Posts by Sam Nicholls

Google Cloud is a collection of services including storage and compute resources, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), provided by Google. The company offers several pricing options catering to different demographics and use cases, including a free tier, pay-as-you-go options, and discounted long-term reservations. Because there are so many pricing options, it can be difficult for organizations to predict how much their cloud usage will cost them. Read more

Cloud computing has become ubiquitous and has reached the point where nearly half of all workloads run in the cloud. Currently, most organizations operate a combination of on-premise and cloud workloads, known as a hybrid cloud. Typically, they keep key services within their data centers and use the cloud for customer-facing services, software applications and flexible data storage. The hybrid cloud model is ideal because it is not always possible, or even wise, to move everything to the cloud for reasons like cost, performance and compliance. Read more

One of, if not the most, challenging aspects of cloud cost optimization and data is achieving your desired outcome without being shocked by your bill at the end of the month. Balancing the needs of your business and your proverbial checkbook is not an easy thing. Read more

So, it turns out that your data that resides on public cloud IaaS like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Azure VMs doesn’t protect itself. For as long as Veeam Agents have been around, Veeam users have used them to protect their cloud-hosted workloads. In fact, for over three years, the protection of IaaS and PaaS has also been possible in our cloud-native appliances: Veeam Backup for AWS, for Microsoft Azure and for Google Cloud. Read more

What a whirlwind of a couple of weeks it’s been here at Veeam! With the launch of V12, so many exciting enhancements have been delivered to help organizations secure their backup strategy and improve recovery across hybrid cloud environments. Part of that includes a host of new capabilities in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud v4 delivered on Valentine’s Day! So, let’s dive in to exactly what’s new. Read more

It’s been a busy few weeks for our cloud teams launching new versions of our native backup and recovery solutions for AWS, Google Cloud, and now Microsoft Azure! Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v4 a number of significant capabilities that have been added to help customers protect more of their Microsoft Azure environment, enhance security and streamline usability. Let’s jump right into some of the new key features. Read more

Regardless of what percentage of your organization’s mission-critical workloads are running in the cloud today, it’s likely far more than it was a year ago. This is due to a combination of net-new workloads, as well as migrating in from data centers, leading me to a Pinterest-worthy platitude – the life (of your data) is a journey, not a destination. The best infrastructures for our workloads today may not be the best tomorrow. We witnessed this with the decoupling and migration of the majority of our physical servers' OS, applications and data to virtualized platforms. Today, its rapid acceleration to the cloud, especially true in the light of COVID-19, further accelerating this shift. Read more

It goes without saying that adoption of AWS – specifically for running production workloads – continues to build with unprecedented momentum. Some of you may refer to this acceleration within your organization as “cloud-first,” and you’re all likely somewhere along this journey. From the early stages of planning and experimenting, to deploying new apps and migrating your on-prem data centers as fast as humanly possible. And why not? It can be relatively easy to make the cloud work for you, helping transform the business for the better, from costs to competitive advantage and more. Read more

It's not been long since we launched Veeam Availability Orchestrator v2, bringing with it full orchestration and automation support to restores from Veeam backups. This brought brand new DR possibilities – including the ability to achieve real DR from backups – with extreme operational efficiencies. The orchestration technology that delivers methodical, planned and proven DR was once only available to enterprises or the most mission critical of applications, is now available for all applications and data, no matter how they've been protected. Read more

Today’s apps consist of multiple component tiers with dependencies both inside the app and outside (on other applications). While separating these apps into logical operational layers yields many benefits, it also introduces a challenge: complexity.

I wanted to share with you some tips, tricks, best practices and some of the tools that will help you be more successful and efficient when building and executing a DR plan that will recover entire apps quickly and reliably. Read more