Maximize Hybrid IT Availability With HPE and VeeamOrganizations are embracing hybrid IT to combine the value of on-premises infrastructure with the agility and cost savings of public and hybrid clouds. In these environments, IT has the flexibility to choose the right platform for specific workloads based on requirements for security, performance, compliance or other factors. With integrated solutions from HPE and Veeam, hybrid IT can also empower organizations to achieve major improvements in Availability and data protection. Here’s how.

June 2018

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Hybrid IT has become a valuable option for IT teams in today’s era of the data-driven

enterprise. Hybrid IT enables organizations to leverage existing and new on-premises

infrastructure while taking advantage of the benefits of public cloud services. IT can

transition to the cloud where and when it makes sense, using a combination of Capex and

Opex models.

This hybrid approach is particularly attractive to companies that aren’t ready to embrace a

cloud-only strategy—which is most organizations. In fact, 63% of organizations are already

pursuing a hybrid IT model, according to research by the Harvard Business Review.1 With the

right hybrid IT solution, IT teams can significantly boost business continuity and close gaps

in Availability and data protection.

This is especially important in today’s era of exponential data growth, digital transformation

and the Always-On Enterprise™. More than 80% of organizations say they are unable to meet

the recovery capabilities of their business units when compared with SLA expectations. The

combination of Availability and protection gaps costs the average enterprise $21.8 million

every year, which is an untenable situation.2

By deploying modern solutions from HPE and Veeam, organizations can leverage both

primary and secondary storage to close these Availability and data protection gaps, while

also lowering costs, reducing complexity, mitigating risk and fostering innovation and

business agility.

Empowering the Data-Driven Enterprise

In today’s environment, data Availability is a business issue, not just an IT issue. Organizations

are creating more data than ever before. The global “datasphere” is expected to grow to 163

zettabytes (ZB) by 2025, more than 10 times the 12.1 ZB of data generated in 2016.3

It’s not just that data is growing exponentially in volume, velocity and variety; it’s also that

the most savvy organizations are putting their data to use, driving business-critical initiatives

around digital transformation, the Internet of Things, big data analytics, social media, agile

development and other data-driven activities that are changing the shape of business.

The shift to this type of data-driven enterprise puts pressure on IT teams to manage data

more strategically, efficiently and economically. That’s one of the reasons why so many IT

leaders are turning to hybrid IT. The reality is this: Whether your data is in the cloud or on

premises, at the end of the day it is your responsibility to protect it and ensure its Availability.

The same goes for your applications. If the business is down, it does you no good to point

fingers at a cloud provider and place blame.

With hybrid IT, you can assert control over data and applications, while still leveraging the

economics and agility of the public cloud. Beyond that, you can improve business continuity

with on-premises all-flash storage solutions that take advantage of snapshots, modern

1 “Hybrid IT Takes Center Stage,” Harvard Business Review, June 2016

2 “Why Organizations Still Struggle to Digitally Transform & Innovate,” 2017 Veeam Availability Report, May 2017

3 “Data Age 2025: The Evolution of Data to Life-Critical,” IDC White Paper sponsored by Seagate, April 2017

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In today’s environment, data Availability is a business issue, not just an IT issue.

Availability software and other technologies to shorten backup windows, ensure rapid

recovery and simplify disaster recovery. With the right solution, you can:

• Achieve instant/constant data Availability to meet the needs of the Always-On Enterprise.

• Address the need for economical storage, increased productivity and reduced complexity.

• Support on-premises and cloud models, including hybrid cloud/multi-cloud environments.

• Reduce risk by closing Availability and data protection gaps, including the ability to ensure rapid disaster recovery.

• Increase business agility and support key business capabilities such as agile application development and digital transformation.

What to Look for in a Solution

To truly empower the data-driven enterprise, you need a solution that combines best-

of-breed infrastructure hardware/software with best-of-breed Availability software. The

Availability software should be designed for highly virtualized cloud environments, and it

should work seamlessly with the infrastructure to support reduced management overhead.

You also want to ensure that the combined solution reduces overall IT complexity and makes

it easy and economical to create, store, manage, protect, secure, back up and recover data

across your entire IT environment—stretching from on-premises infrastructure to multiple

clouds, whether public, private or hybrid.

Key capabilities to look for include:

• Simple to deploy and manage, leveraging all-flash storage to meet the tier one performance and reliability requirements of modern applications, while also enabling major performance gains in secondary storage.

• All-flash primary storage as a tool to shorten backup windows, using backup and storage snapshots to leverage data and ensure guaranteed rapid recovery.

• The option to use hyper-converged infrastructure as an on-premises platform to alleviate management complexity, reduce costs and ensure tight integration between on-premises infrastructure and public cloud services.

