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

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

Cloud deployments are continuing to gain massive popularity, accelerated by the desire to modernize, evolving telework trends, and cost concerns. While not an exhaustive list of reasons, cloud platforms are here to stay. Eighty-one percent of surveyed organizations leveraged multi-cloud strategies last year. Additionally, Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud Survey found that 93% of respondents plan to implement multi-cloud. That said, what’s all the buzz about? We’ll dive into the ins and outs of multi-cloud, how you can implement it, and its inherent benefits. Read more

This is a question not to be taken lightly. Unfortunately, more often than not, such questions are one of the last to consider when planning a migration to the cloud. It’s sort of a unified assumption these days that whatever goes to the cloud is protected by default. Well, how can it not be? Isn’t it the part of the “as-a-service” piece? Read more