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Veeam Availability Orchestrator
ensures business continuity and
disaster recovery compliance
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eeam Software has announced
the general availability of Veeam
Availability Orchestrator, the newest
addition to the Veeam Availability Platform,
which enables enterprises to ensure
business continuity and disaster recovery
(BC/DR) compliance. Thorough orchestration, creating,
documenting, testing and executing DR
plans – which are fully-prepared for C-level
executive and stakeholder sign-off – helps
organisations reduce the time, cost and
effort associated with a successful DR
strategy, including:
Most DR failures can be tracked back to
outdated and untested plans. The rapidly
increasing rate of business and technology
changes makes it critical that companies
update their DR plans continuously,
something that only 14% do today,
according to Forrester Research. • Satisfying compliance requirements with
template-based documentation that
makes it easy to build and update DR
plans as the virtual environment changes
• Proving recoverability at any time
through automated scheduled and
on-demand plan testing and readiness
checks that have zero impact on the
production environment
• Ensuring IT service continuity through
the reliable execution of multi-site DR
failover and failback, including service and
application verification
Veeam Availability Orchestrator solves this
problem by delivering a DR orchestration
solution that reduces the time, cost and
effort associated with planning for and
recovering from a disaster.
While many enterprises have a DR plan
already in place, executing these plans is
often complex, cumbersome and time-
consuming. Expensive, error-prone manual
processes are common but do not scale,
resulting in DR plans that can easily
become obsolete.
This results in risk to both data and
application availability but also to
compliance with industry regulations
and governing bodies. Veeam Availability
Orchestrator provides an orchestration
engine rich with planning, automated
documenting and testing capabilities for
preparedness and compliance, with full
support for Veeam replicas.
“Enterprise customers are demanding not
only availability, but also help in ensuring
compliance,” said Danny Allan, Vice
President of Product Strategy at Veeam. “In
the event of a disaster, enterprises stand to
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Danny Allan, Vice President of Product
Strategy at Veeam
lose millions in downtime, US$21.8 million
according to our latest Veeam Availability
Report, as well as damaged reputation and
lost productivity. “Customers are looking for innovative
solutions not only around back-up, but those
that emphasise replication and speed of
recovery,” said Michael Vencel, Executive
Vice President of Comport Technology
and Healthcare Solutions, a Veeam Cloud
Services Provider (VCSP).
“Without having a disaster recovery plan
that is up-to-date, tested and documented,
it’s difficult to respond quickly when
disaster strikes. With new Veeam Availability
Orchestrator, enterprises can achieve a true
availability platform, reduce costs, define
their DR plans and achieve the peace of
mind that comes from knowing that they
are able and ready to provide business
continuity, even in the worst case scenario.” “With Veeam Availability Orchestrator,
organisations will be able to orchestrate
their entire DR strategy, frequently
validating that their plans will actually
work in a disaster, through automated
documentation and testing. They can easily
report on key metrics to C-level executives
and stakeholders, making it much easier
to comply with regulations and audits in
industries like healthcare.”
Built with enterprise-class availability in
mind, new Veeam Availability Orchestrator
provides a DR orchestration engine for
Veeam Backup and Replication replicas. Veeam Availability Orchestrator is now
available to customers with a Veeam
Availability Suite or Veeam Backup &
Replication Enterprise Plus license. n
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