Veeam Cloud Connect
The easy, efficient way to get backups offsite to a service provider

Veeam Cloud Connect Backup for Service Providers:

Fast and secure backup to the cloud

Veeam Cloud Connect makes it easy for Veeam customers to extend their backup infrastructure to the cloud. Veeam Cloud Connect also makes it easy for service providers to offer hosted backup repositories or complete backup services with Veeam.

Extending Backup to the Cloud

Everyone needs a place to store their backups off site. But many organizations don't have a second site, and rotating tapes or removable media off site is cumbersome. Increasingly, customers are turning to the cloud as a better alternative.

This creates a huge opportunity for service providers. Veeam Cloud Connect helps you seize the opportunity – to acquire new customers, build recurring revenue, and enter the fast-growing cloud services market.

How It Works

Veeam Cloud Connect integrates hosted backup repositories (called cloud repositories) directly into the Veeam backup console:

• Your customers simply click “Add Service Provider” and enter the credentials you’ve given them.
• Their cloud repositories appear in their backup infrastructure.

That's it! There’s no VPN, no separate console, and cloud repositories work like other backup repositories – except they’re available even if the primary backup or data center is lost.

Customers can connect to - and search for - service providers offering cloud repositories directly from the Veeam backup console.

10-Minute Setup

Veeam Cloud Connect makes it easy to be a target for Veeam backups – as a standalone offering, or as part of your Veeam-powered backup service. With a single server and in just 10 minutes, you can configure a cloud infrastructure for Veeam.

That infrastructure includes a cloud gateway that:

• Virtualizes network traffic between you and your customers.
• Securely transfers data over an SSL/TLS connection, using a single port to simplify firewall configuration and eliminate the need for a VPN connection.

You can even deploy multiple cloud gateways to enable high Availability and automatic load balancing.

Multi-Tenancy

Veeam Cloud Connect was designed from the ground up for your multi-tenant hosting environment:

• Segment a single backup repository into one or more cloud repositories, each with its own specified tenant.
• Manage resource allocations and expiration dates for each tenant.

Cloud repositories are completely isolated from one another. Customers can also encrypt their backups – this is done at the source, before data leaves the customer’s network and without increasing bandwidth consumption. Because unlike a general purpose WAN accelerator, Veeam’s Built-in WAN Acceleration maintains data reduction ratios even with encrypted data streams.

Veeam Cloud Connect provides multi-tenant support, eliminates the need for VPN connections and simplifies firewall configuration.

Don't Miss Out

Demand for cloud backup is on the rise, thanks to growing acceptance of hosted solutions, the need for 24x7 access to applications and data, and renewed focus by IT on revenue-generating activities (and the resulting demand for managed backup and other services).

Veeam is the ideal way for you to participate – and succeed – in this fast-growing market:

• The best service provider program in the industry: with flexible deployment options and monthly “pay as you grow” rental.
• 205,000 customers: many of whom are looking for a place to store backups offsite.
• 41,000 partners: many of whom are looking for a Cloud Connect service to recommend or resell to their Veeam customers.
• Zero competition from Veeam: We don’t offer our own cloud or our own backup service – instead, we enable our partners to!

Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers:

Your DRaaS opportunity awaits!

Disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) is your #1 opportunity to sell cloud services to new and existing customers. Demand is high, and the cloud has eliminated the need for a traditional disaster recovery (DR) site. Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers makes DRaaS easy, profitable, and practical for any customer environment.

Cloud-based disaster recovery

Grow your DRaaS business with Veeam’s expanding market presence and purpose-built technology for service providers. Veeam Cloud Connect allows you to easily set up and maintain a secure multi-tenant environment for hosting standby virtual machines (VMs).

And with Veeam, you can offer your customers the best that DRaaS has to offer, including:

• Fast, flexible failover of specific VMs or an entire site
• Streamlined failback with zero data loss and minimal disruption to users
• Recovery assurance, including support for replica and failover testing and alternating production between sites
• Seamless integration with Veeam user interfaces, workflows and data collection

How it works

Veeam Cloud Connect presents your customers with a “cloud host” that they can replicate VMs to:

• Your customers simply click “Add Service Provider” from the Veeam console and enter the credentials you’ve given them.
• Their cloud hosts appear in their Veeam infrastructure.

