Veritas has an amazing partnership with Microsoft that is focused on helping our joint customers use Microsoft Azure to optimize their hybrid cloud environments. At Vision 2017, Arjan Van Proosdij, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing at Veritas, interviewed Karl Rautenstrauch Sr. Program Manager for Azure Storage at Microsoft, about our partnership, and how we’re both adding value for our customers. Listen to the full conversation in Episode 04: Innovating in Cloud Data Protection with Microsoft Azure.
Karl enthused that it’s been an amazing year of progress between both companies with much of that attributable to Microsoft’s cultural shift of becoming more partner-friendly. Microsoft’s goal is to partner with companies that have best-of-breed solutions in order to speed their customers’ cloud adoption while easing the migration to a hybrid cloud or Azure public cloud. “Veritas has been an important partner for us,” said Karl, “not only through product introductions and extensions, but also via partnerships in the Field and adding value with your vast information management experience.”
“I’ve been focused on business continuity for much of my career,” continued Karl, “so I love the enhancements to Veritas Resiliency Platform and the fully automated, end-to-end business continuity it brings to our customers. It’s just fantastic.”
Arjan mentioned that Resiliency Platform allows customers to not only migrate into Azure clouds for proactive disaster recovery, but also to do simple, one-way migrations. Karl commented, “Yes, it’s so funny how people miss the fact that the only difference between traditional disaster recovery and migration is a migration has a different process − the fail-over occurs just once and there’s no intention to go back. Otherwise, the two procedures are almost exactly the same. It’s great that Veritas has that functionality in the same product so customers only need one skill set for both purposes.”
Arjan and Karl also discussed how Veritas Information Map now has new integration points including six data sources within Azure such as Office 365. “Our customers are really concerned with data sovereignty and data governance − and they should be,” said Karl. “As industry regulations become more stringent, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, our customers realize it’s critical that they know where their data lives and its sensitivity level. By working together with Veritas, we’re giving customers a comprehensive, simple, and cost-effective approach to managing data in the cloud so they can reduce storage costs while increasing business agility.”
To learn more about how Veritas and Microsoft can help you retain control, move workloads, and stay compliant across clouds, visit https://www.veritas.com/solution/microsoft-cloud
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