Posts by Luca Dell'Oca

For today’s enterprise, IT management of backup storage is an enormous and expensive proposition with no relief in sight as data continues to grow. This problem is made worse as legacy backup solutions struggle to address this issue in an efficient manner, causing backup storage management headaches with too much management overhead and too many pockets of unused, wasted storage.

We need a better way. A way to simplify backup storage management in the enterprise – and dramatically reduce the associated IT workload – while lightening the impact on data protection budgets by reducing backup storage hardware spending.

It’s 10 am on a Monday morning, and I’m sitting here in the classroom at the first Veeam Certified Engineer (in short, VMCE) training in Italy; with me, there are nine other IT techies, in front of our teacher and his slide deck.

“Wait, you at the Veeam Training Course?”

I know what you are thinking here. I am a long time and heavy Veeam Backup & Replication user, my first installation was at the time of the 3.0 version, and after many blog posts and whitepapers, I ended up being hired by Veeam and appointed as one of their "Evangelists”. So, I am supposed to be the one knowing everything, and instead of listening I should go around explaining what I ... Read more

They say there are always three sides to every story, and this one is no exception.

The first one is personal. If you ever worked for a software company, you know there is no better reward than seeing a new solution going into the market, after you were involved in its creation, at any level. Even if you are not a programmer, like I am not, there are many ways you can contribute to the creation process. One year ago I was still working for a Veeam partner and customer, and I suggested on the Veeam forums a new idea. It was August 2013, so I was invited by Veeam to meet and talk about it during the upcoming VMworld.

Fast forward ... Read more