Believe it or not, I used to work a lot with Microsoft SQL Server. While I did not call myself a database administrator (DBA), I did know my way around a database or two. Since I’ve been at Veeam, I have always enjoyed telling the Veeam story around using SQL Server as a critical application that needs the best Availability options.

Today, in observance of International Women’s Day, I share my thoughts on what this means for Veeam and how elevating our female workforce is essential to our continued success.

VeeamON is expanding!

As you’ve probably noticed, Veeam continues to grow from “just” the world’s best protection for virtual environments to delivering similar outcomes for physical servers, endpoints, Infrastructure as a Service-hosted (IaaS) servers and Microsoft Office 365. Those capabilities are the foundation for our protection, recovery, enablement and Availability solutions. In addition to that, we’ve acquired more IaaS capabilities through N2WS, released new monitoring solutions and delivered automation and orchestration through Veeam Availability Orchestrator.

We wrote this blog to better educate you on the myriad Veeam solutions that will make VeeamON 2018 bigger and better. This year, we’re offering seven “Green Threads” (you could call them tracks) that ... Read more

Veeam Management Pack (MP) for System Center has always been a great way for enterprises to clearly connect mission-critical applications to the vital systems they run on down to the virtualization and hardware levels. This app-to-metal visibility is truly a requirement in enterprises today, and for organizations who have implemented Microsoft System Center, you have a great opportunity with the Veeam MP. Today, the Veeam MP v8 Update 5 is now Available!

It seems like it’s almost every day that the news reports another major company outage and as a result, the massive operational, financial and reputational consequences experienced, both short- and long-term. Widespread systemic outages first come to mind when considering disasters and threats to business and IT service continuity. But oftentimes, it’s the overlooked, “smaller” threats that regularly occur. Human error, equipment failure, power outages, malicious threats and data corruption can too bring an entire organization to a complete standstill.

Every person at Veeam is fanatical about delivering the very best for our customers.

Customer satisfaction is at the heart of everything we do. It’s in our DNA, at every level of the organization, and we know this ethos is working. Why? Because our users keep telling everyone who will listen exactly what they think of us, and what they say about Veeam is fantastic!

I’m honored that, this week, end users on Gartner Peer Insights recognized Veeam with the 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software recognition. As of 2/16/2018, Veeam has a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars from ... Read more

Throughout our journey, we learned about the breadth, scope and location of our data, we started to manage it, and we validated that it was protected and secured. However, completing these tasks still did not ensure compliance.

This only encompassed the first 3 principles of the 5 lessons which we learned.

This journey brought us to the final two principles: Documentation and Compliance, as well as Continuous Improvement.

Lesson 4 and 5 can be brought together. Everything you do today for documentation, and that is automated, can also be used for continuous improvement.

First, it is important that each process in your environment is documented. The data itself might be classified and secure, ... Read more

I love data protection within IT— so much so that I am starting my 30th year focused on DP by leaving the analyst world and going back to the vendor world at Veeam. Here's why:

The state of the data protection industry

After seven blessed years as the Principal Analyst at ESG covering data protection, I've never been more amazed at the amount of innovation occurring to solve the ever-changing challenge of DP. Notice that I didn’t say “never-ending problem”. The greatest challenge here isn't that "backup is perpetually broken". It’s the expectations of users and the requirements of organizations that continue to heighten. This means that technologies that aren't visionary and innovative become lethargic ... Read more

In recent years we have all been hearing about cloud transformation. Many organizations already adopt such a strategy, but we still don’t see the large organizations move to all or full cloud strategies.

For some businesses, cloud is a cost saver when they move or run the workload from the cloud. For many other organizations, especially the large ones, an all-cloud strategy is not the best fit. Many things force them to keep and run most of their workload from an on-premises data center. If we look at today’s data centers, we realize that the data center is mostly running on top of a virtualization layer which introduces the basics of the hybrid cloud.

After the general overview and the delving into the first and second principles in our GDPR journey, it is time to look at the third principle: Protect the data. As a reminder, below are Veeam’s 5 lessons or 5 key principles in the GDPR journey:

There are many Information Security articles about protecting your data. Implementing and ensuring data protection heavily relies on tools and technology. While tools and technology are essential in protecting data, it is not sufficient. Protecting your data comes ... Read more