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Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots

In December, 2012 Veeam Software company, the supplier of the innovative solutions for protection and data recovery and management of virtual environments of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, announced the expanded integration into HP including support of hardware pictures of SAN for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage with managing software of HP 3PAR of Virtual Copy.

Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots allows IT administrators to recover the virtual machines (VM) or information directly from hardware pictures of HP of StoreVirtual Storage using the Veeam Backup & Replication application. Support of new DWH of 3PAR StoreServ 7000 and all line of DWH of 3PAR the solution Veeam Backup & Replication will be available in the first half of 2013.

Most of experts of the industry agree that modern data protection should include use of hardware pictures as a part of complex strategy of data protection. Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots was created with the purpose to integrate backup and recovery from hardware pictures of SAN in the binding, multilevel uncompromising solution. Multilevel recovery integrates fast recovery from often created hardware pictures of SAN and security of the second copy of data.

Key features of Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots:

• Efficiency
  • Completely automated procedure allows to mount the selected hardware pictures of SAN and to protect integrity of production LUN.
  • Recovery of separate files from hardware pictures in read minutes.
  • Recovery of virtual machines without use of intermediate steps.
  • Recovery of all virtual machine less than two in minutes.

• Usability
  • A unified integrated environment for each scenario of recovery.
  • Ordinary masters in use for recovery of virtual machines, files and applications.
  • There is no need of deployment of agents on hosts or virtual machines.

• Availability
  • An opportunity is included in all editions Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 and also is available to Veeam Backup Free Edition.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange

In the summer of 2012 the Veeam Software company provided Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange — the revolutionary tool which replaces the existing expensive solutions for backup, recovery and electronic search on the Microsoft Exchange server.

Administrators of virtual environment can browse contents of backup copies of Exchange for search and extraction of separate objects of Exchange without use of additional agents. Possibilities of a new free solution include:

• Viewing contents of databases of Exchange directly from the compressed backup file. Preparation of the database takes less than two minutes.
• Search of the necessary objects and object types at once in several databases of Exchange and also enhanced capabilities of search.
• Export of objects to the file of the PST format, preserving in the MSG format or sending in an investment to the letter.

The solution will allow administrators of virtual environment to perform the following operations:

• Electronic search (e-discovery): providing information for internal or external use.
• Recovery of objects of Exchange: export of accidentally remote letters, notes or events of the calendar from the saved backup copy and also convenient transfer of these objects to the user.
• Archiving of the deleted mailboxes: before removal all mailboxes can be saved in the file of the PST format.

Ratmir Timashev, the president and the chief executive of Veeam Software company, notes: "For community of virtualization Veeam Backup Free Edition has huge value — from the moment of release of the program at the beginning of June it was downloaded by more than 20,000 times. The solution Veeam Explorer for Exchange is intended for replacement of the expensive tools presented at the market of recovery and electronic search on the Microsoft Exchange server".

What to do if the employee accidentally deleted the necessary letter, or synchronization with the mobile device took place not successfully and in the calendar there were incorrect data, or the request for providing correspondence to a story with a certain client came to the company? IT to the administrator needs to have an opportunity to expedite a request with the set search criterions according to the corresponding backup copies.

Now it is possible to apply the Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange utility provided free of charge to all who use Veeam Backup and Replication to such tasks.

Main opportunities of this utility:

• Fast Item-Level Recovery. An opportunity to quickly take from the backup copy of the virtual machine with Exchange the server the required letter, a calendar event, or any other element. "Quickly" means that for carrying out this transaction it is not necessary to unroll test laboratory / sandbox, to lift virtual machines with Exchange the server and the domain controller (perhaps several connected machines). Veeam Explorer for Exchange takes the necessary letters directly from the file of information storage (Info Store) Exchange of the server.
• E-Discovery. An opportunity to execute search of letters in the set criteria (a key word, the sender, the receiver, date, etc.)
• Export. An opportunity to export the found and taken letters to the PST file (for a case when is a lot of them) or in the form of the msg-file (in the Outlook format) thanks to what such letter can be easily sent by mail to the relevant employee.
• Mailbox Archive. An opportunity for work with a repository of backup copies as with archive of electronic correspondence. About advantages of such approach to a repository in terms of return of investments into infrastructure it is possible to look in a post about vPower technology.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange работает с: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 и выше VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Windows 7 x64 Windows 2008 x64 Windows 2008 R2 x64

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint

Earlier IT departments had to purchase expensive software tools for detailed data recovery from backup copies of Microsoft SharePoint. Veeam makes a revolution in this market. Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft SharePoint will be included as the free built-in function in the next versions of the solutions Veeam Backup Free Edition and Veeam Backup & Replication v7 which will become available already in the second half of the current year.

