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Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise – How it Works

Veeam offers enterprise-grade backup solutions for all your data. Their flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication, protects physical and virtual workloads for physical and cloud-based data protection. Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise provides a turnkey solution that allows businesses to protect data in the cloud without needing to invest in expensive cloud infrastructure.

It is a perfect fit for organizations seeking a reliable and scalable solution for protecting their mission-critical data. It works in any environment, on any platform, and with any storage system. Veeam Cloud Connect extends its data protection solution to the cloud.

Many businesses use Veeam Backup & Replication to protect their physical servers and data, but it has one big problem: backups are expensive.

Veeam Cloud Connect uses the free version of Veeam Backup & Replication to backup data to the public cloud and protects the data within it from data loss using Veeam Cloud Gateway. Veeam Cloud Gateway provides an enterprise-class data protection gateway that securely moves data between on-premises resources and the public cloud. It encrypts data in transit and provides firewall and intrusion detection capabilities to ensure that your data remains secure.

How Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise works

Cloud Connect extends Veeam Backup & Replication to the cloud, allowing you to back up and restore files in the public cloud. The solution comes in two editions: Cloud Connect and Cloud Connect Plus.

Cloud Connect is the free edition that comes with Veeam Backup & Replication. You can use it to back up files to the public cloud. The files are encrypted, and the backups are stored on your Veeam Backup & Replication Server (VBR Server). The free edition also includes the ability to perform a full database restore.

Components of the Veeam Cloud Connect for an Enterprise solution

  • The Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise solution consists of Veeam Cloud Connect, Veeam Cloud Gateway, and Veeam Backup & Replication.
  • Veeam Cloud Connect is a VMware vCloud Air application that creates a virtual machine that simulates a physical server that can store and backup data to a public cloud.
  • Veeam Cloud Gateway is an application that creates a private network that connects to a public cloud. It allows administrators to move data between their organization and the public cloud securely.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication is a data protection software that can back up data to a local storage device or a physical or virtual server.

Features of Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise

Backups to the cloud.

Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise makes it possible to back up VMs and physical servers to the cloud for remote offsite protection. This means that you can move your workloads into the cloud and continue to work with them from your own local devices without being restricted to the cloud.

Recovery from the cloud.

Recovering VMs and physical servers from the cloud is also possible with Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise. This allows you to quickly recover your workloads and bring them back to your on-premises environment, where they can be restored or moved to another cloud instance if needed.

With the popularity of virtualization technology growing every year, more and more businesses are adopting the cloud as a platform for data storage and management. This makes the need for reliable backup solutions more critical than ever.

Data encryption.

Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise supports both VMware vSphere and Hyper-V hypervisors. Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise encrypts data at rest and in transit, providing a layer of security for your data. It is a part of Veeam’s SecureData Service for cloud-based services.

CloudConnect makes Veeam Availability Suite (VAS) accessible via the web. Once you have it up and running, you will be able to monitor and protect multiple servers across the world. It is the only solution that is capable of supporting both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V without requiring a VMware expert to set up.