Posts by Jason Buffington

This year, we are stepping by focusing the Veeam Innovation Awards (VIAs) on celebrating our customers, who are achieving great business outcomes and IT capabilities by deploying Veeam technologies. The VIAs also celebrate harnessed data management capabilities, money saved after data protection modernization, innovative cloud deployments, IT transformations enabled through Veeam’s data re-use or cybersecurity capabilities and more. Read more

To understand how to quantify Cloud Data Management, or in the broader sense of “modern data protection,” let's start with the basics. Read more

Veeam recently published its Data Protection Trends Report for 2020. This report is a little different from what you'd expect from a data protection vendor. Read more

Each year, Veeam takes nominations for Veeam Innovation Awards (VIA’s) from partners and customers, in order to highlight some of the great solutions in market that are powered by Veeam software components. This year, we received nearly 50 nominations, which were then vetted by a panel of 18 judges. Read more

For the past few years, we have been celebrating innovation and great results by Veeam partners and customers who are leveraging our technologies in really cool ways. We’re stepping that up for VeeamON 2020 by offering Veeam Innovation Awards (VIA) for both partners and customers at this year’s VeeamON event. Read more

Last week, we discussed how there is no such thing as “the cloud” — but instead, there are multiple types of cloud-based services that affect both your production and your protection strategies. Even if we just focus on Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) or Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), or the use of cloud-based storage in complement to an on-premises backup solution, it is hugely important to not presume that those cloud-providers are equitable. Read more

it is impossible for IT organizations that are looking ahead to not foresee cloud-based capabilities being part of their hybrid-IT strategy; likely in more than one way, giving us the term multi-cloud. But each and every cloud, used for both protection and production, will have significant ramifications on IT’s ability to deliver what the business units expect; namely, reliable and resilient assured access to the data that they rely on every day. Read more

This week, we’re looking at the business impacts (without the techno-jargon) to emphasize that downtime and data-loss are NOT just IT issues. Read more

Let's look at statistics, as well as other industry data, to quantify the “reality gap” that most organizations have between their business units’ expectations of IT and IT’s ability to assure delivery. Read more

We’re kicking off a five-week video blog series for the Tuesdays in October. One of the most common conversations that I have with IT leaders when they are discussing their IT modernization initiatives is, “How are you going to back that up?” Read more