Veeam has always had a strong story with VMware Cloud Director. From releasing the first Self-Service Portal back in v7 of Veeam Backup & Replication through to the ability to have a VCD organization as a Cloud Connect Replication target site, Veeam has always offered value for our cloud and service providers using VCD. In V11, we have taken this a step further with the release of VCD-to-VCD replication and a fully supported HTML5 Tenant UI for deeper self-service. Read more

In a recent LinkedIn Live session, we talked about the undeniable impact COVID-19 has had on IT. From the immediate sprawl of a newly remote workforce, to supply chain impacts, to a marked increase in cybersecurity and ransomware attacks, IT has had to adjust FAST.

To support these shifts in demands, 91% of IT organizations have increased their reliance on cloud services. Time to market, web-based services easily accessed from home, elasticity, and scale of storage — the benefits are clear.

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Veeam remains focused on developing integrated cloud and managed service operation capabilities, so service providers can continue to have awareness and control of workloads no matter where they live. With the release of Veeam Service Provider Console v5 we have expanded on its purpose-built capabilities, adding full agent support and extending to the public cloud the ability for our service providers to leverage, giving them the ability to drive new service offerings. Read more

Security challenges for IT professionals and organizations today are multitudinous. Every day we learn of an organization that became a victim to a cybersecurity breach or other malicious event, such as ransomware, essentially putting their business and their customers’ sensitive data at risk. Your infrastructure, networks and data should be protected, and most organizations strive to implement appropriate risk aversion measures and tactics. Read more

Regardless of what percentage of your organization’s mission-critical workloads are running in the cloud today, it’s likely far more than it was a year ago. This is due to a combination of net-new workloads, as well as migrating in from data centers, leading me to a Pinterest-worthy platitude – the life (of your data) is a journey, not a destination. The best infrastructures for our workloads today may not be the best tomorrow. We witnessed this with the decoupling and migration of the majority of our physical servers' OS, applications and data to virtualized platforms. Today, its rapid acceleration to the cloud, especially true in the light of COVID-19, further accelerating this shift. Read more

A few weeks ago, our engineers helped solve a big problem for an organization that needed to leverage Veeam Agents and Cloud Connect Backup to secure company data stored on the laptops and workstations of their remote workforce (you can read about that scenario here). Another opportunity came our way when we were asked to help this company reconsider their disaster recovery (DR) plan. Read more

Anyone who has been working in the IT industry over the years has seen technology continually evolve, expand and develop to overcome data management challenges of the past. As technology evolves to meet data demands today, new obstacles associated with innovation occur. To help prevent and meet these challenges, monitoring the data center and gaining insight into how your applications and machines utilize resources to operate provide an extra insight to any organization. Read more

The centralized, web-based user interface offers VCSP partners a single dashboard to view the current state of all of their customers backups, whether on-premises or hosted with a cloud service provider. Along with the capabilities necessary to perform actions on jobs, gather usage reports, and integrate management and monitoring into third party platforms such as ConnectWise.

Let’s take a closer look at the top 5 features and benefits of the NEW Veeam Service Provider Console v4 to help you simplify your managed back up offerings.

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Veeam understands the need for Backup as a Service (BaaS) and has offered what we call Veeam Cloud Connect (VCC). VCC is handed by reputable service providers, which we refer to as Veeam Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) partners. These service providers not only take the pressure off a business to manage their off-site backups to better meet the 3-2-1 Rule but they also provide an extra layer of protection in the case of a ransomware attack. Below we will discuss how this is possible and why you want a service provider on your side when disaster hits. Read more

For nearly 10 years Veeam has supported our service provider partners with industry-leading, innovative features that allows them to build product and service offerings based on Veeam Backup & Replication technologies and also the Veeam Platform as a whole. Many of the features and enhancements that we have released over that time have been leveraged by our partners to offer their own customers and partners reliable, flexible and simple solutions that address a wide array of backup and data availability requirements. Read more