Veritas Technologies, amulti-cloud data management solutions provider and Nutanix, an enterprise cloud computing solutions maker, have partnered to help joint customers benefit from greater protection for all virtualized workloads running on Nutanix, as well as application mobility across clouds, while remaining open to any hardware, hypervisor or cloud. As part of the partnership, Veritas NetBackup 8.1, the company’s flagship data protection solution, is now certified to protect workloads virtualized on AHV, Nutanix’s native hypervisor.
The collaboration is designed to address two key challenges joint customers face today: First, how to spend less time worrying about data center infrastructure and more time on the applications and services that power business. Second, the partnership helps to ensure critical data and workloads running on Nutanix are further protected with a single, unified solution that is the foundation for end-to-end 360 data management.
The extended partnership between Veritas and Nutanix provides joint customers like benefits faster backup and recovery of Nutanix virtual workloads, combined with powerful deduplication technology with Veritas NetBackup CloudCatalyst, greater business continuity with Nutanix’s built-in infrastructure resiliency that is further enhanced by Veritas with rapid recovery of business-critical applications and data, ability to confidently and rapidly deploy next-generation, scale-out, multi-petabyte, hyperconverged workloads and simplified data protection and recovery.
Rama Kolappan, Vice President, Product Management and Alliances, Veritas said, “Organisations today require a data management strategy for data spread across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments that require a proven, high-performance backup and recovery technology designed to accommodate the most demanding workloads.”
“Today’s organisations must plan for a hybrid IT environment with users requiring more versatile solutions that are open to any hardware, hypervisor or cloud,” said Venugopal Pai, vice president, Strategic Alliances and Business Development at Nutanix. “Our expanded partnership with Veritas will help joint customers meet this need, providing holistic data protection and management for critical enterprise workloads across multi-cloud environments.”
