A lot of discussion and thought goes into designing backup solutions for adequate capacity, performance at an affordable cost. Normally the focus is on the backups, but we also need to think about the restores. The faster the restore, the less down time and economical loss. Instant VM Recovery is there to achieve the fastest possible restore time. This works great, but at scale, you need to worry about the performance of those virtual machines you made available so quickly and how the operations involved impact your environment. Let's continue our discussion of some key design considerations to make Instant VM Recovery shine. Read more

You might be forgiven for assuming that, if you selected Cloud Management Platform (CMP) and backup and recovery solutions from strong market leaders, automating your cloud with seamlessly integrated, application-aware, policy-driven Backup as a Service (BaaS) would be a no-brainer.

Sure.

Tried it lately?

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A lot of discussion and thought goes into designing backup solutions for adequate capacity, performance at an affordable cost. Normally the focus is on the backups, but we also need to think about the restores. The faster the restore, the less down time and economical loss. Instant VM Recovery is there to achieve the fastest possible restore time. This works great, but at scale, you need to worry about the performance of those virtual machines you made available so quickly and how the operations involved impact your environment. We’ll discuss some key design considerations to make Instant VM Recovery shine. Read more

I am excited to announce today that the NetApp resale of Veeam Availability solutions is now live!

At Veeam, delivering IT simplicity is at the heart of our ethos and culture. And for over a decade, we have a track record of delivering Availability solutions that literally delight our customers.

Likewise, NetApp has an enduring legacy of making IT simple. In fact, for the last 25 years, businesses of all sizes have come to rely on NetApp Data Fabric solutions to help them move, manage, protect and share their most critical data assets.

The challenge for IT is that they often spend more time on the care and feeding ... Read more

Many hardware and software vendors frequently organize international events to announce new products and to outline new trends and developments. How important is it for customers or partners to attend these conventions? I would like to share my personal experiences about visiting VeeamON that changed my whole view on traveling to global conventions. This is not going to be a VeeamON sales pitch. I will try to explain how VeeamON became a game changer for me.

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What does it take to back up MySQL on a Linux VM? This is a riddle we sometimes hear at Veeam: When running on a Linux VM, how does one quiesce MySQL databases? Unfortunately, there are not many new ways to answer this riddle, and the answers we currently have are already tried and tested!

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In my previous blog, we walked through Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows configurations and ways it provides for backing up data on travelers’ laptops to a cloud provider. Now should you need to recover your data, let’s see how to do it and which options you have with Veeam Agent.

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One of the best things about Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is the ability to back up to and restore from one of the many Veeam Cloud Service Providers. This functionality opens up a new use case for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, the business traveler.

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Veeam is exhibiting at IBM Think 2018 this week, showing our joint IBM Cloud offerings, IBM storage integrated solutions and new managed services by IBM Business Resiliency Services. As Think opens today, it gives me an opportunity to reflect on the large contribution strong alliance relationships like IBM play in Veeam’s continued, unprecedented growth. This kind of success only comes from an ecosystem that works together. One that is built on a shared focus on customer needs, from the SMB market all the way up to the largest enterprise.

IBM is an excellent partner for Veeam, our ecosystem, and our ... Read more

Back up is the first step along the journey toward data Availability and backing up data is a day to day task many of us do without knowing it. The real value in those backups is achieving efficient and fast recovery to meet the crucial demands of the business. Over the years Veeam has become synonymous with data Availability and with the integration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) storage, users gain industry-leading recovery capabilities to minimize data loss. This integration allows storage snapshots to become more purposeful through Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots, Backup from Storage Snapshots and On-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots.

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