[Release] Veeam Backup & Replication v7

After a long lasting development phase, beta test and an impressive marketing campaign Veeam - the leader of VM Backup solutions - has released a new major version of its Backup & Replication product for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.

What's new in v7

• 2 "disruptive innovations":
• Built-In WAN acceleration (speeds up the replication of backup data to a secondary WAN-connected site by a factor of 50)
• Backup from Storage Snapshots (initial support for HP 3Par and Letfhand storage, others will follow)
• 7 market-leading new features
• Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Sharepoint (for easy application item recovery)
• Enhanced support for VMware vCloud Director
• Native Tape support (for backup archiving)
• Virtual Lab for Hyper-V (formerly support for vSphere only)
• Self-service Recovery (AD-integrated and based on many object types: VMs, application items, VM folders, vCloud Director cellsetc.)
• vSphere Web Client plugin
• Virtual lab for replicas
• More than 50 other new features and enhancements
• Backup copy jobs
• A RESTful API for easy new integration of 3rd-party products, web interfaces etc.
• Full Instant File Level Recovery for Hyper-V
• ...

Visit the product page for more detailed information, download of an evaluation copy and FAQs.

VMware vExperts (and other professionals) can request free NFR licenses of Veeam products - I'm not sure if that offer has already been updated to the new version, but I will find this out soon ...

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