Western Digital and Veeam streamline data backup and recovery

Western Digital says that its ActiveScale object storage system is “Veeam Ready” for its Cloud Tier, a new feature part of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. The ActiveScale system provides Veeam enterprise customers with a fast, cost-effective hybrid-cloud backup repository that helps manage the avalanche of data inundating today’s data centers.

Wednesday, 13th February 2019 Posted 5 years ago in by Phil Alsop

“The combination of the Veeam Backup and Replication suite and Western Digital’s ActiveScale object storage system gives enterprise customers a powerful and cost-effective scale-out data protection solution for today’s modern data centers,” said Matt Lloyd, Veeam Global Alliance Manager. “Western Digital is a valued partner in our alliance ecosystem, helping deliver a wide breadth of storage solutions that offer fast online backup and recovery, while helping to dramatically lower TCO for scale-up and scale-out architectures.”

“We’re delighted to expand our relationship with Veeam,” said Stefaan Vervaet, senior director of Solutions & Alliances, Western Digital’s Data Center Systems business unit. “Together, our goal is to help ensure that our customers' data is always protected and available for quick and easy recovery when using our ActiveScale system or IntelliFlash™ all-flash arrays. The combination of Western Digital systems and Veeam software delivers a highly scalable and an economical solution for end-to-end backup of enterprise and service provider applications.”