The cloud certainly doesn’t come without its fair share of challenges, and one of those challenges can be determining what is your responsibility and that of AWS. Read more

One of the first features added to Veeam Backup & Replication was backup copy jobs, and with backup copy jobs, we added GFS. GFS stands for Grandfather, Farther, Son. It is the term used for archival retention points originally in just backup copy jobs, but now it’s available in traditional backup jobs in more recent versions. These archival points allow customers to save a point-in-time full copies of their data in intervals of weeks, months, quarters and years. Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication v11, there will be some changes to how GFS is handled in backup copy jobs and some new best practice configurations. Read more

The Instant Recovery story at Veeam started in the v5 release in 2010, which seems like such a long time ago! Every release since has had some form of enhancement to the capability. Whether it is performance, scalability or new platforms. New platform support included Hyper-V Instant VM Recovery and allowing Agent backups to recover instantly as a VM. V10 also introduced multiple VM Instant VM Recovery alongside significant performance improvements. But Veeam isn’t going to stop there. Read more

Today is an exciting day for the Veeam Team, as we launch Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, rounding out our cloud-native backup support for the leading hyperscale public cloud providers! Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform delivers native protection for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Virtual Machines (VMs) in the most cost-effective and secure manner on the market. No matter what happens to your data, Veeam will let you easily recover from any cloud data loss scenario in minutes! Read more

Veeam Backup & Replication has been protecting your critical workloads for well over a decade. Each release brings amazing new features like CDP, the ability to offload and archive backups to the cloud, and more. The upcoming v11 release has over 150+ improvements and new features, bringing more benefits and helping you eliminate data loss and ransomware. What you may not realize, is with each new feature in Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE also gets valuable, related updates. Read more

In this article, I will not only explain the difference between retention types available in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, but will also demonstrate how it works at several different points of a backup job cycle. 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

There are many risks to data: from the IT admins worst nightmare, ransomware, to a company's worst nightmare, a malicious admin. Data security is a huge challenge and becomes increasingly more important to understand as data grows rapidly, sprawls to different platforms and becomes more valuable. This topic is a straightforward concept, protect the data, but the many ways to go about achieving this goal make this a complex and fascinating subject.

This article will help you with your first steps in understanding what data security is, how this relates to security and compliance, and the risks and challenges you might face on this ever-expanding topic.

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If you own a car, you already know the concept of preventive maintenance: change oil and filters regularly and the likelihood of your engine failure will dramatically decrease. Your engine is still fine, there aren’t any weird noises and it operates as it should, but you still plan on doing some maintenance because otherwise the costs of replacing a broken engine or gearbox will be much higher. And not only that, try to remember a case when the car broke NOT at the moment when you needed it most. All this means that without preventive maintenance, you are increasing your chances of losing money, time and maybe getting a couple of new grey hairs. Read more

Disasters come in all shapes and sizes, from a full site failure, to failure of something like a storage array. There may be a natural disaster where your data center is, or you may even have a malicious actor inside your environment seeking to harm your business.

Whatever the case, you need a plan, and all plans are not created equal. Then, once you have your plan, you need to test it and update it on a regular basis. Read more