BTEX 2020 : Data Protection Strategy Modernization with Veeam
The customer was up for renewal in 90 days on their legacy NAS solution when CDW and Veeam came in under the cost of the renewal of their legacy solution.
One of thelargest manufacturers in North America, based in Ontario, had been a Veeamcustomer for about a year, but they were only using Veeam for their virtualizedenvironment. They had been using the Veeam Backup and Replication AvailabilitySuite, and they found it very easy to manage day-to-day, so they wanted to seethe same thing from a NAS solution.
The customerwas up for renewal in 90 days on their legacy NAS solution when CDW and Veeamcame in. CDW helped with the migration, knowledge transfer and conducted adiscussion on best practices for the day-to-day users of the software. For athree-year period, CDW and Veeam came in under the cost of the one-year renewalof their legacy solution.
Because wewere able to remove the complexity and the day-to-day burdens of running theirlegacy backup solution, they were ready to tackle some projects that had beenon their plate for well over a year, says Russ Bick, Territory Manager atVeeam, speaking at CDW's BTEX 2020 virtual event. Bick mentioned how they wereable to start testing workloads in the cloud. The customer is looking at Azureor AWS, and we have native tools for backing up workloads within both Azure andAWS.
How Veeam helped the customer withtheir journey to the cloud
Migratingaway from Exchange on-premises to Office 365 was part of that journey to thecloud. When the customer started looking at Office 365, they were under the impressionthat Microsoft would look after everything. But as Bick explains, WhileMicrosoft will give you the parking lot, it's your responsibility to lock thedoors of the car and hide the valuables.
Veeam'sOffice 365 solution is a four-in-one product that backs up and recoversExchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams. Version 5 of thisproduct will include more functionality for Teams. For a free trial or a demo,please speak with your CDW account team.
Veeam's 3 key differentiators in NASbackup
VeeamAvailablity Suite Version 10 will include seriously enhanced NAS backup,according to Danny Allan, Chief Technology Officer & SVP Product Strategyat Veeam. We already protect NAS today, but we've modified the platform todrive some really cool differentiators.
Changed file tracking: If you're backing up the NAS system, and you do another incremental backup, you don't have to go through the whole file system to determine what's changed. If one node has changed, everything above it will signal back to the parent node that there's been a change, and you can ignore the rest of the tree and only go down to which files have changed.
Complete flexibility: If you have a file system that haseither an NFS or an SMB share, Veeam can protect that. Whether you have aWindows or a Linux file system, they can protect that, too. When we protectone of these systems, we can restore to another system, so it gives you theoption to protect from anywhere to anywhere, says Allan.
Snapshot friendly: If it takes two hours to back up yourdata, from the first scan to the protection of the last file, that file mayhave been deleted or removed. But, because the snapshot is operating off aspecific point in time, you don't have to worry about consistency errorsbetween the first part and the last part of the scan. If you can take yourbackup from a snapshot, you can also offload that work from your NAS storage toa secondary system.
We'reactually taking NAS, and helping you make your organization more productive,says Allan.
To learn more about how Veeam can helpyou modernize your backup and secure your data, visit CDW.ca/Veeam.And be sure to bookmark this page for more coverage of BTEX 2020.