Many information technology departments today won’t commit exclusively to on-premises data centers, private or public cloud infrastructure. It can be tough for vendors to cook up the mishmash of services they require. Can smart partnering and cross-compatible interfaces help companies like Veeam Software Inc. be everything to everyone?

“Everything that Veeam does and develops is generally based on feedback from our customers,” said Michael Cade (pictured, left), global technologist at Veeam Software.

With the game up in the air, it seems safer to simply ask customers what they want rather than try to read minds. Veeam seeks to implement the changes customers want on its data backup and availability platform “whilst still trying to keep that easy-to-use kind of mentality,” Cade said.

Cade joined Nicolas Savides (pictured, right), senior director of alliances, EMEA, at Veeam, for an interview at the Nutanix .NEXT EU event in Nice, France. They spoke to Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. (* Disclosure below.)

Veeam on Nutanix AHV

Veeam has expanded its portfolio in the years since it gained popularity as a backup solution for virtualized workloads. To date, it caters to customers just entering into virtualization, as well as those moving to public clouds like Amazon Web Services Inc.

Veaam put heads together with another company straddling the on-prem and cloud worlds, Nutanix Inc. Veeam’s mission is to protect any data, any app in any environment — that includes Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure systems. Its new offering with Nutanix offers streamlined data availability across all workloads.

“It’s really aimed towards the Nutanix Acropolis [hypervisor] administrator,” Cade said. It uses a web interface but still links in and authenticates against Veeam backup and recovery.

“It’s not only an alliance that is from a technology perspective of a product,” Savides stated. “The last step is really a collaboration around going together to the customer.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Nutanix .NEXT EU. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Nutanix .NEXT EU event. Neither Nutanix Inc., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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