Veeam.Backup.and.Replication.v9.0 Veeam® Backup & Replication™ is a powerful, easy-to-use and affordable backup and Availability solution. It provides fast, flexible and reliable recovery of virtualized applications and data bringing virtual machine backup and replication together in a single software solution with award-winning support for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v9, part of Veeam Availability Suite™, provides a number of new cutting-edge capabilities that help deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by providing recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of <15 minutes for ALL applications and data. The following is a list of the major new features and functionalities added as part of v9. New Innovations Scale-out Backup Repository Managing backup storage is an enormous and expensive effort for enterprises. This is largely due to the fact that the exponential rate of data growth is outpacing the ability of legacy solutions to manage it in efficient, cost-effective ways. Veeam’s new Scale-out Backup Repository™ addresses this challenge by lowering backup storage hardware spending and significantly simplifying backup storage management in the enterprise. With this new capability, enterprises will be able to: • Dramatically simplify backup storage and backup job management through a single, software-defined backup repository encompassing multiple heterogeneous storage devices • Reduce storage hardware spending by allowing existing backup storage investments to be fully leveraged, eliminating the problem of underutilized storage devices • Improve backup performance, allowing for lower RPOs and reduced risk of data loss in daily operations BitLooker BitLooker™ is Veeam’s unique, patent-pending, advanced data-reduction technology designed to further reduce backup file size and replication bandwidth usage by 20% or more. It allows customers to remove useless chunks of data congesting their backup storage and network resources by providing the following three capabilities: • Excluding deleted file blocks • Excluding swap and hibernation files • Excluding user-specified files and folders Note for users upgrading from previous versions: By default, BitLooker will be enabled for newly created jobs upon upgrade. However, it will not be automatically enabled on existing jobs to ensure the jobs do not change existing behaviors. BitLooker can be enabled manually in the advanced job settings or by using a PowerShell script.