Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 29 | Page 68

t cht lk TECH TALK Ratmir Timashev, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Veeam releases to date, providing simple, flexible and reliable solutions to help customers migrate to and keep data available in the hybrid cloud regardless of its location. The announcements reinforce our position as a market leader in Cloud Data Management by expanding our strong relationships with AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and over 20,000 service providers. We are recognised as one of Forbes 2018 World’s Best 100 Cloud Companies and have been previously recognised twice as Microsoft ISV Partner of the Year – clear proof points of leadership in cloud data management – and this latest launch strengthens our position.” 68 INTELLIGENTCIO Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 • Cloud Tier: Provides unlimited capacity for long term data retention by using native, cost-effective object storage integrations with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Azure Blob Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, as well as Amazon S3-compatible service providers and on-premises storage solutions. With Veeam, customers avoid double charges for storing data in the cloud – unlike with other backup providers who impose ‘cloud tax’ on top of the cloud provider’s storage cost. • Cloud Mobility: Businesses can easily migrate, move and recover any on- premises or cloud-based workloads to AWS, Azure and Azure Stack in just two steps to maintain business continuity and availability, increase agility and optimise cost across hybrid cloud environments. • Enhanced Veeam DataLabs: Businesses will have increased security and data governance options including GDPR readiness and malware prevention with DataLabs Staged and Secure restore. • Intelligent Diagnostics: Companies can reduce management and support costs through proactive resolution of configuration problems. • Enhanced Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers (VCC-R): Service providers using VMware vCloud Director can leverage existing networking, infrastructure and self-service management investments for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions for lower TCO and higher margins. Veeam Availability for AWS Part of Veeam Availability Platform, this new solution combines the market-leading Veeam N2WS cloud-native backup and recovery of AWS workloads with the ability to consolidate the backup data in a central Veeam repository. www.intelligentcio.com