With the exponential growth of data worldwide, managing backups calls for more innovation, as traditional methods such as tape libraries and secondary sites are being phased out. Moving workloads and extending backup targets to the cloud is becoming the new norm, according to one chief technology officer.

For the past five years, the partnership between Amazon Web Services Inc. and Veeam Software Inc. has prompted secure and cost-effective backup and restore solutions in the cloud. Data protection should happen irrespective of whether it’s a Kubernetes cluster, on-premises in a data center, or running up in the cloud in EC2, according to Danny Allan (pictured, left), CTO of Veeam.

“If you look at the cloud native capabilities we protect today, certainly it began with EC2 … but we’ve gone well beyond that,” he said. “We protect radio data systems, elastic file services, Elastic Kubernetes services and AWS ECS. But the interesting thing is, when we do data protection, we’re sending it to S3, and we’re doing all of the management, tiering and security that our customers know, love and expect.”

Allan, joined by James Kirschner (pictured, right), director for S3 Storage at AWS, spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed how Veeam maximizes data protection using Amazon S3. (* Disclosure below.)

Data protection should be customer-centric

Customers moving their Veeam Backups to AWS get unmatched durability, security and affordability with a cost-effective offsite storage platform, which offers pay-as-you-go economics and near-zero overhead to manage, according to Kirschner.

“One customer leveraging Veeam and AWS is Maritz … recently Maritz moved over a thousand virtual machines and petabytes of data into AWS using Veeam,” he noted. “Veeam backup for AWS enables Maritz to protect their Amazon EC2 instances with data backup in Amazon S3 for highly available, cost-effective, long-term storage.”

Over the last 15 years, Kirschner believes S3 has helped companies around the world optimize workloads based on its robust storage offering that provides scalability, availability, security and performance.

“S3 stores exabytes of data across millions of hard drives, trillions of objects around the world and regularly peaks at millions of requests per second,” he stated. “S3 can process in a single region over 60 terabytes a second.”

Veeam’s acquisition of Kasten last year enhanced its Kubernetes Business Unit and added more capabilities and services around AWS, including Bottlerocket and EKS Anywhere, according to Allan.  

“We give this consistent data management experience, including the next generation of infrastructure, that we believe will be based on containers,” he concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: Veeam Software Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Veeam nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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