Veeam Cloud Connect includes multi-tenant support, requires only a single port, and securely transfers data over SSL/TLS (no VPN required).

That's it! There’s no VPN, no separate console, and cloud hosts work like other replication targets – except customers can provision them on demand and without having to maintain a second site.

Why it’s better

No dependency on third-party software
A “naked” hypervisor is all that’s required. You don’t need to acquire, learn or maintain additional technology – for orchestration, network extension, WAN acceleration, etc. – because everything is available right out of the box. Multi-tenancy is even built in, so you can securely host multiple customers on the same hardware, with complete isolation between tenants.

Expedited onboarding
A single port is all that’s needed. Veeam Cloud Connect encapsulates and encrypts all network traffic – for management, replication and even inter-VM communication – to securely transmit data over a single port using SSL/TLS. There’s no need to set up and maintain VPN connections or open multiple ports.

Automated network reconfiguration
Eliminates the high cost and headaches of reconfiguring networks for DR testing or full or partial failover. Veeam network extension appliances preserve communication with and between running VMs regardless of their location.

Bandwidth friendly features
Built-in WAN acceleration, Bitlooker, seeding and more allow you to provide DRaaS to customers with slow or unreliable WAN connections or a large number of VMs.

Broad coverage
Because Veeam replicates at the hypervisor layer, you can offer DRaaS to any customer in your target market regardless of the storage, applications and operating systems they use – now and in the future. Support for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V further maximizes your addressable market.

Assigning a "hardware plan" to a tenant defines the CPU, memory, storage and network resources available to them.

Don’t Miss out

Demand for DRaaS is on the rise, thanks to growing acceptance of hosted solutions and the need for 24x7 access to applications and data.

Veeam is the ideal way for you to participate – and succeed – in this fast-growing market:

• Easy licensing, including monthly rental by the VM and no VM minimum
• A market and channel at the ready, including 205,000 current Veeam customers; 3,500 new Veeam customers each month; and 41,000 channel partners
• Zero competition from Veeam: We don’t offer our own cloud or our own DR services – instead, we enable our partners to!

Veeam Cloud Connect includes a mobile-friendly portal for failover, which you can easily brand as your own.

Cloud-based Disaster Recovery / DRaaS:

DRaaS as part of a comprehensive availability strategy

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) is normally implemented in addition to, or separate from, an overall availability strategy, pulling the focus of IT away from current datacenter investments and momentum—adding a layer of management complexity that can leave you uncertain if you can really recover if something goes terribly wrong.

Veeam enables DRaaS as part of a comprehensive availability strategy, embracing virtualization and storage investments in your datacenter and extending them through the hybrid cloud. Affordable and efficient image-based VM replication delivers true cloud-based disaster recovery for ALL applications (RTPOs < 15 minutes) through the best and most trusted DRaaS providers across the globe—just choose the provider that suits your needs best!

Fast, secure cloud-based disaster recovery

Get the most out of DRaaS with Veeam Cloud Connect VM replication, providing fully integrated, fast and secure cloud-based DR (disaster recovery) through a DRaaS provider.

Advanced, image-based VM replication through Veeam Cloud Connect is simple to set-up and easy-to-use through a service provider. It includes:

• A cloud host for DR with CPU (central processing unit), RAM (random access memory), storage and networking resource allocation from a DRaaS provider
• Full-site failover to a remote DR site from anywhere with just a few clicks through a secure web portal and partial-site failover to instantly switch over to selected VM replicas only
• Full and partial failback to restore normal business operations
• Built-in network extension appliances to simplify networking complexity and preserve communication with and between running VMs, regardless of the physical location
• 1-click failover orchestration for quick execution and site failover testing for failover simulation, without disrupting production workloads
• Single-port connectivity via a secure, reliable TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer) connection to a service provider with traffic encryption
• Multiple traffic-reduction technologies, including built-in WAN acceleration, BitLooker™ and replica seeding

Simply choose a Veeam service provider and point your replica jobs to the cloud host exhibited by a DRaaS provider.

Documentation:

Veeam Cloud Connect Datasheet (.PDF)