announcing symantec & microsoft’s azure cloud disaster recovery as a service offering

Press Deck - Symantec DRaaS Announcement 1

Announcing Symantec & Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Disaster Recovery as a Service Offering

Lisa Erickson (Sr Manager, PM) - Symantec

Jennifer Ellard (Sr Manager, PMM) - SymantecRob Craft (Sr Director, Cloud Platform Strategy) - Microsoft

Announcing Strategic Agreement between Symantec and Microsoft• Symantec and Microsoft enter into an agreement to

develop Disaster Recovery as a Service Offering to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform– On-premise-to-cloud disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)

– Built on Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows and Veritas Volume Replicator

– Provides significantly faster recovery compared to restoring from backup

• Symantec continues to expand high availability and disaster recovery integration across Microsoft Windows Server, Hyper-V and Azure

• Pricing and general availability will be made available at a later date


Veritas StorageFoundation

Veritas Cluster Server

Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability For Windows

Veritas Storage Foundation High

Availability for Windows

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Local, Metro, and Wide-Area Failover

Application MonitoringIntegration with ReplicationProactive Disaster Recovery Testing

Host-Based Storage Management

Storage OptimizationMulti-pathingSnapshotsVolume Replication

Veritas Operations Manager

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Key Business Challenges Addressed by Symantec DRaaS Solution


Solutions• Offloading core DR datacenter

CAPEX & OPEX to Azure

• End-to-end DR automation from replicated data up through app

• Continuous replication. Zero data loss with bunker

• Non production environment impacted during Fire Drill testing

• One solution and coordinated DR across the different portions of the datacenter ecosystem

Challenges• Increased costs to build, manage

& maintain DR datacenters

• Operationally intensive, manual recovery processes = longer recovery time

• Large amount of data loss

• Recoverability confidence & testing

• Manage various solution implementations across different environments (physical, Hyper-V, app specific)

Bringing Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows to the Azure Platform


VM

Enterprise Customer Data Center

Storage Foundation HA

for Windows

VM

• Azure Connector

• Global Clustering

• Replication

PaaS SaaS

Windows Azure – a platform for apps

Physical Virtual IaaS

Applications are built here—and will likely span both

A Platform for ISV’s

The foundation for private clouds

Public

Commontechnologi

es

Identity ▪ Virtualization ▪ Management ▪ Development

Private

Helping You Cloud Optimize Your BusinessThe Microsoft Hybrid Cloud

CDN caching

identity &

securitybusiness analytics commercemedia

integration HPC

compute data management networking

SQL database

noSQL databasewebsites

cloud services blob connect

virtual network

traffic managerVMs

Global Physical Infrastructureservers/network/datacenters

automated

elastic

managed resources

usage based

Extensive Ongoing Joint Efforts to Create DRaaS

• Multiple joint technical enablement workshops• Multiple Symantec proof of concepts & prototyping• Entered formal agreement to deliver solution via Azure Recruit

program• Upcoming:

– Symantec in development

– Joint marketing efforts

– Joint enablement efforts

– Beta launch

– General availability


Value to Symantec and Microsoft

• Entry point for Symantec into Azure ecosystem

• Offers another cost-effective consumption model for industry-leading disaster recovery product

• Extends Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows offerings to broader set of customers


• Disaster recovery designed for the cloud with Azure

• Extends partner-based service offerings for the Azure platform

• Furthers Microsoft’s competitive advantage with broad service offerings available with Azure

Key Takeaways• Symantec and Microsoft entered into a strategic agreement to

develop a Disaster Recovery as a Service Offering to Azure cloud platform– Solves operational challenges with disaster recovery

– Allows customers to purchase DRaaS in alternative consumption model

• Mutually beneficial agreement to deliver a needed service offering to Azure cloud platform

• Continued joint efforts from Symantec and Microsoft to bring DRaaS to market


Thank you!

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