VeeamON reveals Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud options
Veeam is all set to totally launch model 13 of its Veeam Information Platform (VDP) – the platform upon which Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) runs – by the tip of 2025. Final week, at its annual VeeamON occasion in San Diego, it took the chance to showcase some key options.
Amongst these was the Veeam Software program Equipment, which is able to convey Veeam Backup & Replication software program pre-configured on a Linux server.
Operating on Linux brings two benefits. First, it should carry out properly as a result of the Linux in query – “Simply Sufficient OS” (JeOS) – has shed all extra performance not wanted in a backup answer. Second, working on Linux makes it additional resilient to a lot malware, which tends to focus on Home windows.
For instance, when French firm Manutan was attacked by ransomware in 2021, its Veeam software program protected enterprise information, however restoration was hampered as a result of the Home windows servers on which it ran had been attacked. Since then, Veeam has labored to keep away from such a state of affairs, and working its software program on Linux is probably going a response to this.
Additionally introduced was that Veeam and Scality will staff as much as present a backup equipment based mostly on the latter’s Artesca backup-focused object storage.
MCP API to convey RAG from backups
Additionally to return in VDP 13 is help for mannequin context protocol (MCP), which permits backups to be related to a big language mannequin (LLM) to assist enrich the information base it may possibly work from.
“It acts to supply RAG [retrieval augmented generation] performance from backups,” stated Christophe Fontaine, technical director for Veeam in southern Europe and Africa. “That’s actually helpful as a result of backups comprise all an enterprise’s information, together with what’s not in manufacturing. Additionally, our administration console Veeam ONE is able to classifying such information, to keep away from delivering delicate information to AI [artificial intelligence], for instance.”
Model 13 of VDP proposes an software programming interface (API) for MCP along with information classification. Veeam hasn’t stated something in regards to the conversion of backup information to a vector format comprehensible by an LLM. This requires critical compute energy and additional storage.
Veeam already has an AI chatbot interface that may write studies on the state of backups and reply to questions formulated in pure language. The chatbot can search backup information roughly deeply to find, for instance, whether or not there’s delicate information or information that’s been contaminated by malware.
The depth to which that chatbot can search and analyse will rely upon what the shopper pays. VDP runs on-site and is invoiced month-to-month to varied service ranges – Basis, Superior, Premium – that convey differing ranges of performance. For instance, information classification is just accessible by Premium prospects.
Veeam Information Cloud to again up Entra ID and Salesforce
At this second, it’s not clear whether or not help for MCP will arrive in VDP 13 on the outset or if it is going to be initially out there on Veeam Information Cloud (VDC), the corporate’s cloud providers platform.
VDC is a model of VBR that runs within the Microsoft Azure cloud and protects information within the Azure cloud, and storage there too. The important thing distinction with merchandise that run on-site is that within the cloud, Veeam takes care of backups, storage and guaranteeing software program is stored updated, whereas on-site prospects want to supply their very own on-site goal storage or cloud storage as a goal.
Whereas VDC contains the fundamental capabilities of VBR in backing up Home windows or Linux digital machines (VMs), it differs from the on-site VBR suite. Right here, that features the opportunity of backing up information and configurations for Workplace 365, as with different software-as-a-service purposes on Azure. That may now additionally embody backups for Microsoft Entra ID – the alternative for Energetic Listing – in addition to Salesforce deployments.
Additionally in VDC, and already in VDP, is Vault, which permits for immutable backups from which Home windows or Linux servers might be restored in lower than 5 minutes.
VDP on VDC in 2026
We should wait till 2026 for VDC to have all of the performance of VDP, when the web variations of choices out there on-site will probably be grouped below a service known as “VDP on VDC”.
Additionally, it’s the case that VBR and VDP can export backups to clouds apart from Microsoft, however VDC runs solely on Azure.
VDC was created from the necessity to again up Microsoft 365 information and was initially constructed from the devoted Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VBM) in 2022. In line with Veeam, the colossal success of this service – with greater than 23 million customers so far – was a key driver in Veeam’s provide of a number of on-line Microsoft-focused providers. In February, Microsoft introduced it could spend money on Veeam, with an undisclosed quantity.
Veeam claims 550,000 prospects and has reported an annual income of $1.75bn. It’s primary amongst backup software program suppliers, of Microsoft 365 and in Kubernetes backup, in line with IDC and Gartner.
