Veritas Technologies has announced a multi-million dollar investment in new dedicated cloud data centres in Australia targetting the email archiving and e-discovery market.

The first application hosted in the new data centre is Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud, an archiving and ediscovery solution that complements Microsoft Office 365 email and helps simplify compliance with data retention regulations. Enterprise Vault.cloud also works with on-premise email systems such as Exchange and Domino. 

“Customers are asking for cloud solutions that allow them to leverage the flexibility of the cloud while maintaining their on-premise and private cloud investments.  However, our Hybrid Cloud research shows that 24% of organisations are concerned with moving workloads to the cloud in order to keep confidential data in-country,” said Chris Lin, Veritas’ senior vice president and APJ sales leader.

“Email is a top workload moving to the cloud and this investment enables us to bring our data centres to our customers’ doorsteps to give them peace-of-mind that their data is retained within the country. We envisage strong demand for our Enterprise Vault.cloud solution as it simplifies customer infrastructure and lowers costs while providing data protection and advanced compliance including litigation-ready eDiscovery capability.”

The new Veritas data centres will not be linked to data centres outside Australia, ensuring that data is stored solely in-country.

Veritas’ Enterprise Vault.cloud solution  captures, stores and indexes business-critical information, including emails, attachments, Microsoft SharePoint, Box files, as well as content from unified communications and instant messaging systems, into a single, legally searchable, online repository.

“With availability and insight into their valuable data, enterprises can be more productive and profitable. Veritas’ expansion of its local data centre footprint will go a long way in serving our Australian customers’ needs and preference to keep data close to where they operate,” said Louis Tague, Veritas’ sales director, Australia.

The multi-year agreement will host primary data storage at Equinix in Sydney as the primary data centre and Melbourne as the backup data centre. This is Veritas’ third data centre infrastructure investment in Australia over the past three years.