Benefits include enhanced visibility and simplified workload migration.

Veritas Technologies announced a new 360 data management solution for Veritas and Microsoft Azure customers.

Customers can now enjoy the flexibility and agility of Azure, along with Veritas data management capabilities that help reduce costs, ensure compliance, enhance visibility, and simplify workload migration. It also helps you create greater value from your data, leading to better business outcomes.

“Customers who leverage Veritas and Microsoft solutions together can benefit from the flexibility and agility of the Azure cloud combined with the trusted toolset of the Veritas 360 data management platform,” said Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer for Microsoft Azure. “Customers can leverage these offerings to optimize their hybrid cloud environments while extracting greater value from their data.”

This announcement includes new technology integrations that will improve both companies' customers' business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness, support hybrid cloud scale-out storage optimization, and dramatically improve the ability to visualize data from disparate sources.

Monitor multi-tier applications on the Veritas Resiliency Platform and easily perform failover and failback operations to and from Azure environments with a simple one-click.

Veritas Access lets you automatically migrate older data to the cloud for cost-effective long-term storage, or easily combine on-premises storage and Azure cloud storage to create a single scale-out file system for efficient storage management without downtime.

“The need to integrate Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) into enterprise IT strategies is clear,” said Mike Palmer, executive vice president and chief product officer at Veritas.However, data management is crucial to helping enterprises extract the most value from their data while ensuring data compliance and protection. This is why this partnership is so highly regarded by customers,” he said.