Throughout 2019, technology has continued to have a transformative impact on businesses and communities. Let's discuss some of the key technology trends that businesses will look to take advantage of and prepare for in the year ahead.

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With the Intelligent Data Management world developing at a rapid rate, its crucial decision makers have all the information to invest in the right backup solution for their business, whether that be utilising tape, cloud storage or conventional on-premise disk storage appliances. Looking at the extremely reasonable price of LTO 8 (Linear-Tape Open) media being approximately one pence (£) a gigabyte, tape still holds its ground as a reliable, low-cost solution in the eyes of many businesses. Read more

Backup and restore of physical Windows clusters is supported by Veeam Backup & Replication with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. It can backup Windows clusters with shared disks (e.g., a classic file-server cluster) or shared nothing clusters like Microsoft Exchange DAG or SQL Always-On clusters. In this article I will show how to backup a file server cluster with a shared disk. Read more

Every year, we benchmark ourselves to ensure customer satisfaction remains high, and I am delighted that in 2019 our customers have rated Veeam with a tremendous Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 75. But, is 75 good? Read more

A little over four years ago, Veeam introduced the Scale-out Backup Repository. Since that time, we increased its capabilities most recently with the Veeam Cloud Tier. If you’re not using the Scale-out backup repository, you should be. I’ll explain why. Read more

In Veeam Availability Orchestrator v2, we have two types of Orchestration Plans. First, the Failover Plan we all know and love, which quickly brings your replicas online.

With the introduction of Restore Plans, you can now orchestrate restores from backups with ease. This is a game changer as it means orchestrated DR isn’t just for enterprises or the most mission-critical of VMs — it’s for all organizations, all applications and all data. Using the same, simple wizard, building a Restore Plan is quick and easy. Let’s take a walk through that process. 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

Last week, we discussed how there is no such thing as “the cloud” — but instead, there are multiple types of cloud-based services that affect both your production and your protection strategies. Even if we just focus on Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) or Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), or the use of cloud-based storage in complement to an on-premises backup solution, it is hugely important to not presume that those cloud-providers are equitable. Read more

From time to time, I'd like to highlight certain Veeam ONE features you can leverage to be proactive when it comes to identifying threats that could significantly impact the integrity of your data. In particular, one of the most common threats that is the catalyst for many sleepless nights of datacenter professionals today ― ransomware. Read more

Here is a hot topic for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 users: how to reallocate a license to a user without waiting 31 days. In order to remove a license from a user, you first need to delete that user’s data from all configured repositories and run the remove license command with PowerShell. Let's do this! Read more