With this integration, Veeam has expanded its offering with Cisco by launching the direct snapshot integration with the Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform.
Addressing the increasing demand from organisations to digitally transform their business to stay competitive and drive new growth opportunities, Veeam the innovative provider of Availability solutions has announced new offerings with Cisco. Veeam also claims that its Veeam Availability Suite will leverage computing power of Cisco UCS with the Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform to drive simplicity and efficiency in the hybrid cloud era.
Hybrid cloud is at the heart of this digital transformation and businesses looking to drive digital offerings are set gain significant advantage with Hybrid cloud strategy. IDC forecasts that public IT cloud services revenue will exceed $141 billion in 2019, recording a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.4 percent — almost six times the rate of overall IT market growth. By 2018, more than half of enterprises’ IT infrastructure and software investments will be cloud based (private and public), reaching 60 to 70 percent of IT spend by 2020.
As more businesses go digital, management of data becomes critical. The successful collaboration between Veeam and Cisco will reduce backup and recovery to improve overall operational performance for customers. According to our 2016 Availability Report , on average a business has 15 unplanned downtime events per year, with non-mission critical application downtime is increasing too. Organisations that fail to address this gap will face major and long-term business impact.
“Reducing recovery time for data and applications is paramount for businesses, that’s why today’s announcement is so important for the market,” said Peter McKay, President and Chief Operating Officer, Veeam.
As digital transformation becomes the key focus, CIOs are increasingly revisiting their data centre footprint and embracing hybrid cloud strategy. However, maintaining Availability across a hybrid cloud environment is not easy. Veeam and Cisco’s partnership will equip businesses to ensure data remains available 24.7.365 across a multi-cloud environment.
“By combining Veeam’s proven Availability solutions with Cisco’s next-generation HyperFlex platform, we can offer customers unmatched data and application availability. This means a business can realize its investment in IT, without the production downtime that stifles its ability to execute and deliver innovative products and services to customers.”
