5 million, 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 ⁽¹⁾,” said Danny Allan, CTO and SVP, product strategy. “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 the Data Platform leverage the 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:

Direct-to-object storage backups: Take 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 enterprise-grade immutability options from trusted vendors, including on-premises object, block and file storage, hardened repositories and de-dupe 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 vs. cyberattacks with Kerberos-only and IPv6-only environment support.
Hybrid-cloud optimized: Achieve 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: Firm’s Universal Storage API 2.0 and Smart Object Storage API provide 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 APIs.

The company’s monitoring and analytics solution delivers intelligent insights and visibility within the 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 the firm’s backup solutions (including Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365). Additionally, monitoring and visibility capabilities include immutability reporting and data protection statuses for multi-cloud. These advances deliver more value and insight into businesses’ data protection strategy.

The 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 Data Platform delivers automated, orchestrated recovery to Microsoft Azure, instant restore of Veeam Agents backups as VMs, and an automated recovery rollback for clean, ransomware-free data recoveries.

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

Ransomware warranty
As the go-to partner in ransomware recovery, the company takes a multi-layered approach to ransomware so that businesses are confident and prepared for worst-case scenarios. The Veeam Ransomware Warranty, which complements the Data Platform, is a commitment to the firm’s customers that in the event of a ransomware attack, the company will cover the cost of data recovery, up to $5 million dollars. For eligible users ⁽²⁾, the Ransomware Warranty includes a 30mn support 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, the firm 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.
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“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,” said Steven Dickens, senior analyst, Futurum Research

“52% of businesses are now utilizing containers in production environments ⁽³⁾. 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,” said Gaurav Rishi, VP, 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,” said David Harvey, VP, 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,” said Wally MacDermid, VP, 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,” said 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,” said Robbie Hudec, CISO and SVP, technology operations, Ciox Health.