Posts by Michael Cade

Kubernetes adoption is accelerating as businesses become familiar with its many benefits. The platform offers portability and scalability, cost efficiency and productivity gains, which is why more than 5.6 billion developers use it today. Unfortunately, cyber-attacks and the potential for downtime are very real risks for cloud native environments, so backup and disaster recovery (DR) are critical components of any Kubernetes environment. This is especially true as the number of stateful applications such as databases are being deployed in Kubernetes.  Read more

The adoption of cloud-native development practices, particularly with Kubernetes, is rapidly accelerating as companies shift from last-gen tech to the far more reliable, scalable and portable environment that the cloud provides. Yet despite offering numerous advantages over on-premises systems, moving to the cloud can sometimes be a double-edged sword. Read more

When we look at virtualization, we know that the underpinning hardware will consist  of compute storage, and networking this is the same process that we see within the public cloud and even SaaS based workloads like  Microsoft 365. Kubernetes is no different, since we can run Kubernetes clusters in many different forms. This could be bare metal, using virtual machines (VMs) or taking advantage of a managed Kubernetes service like  Amazon EKS. Kubernetes is no different, we can run Kubernetes clusters in many different forms. This could be bare metal, using virtual machines or taking advantage of a managed Kubernetes service such as Amazon EKS. Read more

In today's digital age, Kubernetes has become an indispensable tool for managing and deploying complex software applications at scale. However, with its many moving parts, it's essential that you have a solid backup strategy in place to protect your critical data and configurations in case of unexpected failures, human errors or cyber attacks. Without a reliable backup system and the ability to hit your desired recovery objectives, you risk losing valuable data and facing costly downtime, which can result in lost revenue, decreased productivity and brand damage. Read more

In Veeam Backup & Replication v10, Veeam released the ability to protect your NAS shares and file servers at scale, the key differentiators being the storage agnostic approach and super-fast incremental backups of your unstructured data. NAS backup in V10 also enabled some fast and efficient ways to recover your NAS data, recovering what you want when you need it. Veeam Backup & Replication v11 continues to focus on that NAS backup experience with a distinct focus on expanded recovery. Read more

In Veeam Backup & Replication v10 we introduced the ability to store your Veeam backups in AWS and S3 Compatible Object storage using the Object Lock API. This would mean that you would have a secondary copy of your backup data most likely offsite and in an immutable state, which means it can’t be modified and is protected against insider malicious activity.

Fast forward to the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11, and we have enabled a way of storing data, agnostic to hardware in your primary location leveraging Linux with the NEW Hardened Linux Repository.

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We know that ransomware is attacking us from all angles. With strains of ransomware and malicious activity exploring new routes to your data, it’s just a matter of time until you and your business are compromised. Your unstructured data is just another target for these strains of ransomware. In the past, businesses were typically infected via email or exploit kits hidden within websites. These new attack methods focusing on NAS devices use a different method. Read more

With Veeam Availability Suite v10, we introduced 10 new updated core features, and one of those was the New Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. For those using our initial v1 product, Veeam Availability for Nutanix, we received a lot of great feedback that influenced us moving forward. Read more

The world of NAS has changed over the years, historically being used as a central location to store and share user files and home directory data across the business.

Today, NAS is used much more widely - commonly including applications, large unstructured data sets and virtualization. What has also changed is the scalability that you can now achieve through your production NAS devices by exposing NFS or SMB protocols for these workloads. As such, unstructured data is currently measured in Petabytes and continues to grow exponentially.

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Welcome the new plug-in for the Dell EMC SC Series! This is not the first integration we have done with Dell EMC, and this latest integration will add to the list which already includes Dell EMC VNX, VNXe and Unity.

But in contrast to the Dell EMC storage products we already have integrations with, this will be the first integration written by Dell EMC themselves. This new plug-in with SC Series will help to increase Veeam’s storage footprint coverage.

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