Michael Cade

Yeah, hi, Justin.

Hi, Glenn.

Yeah, so I'm a technical evangelist at Veeam Software and a member of the NetApp A team, so that's ultimately why I'm in town this week.

What we want to talk about is Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 2 that's been released this week, bringing full support for ONTAP 9.1.

It really goes back to...

what we already do with NetApp, I guess, so things around our backup from storage snapshots.

So in a VMware world, we've got the ability to offload that VM impact from a VM snapshot down to the storage array using that awesome storage snapshot that NetApp brings to the party, and then be able to pull that data off there from a snapshot into our backup repository.

And that's another thing that we can talk about.

So we've also released a data sheet this week prior to VMON.

our event next week is around the E-Series as a backup repository.

So there's ExpressPacks out there where we've jointly put them together, sized them accordingly so that they can be slotted in as a, let's say, a backup appliance.

So you're getting the best of breed from an E-Series and performance there from recovery, instant VM recovery from Veeam.

But then also you're getting all the choice of features from Veeam as well on that.

Let's do a Veeam 101, first of all.

So what we do, or what we've been known for for the last nine years, Veeam are nine years old now, is the ability to back up virtual machines, virtual infrastructure, both on VMware and Hyper-V.

We kind of transitioned a bit at the midpoint last year around our availability platform for the hybrid cloud, so being able to now protect the physical workloads that we couldn't do before, being able to protect Office 365 Mail, being able to use those agents to protect cloud instances.

any virtual machine that was using raw device mappings, but really using the same tool set to bring that all together.

Ultimately, our product is around backing up the virtualization in an agentless manner, powerful and scalable at that point.

So being able to do that with an application consistency, so being able to pull those Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle, Active Directory, all in an application consistent way onto that backup repository,

and be able to then use our Veeam Explorers to pull those out individually and drop them back into the live system without causing any downtime.