https://www.veeam.com/wp-veeam-storsimple-microsoft-azure.html Read this Solution brief to learn how Veeam, StorSimple and Microsoft Azure can help you achieve new levels of availability and storage efficiencies for your mission-critical virtual environment by extending your backup strategy with Veeam Backup & Replication, Microsoft StorSimple and Azure. Working together, they provide a costeffective, automated data protection solution that simplifies your move to the cloud.

1. Veeam Backup & Replication
and Microsoft Azure StorSimple
Make the easy jump to the cloud
Overview
Microsoft Azure enables you to quickly provision cloud-based resources, including
storage, across Microsoft’s global data center network.The challenge of moving
on-premises archived data, such as backups, to Azure can be a daunting task for the
IT professional who is used to working in the world of local storage. IT operations,
automation, security, scheduling, bandwidth and other moving parts can make the
jump to the cloud frightening.
Veeam® AvailabilityfortheModernDataCenter™ solutions working with Microsoft Azure
StorSimple, make data protection and archiving to Azure easy and efficient.ToVeeam,
StorSimple looks like any another connected, on-premises data repository. However,
StorSimple is more than just storage—it automatically manages the movement of data
to and from Azure for efficient availability.
Traditional vs cloud-integrated solutions
Cloud-Integrated with VeeamTraditional Storage
Veeam Servers
Primary volume
Local snapshot
Cloud snapshots
Nearby Azure
storage region
Cloud clones
Secondary Azure
region for disaster
recovery
Servers
Primary volume
Snapshot
Disk backup/VTL
Cost: $100k
Media server
Cost: $25k
Encryption
appliance
Tape infrastructure
Cost $55k
Transportation
& storage
Disk array
Cost: $100K
50 TB
Traditional backup methods just don’t cut it in a world of agile virtualization and
Always-On Business™.
Challenge
Businesses struggle to control
the cost and complexity of tape
and on-premises disk solutions
to manage their backup
archives.
Solution
Veeam Backup & Replication,
with Microsoft Azure
StorSimple, provides fast
backup, granular recovery, huge
cost savings and automatic
transfer of backup data to and
from Microsoft Azure.
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2. Businesses, large and small, require more than just backup to meet SLAs. IT administrators face key backup and recovery
challenges as critical data grows in both size and complexity. These challenges include:
• How to mitigate the high cost of additional storage and hardware management
• How to maintain service levels while answering growing business, technology and regulatory demands
To address these challenges, a combination of software, hardware and cloud solutions are needed. Proven solutions from Veeam
and Microsoft can work together to extend your data protection capabilities with increased capacity, security and availability.
Veeam’s unique approach—AvailabilityfortheModernDataCenter™—keeps business moving and helps avoid costly downtime.The
StorSimple hybrid cloud storage solution adds dynamic storage tiering across SSD, SAS and Microsoft Azure to ensure data growth
requirements are always met. StorSimple uses Azure as an extension of its on-premises storage arrays and automatically tiers data across
on-premises storage and cloud storage.
Bringing it all together withVeeam and Microsoft
Veeam Backup & Replication™ provides agentless image-level backup to help meet stringent RPOs and RTOs while allowing more
recovery options than you ever thought possible:
• Recovery of a failed VM in as little as two minutes
• Near-continuous data protection with built-in replication
• Fast, agentless item recovery and e-discovery for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Active Directory, along with transaction-
level recovery of SQL databases
• Automatic recoverability testing of every backup and every replica, every time
Veeam and StorSimple work in unison to mitigate the cost and management of data growth while providing secure backup and
recovery. Veeam ensures that backups are initially stored on a traditional primary storage for short-term recovery, and depending
on your availability needs, Veeam archives older versions of backups to StorSimple for long-term compliance. StorSimple will, in
turn, ensure that backups are moved into Azure via cloud snapshot.
Veeam and StorSimple automate the use of local storage and Azure for maximum IT efficacy.
Conclusion
You can achieve new levels of availability and storage efficiencies for your mission-critical virtual environment by extending
your backup strategy with Veeam Backup & Replication, Microsoft StorSimple and Azure. Working together, they provide a cost-
effective, automated data protection solution that simplifies your move to the cloud.
For more details, please contact your local Veeam sales representative.
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