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

People have asked what we mean when we say, “secure backup is your last line of defense.” Over the last ten years, the security industry has realized modern ransomware protection requires an integrated security architecture from endpoints to network and cloud to detect, correlate and remediate attacks completely. Read more

Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator v5 is now generally available! Ransomware is on the rise and organizations like yours need to be ready for fast recovery. Hurricanes, natural disasters, and cybercriminals don’t plan around your timeline. Taking the next steps to prepare for recovery is your best bet. If you’re looking for a stress-free way to recover your VMware virtual machines, Veeam is here to save the day! Read more

Today, Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator v4 is now available, with full support for Veeam CDP Replicas, for turning up your DR strategy to, err 11. Some may be asking, “What is Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator? I’ve never heard of this.” With V4, we have rebranded the Veeam Availability Orchestrator, including all of its features, to a name that is more descriptive and fitting for its serious capabilities in and around automating and orchestrating your DR plan.

Let’s take a closer look at how Orchestrator fits into your Veeam environment when it comes to CDP.

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The new RESTful API in Veeam Backup & Replication v11 is a big moment for Veeam. We have been working to modernize our automation and orchestration toolset with our more recent product releases and the experiences learnt from those has been added into V11 in the form of a new RESTful API Service. JSON based, installed by default and separate to Enterprise Manager, this will allow our partners looking to leverage the power of APIs to get more from Veeam Backup & Replication. Read more

We know you’re all excited for the many benefits of Veeam Backup & Replication v11, including the many features and improvements and how this platform continues to expand to protect even more of your critical workloads. The benefits of this V11 release include bulletproof ransomware protection, increased security, Continuous Data Protection (CDP), greater cloud portability and cloud-native backup options in AWS and Microsoft Azure and much, much more. The list is truly impressive and a testament to our R&D team, listening to your feedback and responding with continued innovation that is Simple, Flexible and Reliable. 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

2020 has certainly been one strange year, causing us all to reconsider what is important to us personally and professionally. It is possible that 2021 may signal another era of macro-economic penny pinching like we saw around 2008. Veeam can help you be prepared with cost-effective tips. While the Veeam Backup & Replication v10 release was a few months ago, there are a few things that many users do not know, which can help ease the pains, costs and complexities of ensuring your data protection plan is both reliable and sound for the days ahead. Read more

Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3 was a massive release that brought a great deal of features and functionality to this already awesome product, such as support for NetApp ONTAP Snapshots.

Today, I want to focus on one of the features that sometimes gets overlooked, the VAO v3 API. Since v1, VAO has had a Rest API that has been enhanced further with every release. The new features of VAO v3 have been seamlessly integrated into the Rest API.

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A few weeks ago, our engineers helped solve a big problem for an organization that needed to leverage Veeam Agents and Cloud Connect Backup to secure company data stored on the laptops and workstations of their remote workforce (you can read about that scenario here). Another opportunity came our way when we were asked to help this company reconsider their disaster recovery (DR) plan. Read more