By now we can agree that off site backups are essential to limit the risk of a disaster. Veeam has made a commitment to provide you the set of tools needed to move your datacenter data to a secondary-location. Whether that be through native tape support, the cloud (host-to-host replication), backup copy to a secondary site or support for removable disk-based media.

With an increasing number of Veeam customers augmenting or adopting their off-site strategy by utilizing service provider’s infrastructure as a secondary backup or backup-copy-target, with VeeamCloud Connect, Veeam sought to identify any barriers to moving backups off-site to a hosting organization of the customers’ choice, without adding on any additional license. With Veeam Cloud Connect you can enable the always on business by providing availability for the modern datacenter.

Offsite Backup Challenges

1) Identifying available service providers in your region should be a simple process taking place to a centralized hub

2) Setting-up and maintaining a VPN-connection for safe transport incurs extra costs, management and complexity overhead

3) Adding WAN accelerator, an offsite repository or other related components should be an automatic process that needs limited maintenance and oversight from your team

4) Finally, you should have full control and visibility of your off site backups without compromising your private data

Veeam Cloud Connect using StoneFly Cloud Storage in Microsoft Azure

Veeam Cloud Connect eliminated the VPN-requirement by utilizing an SSL/TLS connection between you and the service provider’s cloud gateway. Your cloud repository gives you complete visibility and control of your data directly from the backup console. Veeam Cloud Connect Backup to Azure provides all the capabilities of Veeam’s modern backup copy job architecture. So, optional WAN acceleration, forever incremental-backups and grandfather, father, son retention are still available when transporting your backup copies to Azure cloud Storage. In-flight protection of your data through SSL/TLS might not satisfy all of your privacy and security requirements. This solution provides source (Customer) – site (StoneFly Cloud Storage in Azure) encryption of your backup without impacting the WAN acceleration’s bandwidth reduction techniques.

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