This week, we’re looking at the business impacts (without the techno-jargon) to emphasize that downtime and data-loss are NOT just IT issues. Read more

Veeam was one of the first to embrace vCloud Director and through the years has continued to support each release as the platform accelerated their release cycles and gained momentum as the default Cloud Data Management platform for VMware-based service provider offerings.

We have listened to the VCSP community so please welcome our new Veeam Community plugin for vCloud Director!

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When coming up with the idea for this topic, I asked myself, "Why would someone need to create a VTL?" For myself, I needed something I could play with in a lab environment without the cost of extra equipment, but this is something you can do in your production environment as well. This article covers how to create a free VTL (virtual tape library) on CentOS 7 and connect it to a Veeam server. Read more

Let's look at statistics, as well as other industry data, to quantify the “reality gap” that most organizations have between their business units’ expectations of IT and IT’s ability to assure delivery. Read more

One of the critical services in many companies is the file servers, which serve file shares where users or applications store their data. If the file server is offline, then people cannot work. Downtime means additional costs, which organizations try to avoid. Windows Server 2019 (and earlier versions) allow you to create highly available file services. This blog describes how to create a file server cluster with Microsoft Windows Server 2019. Read more

We’re kicking off a five-week video blog series for the Tuesdays in October. One of the most common conversations that I have with IT leaders when they are discussing their IT modernization initiatives is, “How are you going to back that up?” Read more

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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With the release of NSX-T 2.4 in June 2019, VMware significantly modified the user experience of NSX manager. A new simplified UI was introduced and the previous UI from version 2.3, has become the advanced UI. During conversations with customers, this topic has surfaced frequently and I felt that explaining the key differences between the respective UIs and guidance regarding when to use which each would be helpful to Veeam customers. Read more

A few months ago, one of our customers presented at VeeamON and gave fellow IT Pros an unedited, unfiltered take on using Office 365 backup.

This customer migrated to Office 365 almost two years ago, added Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to protect their data, went through a major company acquisition where they inherited heavy SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business usage and had to manage through an exponential increase in Office 365 data. They had been through quite a bit and had a lot of lessons to share.

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When running a Kubernetes cluster in an environment, the Kubernetes Master Node contains all the configuration data including items like worker nodes, application configurations, network settings and more. This data is critical to restore in the event of a master node failure. As the use of Kubernetes grows significantly in production environments, let's talk about backing up the cluster configuration. Read more