The adoption of cloud-native development practices, particularly with Kubernetes, is rapidly accelerating as companies shift from last-gen tech to the far more reliable, scalable and portable environment that the cloud provides. Yet despite offering numerous advantages over on-premises systems, moving to the cloud can sometimes be a double-edged sword. Read more

In an era marked by relentless cyber threats, the paramount question echoing in the minds of small business owners is this: Why is cybersecurity important for small businesses? As the shadow of cyberattacks looms larger, it has become clear that cybersecurity is not merely a choice but an absolute necessity. Read more

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

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been fascinated by I.T. From early 8bit home computers to modern PCs, I’ve always loved working with technology. By my teenage years, I’d become the go-to I.T. support expert for my friends and family – helping them fix their computers and back up their invaluable photos and documents. Read more

It’s no secret that strong data security is one of the most critical requirements in today’s world. With networks constantly being targeted and assaulted through automated attacks, phishing expeditions or malicious insiders, your backups need to be secured. Without a trusted and secured backup, recovery becomes significantly more complicated, if not impossible. Fortunately, features like immutable backups can help strengthen your recovery plans. Read more

When the first version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 was released in 2016, no one realized how fast Microsoft 365 would grow and how our daily communication and work life would change. New features and software were added to the Microsoft 365 package. For example, Teams was just becoming a fixed component of Microsoft 365. Read more

Modern data protection challenges demand an assessment of recovery strategies and the maintenance of compliance with those strategies. This could be for regulatory reasons or simply to offer assurance that the business can bounce back quickly in the event of an outage.  If we want to meet recovery objectives in the face of modern challenges such as ransomware, then recovery at scale and in parallel becomes a critical component. Recovering individual VM’s, files or application items is all well and good for ‘everyday’ disasters (like recovering that critical email) but when infrastructure becomes unavailable the impact can be felt broadly.    Read more

As cloud-first mandates push more application development, database hosting, compute workloads and more to clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), it’s equally important that backup, security and cloud professionals alike ensure that their data is reliably recoverable in the face of any downtime or data loss scenario. Read more

Applications are critical to businesses and ensuring their continuity is a top priority. Different applications and workloads carry different levels of criticality and need to be protected differently depending on your specific business needs. With workloads covering more platforms that extend past on-premises data into service provider clouds, the public cloud and SaaS based platforms, it’s important to understand how to protect key workloads no matter where they reside. Read more

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator helps Veeam users take control of their disaster recovery (DR) strategy by making it easier to plan, document and execute their recovery plan flawlessly in the event of disaster. Built on top of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (Orchestrator) leverages the replica and restore capabilities built into the platform to provide validated recovery documentation and enhance the recovery options available for single applications or entire sites. Read more