HPE & Veeam expand partnership for hybrid cloud resilience

Veeam Software and HPE have expanded their strategic partnership to deliver a suite of data backup, resilience, and recovery solutions targeting hybrid IT environments.

The collaboration involves the integration of Veeam Data Platform with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and HPE Zerto Software, aiming to simplify protection and migration capabilities for customers managing complex workloads across private and hybrid clouds. The companies state that this partnership allows organisations to streamline their virtual machine (VM) licensing costs, enable efficient VM migration, and extend unified data protection to containerised and cloud-native environments.

Enhancing data protection

Key elements of the partnership include Veeam Data Platform's integration with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, which is designed to deliver efficient, image-based backups. This feature is anticipated to significantly reduce costs associated with VM licensing, while supporting seamless VM migration and data portability from traditional hypervisor infrastructures.

Support is also being extended to container and cloud-native workloads. Through Veeam Kasten, organisations will be able to implement comprehensive, unified data backup for containers in addition to their bare-metal and virtualised environments. This development addresses a growing need for agile and all-encompassing data protection as businesses accelerate cloud-native adoption.

Focus on resilience by design

In response to rising cyber threats and growing IT complexity, HPE and Veeam are launching the "Data Resilience by Design" initiative. This new framework combines HPE cybersecurity and cyber resilience transformation and readiness services, offering enterprises a structured approach to evaluate and strengthen their data security and resilience.

These services create a roadmap for organisations to anticipate and mitigate cyber threats, helping customers shore up their data protection strategies across both private and hybrid cloud landscapes. The companies report that this initiative empowers enterprises to proactively adapt to shifting threat landscapes without sacrificing agility or data availability.

"Data is an organisation's most valuable asset – and often its most vulnerable," said Fidelma Russo, Executive Vice President of Hybrid Cloud and CTO of HPE. "With our deep partnership and integration, HPE and Veeam are delivering unified virtualisation and data protection that is future-ready, giving customers the resiliency and agility to evolve their hybrid IT strategy."

"Organisations face a perfect storm of IT complexity and cyber threats. Data resilience can no longer be an afterthought. Our enhanced partnership ensures organisations can deploy enterprise-grade virtualisation solutions from HPE with Veeam backup, recovery, security and intelligence for maximum data resilience that keeps businesses running," said Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam.

The enhanced offering allows HPE Morpheus VM Essentials users to deploy Veeam's image-based backup while enabling VM mobility and compatibility across multi-hypervisor environments. Customers operating private cloud solutions or standalone servers can benefit from joint advancements in unified data protection capabilities, with the promise of VM licensing cost reductions of up to 90 percent.

Container and cloud coverage

Beyond improvements for VM workloads, the partnership also incorporates Veeam Kasten for backup and recovery of containerised and cloud-native applications. This means customers can apply one set of policies to protect disparate systems ranging from physical servers to Kubernetes-based workloads, simplifying compliance and administrative oversight.

HPE and Veeam's new data resilience framework additionally provides access to assessment and readiness services. These services are intended to help organisations understand their current risk profile, identify vulnerabilities, and deploy best practices in data security and availability, supporting future-proofing data strategies against evolving cyber threats.

The collaboration is also backed by increased joint go-to-market investment from both companies, aiming to drive further adoption of these unified data protection solutions across key markets.

Responding to modern requirements

This deeper partnership between HPE and Veeam seeks to address customer demands for comprehensive protection, resilience, and agility in an era where cyber incidents and operational disruptions are increasingly common. Both companies position the joint offering as critical for customers shifting to hybrid cloud models and digital transformation agendas.

With enhanced data backup, migration, and cyber resilience services, HPE and Veeam state the expanded partnership will help organisations ensure that critical business data is protected, accessible, and secure as technology environments continue to evolve.