Veeam enhances Veeam Data Cloud Vault

New cloud storage offering delivers extended availability, unique and predictable cloud storage pricing via two new editions, and provides seamless integration with Veeam Data Platform, on the foundation of Zero Trust Data Resilience principles.

The Veeam Data Cloud Vault is a fully managed, secure and cloud-based storage services that leverages Microsoft Azure and simplifies storage backups for mission critical data and applications offsite for business resilience. As a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions, Veeam continues to innovate its storage offerings.

Businesses look to build stronger resilience capabilities especially in cloud storage. However, many organizations still face obstacles despite cloud storage enabling simplified security and capabilities to accommodate growing volumes of data. Businesses still have issues with understanding and forecasting costs, improved efficiency, and acquiring the necessary expertise for effective configuration and management.

Statistics also reveal that 53% of companies exceeded their cloud storage budgets in 2023, with 42% facing higher-than-expected API call fees, with nearly half (47%) of their public cloud storage costs stemming from fees alone. As businesses increasingly rely on Storage as a Service (STaaS) and cloud solutions to protect critical data, managing costs without compromising secure backup storage has never been more vital.

As such, Veeam has announced several updates to the Veeam Data Cloud Vault. Developed with Microsoft, the new release includes two new editions with a low-cost, all-inclusive pricing for customer managed cloud storage. The new editions eliminate common forecasting and bill shock challenges customers face in cloud storage.

Another new enhancement to Veeam Data Vault is the integration with Veeam Data Platform. The integration makes it simpler for customers to streamline immutable, offsite backup for Veeam users.

By collaborating with Microsoft, the enhanced offering will also be integrated with Azure Blob Cool Storage. Users will be able to confidently securely store backup data in a Veeam-managed, logically air-gapped, always-immutable and encrypted offsite location for enhanced protection and reliable recovery, when needed. This is because the integration simplifies data storage management for backups and eliminates unpredictable cloud cost models. Organizations can also minimise the duration of downtime through fast restores to both on-premises and Azure VMs with Veeam Vault.

According to Niraj Tolia, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Veeam, given the value of data in a digital world and the growing risks to that data including cyberattacks, organizations need a reliable and cost-effective path to data resilience.

“Veeam Data Cloud Vault provides secure and hassle-free cloud storage, eliminating management challenges and unpredictable pricing, and reinforces our strategic partnership with Microsoft. Our commitment to easy, secure, and predictable cloud storage for backups, further solidifies Veeam as the #1 global leader in Data Resilience,” said Tolia.

“Veeam Data Cloud Vault introduces a new groundbreaking feature – predictable, low-cost cloud storage pricing – catering to the needs of Veeam users. With two new editions and seamless integration with Veeam Data Platform, this release further strengthens the partnership between Veeam and Microsoft by leveraging the power, scale and durability of Microsoft Azure,” added Tolia.

For Aung Oo, Vice President, Azure Storage at Microsoft, the integration of Veeam’s Vault offering with the Veeam Data Platform simplifies the process for customers to safeguard their data and infrastructure.

“Given the increasing threats that customers must defend against, making data protection more accessible is crucial. By building Veeam Data Cloud Vault on Azure, with its diverse regional options, customers can meet their data residency and compliance needs. The combination of Azure’s secure cloud foundation and Veeam’s strengths in business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) provides an excellent end-to-end, anti-ransomware solution for customers,” said Oo.

A Zero Trust Data Resilience approach

The Veeam Data Cloud Vault follows a Zero Trust Data Resilience (ZDTR) approach that expands Zero Trust principles to include an organisation’s backup environment. Simply put, with Veeam Data Cloud Vault, organizations can align to age old data storage philosophy, which is the 3-2-1-1-0 rule and protect against cyberthreats. This philosophy forms the foundation of a solid data protection strategy and data resilience initiatives, ensuring the integrity and availability of backups.

Taking a deeper look at the Veeam Data Cloud Vault, some of the benefits highlighted included improved security and durability. With the Veeam Data Cloud Vault storage-as-a-service (STaaS), customers are ensured of data confidentiality, integrity and availability through Zero Trust storage architecture that is always immutable, encrypted, and air-gapped. The new release will see Veeam Data Cloud Vault offer up to 12 nines of durability that protects against entire data centre failure as well as apply best-in-class security measures to protect organisations against cyber threats.

Additionally, the new release will see better predictability, especially when it comes to cost management. Customers will have access to predictable, flat, per-TB pricing on two editions of cloud storage, inclusive of read/write requests, and egress fees through the Veeam Data Cloud Vault. Not only can organizations have better cost controls through predictability, but they will also receive all the benefits of secure, cloud-based storage.

Simplicity will also be at the core of the Veeam Data Cloud Vault as it minimizes cloud and security skills gaps with on-demand, pre-configured and fully managed cloud storage built on Azure, directly integrated with the Veeam Data Platform interface. Customers will have the ability to procure, provision, and monitor Veeam Vaults directly from Veeam Data Platform, as well as the ability to directly restore to on-premises and Azure VMs.

Pricing for the two new editions, Foundation and Advanced will start at US$14 per-TB and will align closely with customer use cases for cloud storage backup, offering a cost-effective and secure-by-default alternative to DIY solutions.