Encryption in demand for backup and replication: Veeam

Patrick Budmar | Oct. 28, 2014

When it comes to backup and replication, Veeam has found encryption is one of the most requested feature by businesses.

When it comes to backup and replication, Veeam has found encryption is one of the most requested feature by businesses.

Product strategy specialist, Rick Vanover, said that functionality became a priority for CloudConnect in Availability Suite v8.

"A lot things had to happen to make CloudConnect work, and adding our own encryption helped with that," he said.

Vanover said it was not enough simply to add encryption as a checkbox on the product to say it also encrypts data.

"We did it to help protect people against losing their password," he said.

If the password to the encrypted data is lost, that typically means that the data is already lost.

What Veeam has done is add a mechanism to CloudConnect that can recover the encrypted data even if the password is lost.

"It does not necessarily mean people need to stop managing passwords correctly, but it something goes wrong we have a way," Vanover said.

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Encryption in demand for backup and replication: Veeam