• Granular recovery of VM contents in their native format, with built-in security protections against advanced cyber threats (such as ransomware), as well as multi-site data protection and replication to ensure rapid disaster recovery.

Choosing the Right Solution

By deploying a hybrid IT platform that delivers these capabilities, you can provide significant

value to the business—immediately and over the long term—while also reducing overhead

and ongoing operational tasks for the IT department. Overall, by leveraging hybrid IT

integrated with a modern data Availability and protection solution, you can:

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To truly empower the data-driven enterprise, you need a solution that combines best-of-breed infrastructure hardware/software with best-of-breed Availability software.

• Reduce costs and improve budget predictability.

• Improve business continuity and close your Availability and data protection gaps.

• Accelerate speed to market, leveraging backups and storage snapshots to accelerate development cycles.

• Ensure high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, complete visibility and verified recoverability of every file, application or virtual server.

• Increase business agility through reduced complexity, simpler scalability, improved IT productivity and dramatically improved business continuity.

• Empower today’s more agile, cloud-enabled IT environments, including the ability to utilize multiple clouds to support specific workloads—whether they are modernized legacy applications or new applications designed for today’s challenges.

Hybrid IT Availability with HPE and Veeam

When it comes to delivering a hybrid IT platform that meets all of these specific

requirements, the combination of HPE solutions, such as 3PAR StoreServe Storage,

StoreOnce Data Protection, Nimble, ProLiant Servers and Simplivity, with Veeam solutions,

such as Veeam Availability Platform and Veeam Availability Suite, offers industry-leading

functionality and capabilities.

The integration of HPE hybrid IT with Veeam enables you to create application-consistent

VM snapshots by offloading the operation to primary storage. The result is a greater number

of recovery points for VMs, applications and individual items. This improves recovery point

objectives (RPOs), without any impact on the production environment. The integration also

allows non-disruptive backup to external, disk-based systems via snapshots, thus shortening

backup run times.

The combination of HPE hybrid IT with Veeam Availability solution delivers:

• Recovery time objectives (RTOs) and RPOs of less than 15 minutes, without impacting VM or application efficiencies.

• The only all-flash storage to provide guaranteed 99.9999% Availability.

• Granular, non-disruptive backup and recovery with guaranteed recovery of VM contents in their native format and instant recovery from HPE storage snapshots.

• Multi-site production and replication, with built-in security protections and complete visibility.

• 20X faster backups from storage snapshots.

• Leveraged data through the use of backups and storage snapshots that allow you to test changes in a production-like environment before actually deploying them.

• Reduced complexity using single pane-of-glass management with simple configuration, easy scalability and no need for additional modules or agents.

• Complete visibility to centrally manage virtual, physical and cloud workloads, including access to monitoring and alerting tools to address issues before they impact operations.

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The combination of HPE solutions with Veeam solutions, offers industry-leading functionality and capabilities.

The sum of these parts translates into a wide range of benefits for the business, from cost

savings and increased agility to greater business continuity and faster time to market.

Research by IDC into larger organizations using the combination of HPE and Veeam showed

that these companies achieved benefits totaling $1.39 million each per year, resulting in

a five-year return on investment of 262%.4 Participants experienced 83% shorter backup

windows, 93% shorter recovery windows, 38% lower hardware costs and 78% lower costs

related to unplanned downtime (see accompanying graphic).5

Conclusion

Today’s era of the data-driven, Always-On Enterprise is placing demands on IT to be more

agile and cost efficient without losing the controls and protections that come with on-

premises infrastructure. Therefore, many organizations are embracing hybrid IT models.

Hybrid IT poses specific Availability challenges that need to be addressed, because they

span highly virtualized on-premises infrastructures along with public cloud services.

HPE and Veeam have partnered to deliver hybrid IT solutions that meet the most demanding

Availability and business continuity requirements of today’s enterprise organizations,

ensuring that organizations can close their Availability and data protection gaps and be well

positioned for the future. These solutions not only support improved business continuity,

they help to reduce costs, reduce complexity and enhance business agility.

For more information on how your organization can benefit from a high Availability hybrid IT environment, please contact Veeam at

https://www.veeam.com/hpe-availability-solution.html.

4 “The Business Value of High Availability Storage Environments from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Veeam Software,” IDC, November, 2017

5 Ibid

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ROI Summary of HPE and Veeam Environments

Data Protection and Recovery Benefits

5-Year ROI

Shorter backup windows

Faster data recovery windows

More frequent back-ups

Cost of unplanned downtime

262%78%

93%83% 89%

lower48%

lower

Cost of operations

Source : IDC White Paper, The Business Value of High Availability Storage Environments from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Veeam Software.