ExaGrid Systems, which provides disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, has announced expanded backup application support for Veeam Backup & Replication.
Customers can now use Veeam Backup’s built-in source-side deduplication in concert with ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system with Zone Deduplication to further shrink backups with optimal performance.
The combination of ExaGrid’s and Veeam’s VMware data protection solutions allows customers to utilize Veeam Backup & Replication in VMware virtual environments on ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system for backups and data storage as well as ExaGrid replication to an offsite location for disaster recovery. W
ith the latest enhancement, ExaGrid now provides full support for Veeam Backup & Replication v5, including its advanced features such as Instant VM Recovery, U-AIR (Universal Application-Item Recovery) and SureBackup Recovery Verification.
Veeam customers can now recover an entire virtual machine (VM), individual application objects and individual files from the same fully tested image-based backup.