Posts by Dave Russell

When it comes to data protection in small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB), the sector is similar in many ways, but unique in a few, when compared to larger organizations and their IT trends and strategies. That is abundantly clear when you look at both the global and the SMB-specific findings in the recently released Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends report. Read more

With 2022 well under way, Veeam is getting ready to release the latest version of the industry’s largest data protection research endeavor (3,300 IT leaders) on February 22. When you download it, you’ll see that data loss and downtime continue to plague far too many organizations. Unsurprisingly, many of those organizations expect to increase their use of cloud services as part of their data protection strategies. Read more

In part one, we've talked about personas involved in protecting cloud workloads. Second blog focused on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and hybrid IT cloud workloads. In this third and last blog post in the series, we focus on cloud database backup and container adoption and protection. Read more

Veeam has created a series of videos where Jason Buffington, vice president of Solutions Strategy, and Dave Russell, vice president of Enterprise Strategy, discuss key findings from Veeam’s Cloud Protection Trends 2021 report, where 1,550 data center professionals were surveyed regarding their cloud data protection activities.

In this second blog post, we focus on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and hybrid IT cloud workloads. Read more

Veeam has created a series of videos where Jason Buffington, VP of Solutions Strategy, and Dave Russell, VP of Enterprise Strategy, discuss key findings from Veeam’s Cloud Protection Trends in 2021 report, where 1,550 data center professionals were surveyed regarding their cloud data protection activities. In this first blog post, we focus on the personas involved in protecting cloud 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

In November 2019, Veeam published our 2020 Technology Predictions. We highlighted five key technology trends that we thought would be impactful and things to consider in the coming year. Overall, the predictions were fairly accurate, pointing to rising cloud adoption and increasing cyber threats. Let’s revisit the five technology predictions from last year. Read more

CIOs have been tasked with many of the same issues for decades. Cost concerns, generating revenue growth, supporting the digital business, and managing cyberthreats, all while navigating skills shortages, have been a way of life for CIOs. And then 2020 presented additional challenges for data centers. Let’s examine in more detail the top CIO priorities, and examine how Veeam can help. Read more

Gartner has recently published its 2019 Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide research, and with sustained multiyear revenue gains, Veeam has increased in market share to become the 3rd largest provider of backup and recovery software. Veeam grew its revenue 25.9 percent year-over-year (YoY) in a market that Gartner states grew at 2.5 percent, meaning that Veeam’s growth was over 10 times that of the overall market for backup software. Read more

Business today is 24x7x365, with no tolerance for downtime. A robust backup and disaster recovery plan are essential for IT to deliver continuous services. Leveraging Veeam and HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy means that data is delivered where it needs to be faster than ever so that mission-critical applications won’t suffer outages from accidental or malicious threats. Read more