Jan 27th 2012
Recently, we released Veeam End User Training. This is a great resource that can help people new to Veeam understand the details of each of our products’ technical components.
While we’ve had educational content in the past for partners, having this End User Training is our next exciting milestone.
Jan 24th 2012
It is with great excitement that we announce that Chris Henley has joined Veeam. Chris will be working with myself (Doug Hazelman) and Rick Vanover to build relationships within the Microsoft Hyper-V and virtualization community. You can follow Chris on Twitter
Chris comes to Veeam after 9 years of working with Microsoft as an IT Pro Evangelist. He loves technology and has a passion for helping others implement solutions that make their lives work better. Chris is an accomplished public speaker with a fun style that conveys deep technical concepts in ways that are easy to understand. Chris is the co-author of “” as well as a contributing author of “.” He loves to write and says, “It is a great experience writing technical material! People use that book to make their environment better. I love being a part of their solution!”
Chris spends a lot of his time working on emerging technologies and teaching IT Professionals how to take advantage of those opportunities. One of his key areas of focus in the past 2 or 3 years has been on Hyper-V and the virtualization space.
While delivering a series of seminars focused on Cloud design Chris was introduced to Veeam and its Backup and Replication tools.
“I knew right away that this was something I wanted to be involved in! The tools were focused on the future of IT. They were designed with virtualization in mind. They were easy to use and they just worked. As soon as backup and replication v6 came along with support for Hyper V I knew I had to get on board with Veeam! The opportunity here is Amazing!
Chris loves Hyper V and thinks that it will be a key player in the hypervisor marketplace. He is excited to be a part of the growth and development of Veeam!
You may have also noticed that we’ve done some redesign on the blog. All posts will now feature a header that includes a photo of the author, an example including Chris’ picture is below.
Welcome to the Veeam Teeam Chris!
Dec 12th 2011
On Feb. 1, 2012 Veeam Backup & Replication will have new pricing. This is timed loosely with the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v6, which brings 72 new and improved features to our flagship product. The big areas of new features are enterprise scalability, enhanced replication, and support for Hyper-V and 1-Click file restore capabilities, among other things, in the new Enterprise Manager web interface. Did you catch the series of four webinars about the new features of version 6? These webinars as well as their slides are available from our v6 launch page: Extending the lead in VM backup.
Nov 30th 2011
On the back of every Veeam business card is our motto “Listening to you, building the tools you need.”
This is important because today we have released Veeam Backup & Replication v6 after over a year of R&D effort. What makes this release so significant in my view is that it’s your release. When I say it’s your release I mean that if you take a look at all the new features and enhancements, they were almost all driven by direct customer and partner feedback.
Better Scalability? You got it!
Our new proxy/repository architecture allows you to scale out a single Backup & Replication server to thousands of VMs. You can still go with a single server and let it be the proxy and repository but as your environment grows you can now grow with it.
Enhanced Replication? Yep!
If you take a look at the What’s New around replication alone you’ll see that this is one of the areas we focused most of our attention on. Re-IP? Check. Failback? Check. Traffic Throttling? Check. Better seeding? Check.
Support for multiple hypervisors? Yes!
Now I know not everyone asked us to support but a fair number of customers and partners did, as well as a lot of Hyper-V shops that wanted the functionality of Veeam Backup & Replication. The fact that you get support for VMware and Microsoft virtualization all from a single install and interface is huge news.
I'd like to give a big Thank You to all of our customers, partners and prospects who had so much to do with this release. We get our best feedback through our forums so please continue to post great feedback there. We're already working on the next release and we'll have some BIG news to share early next year (again, from YOUR input) so watch for the countdown clock.
For a comprehensive overview of v6, please check out the webinar series that includes product demos:
While completing the beta process before releasing Veeam Backup & Replication v6, we compiled a list of new v6 features and enhancements—a total of 72! Version 6 will be released very soon, officially this quarter; but the excitement is building by the minute!
Although that earlier list is now public in the we wanted to show this in another way. We decided to create a numbered list for a better look at v6 features and enhancements: a 30,000-ft. view from the top.
