The No. 1 question we get all the time: “Why do I need to back up my Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams data?” And it’s normally instantaneously followed up with a statement similar to this: “Microsoft takes care of it.” Do they? Are you sure? To add some clarity to this discussion, we’ve created a Microsoft 365 Shared Responsibility Model. It’s designed to help you — and anyone close to this technology — understand exactly what Microsoft is responsible for and what responsibility falls on the business itself. After all — it is YOUR data! Read more

As Veeam released Veeam Backup for Salesforce, Veeam also published the data protection industry’s first independent research project on protecting Salesforce data by surveying 800 unbiased respondents across three personas (Salesforce administrators, backup administrators, IT operations): The 2022 Salesforce Protection Trends Report. Read more

Protect, Detect and Recover! The three key pillars a backup vendor is expected to offer when it comes to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The top priority on that list is protecting your data. A secure backup both on premises and in a private or public cloud offers immense protection. This can protect data from both a hacker accessing the backup server as well as the backup repository. Secondly, the ability to recovery quickly is crucial. Read more

2023 is fast-approaching, as is the release of Veeam Platform v12. Now is a great time to take a closer look at your backup strategies from all directions: To the cloud, of the cloud and even from the cloud. From consistent cloud bill shock, to the overwhelming tyranny of choice in cloud platforms and services, to the ever-looming threat of a cyber-attack, there’s a litany of reasons organizations should consider taking time to evaluate and optimize. Read more

Nominations are open, for a limited time, for the Veeam Vanguard class of 2023. Read more

For the past several years, Veeam has celebrated both compelling partner-delivered solutions and great customer-achieved outcomes through the Veeam Innovation Awards (VIAs). You can check out some of our past VIA awardees from 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Read more

Welcome to the third installment of our Cloud Protection Trends Report for 2023 blog series. Last week, Sam and I discussed some of the research findings from the , which surveyed 1,700 “as a Service” administrators, including those responsible for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) for file services and/or databases. Veeam contracts with independent research firms to ask questions on an assortment of topics – including the adoption trends for both IaaS and PaaS scenarios. Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is a solution that allows you to back up and restore Microsoft 365 data: Exchange Online, OneDrive for business, SharePoint Online, Teams. You can also protect data managed by this on-premises installations: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how to restore access to your backup data in case of a disaster that impacted Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server. Read more

In parallel with Veeam releasing Veeam Backup for Salesforce, they also published the data protection industry’s first independent research project on protecting Salesforce data by surveying 800 unbiased respondents across three personas (e.g., Salesforce administrators, backup administrators and IT operations) in the 2022 Salesforce Protection Trends Report. Read more

As we approach the end of 2022 and the upcoming release of the Veeam Platform v12, this is an opportune time to ensure that your organization enters 2023 with a strong security posture. All too often, security is treated as a one-time effort: Audits are performed, new policies are drafted and changes are implemented. Unfortunately, most organizations don't go back and routinely update and review what they currently have in place. Instead, it usually takes a threat or an incident to shine a light on gaps that should have been plugged. Read more