Data recovery gap persists despite investment in cyber resilience
Recovering data after a cyberattack remains one of the biggest challenges facing organizations despite growing investment in cyber resilience.
Veeam has introduced a new version of its data resilience platform with expanded capabilities designed to strengthen recovery, security and business continuity.
Although 90% of organizations believe they can recover from a cyber incident, fewer than one in three ransomware victims fully restored their data, highlighting one of the biggest gaps in business continuity and cyber resilience strategies.
Against this backdrop, Veeam Data Platform v13.1 introduces new data protection, recovery and security capabilities designed to strengthen data resilience and support artificial intelligence initiatives.
The latest release is intended to reduce operational fragmentation, a common challenge in which disconnected tools and siloed teams create manual processes and blind spots during recovery efforts.
In practice, integrating resilience and security helps reduce tool sprawl while improving preparedness for cyber incidents.
”Cyber risk is increasing dramatically with the rapid advancement of frontier models and self-managed AI agents. Resilience will be critical to maintaining business continuity and recovering from the growing number of cyber and AI-related incidents,” said Rehan Jalil, President of Products and Technology at Veeam.
Expanded hypervisor support.
The update adds support for six additional hypervisors: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Sangfor aSV, XCP-ng, Citrix XenServer, VergeIO and Platform9.
This expands platform compatibility to 14 hypervisors, with further support planned through the Universal Hypervisor API to address infrastructure modernization and the evolving virtualization market.
”Organizations evaluating alternative hypervisors need to modernize without introducing new resilience gaps. With Data Platform v13.1 adding support for Sangfor aSV, CITIC Telecom CPC’s SmartCLOUD services can help customers protect critical workloads, maintain recovery readiness and ensure service continuity throughout infrastructure transitions,” said Danny Tang, Senior Manager of Cloud Services, Products and Digital Intelligence Development at CITIC Telecom CPC.
The platform also extends protection for EPIC EHR, IBM Db2 for Windows and Oracle while introducing a backup repository for custom applications.
These capabilities allow organizations to consolidate critical workloads on a single platform, unifying security controls, reporting and recovery processes for industries including healthcare and financial services.
Security and recovery.
Security enhancements include malware scanning for NAS environments, expanded threat detection for Microsoft Azure, Active Directory Forest Recovery to accelerate identity restoration after cyber incidents, alignment with NIST post-quantum cryptography standards and support for hybrid FIPS environments.
The platform also validates restore points before recovery, helping organizations recover clean and trusted data.
”Data Platform v13.1 reflects the evolution of the data protection market from conventional backup and recovery toward a strategic focus on resilience and data trust. By expanding hypervisor support, strengthening threat detection and extending protection for critical enterprise applications, this release addresses organizations’ growing needs around diversified infrastructure, cyber incident preparedness and reliable recovery of clean data,” said Phil Hassey, CEO and Founder of CapioIT.
The release also introduces enhancements for NAS environments designed to optimize long-term backup retention across AWS S3 Glacier, Azure Archive and other file storage systems, reducing storage requirements without compromising compliance or recovery capabilities.
Platform evolution.
The release represents another step in Veeam’s evolution toward a platform focused on data trust and artificial intelligence by adding capabilities for recovery, security, intelligence and workload portability. These enhancements are designed to validate restore points, reduce cyber risk exposure and simplify compliance across hybrid environments.
”Organizations are looking to modernize their virtualization environments without compromising resilience, recovery or flexibility. Together, HPE and Veeam help customers simplify migration to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials while strengthening data protection and accelerating recovery with HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000. By combining HPE’s platform and infrastructure portfolio with Data Platform v13.1, businesses can modernize virtualization with confidence, improve cyber and operational resilience and build a stronger foundation for future growth,” said Stephen Bacon, Vice President of Cyber Resilience and Data Protection Solutions at HPE.
”Data Platform v13.1 reinforces our shared commitment to delivering simple, resilient data protection for modern hybrid environments. Through deeper integrations and joint innovations, including one-click migrations to AHV, fast and seamless recovery to AHV has never been easier. Customers gain stronger management and recovery capabilities with greater control and confidence across hybrid multicloud environments, whether on-premises or in the public cloud. We are proud to strengthen this partnership and deliver solutions that provide immediate value to our customers,” said Ketan Shah, Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix.
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