Google Cloud is a collection of services including storage and compute resources, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), provided by Google. The company offers several pricing options catering to different demographics and use cases, including a free tier, pay-as-you-go options, and discounted long-term reservations. Because there are so many pricing options, it can be difficult for organizations to predict how much their cloud usage will cost them. Read more

Integrating Google Cloud security measures is crucial to enhancing the security of digital assets in the cloud. By leveraging Google Cloud's security infrastructure, businesses can ensure that their sensitive data, trade secrets, personal information, intellectual property, and financial data is well-protected. Implementing proper access controls, encryption protocols, and utilizing monitoring capabilities offered by Google Cloud can significantly reduce the risk of unauthorized access and potential data breaches. Read more

Modern companies rely on their ability to leverage their data and applications to function in almost every aspect of their business, whether it’s their website used for e-commerce, inventory databases, and industrial controls for manufacturers, sales and customer relation management systems, medical records, or payment systems. Without these capabilities, hospitals, utility companies, and emergency services can’t function and provide critical services. Companies could be unable to serve customers, take new orders, or manufacture products, causing loss of revenue and failing to meet obligations or even face regulatory penalties.   Read more

Google is hosting its annual Google Cloud Next user conference once again. Google Cloud Next is back, better than ever, and this year as an in-person event (versus a virtual event the past three years) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Read more

What a whirlwind of a couple of weeks it’s been here at Veeam! With the launch of V12, so many exciting enhancements have been delivered to help organizations secure their backup strategy and improve recovery across hybrid cloud environments. Part of that includes a host of new capabilities in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud v4 delivered on Valentine’s Day! So, let’s dive in to exactly what’s new. Read more

Veeam has been hard at work this month releasing multiple new versions of its cloud products. Today we are going to look at Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform version 2. This new release brings some exciting capabilities to further enhance the ability to protect GCP workloads. Read more

Veeam Backup & Replication v11a isn’t just any old alphabetical release. It is undoubtedly one of the most significant cloud releases in Veeam’s history, delivering many new capabilities for the cloud platforms you’re using today. These capabilities enable organizations to accelerate cloud adoption, ensuring data is reliably secured, protected and managed from a single platform that provides unparalleled choice and simplicity. Let’s take a brief look at the major new additions. Read more

When Veeam Backup & Replication v11 went available in February of this year, I had no idea how much of an impact this release would have on the market. V11 came in my 11th year here are Veeam, and while I knew it was the biggest release we’ve ever had — call me impressed! Read more

Welcome to the final part of our three-part series on Veeam and object storage. In part one we looked at the similarities and differences between the big three "hyperscale" cloud providers, then in part two we looked at how Veeam can be configured to optimise your object storage utilisation and efficiency. Now in part three we'll look at some benchmarks to provide real results to help shape your object storage designs. Enabling you to accelerate your adoption of object storage in an effective manner. 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