Skills and Partnerships Update: Veeam Gold Partner Status

We're pleased to announce our achievement of Veeam Gold Partner status.

What is Veeam?

Veeam is a leading backup and replication tool for protecting your VMWare virtual environments.

Veeam Backup & Replication is the first enterprise-ready solution that combines backup and replication in a single product for fast recovery of your VMware ESX and ESXi environment.

Vmware rated Veeam #1, for VMware vSphere, ESX & ESXi Backup and Virtualization Management.

Benefits of Veeam

The benefits you will experience from deploying Veeam into your VMware environment include;

• 10+ times faster for incremental backups
• Up to 5 times faster for full backups
• 80% lower cost for near continuous data protection (CDP) compared with traditional CDP
• Up to 30 percent lower storage costs
• Increased reliability by leveraging the latest vStorage technology
• Replication to ESXi hosts
• SNMP notifications
• Standalone restore utility

Veeam Features

The current version of Veeam, Veeam Backup & Replication 4.1, hits new performance levels and backup speeds when running full and incremental backups.

Using technological advancements within VMware vSphere 4 and the VMware vStorage APIs for data protection, Veeam customers have experienced the following benefits derived from native support of thin provisioned disks and changed block tracking:

• 10+ times faster for incremental backups
• Up to 5 times faster for full backups
• 80% lower cost for near continuous data protection (CDP) compared with traditional CDP
• Up to 30 percent lower storage costs
• Increased reliability by leveraging the latest vStorage technology

How we can help

Based in the East Midlands, in Nottingham, we have been working with Veeam for sometime, to help customers protect their VMWare environments.

Veeam is ideal at protecting your VMWare environments and reduces that "eggs in one basket" risk that VMWare can create.

In fact, in May 2010 we became Veeam Gold Partners, and have used Veeam many times already, to protect and backup VMWare ESX and ESXi virtual environments.

We have helped customers work with protecting their VMWare environments, whether through Backup, or Replication to protect their Virtual Machines and thus their Data.

What we can provide

From our base in Nottingham, we have various options available to you, to protect your critical VMWare environments.

We can help with on line and offline data backups, Consulting to implement Veeam and VMWare and protection strategies to help minimise problems in the events of critical failures.

We'd be delighted to talk about your needs and your requirements and to see how we can help.

By Richard Smith