In terms of impact to the business, 45% of production data was encrypted or affected. And the numbers are getting even worse from earlier research that was done just nine months ago. Read more

Veeam is proud to release the findings of yet another independent research project, the 2023 Ransomware Trends Report. What’s almost as bad as going through a cyberattack is talking about it to others, so Veeam contracted with a research firm to conduct blind interviews and surveys of 1,200 organizations who suffered one or more attacks in 2022. Read more

Unstructured data and file repositories are common in most enterprise environments. As organizations try to reduce licensing costs and maintenance overhead, Network Attached Storage (NAS) is still commonplace in many modern enterprises. The ability to store and host data directly on NAS without having to manage OS patches and other lifecycle operations is very attractive to many IT departments. Even though it isn’t suited for all workloads, unstructured data like Microsoft Office documents, JPGs, MP3s, etc. is one of the most common use cases for NAS backup. Read more

One of the biggest challenges that corporate IT departments face is protecting all their workloads. Teams spend significant amounts of time architecting, deploying and configuring solutions for their hypervisor and cloud workloads. Physical workloads that typically consist of enterprise databases that run on Windows, Linux or Unix get their fair share of attention too. However, an often-overlooked gap are the end users themselves. 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

Whether you’re protecting critical data from a ransomware attack or safeguarding it against malicious actors, security plays a prominent role in achieving cyber resiliency. Of course, the best way to avoid a disaster is to prevent it from happening in the first place. But what does this look like in real-world terms? An in-depth defense strategy must be taken, coupled with a methodology that’s built around secure backups, advanced monitoring and recovery at-scale. Read more

So, it turns out that your data that resides on public cloud IaaS like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Azure VMs doesn’t protect itself. For as long as Veeam Agents have been around, Veeam users have used them to protect their cloud-hosted workloads. In fact, for over three years, the protection of IaaS and PaaS has also been possible in our cloud-native appliances: Veeam Backup for AWS, for Microsoft Azure and for Google Cloud. Read more

They say hindsight is 20/20, and often, when looking back at a cyber disaster, it is easy to see how a worst-case scenario could have been avoided with a few simple steps. Namely, using data protection best practices. Data loss isn’t exclusive to any one industry or corporation, it can affect anyone at any time. While celebrating World Backup Day, we wanted to bring your attention to three scary stories from the past and give you some tips to avoid similar situations . Read more

Veeam is proud to release the findings of yet another research project, the 2023 Data Protection Trends Report, which is the industry’s largest independent research on backup and data protection. This research is fully independent, representing the whole market — not only from Veeam customers — and was conducted by a third-party research organization. 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