Veeam ponders hyperconverged data protection play

Veeam is pondering a product to protect data stored inside hyperconverged systems, the company's new president and chief operating officer Peter McKay tells The Register. McKay is visiting Australia for VMware's “vForum” mini-gabfest and dropped in at Vulture South for a chat before the day. He said the company wants more …

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"Improve availability of hyperconverged systems .... to ensure it remains relevant"

From my personal perspective, this sounds like analysts pushing a vendor to show some activities around a hype although there is no need for this from a technical perspective and from a financial perspective. It's not important to cover hyperconverged systems (HC-Appliance market is growing but in total revenue a very small market - I'm only talking Appliances, not DIY-Solutions etc.), it's important to cover the software-stack that they are build up with. And that is something different (a lot of customers are looking into that). So for some vendors like HPE with their HC-Systems build on StoreVirtual-VSA Software Veeam already has a very powerful implementation incl. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots capabilities. Focusing on the SW-stack is much more relevant than focusing on the box.