In 2017, VMware announced a strategic alliance with AWS, offering the ability to run VM workloads on a SaaS based platform while also taking advantage of AWS services. Veeam was a principal strategic partner to fully protect and support VMware Cloud on AWS and today hundreds of customers are doing just that. Read more

With total enterprise data volumes projected to exceed 2.02 petabytes by 2022, smart safeguards must be implemented to keep it protected. Those strategies themselves are changing in lockstep industry trends. Now that hybrid and full-cloud deployments are dominant, multiple external variables can impact how data is stored and preserved. Additionally, over one quarter of Cloud Vision 2020’s survey respondents could shift 95% of critical workloads cloudward by 2025. Read more

As you evaluate Office 365 Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) vendors, you may notice a few similarities in how they describe their solutions – “easy deployments” and “cost efficient” are buzzwords commonly used. However, before you decide to utilize a BaaS vendor, you need to be aware of a few pitfalls. Veeam’s foundational approach to Office 365 backup has 5 clear advantages over most BaaS vendors in the market, and they are reasons why our customers love Veeam. Let’s take a close look. Read more

Veeam customers have come to expect continued innovation and integration with Dell Technologies storage. Veeam customers have benefited from integrated capabilities with Dell EMC Data Domain (2014), Dell EMC VNX/VNXe (2015), Dell EMC Unity (2016), and most recently, Dell EMC SC (2019). Now customers leveraging Dell EMC PowerMax storage may download the new PowerMax Plug-in for Veeam! I’m delighted that this new feature is available as I’ve personally spoken to many of you who have expressed an interest in taking advantage of advanced VMware restore capabilities of Veeam with Dell Technologies enterprise data storage. Read more

In part one we looked at the characteristics that make up the cloud object storage offerings of the main three cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services/AWS, Google Cloud Platform/GCP). Now that we understand what to look for from our cloud providers and the features they have available, we’ll look at what information we need to gather to build our own cost and performance estimates to implement object storage ourselves. Read more

In this starter guide, we’ll break down the ins and outs of hybrid cloud infrastructure—including benefits, strategies, popular providers, and security. This information is key to understanding the hybrid cloud’s place in today’s computing realm. Read more

Cloud deployments are continuing to gain massive popularity, accelerated by the desire to modernize, evolving telework trends, and cost concerns. While not an exhaustive list of reasons, cloud platforms are here to stay. Eighty-one percent of surveyed organizations leveraged multi-cloud strategies last year. Additionally, Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud Survey found that 93% of respondents plan to implement multi-cloud. That said, what’s all the buzz about? We’ll dive into the ins and outs of multi-cloud, how you can implement it, and its inherent benefits. Read more

Office 365 numbers continue to grow — at the time of writing this there are 250 million daily users on Microsoft Teams — the information being produced and stored is critical to any business. Veeam offers native protection for these workloads with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. For those customers who are already using native protection for Office 365, this article is an overview of product observability, reporting, dashboards, and more. Read more