Posts by Dave Russell

The opportunity around AI is real, but without visibility, governance, and executive alignment, results stay out of reach. Read more

Today’s technology environment is scaling at an explosive rate. This makes for thrilling growth opportunities but the innovation invites cyberthreats. And data integrity remains at the mercy of natural disasters, power outages, and human error. Read more

I’m proud to announce that Veeam has once again been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, marking the 9th time in a row we’ve earned this distinction and the 6th consecutive year we’ve been awarded the Highest in Ability to Execute. Read more

As more frameworks enter the market under the label of “resilience,” it is important to distinguish between surface-level checklists and models that help organizations change. Most are narrow in scope, focused on isolated capabilities like cyber recovery or backup maturity. Read more

Business continuity is a major focus for nearly every organization — but the real test often comes during an actual disruption. Whether it’s a ransomware event, accidental data deletion, or system outage, many organizations discover they don’t have a full picture of their recovery readiness until they're in the middle of a crisis. Read more

The need for reliable data backup and recovery solutions has never been more critical. Cyberthreats, hardware failures, and human errors are constant risks that can disrupt business continuity. Read more

Deciding how to best invest your limited budget for the year is a complex issue. Putting the right investment behind technologies that support and drive your strategic business plans is no small task. Getting it right is a complex equation that brings together people, processes and products in the right mix to power your organization’s success. Read more

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