Veeam v11 adds continuous data protection and cloud archive
Summary
Backup specialist Veeam’s upgrade to version 11 of its Backup & Replication product will add continuous data protection (CDP), which the company claims will offer RPOs and RTOs down to seconds and is targeted at the most critical – typically database – enterprise applications. Additionally, there is no physical distance limit to where data can be replicated, said Veeam senior global technologist Michael Wade. In theory, you could run snapshots at much higher frequency to provide much the same thing, but there would be an effect on performance as they have not been optimised to not impact I/O. It has added ransomware protection that puts backup files into an immutable state on-premise, in any customer hardware. “That means we can send much bigger chunks into the cloud archive but still recover at the level of an individual file, virtual machine, and so on.