Datrium boosts VMware protection but won’t add more hypervisors
Summary
Datrium has announced the ability to protect and recover VMware virtual machines (VMs) running on any platform. Datrium started out focused on NVMe flash storage hardware, but has transformed its efforts towards hybrid cloud and provision of a broad data platform. The ability to failover to AWS at the push of a button in ControlShift – hence the “instant RTO” claim – sees workloads being immediately available. Reddy was keen to point out the benefits of being able to run from the cloud in the event of a disaster when compared with use of a mainstream backup product. “What everyone wants to know from the IT team when a disaster strikes is, ‘Can I bring my workload up ASAP’?” Currently, only the AWS cloud is supported, but use of Azure and GCP will be possible from “mid-next year” said chief technology officer Sazzala Reddy.