Since its inception, Datrium has attracted about $ 120 million in investments and has maintained partnerships with the largest cloud providers under the slogan "any cloud, any application, any device with its own security system." The startup has been working with VMware for several years to offer system recovery services in the VMware Cloud environment on Amazon Web Services, allowing you to create backups that are encrypted, deduplicated and stored in Amazon S3 storage.
With hybrid cloud strategies gaining an increasing following among users of VMware solutions, it is important to empower them to support these environments and the applications that run on them. VMware Cloud with Datrium DRaaS is ideal for hybrid cloud environments where the cost and flexibility of the cloud can help mitigate the risk of unpredictable disaster scenarios.
According to John Gilmartin, vice president and head of VMware HCI, the new solution can reduce the cost and complexity of business continuity. And Datrium CEO Tim Page emphasized that disaster recovery should be quick and easy. And companies shouldn't be content with converting virtual machine formats or taking long periods of restoring their applications to surviving data when a disaster is in full swing. As VMware addresses similar challenges in delivering a seamless experience in the cloud world, it was a matter of time to bring the two companies together.
VMware's deal with Datrium marks the next stage in the development of its cloud services company. In May 2020, it acquired Octarine (the company was engaged in the issue of protecting Kubernetes containers), and in June - Lastline (a startup specialized in combating malware).