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Veeam Software today announced general availability of Veeam Backup 2.0, a product offering both backup and replication for virtual environments. Version 2.0 includes added functionality, as well as a new optimized backup engine that allows for up to five times faster backup and replication performance than the 1.0 version.

Major new features in Veeam Backup 2.0 include:

• Five times faster — Veeam Backup 2.0 has a new optimized backup
  engine, which allows for up to five times faster backup and replication
  performance than the previous version.
• Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support — Veeam Backup 2.0
  leverages VSS to ensure consistent backup and recovery of VSS-aware
  applications, including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
  SQL Server.
• ESXi support — Now customers can back up ESXi servers using VMware
  Consolidated Backup (VCB). File-level recovery is fully supported for
  guests running on ESXi, and full image restore is supported to ESX 3.x
  servers. These images can then be VMotioned to ESXi as needed.
• Enhanced reporting and notification — Comprehensive real-time job
  statistics are available, including automated e-mail notification of backup
  job status, activity and performance details.
• Backup portability — Veeam Backup users can now easily import backups
  made using previous versions of the software, or backups that have been
  archived to tape.
• Support for third-party tape backup systems — Now users can specify a
  script to automatically run when the VMware backup is finished, initiating
  tape backups to begin.

Veeam Backup 2.0 is available immediately, and pricing still begins at $499 USD per socket.

[Source: MarketWire]