Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 29 | Page 67

t cht lk TECH TALK /////////////////////////////////////////////////// VEEAM EXPANDS LEADERSHIP IN CLOUD DATA MANAGEMENT Veeam Software, a leader in backup solutions that enable Intelligent Data Management, has announced the general availability for new cloud data management capabilities as part of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4, as well as the upcoming Veeam Availability for AWS and Veeam Availability Console v3. T he new major capabilities deliver cost effective data retention, easy cloud migration and data mobility, cloud-native backup and protection for Amazon Web Services (AWS), portable cloud- ready licensing, increased security and data governance, and solutions to make it easier than ever for service providers to deliver Veeam-powered services to market. IT leaders are increasingly concerned about cloud workloads in their multi-cloud environments; 58% state that the migration of data is challenging, 82% are worried about application uptime and 61% are not confident about their cloud workload backup www.intelligentcio.com and recovery. Veeam’s new capabilities address these concerns and challenges for enterprise IT leaders. “Veeam was born and has dominated the backup and data management market in the modern highly virtualised on-premises environments,” said Ratmir Timashev, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Veeam. “In the last few years, we have continued our tradition of innovation and evolved to become the leader in Cloud Data Management. Our latest version of Veeam Availability Platform is one of our most important and anticipated “ IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE HAVE CONTINUED OUR TRADITION OF INNOVATION AND EVOLVED TO BECOME THE LEADER IN CLOUD DATA MANAGEMENT. INTELLIGENTCIO 67