Veritas Joins Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance

Veritas Technologies announced that it has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance. Popular Veritas backup and recovery solutions Net Backup and Backup Exec provide outstanding protection for a wide range of Microsoft platforms and applications, including Windows, Hyper-V, SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint.

“Through every technology wave, Veritas has been there delivering enterprise-class data protection to the world's leading organizations, including 86% of the global Fortune 500” said Simon Jelley, Veritas VP of Product Management. “Hybrid cloud is the next technology wave for business and Veritas is there again for our customers delivering powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use backup and recovery for the entire IT infrastructure regardless of platform: virtual, physical and cloud. Joining the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance continues that leadership role and is further evidence of our ongoing strategy to support major cloud service providers. With both large global enterprise and SMB footprint of our customers, the Alliance helps accelerate our efforts to provide information management solutions.”

“We are pleased to welcome Veritas to the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance,” said Chris Lwanga, principal pm manager, Microsoft Corp. “As a leader in the backup and information management, their expertise and forward-thinking solutions are a welcome addition to what we can offer to other members of the Alliance. We look forward to working with and sharing our ideas with them for the betterment of enterprise customers.”

“Veritas is dedicated to providing our customers with cloud-ready solutions that enable them to easily extend and manage data protection from their data center to the hybrid cloud,” added Jelley. “As we work to expand our relationship with Microsoft across a wide range of Information Management solutions, Veritas is pleased to announce beta availability of an integrated connector in NetBackup for Microsoft Azure Blob storage services. We encourage our enterprise customers to test the ease of use, manageability, and performance of NetBackup on Microsoft Azure.”

“Improving data protection, both in terms of reliability and agility, continues to be top of mind for organizations of all sizes,” says Jason Buffington, principal analyst of data protection at ESG. “The continued trends of increasing virtualization and ever-modernizing core-business applications, combined with the question of ‘ How should cloud-services fit in my IT strategy? ’ leave many IT architects looking for leadership in a sea of unknowns. With that in mind, it is very encouraging when major industry institutions, such as Microsoft and Veritas, collaborate to provide enterprise-grade solutions that are both powerful and flexible enough to meet tomorrow’s IT recovery challenges.”