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

As companies grow, data grows and so does the backup data. Managing data is always an important aspect of the business. A common question we get around Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is how to manage the backup data in case something changes. Let's discuss the needs of data management and how we can help. Read more

it is impossible for IT organizations that are looking ahead to not foresee cloud-based capabilities being part of their hybrid-IT strategy; likely in more than one way, giving us the term multi-cloud. But each and every cloud, used for both protection and production, will have significant ramifications on IT’s ability to deliver what the business units expect; namely, reliable and resilient assured access to the data that they rely on every day. Read more

Gartner has just published the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery Solutions and Veeam was named a Leader for the third time. Read more

In this blog I want to talk about my experience of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RocEv2) within a Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct deployment and an alternative option for RDMA over Ethernet, iWARP. Read more

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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