Imagine this: your business-critical application goes offline unexpectedly. Every minute of downtime could mean lost revenue, frustrated customers, and operational chaos. The question is — how quickly can you recover? This is where Recovery Time Objective (RTO) becomes critical. Read more

As businesses increasingly migrate to virtualized environments, service providers are on the lookout for robust solutions that offer the flexibility of cloud infrastructure and the cost-effectiveness of on-premises systems. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is a powerful open-source platform that increasingly stands out as an excellent choice for service providers aiming to implement multi-tenant architectures. In this blog, we will explore how service providers can effectively leverage Proxmox in multi-tenant environments alongside Veeam for complete data resilience. Read more

In December 1989, an evolutionary biologist named Dr. Joseph Popp sent out a floppy disk to around 20,000 people, marking the beginning of what would become the first known ransomware virus in history. The recipients of this disk were attendees at a World Health Organization conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Upon inserting the disk into their computers, they were greeted with a message demanding $189 be sent to a PO Box in Panama. Read more

Staying competitive in today’s business world is no small feat. Enterprises face constant pressure to adapt to new technologies and meet ever-evolving customer expectations. For many, modernizing legacy applications has become a critical step in achieving this adaptability. Read more

The State of Federal Government Cybersecurity

Government operations, public services, policy decisions, and other functions are all driven by highly distributed data stored on-premises and in hybrid multi-cloud environments. To counter adversaries in a post-quantum future, government entities must speed up the adoption of new data protection strategies and tactics as part of their modernization efforts.

Why now? The threat is real. The AES 256 encryption schemes used in most government and enterprise systems are ripe for decryption by nation states like China. Legacy data monitoring and management tools joined by swivel chairs do not adequately address governments’ current or future data security, resilience, and portability needs. Nor do they provide visibility and control across the entire data ecosystem.

Legacy backup/recovery, SIEM, ... Read more

Introduction

In this increasingly digital world, data loss can have devastating consequences for organizations. This ranges everything from outages and natural disasters to cyberattacks, and can result in inaccessible systems and lost data. These disruptions can result in significant operational disruption, financial losses, legal repercussions, and irreparable damage to reputation and customer trust.

Cyberattacks pose a significant risk for organizations of all sizes and industries. Now, organizations not only need to enhance their cyber defenses, they have to focus on proactively improving their recovery plans and procedures too. According to the Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends report, 63% of organizations restored backups directly back into their production environment without employing some type of quarantine or scanning method ... Read more

When faced with cloud-first approaches to data security, organizations often find that their existing tools fail to integrate with the cloud, landing them with bill shock, cyberthreats, and other surprises. Some just deal with it, while others reluctantly turn to multiple-point products (and the management nightmare that comes with them). But it doesn't have to be that way. Veeam empowers organizations with the best of both worlds — native data protection that’s built for specific environments, all wrapped up under a single, easy-to-manage platform and license that is platform agnostic and never boxes the organization in. This creates an ideal opportunity for Veeam partners and customers to work together to see the value of hybrid cloud data protection. Read more

The surge in Microsoft 365 adoption has transformed how businesses communicate, collaborate, and store data. But it’s also created new risks. For managed service providers (MSPs), the growing reliance on Microsoft 365 brings a clear opportunity and responsibility: ensuring clients’ SaaS data is reliably protected, recoverable, and compliant. Read more

Multi-cloud strategies address key challenges in modern IT environments. For example, compliance with data sovereignty laws, or leveraging different providers for specific use cases. Read more

2024 was a pivotal year for data resilience due to significant challenges and some remarkable advancements too. From additional regulatory frameworks like NIS2 in the E.U. to cyberattacks and natural disasters, this year prompted a heightened focus on strategies to better safeguard and manage vital company data. As we stand on the edge of 2025, we see that our digital landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace with the introduction of AI and machine learning in the world of data protection and increased regulatory compliance and privacy regulations.

In this blog post, we’ll dive into some insights our Veeam executives have for the future of data protection in the coming year so we can all walk into 2025 more resilient and ... Read more