Today Veeam has announced the release of a new addition to their flagship Veeam Backup and Replication software. This edition, labelled Veeam Backup Cloud Edition adds additional capability to automatically sync or copy your VMware or Hyper-V backups to the cloud. And when they say cloud they really mean it. This bad boy comes with support for 15 of the most popular cloud storage providers (Amazon, Glacier, Rackspace, Azure) making it very cost effective for customers to get some offsite disaster recovery type solutions in place without the need for a second site or even more infrastructure.
All or selected backups (and even other files you select) are compressed and deduped yet again, then sent to the cloud provider in a secure, encrypted fashion (up to 256 AES encryption). Again, the support for the most popular cloud providers eliminate the need for you to learn complicated cloud APIs and just like every other Veeam product, this seems to be fairly easy and simple to setup, configure and use. It provides the ability to schedule limits on your bandwidth used and provides some nifty reporting features as well to inform you that your backups have been successfully copied offsite. Also included is a cost estimator to help you gauge just how much those monthly storage bills are going to be. Have a look at the following video to see all of the new features in action…
And for those who can’t take the time for the video, a few screenshots below 🙂
As per lisensing, current customers are able to purchase this as an additional product, on a per socket basis, just as they have purchased Backup and Replication. New customers have the ability to bundle this with their purchase of Veeam Backup and Replication on a yearly subscription basis. Buuuut, I’m know lisensing expert and do not work for Veeam so you should probably contact them for the details…
