If businesses did not take backup, recovery and availability of their data and applications seriously before COVID-19, they now have very a different view towards it. As the economy becomes data-driven, businesses realise that they need to have the right tools in place to ensure they can avoid any disruptions. Far too many have suffered serious losses due to the lockdowns and uncertainties they’ve faced since the pandemic hit.

Having business availability and continuity plans is one thing, executing them effectively is another matter entirely. For instance, how many businesses were prepared to cope with the sudden surge in data traffic when people began working and communicating remotely on a large scale, especially those that were using legacy solutions built before the age of cloud and data explosion? Downtime was the inevitable result as systems failed and the lack of instant recovery caused headaches for many organisations.

Adding to that, cyber attacks continue to pose a massive threat to businesses, global pandemic or otherwise. And if their systems were breached by ransomware or any form of advanced cyber attack, businesses would need the ability to swiftly switch to their backups as the final line of defence. Based on what’s happening so frequently right now in the real world, a ransomware attack can practically cripple an organisation’s operations. For ill-prepared companies, it typically takes days before they are able to restore their services and get systems up and running again.

Think of the huge potential losses both in terms of revenue as well as customer and investor confidence due to such an incident. Now think of the hassle and damages companies could avoid if they were able to restore their whole systems back to working conditions in a matter of just a few minutes. With Veeam’s technology, that is entirely possible.

Veeam is a leader in business continuity, helping over 375,000 customers worldwide to modernise their backup capabilities, achieve always-on availability and manage their data sprawled across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Now, let’s take a quick look at how Veeam does this in a real-world setting.

The Toulouse Satellite Operations Centre (TSOC) by the Airbus Defense and Space Division, for example, is responsible for all operations related to the piloting of a fleet of telecommunications satellites. TSOC’s IT department was facing constraints in protecting their data as both production data and backup data were hosted on a single storage space, while the centre’s backup capability didn’t make it possible to protect all virtual machines.

Airbus decided to use Veeam as it suited what they were looking for in terms of performance, technical feasibility and cost-effectiveness. TSOC now has a hyper-converged infrastructure with a backup repository that is separate from production data. Veeam’s ability to provide uninterrupted data availability is part of an approach to build a solid infrastructure to support the TSOC’s evolution.

Keeping up their reputation of providing the most complete availability solutions in the industry, Veeam recently released the Veeam Availability Suite v10. The updated platform now provides:

• Seriously Powerful NAS Backup - New capabilities that redefine NAS data protection to deal with the world of massive file data.

• Multi-VM Instant Recovery - Accelerate disaster recovery with mass instant restores powered by Veeam’s next‑generation instant recovery engine.

• Advanced Ransomware Protection - 100% ransomware‑proof backups with S3 object lock functionality and immutable backups.

The v10 also comes with numerous other enhancements that broaden the Veeam ecosystem. If you would like to find out more, Veeam will be launching the Veeam Learning Lounge where you can take a deeper dive into how you can achieve guaranteed business continuity and availability with a modern, cloud-ready and highly secure backup and recovery solution.

Each module is geared towards introducing participants to Veeam’s vision of data availability, the new features of Veeam Availability Suite v10, how you can easily backup and restore VMs at the click of a button and real-world success cases from businesses that have achieved tremendous transformation and success with Veeam.

Take part in the Veeam Learning Lounge and you will receive a certificate upon completing all the modules. Click here to register.