In the relentless world of enterprise IT, where “Trust, resilience, and availability are the new currency of business,” as Veeam’s CRO John Jester asserts, the partnership between HPE and Veeam is shifting gears. They’re launching a concerted effort to finally bring some sanity to the increasingly tangled mess that is the hybrid cloud environment.
This is a move to help businesses, many of whom are still wrestling with older VMs, newer container platforms, and stricter security demands, handle data protection without resorting to a stack of incompatible tools.
The companies are tackling the friction points head-on:
Morpheus VM Essentials Integration: A new, native Veeam plug-in (currently in beta, targeting early 2026 GA) is designed to deliver image-level backup for VMs on HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software. The goal is clear: eliminate the custom setup layers and give IT teams a direct, clean way to secure mixed workloads.
Container Security Validation: HPE has now blessed its Morpheus Enterprise Software container services as a Veeam-ready option. This validation is meant to cut down the manual labor required for securing those modern, container-based workloads.
The Single-Platform Promise: Enterprises will soon be able to deploy HPE Private Cloud Business Edition together with the Veeam Data Platform. This pairing aims to be the death knell for “patchwork data protection” setups. By maintaining a single data format across VMware and VM Essentials, teams can expect smoother workload mobility and shorter, less frustrating support cycles.
Beyond simplifying the architecture, a major focus is on storage efficiency and recovery speed. For IT groups managing both on-prem and cloud systems, this is where the rubber meets the road:
- The Veeam Data Platform now leverages the newest HPE StoreOnce Catalyst version, promising a massive data reduction ratio of up to 60:1 for backups. Crucially, this update also removes limits on incremental backups and accelerates data restores, directly translating to lower storage costs and a better chance of hitting those critical recovery time objectives (RTOs).
- The HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is getting a performance boost with new NVMe support and snapshot integrations from the Veeam Data Platform. This is all about shortening backup windows and enabling near real-time recovery for mission-critical workloads.
In an era defined by ransomware, the collaboration has also hardened its stance on security and cyber resilience. New reference architectures will offer end-to-end immutability in the Alletra Storage MP line. These designs provide clear guardrails for how backups are created and stored, actively reducing the risk of accidental data loss and malicious attacks.
To top it off, the partnership is offering two new services to operationalize this resilience:
- Data Resilience and Security Posture workshop.
- Disaster Recovery Capability Maturity Analysis (based on Veeam’s Data Resiliency Maturity Model).
These services, connected to the broader HPE Cybersecurity Services, are tools for organizations to objectively measure and fix gaps in their existing cyber resilience plans.
As Patrick Osborne, HPE’s SVP for Hybrid Cloud Technology Acceleration, summarizes, the joint effort is about “removing friction and risk.” For IT teams already stretched thin, this expanded partnership signals a much-needed push toward a more uniform, risk-reducing data protection framework that simplifies operations instead of complicating them.
