Modernizing and Simplifying Your Approach to Backup and RecoveryOrganizations need to rethink their backup and recovery philosophy with new solutions based on the concepts of simplicity, flexibility, agility and improved return on investment.

Today’s service interruptions are not only more frequent occurrences, but they also take a much bigger economic, operational, regulatory and legal toll on organizations that either have availability problems or suffer widespread data loss.

The re-examination and re-engineering of backup and recovery approaches are at the top of every IT executive’s to-do list because they have now become significant pain points, not just “insurance for the occasional IT glitch.”

The expanding source of increased risk means that organizations need to account for backup and recovery processes across physical, virtual and cloud environments, as organizations increase their adoption of hybrid IT and multi-cloud architectures for maximum business

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flexibility.

According to Computer Weekly, “Backup and data protection is more important than ever as we move towards an IT ecosystem that is increasingly dispersed in this era of the cloud.” Modern backup and recovery processes can’t be addressed simply by throwing more IT bodies at the problem — not with the fully loaded average cost of an IT administrator now approaching $100,000, including salary, benefits and overhead. The growing importance and complexity of backup means that new approaches are necessary.

Additionally, enterprises need their backup solutions to be, well, more than backup solutions. In order to increase IT efficiencies and enhance business agility, enterprises need the flexibility to leverage secondary copies of data for additional business use cases, such as DevTest, analytics and disaster recovery testing, thus achieving greater value from their data, rather than merely being able to restore it in the event of an outage.

Today’s big challenges in backup and recovery

• The costs of downtime are escalating, along with the financial impact of having systems and applications unavailable for any period.

• Dynamic changes in compliance, governance, legal and security have made backup and recovery more compelling than ever, but also more difficult to manage.

• There’s a dramatic increase in organizations moving data to the cloud—and back again, as needed. This hybrid IT architecture has created an urgent need for massive scalability, again adding complexity and cost to backup and recovery.

• Data that used to be simply backed up or recovered, when needed, now must be available for general-purpose workloads in order to maximize the value of the data and improve return on investment for backup and recovery tools.

• Tighter IT budgets—which increasingly must be cost-justified for improved business outcomes — now put increased emphasis on the need for efficiency.

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• Demand is surging for easier, more automated and more intelligent management of storage resources, rather than hiring more headcount.

What to look for in a modern, simplified backup and recovery solution

In order to extend the utility and improve the ROI of data, organizations require integrated, automated and simplified data protection solutions that ensure high performance, availability, security and scalability.

This means that your backup and recovery infrastructure must be architected around the principles of simplicity, flexibility, agility and improved economic value. It also means that solutions must meet more demanding service-level agreements, dramatically tighter recovery point objectives (RPOs) and substantially faster recovery-time objectives (RTOs).

Infrastructure managers and data center decision-makers should also seek out backup and recovery solutions designed from the ground up for virtualized environments such as vSphere and Hyper-V, as well as for an increasingly hybrid cloud enterprise computing model.

Not only does the modern data backup and recovery solution need to achieve these functions faster, more reliably and more efficiently, it also needs to ensure that protected copies of data can be flexibly moved, managed and shared across the enterprise, on-demand, to support the real-time needs of the business, rather than just “being there” in case of an outage.

Last, and certainly not least, it must support the full range of backup and recovery functions, including replication, granular recovery of virtual machines, self-service recovery, the ability to back up and recover from any environment — disk, tape, virtual infrastructure or the cloud.

The Veeam + Lenovo solution

Fortunately, innovative data protection solutions are available to help industries and organizations of all sizes modernize their approach to backup and recovery. One such solution comes from the partnership of Veeam® and Lenovo, providing an integrated, versatile offering for backup, recovery and a wide range of other use cases.

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Veeam users experience 9X improvement

in VM recovery after deployment.

(Source: Veeam Race to Zero,

IDC study)

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The package is built on Veeam Backup & Replication™ — a respected and widely cited multi-cloud data management solution— and Lenovo’s ThinkSystem DE Series, a highly modular hybrid flash storage system that delivers the performance, flexibility and simplicity needed to support general-purpose applications, as well as backup and recovery workloads.

The Veeam + Lenovo solution is targeted at organizations that need a modernized backup and disaster recovery solution for physical and virtualized application workloads. And because it was designed with the evolving data needs of organizations, it can be utilized for a wide range of storage use cases and data-centric workloads, thereby providing organizations with enhanced ROI, utility, flexibility and agility.

Veeam Backup & Replication provides essential functionality for backup, recovery and data protection, including:

• Granular recovery of VMs and files, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, SQL, and Oracle application items.

• Automatic verification of all backups, VMs and replicas.

• Instant VM Recovery® to recover a failed VM in minutes.

• Self-service recovery of VMs and guest files.

• The ability to backup and recover only what data is needed, whether it resides on-premises or in the cloud.

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Veeam’s Intelligent Data Management software, combined with Lenovo’s hybrid flash storage, provides organizations with the versatility to support additional business use cases beyond backup and recovery. For example, organizations can leverage Veeam DataLabs with Lenovo DE Series to rapidly stand up isolated DevTest, data analytics and disaster recovery testing environments to increase the return on investment on their backup environment. The solution also enables organizations to automatically tier data into low-cost storage resources in the public cloud, giving enterprises yet another way to enhance efficiencies and reduce costs.

Veeam’s strength in backup and recovery is evidenced by a recent study1

done with 502 global IT professionals whose organizations are using a number of Veeam solutions. The study, conducted by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group, detailed a range of benefits users received when working with Veeam backup and recovery solutions. These included:

• 9 times faster VM recovery after implementing Veeam solutions than they experienced previously. Additionally, respondents indicated Veeam’s VM recovery times were 7.7 times faster than solutions from other suppliers.

• 62% lower recovery point objectives with Veeam, as well as 68% lower recovery time objectives.

• Backup failure rates declined 50% after implementing Veeam.

• Restore failure rates similarly declined 73%.

• 83% reduction time required to recover file systems, and 84% reduction in recovering data bases.

• Significant improvements in staff productivity and risk reduction.

Conclusion

A new backup and recovery paradigm, built on the concepts of simplicity, flexibility, agility and improved ROI, helps organizations do more than simply ensure their essential data is always available. By leveraging an innovative, yet affordable, solution based on Veeam’s market-leading backup and replication software and Lenovo’s DE Series storage, allows backup and recovery functions to be implemented faster, more cost-efficiently and with greater simplicity than legacy backup solutions can achieve. It also provides organizations with a way to

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Veeam reduced RPO by 62%

and RTO by 68% (IDC)

1 “Veeam Race to Zero,” IDC Quantitative Research Group, October 2018

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leverage their investments in data protection infrastructure to support multiple business use cases beyond backup and recovery.

And using a single partner to design, deliver and support the full solution enables IT teams to modernize their data centers with the right combination of on-premises, virtualized and cloud-based infrastructure, with less hassle and no finger-pointing.

For more information on the Veeam + Lenovo solution for modernized data backup and recovery, please go to

www.veeam.com/lenovo-storage-solution.html

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Veeam users experienced significant

improvements in staff

productivity and risk reduction.

(IDC)

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