Western Digital and Veeam streamline data backup and recovery for the Cloud

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

Wednesday, 20th February 2019 Posted 6 years ago in by Phil Alsop

“As a leading data infrastructure company, Western Digital is a valued member of the Veeam Alliance Partner Program, and we’re are extremely pleased that their ActiveScale system is one of the first to be compatible with Veeam Cloud Tier,” said Ken Ringdahl, vice president of Global Alliance Architecture at Veeam. “Their membership, as well as ActiveScale’s support for Veeam Cloud Tier, allows us to work together to develop technologies that can transform our customers’ environments and enable Intelligent Data Management.”

“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.”