Veeam Availability Suite & Veeam Backup Essentials

What is Veeam Availability Suite?

Veeam Availability Suite provides availability for all applications, by combining the industry leading backup, restore and replication capabilities of Veeam Backup and Replication with the advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning functionality of Veeam ONE. Veeam Availability Suite delivers everything you need to reliably protect and manage your VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

Veeam Availability Suite Version 9:

Veeam have announced that version 9 of Veeam Availability Suite is to be released soon, offering a number of new features, such as:

·   Veeam Integration with EMC snapshots

·         Fast and secure cloud-based disaster recovery

·         Fast and low impact backups with EMC, NetApp, HP and more.

·         Enterprise-level enhancements for Veeam Explorers

·         Availability for the enterprise

·         Veeam integration with HP StoreOne Catalyst and other backup storage integration

·         Unlimited scale-out backup recovery

Veeam Backup Essentials

What is Veeam Backup Essentials?

Veeam Backup Essentials provides small businesses with a reliable, effortless and affordable enterprise-class backup solution, designed to help businesses remain always-on. Veeam Backup Essentials offers the same functionality as Veeam Availability Suite, but is priced for small businesses.

Veeam Backup Essentials Key Features include:

·       High-speed recovery

·         Data loss avoidance

·         Verified Protection

·         Leveraged Data

·         Complete Visibility

       For more information please contact Practical Networks a Veeam Partner on 01723 587240 or email info@practicalnetworks.co.uk

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Veeam Backup & Replication

What is Veeam Backup & Replication?

Veeam backup and replication is a backup software, providing VM backup for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. Veeam leverages virtualisation, storage and cloud technologies to deliver a recovery time of less than 15minutes for all applications and data.
Veeam backup and replication brings backup and replication together in one single solution to both increase the value of backup and reinvent data protection for virtual environments.

The Features:

The key features of Veeam backup and replication are:
• High-Speed Recovery
• Data Loss Avoidance
• Verified Protection
• Leveraged Data
• Complete Visibility

High-Speed Recovery:
• Instant VM recovery provides recovery of a failed VM in as little as 2 minutes.
• Instant file-level recovery allows you to recover guest OS files and folders.
• Low recovery time objectives for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and Active Directory with Veeam Explorer.

Data Loss Avoidance:
• Ultra-fast backup from storage snapshots with leverages storage snapshot capabilities for HP and NetApp.
• 50% faster backups and 10x faster synthetic full backup file creation and transformation with EMC Data Domain Boost integration.
• Veeam Cloud Connect helps you avoid the risk of catastrophic data loss.
• End-to-end encryption to secure your data.
• Improve your offsite recovery with WAN-accelerated replication, replication from backup and 1-click site failover with support for planned failover.
• 2-in-1 Backup and replication, providing near-continuous data protection for any virtualised application.
• Store entire VM backups or individual files on tape, and restore from tape whenever needed.

Verified Protection:
• SureBackup and SureReplica automatically verify the recoverability of every backup and every replica, every time.

Leveraged Data:
• Virtual lab helps you avoid deployment problems by testing and troubleshooting your applications in an isolated, production-like environment without creating any impact on your production infrastructure.

Complete Visibility:
• Veeam Enterprise Manager Web Client allows you to federate multiple backup servers from multiple locations in a single pane of glass without having to log in to the company network, providing centralised management.
•Monitor your backups infrastructure directly from the vSphere Web Client.

For more information about Veeam Backup and Replication or other Veeam products, please contact Practical Networks on 01723 587240 or email: info@practicalnetworks.co.uk

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3-2-1 Protect your Data!

 The 3-2-1 Backup Rule from Practical Networks

Data-loss is a major disaster for businesses of all shapes and size, with 43% of businesses that are faced with data-loss not surviving the hit.  Of the businesses that do backup their data, 34% never test their backups and of those who do, 77% find that their backups are ineffective!!  Data loss has numerous causes with the biggest cause being hardware failure, and with 10% of laptops and 6% of PC’s encountering data loss every year, is your business prepared? 

Data Loss - The causes:

It is important for businesses to have a backup strategy in place and the Practical Networks 3-2-1 rule is a perfect starting point. 

The 3-2-1 Backup Rule: 

3. You should have at least three copies of your data – your primary data and two backups, all stored in different places.

2. Your copies should be stored on two different types of media – ‘Media’ means hard disks, CDs, tapes, DVDs, online backup, etc. Using two or more different types of media will protect against different types of technology failures.

1. You should keep one backup copy offsite – The idea is to keep one copy away from the location of the primary backups, thus reducing the risk of losing all backups. In this case Cloud backup can be a good choice.

For more information about how to backup your data effectively call Andy on 01723 587240. 

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