Veeam Software unveils new component
of Hyper-Availability Platform
eeam Software, a leader in
intelligent data management
for the hyper-available
enterprise, has unveiled a new, key
component of the company’s Hyper-
Availability Platform. A form of copy
data management, the new component,
Veeam DataLabs, will allow organisations
to easily create new instances of their
production environment s on-demand.
it comes to delivering what end
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“However, in delivering on these
demands, enterprises are under
pressure to rapidly accelerate
innovation while ensuring zero impact
on the user’s experience. These rarely
go hand-in-hand.
“With Veeam DataLabs, you can mitigate
the risks associated with application
deployment and configuration changes
by testing them in a secure and trusted,
production-like environment. Customers
can accelerate innovation and time-
to-market by leveraging an isolated,
virtual sandbox for rapid application
development and testing.”
This capability enables use cases
beyond typical data protection
scenarios, such as DevTest, DevOps
and DevSecOps, including security
and forensics testing and on-demand
sandboxes for IT operations.
This delivers value to the business in
the form of accelerating innovation,
improving operational efficiencies,
reducing risk and optimising resources.
Veeam DataLabs takes the functionality
of Veeam’s virtual labs – enabling
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production-like instances of virtual
environments on-demand – and expands
on it with additional use cases and
business value.
These isolated ‘sandboxes’ leverage
existing data to accelerate innovation
and to reduce risk. Veeam DataLabs
takes the core components of backup
and replication from being a reactive
insurance policy to a proactive value-
added service for the enterprise.
Efficiencies are gained by capturing
data once by way of the data protection
process, and then repurposing that
data on demand for new use cases,
potentially by new users, to unlock the
potential value of that data.
Danny Allan, Vice President, Product
Strategy at Veeam, said: “Managing
data is the Achilles heel of IT when
Veeam DataLabs enables a self-
service method for developers to
dynamically spin up instances of the
production environment as they design
new features. This provides a way to
accelerate the pace of digital service
delivery and ensures that teams are
developing and testing with the most
recent copies of data.
Veeam DataLabs also provides sandbox
environments for IT operations to test
new patches and updates before they
are rolled out across the company.
The security and forensics team may use
copies of the data to test for security
vulnerabilities without disrupting the
production systems, or for performing
forensics on an event that was picked up
through their security incident and event
management platform.
Finally, compliance and analysis groups
can examine and classify data for
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Veeam DataLabs is
a perfect example of
how we are expanding
our data management
capabilities, going
beyond availability and
innovating to meet the
needs of the hyper-
available enterprise.
Danny Allan, Vice President, Product
Strategy at Veeam