UPDATED 17:30 EDT / AUGUST 09 2017

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Russia-based telecom group aims for one backup for multiple services

From running containers — a virtual method for running distributed applications — on bare metal to migrating legacy apps to cloud, vendors are fusing physical and virtual or off-prem parts to suit customers between environments.

This is lucky for Mobile TeleSystems PJSC, a large Russia-based telecommunications group. “We have different systems for backup of physical servers and virtual servers,” said Konstantin Yakovlev (pictured, left), lead system architect at MTS.

Alexander Kozlyaev (pictured, right), head of IT architecture at MTS, joined Yakovlev in an interview during this year’s VeeamOn event in New Orleans, Louisiana.

MTS has used Veeam Software Inc. backup and restore service in the past for its virtual servers, Yakovlev told Stu Miniman (@stu) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. (* Disclosure below.) Now that Veeam is extending its service to physical servers, MTS may be able to consolidate its backup strategies, Yakovlev stated.

After years of success as a backup and restore service for VMware virtual machines, Veeam took a strategic backward step with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. At the conference, the company announced that Veeam Agent — built on Veeam Endpoint Backup — will provide backup and recovery for physical servers.

“Currently, we have three or more backup software [products],” Kozlyaev said. The company would like to harmonize, join, or otherwise trim the fat from them, he added. Veeam is the favored service out of all, so they would ideally put as many workloads under its care as possible.

“We hope in the future to draw in those systems and have only one backup for all of our services,” said Yakovlev. Veeam’s new physical server offering hasn’t quite made this a reality for MTS yet, but it is a step in the right direction, he added.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of VeeamOn 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for VeeamOn 2017. Neither Veeam Software Inc. nor other sponsors have editorial influence on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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