WOW! What a list!
Here is the list of Veeam Backup & Replication v6 new and improved features (drum roll….):
Nov 2nd 2011
Veeam launched earlier this year. V-index, a free community resource, provides quarterly updates about the virtualization community.
Oct 24th 2011
vSphere 5 was released (GA) on 24 August, 2011. Immediately after the release customers started asking us if we supported vSphere 5 with Veeam Backup & Replication. Some other vendors claimed vSphere 5 support even before it was released, so what took us so long?
We released our hotfix on 20 October, 2011, that means it took us a full 57 days to release a hotfix for Veeam Backup & Replication to FULLY support vSphere 5. One of the main issues with Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0.2 was that it didn’t work for all processing modes with VMSF5 (just like every other vendor at the time of this writing). A processing mode popular with our customers is direct SAN access utilizing the vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP). In order to support direct SAN access for VMFS 5, we had to move to the latest version of the VDDK API which was only made available the same day as the GA release of vSphere 5.
57 days to incorporate a new version of a low-level API
1368 hours to fully test
82,080 minutes to fix things that worked previously
So, rather than trying to shout from the rooftops that we supported vSphere 5 the day it was released (or even weeks before), we wanted to make sure everything worked. We make backup and DR software after all, and we don’t want our customers getting into a mess with their production data based on claims by marketing. I think Anton did a good job of explaining our position in the forums, please take a moment to read his post.
Before you go checking our downloads page for the hotfix, please be advised that it’s only available through Veeam support. Since this isn’t a full release, and not all of our customers will need it, we are only making it available via support. Of course, Veeam Backup & Replication v6 will have full support of vSphere 5 when it’s released later this year, and that will be our official release vehicle for vSphere 5.
Since I’ve started at Veeam, I’ve had the unique pleasure of working on a number of different projects that engage virtualization technologies with the virtualization community. One of the projects I began working on right from the start was a community educational resource, . This week, we are happy to announce that it is now in session! But what is Backup Academy? Backup Academy has a simple mission:
Jul 17th 2011
Today marks the launch of Veeam’s latest community effort, the . I’m very excited about this new offering as it gives the virtualization community access to a number of data points on the growth and adoption of virtualization. All of the research is conducted by , an independent company that Veeam has contracted to do the virtualization surveys. Please understand that the survey results are not those of just Veeam customers, Vanson Bourne has their own contact list of companies that they use for these surveys.
From the site:
V-index is an online virtualization industry study performed by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company. It is based on a survey of 500 enterprises across the US, UK, France and Germany and is designed to measure 3 parameters – virtualization rate, consolidation ratio and primary hypervisor in use.
So what do you get at V-index.com? First off, you get a quick look at virtualization adoption in a series of 3 different areas: penetration rate, consolidation ratio and Hypervisor in use:
You also get access to a series of that you can put on your own blog or website. The data behind these snippets will be automatically updated each time the v-Index is updated (currently quarterly). Here’s a sample snippet:
There are many different sizes and styles to choose from so feel free to pick the one that works best for your site. Also on the site is a page full of on the v-Index results. These infographics show the splits by country for each of the 3 areas in the survey:
Of course, you can also download the full in PDF format and also provide on other areas or data points you’d like to see in the V-index.
Again, V-index is meant to be a community resource, Veeam’s involvement is to sponsor the survey by Vanson Bourne and make the results available to everyone. You can use any of the data on the V-index site, please check the for more information..
A new ESG Lab Review of Veeam Backup & Replication is now available for download. This Review provides a thorough analysis of the features that make Veeam Backup & Replication the right tool to backup VMware vSphere virtual machines (VMs).
For today’s demanding IT environments, this review provides insight in to Veeam’s approach to providing the right tool for the job of protecting VMware vSphere VMs. This review also analyzes many features of Veeam Backup & Replication including:
Perhaps the most telling story within this review is the recovery times reported with Veeam Backup & Replication. Leveraging Veeam’s Instant VM Recovery features, VMs were verified to be restored 77x faster than a standard full-image backup tool!
This ESG Lab Review is a free download from the Veeam website.
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