At Microsoft Ignite 2021, Veritas Technologies LLC announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to expand Veritas Enterprise Data Services with Microsoft Azure. Veritas will partner with Microsoft to simplify data management while decreasing IT complexity for the enterprise by delivering solutions built on Microsoft Azure, building on a 20-year relationship.
The Veritas-Microsoft partnership intends to solve some of the most pressing issues confronting businesses today, including as the growing threat of ransomware while working in complicated hybrid cloud setups with unprecedented data growth. Veritas will collaborate with Microsoft to greatly simplify data management and data services across on-premises, virtual, cloud, and SaaS systems, which have historically been compartmentalised.
Rob Greig, Global Chief Information Officer at Arup said: “Veritas and Microsoft deliver the combined capability and reliability which enables Arup’s hybrid cloud environment to scale. The business-critical solutions make it seamless to move and manage data to the Azure Cloud and helps us manage workload risks including vulnerabilities and ransomware. The deeper collaboration will provide us with even more integrated solutions across our ecosystem.”
Through the existing multi-year innovation relationship, Veritas NetBackup already offers advanced data protection capabilities for Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack HCI, including integration with Azure Blob Storage for secure, durable, compliant and scalable long-term retention of hybrid business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) data, automated storage tiering with highly optimized client side deduplication, scalable disaster recovery and migration orchestration, integrated IaaS, PaaS and SaaS backup and recovery and ransomware resilience integration including network-isolated automated recovery.
Strategic collaboration between both companies will focus on:
Deepak Mohan, Executive Vice President, Products Organization of Veritas, said: “Enterprise customers across the globe have long relied on Veritas to provide the most scalable and reliable data management solutions for the hybrid cloud. Now with Microsoft, we are committed to delivering the next generation of cloud enabled data management capabilities through rapid innovation to help our customers keep their data protected and always available in today’s reality of looming and persistent ransomware threats.”
In addition to the aforementioned benefits, the collaboration will make it easier for customers to use Veritas Enterprises Data Services, which are built on Microsoft Azure. Veritas, for example, will provide NetBackup SaaS Protection as an Azure Marketplace subscription service, bringing data protection and archiving built on Azure to SaaS applications and data.
Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Microsoft, said: “Veritas has long collaborated with Microsoft to deliver data protection solutions to enterprise customers. We will build on that relationship to address some of the most pressing challenges facing enterprises today. With Veritas’ Enterprise Data Services built on Microsoft Azure, customers will benefit from hardened ransomware resiliency and simplified management of hybrid cloud environments.”
Veritas intends to be able to highlight more cooperative activities with Microsoft as the relationship progresses, thanks to a commitment to collaborate on future technical projects and go-to-market strategies.
