Cloud computing has become ubiquitous and has reached the point where nearly half of all workloads run in the cloud. Currently, most organizations operate a combination of on-premise and cloud workloads, known as a hybrid cloud. Typically, they keep key services within their data centers and use the cloud for customer-facing services, software applications and flexible data storage. The hybrid cloud model is ideal because it is not always possible, or even wise, to move everything to the cloud for reasons like cost, performance and compliance. Read more

The fact that organizations need to backup their Microsoft 365 deployments has been well established. Microsoft is based on a shared responsibility model in which Microsoft is responsible for protecting the underlying infrastructure, and subscribers are responsible for protecting their own data. This means that if you use Microsoft 365, you have to back up your own data.  In their Services Agreement, Microsoft makes it very clear on the delineation around customer data, “We don’t claim ownership of Your Content. Your Content remains Your Content, and you are responsible for it.” Read more

Ransomware attacks are on the rise – in 2021, the number of ransomware attacks rose by 92.7% compared to 2020 levels, with 2,690 attacks reported. In this short article, we’ll show you how Kasten K10 by Veeam can be leveraged to detect a common ransomware pattern in order to prevent data loss or corruption. Read more

Welcome back to the second part of our three-part blog series, where we continue to revisit what leading IT analyst firm, Gartner, suggests for protecting Microsoft 365. In the first post, we looked at what Gartner identified as risks associated with Microsoft 365. Read more

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud platform used for a variety of applications. Today, cloud services host many mission-critical services and huge amounts of data, making them a prime target for cyberattacks. Read more

In life, we must make informed choices and decisions about the services and products we consume and rely on recommendations and thorough research. In these cases, we often look to those we consider to be experts in their respective areas. Gartner is one of the top technology research firms that’s dedicated to delivering actionable objective observations to the industry. Read more

Microsoft Teams has become a linchpin for communication and collaboration in modern organizations. However, this reliance also brings a heightened risk of data loss, which could result in operational disruptions, productivity losses, or legal issues. Read more

If you’ve bought into or heard the idea of hybrid cloud merely being a precursor to a full cloud approach, you can move on from that thought. Thousands of organizations are using hybrid cloud as their permanent cloud solution. In fact, almost 50% of all workloads are now hosted on the public cloud. Read more

Veeam has been busy preparing for our V2 release of Veeam Backup for Salesforce. Our customers spoke and we listened, adding the most requested capabilities to our latest release. It is just as important to back up your Salesforce data as it is to backup the data form any other parts of your technology stack, but many organizations think it is backed up in the cloud (it is not) or it is not necessary (speak to a sales team that did not have access to their data for a week and they will btell a different story. Read more

The Kasten K10 by Veeam Data Management Platform has a strong integration with OpenShift on many aspects. Among them are security of the containers, authentication, multi-tenancy/RBAC, and support for different storage providers. Read more