Posts by Mark Polin

Enterprises face a relentless barrage of cyber threats while grappling with growing IT complexity and data sprawl. The cost of downtime and data loss is soaring, and traditional backup alone is no longer enough. Enterprises demand true cyber resilience—continuous, automated, and verifiable protection and clean recovery that guarantees business continuity, no matter what. Read more

In today’s enterprise IT landscape, organizations are challenged to maximize performance, control costs and drive efficiencies across their virtual environments.  Additionally, migrating to a new hypervisor is a complex and costly process. Read more

Today customers are implementing Pure’s flash storage for their Veeam backup infrastructure, regardless of what they still run in production. Why? Read more

Veeam product management Alliances completed a project to create a sample workflow for Cisco Intersight Orchestration. This sample workflow automates the deployment of Veeam Agents to newly provisioned bare-metal servers and creates data protection policies for these new servers. Read more

The Veeam product management Alliances team completed a project to create a model solution with Cisco SecureX. This solution is based on ransomware use cases and enhances SecureX’s ransomware detection and response capabilities with Veeam’s ransomware detection and backup validation capabilities. Read more

Since the release of Veeam Data Platform V12 in February of this year, customers have been strongly adopting this new release with its more than 500 new capabilities. This is especially true for Veeam and Pure Storage customers. Read more

So much of the discussion about hybrid cloud is focused on moving workloads from data centers to the cloud (typically public cloud, but also managed cloud services). This makes intuitive sense: the cloud offers flexibility and simplicity of services that can be easily scaled up and down as needed. The most compelling reason is that you only pay for what you use. Let’s face it, you can do things in the cloud that you could never imagine doing in a data center. Read more

Need immutability but don’t have the in-house skills to create and manage a Linux-based Veeam hardened repository? The list of solutions that have immutability for Veeam Backup & Replication with Windows-based backup repositories is pretty short. If you want to keep your Veeam Backup & Replication backup storage on MS Windows, and still have immutable backups, consider Pure Storage FlashArray//C for your backup storage.  Read more

Veeam and Cisco have good news for you. With best-of-breed ransomware prevention tools from Cisco, and best-of-breed ransomware recovery tools from Veeam, you can create a ransomware recovery plan that will allow to make ransomware infection much less likely, and ransomware recovery much more reliable and performant. Read more

Cisco chose Veeam for this CVD because Veeam has deep storage snapshot integration with the storage in the FlashStack, which is the Pure Storage FlashArray//X. The story would not be complete without including backup storage options, so three backup storage options were tested and documented: Cisco UCS S3260 storage server, Cisco UCS C240 All-Flash rack server, and Pure Storage FlashArray//C with Cisco UCS C220 rack server. Read more