Microsoft SharePoint is the main solution in IT departments of the companies of the most different scales: from small private enterprises to global corporations. If the employee needs the file which was deleted or damaged, then the support service can seldom propose to it the fast and simple solution. Recovery of such file often involves need of recovery of all SharePoint database. Thus again to get access to a small fragment of specific information, several hours or even days can be required.

Application of Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint for digital search (e-discovery) allows users to focus search on that information which is required, quickly to determine by it its location and to recover the necessary objects of SharePoint.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint offers IT departments the intuitive interface for search in backup copies of SharePoint without use of additional agents. The program has the following functions:

• Fast viewing databases of SharePoint in the form of the compressed, undergone deduplication backup copies at the level of an image from virtual machines (VM) SharePoint, without the need for recovery of all database;
• Detection of specific objects of SharePoint by digital search (e-discovery);
• Recovery and export of data directly on the original SharePoint server and a possibility of transfer of data on e-mail to certain users;
• Support of SharePoint both under Microsoft Hyper-V, and under VMware vSphere.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint — the newest in a series of the innovation products from Veeam company which allow the staff of IT departments to browse, find and recover separate database objects. Earlier also other products with similar functions were released:

• The application for universal data recovery of U-AIR® (Universal Application Item Recovery). The multifunction application for recovery of separate objects. Entered the version of Veeam Backup & Replication v5 released in October, 2010.
• Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange. Quick search and recovery of separate objects of Exchange directly from the backup copy without complete recovery of all database. It is provided to versions of Veeam Backup & Replication v6.5 in October, 2012.
• Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots. Fast recovery of single or all virtual machines directly from the hardware picture of SAN. Function is presented in the version of Veeam Backup & Replication v6.5 in October, 2012.

2015: Veeam Explorer for Oracle is released

On July 15, 2015 the Veeam Software company announced Veeam Explorer for Oracle within the solution Veeam Availability Suite v9.

In addition to opportunities for Oracle: backup at the level of transactions and an image without use of agents for Oracle ASM, possibilities of the corporate level for the solutions Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server are for the first time provided in this version.

Announcement of Veeam Explorers for Oracle, 2015

With an exit of Veeam Explorer for Oracle customers will have a simple and effective tool supplementing the Veeam Explorer family where solutions for data recovery of such applications enter as Microsoft Active Directory Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server.

Veeam Explorer for Oracle, это:

• backup of transaction logs without use of agents and recovery of Oracle databases up to a certain transaction that will allow customers to recover data on specific timepoint and, thus, to reduce the target recovery time (RPO);
• fast recovery of separate databases — is enough now one mouse click;
• support of the databases working running Windows and Linux;
• full compatibility with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), the next innovation from Veeam.

Possibilities of eDiscovery in Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange:

• the detailed reports about export allowing customers to understand what objects were unloaded, their location and according to what search criterions;
• possibility of assessment of result of accomplishment of a request.

Opportunities for Microsoft applications of the Enterprise level:

• recovery group the politician, the integrated records DNS and configuration sections using Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory;
• complete recovery of websites and the website of collections using Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint;
• data recovery at the level of tables using Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server.

"When it comes about databases, first of all the Oracle company occurs. Its leadership as solution provider for management of databases in an Enterprise segment and the fact that products of Oracle are used by the companies worldwide for support of crucial transactions podtvezhdat the highest reliability of these solutions — Ratmir Timashev, the president and the chief executive of Veeam noted. — Idle times in business are inadmissible. And though any solution does not give 100% of a guarantee, users want that applications and data could be recovered in several minutes. Every second of idle time are financial losses! The Veeam company creates the innovative solutions for ensuring data availability in modern DPCs (Availability for the Modern Data Center) that allows to provide indicators target a point and the recovery time (RTPO) at the level of 15 minutes and below for critical applications and data. Announcing integration into Oracle in a new solution, Veeam shows high extent of support of a corporate segment again and provides users to all necessary in order that they could implement the concept of Always-On Business and get powerful competitive advantage".

Veeam Explorer for Oracle is a part of the solution Veeam Backup FREE Edition and is available to all database managers of Oracle free of charge.