The release of version 8 of Veeam Backup & Replication is adding new important features that can be used in the Modern Data Center. Veeam Backup Free Edition will also be adopting some of these new features that can be used in a production environment. Veeam Backup Free Edition will gain NetApp integration, Veeam Explorer for Active Directory, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server, and Encryption. Here is a rundown for what's new for free.

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I bet you’ve heard a lot about virtualization. No matter where you work, I’m sure you’d also like to enjoy the benefits of a virtualized environment and especially the benefits of Hyper-V virtualization. If you’ve already decided to find a how-to guide for converting your physical computer into a Hyper-V virtual computer (P2V), just keep reading and I’ll tell you how you can easily accomplish this in just minutes!

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To begin with, we all know that Hyper-V comes as a free addition to Windows Server 2012 R2. There are Standard and Data Center Editions. There is also a free version of Hyper-V called Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 that doesn’t require that you purchase a WS license? Finally, we need to get a clear understanding of the concept of virtualization rights.

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2 weeks ago we proudly announced the general availability of Veeam Availability Suite v8.

An essential component of the suite designed to complement Veeam Backup & Replication is Veeam ONE.

Veeam ONE is a powerful monitoring, reporting and capacity planning tool for Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructures. It is a key component to helping maintain Availability for the Modern Data Center by providing complete visibility of your backup and virtual environments.

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Certification in a specific IT area is a big deal. New technologies arrive every single day, companies develop new software built on those technologies and users try to figure out how everything works. Certification is a great way to show that you are knowledgeable.

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At Veeam, we believe the Modern Datacenter is based on virtualization. While we still see that some companies have a few remaining physical servers left, the majority are virtualized. However, a modern datacenter will still have certain physical devices. Most companies use physical workstations or laptops for their end-users to do their work and those devices have data on it that needs to be protected.

Because of that, we just announced a new product at our VeeamON conference today. Welcome Veeam Endpoint Backup Free!

Veeam Endpoint Backup Free is Veeam's new backup solution for Windows-based computers (desktops & laptops). It is a standalone product and is not part of Veeam Backup & Replication nor the Veeam ... Read more

In order to really understand the details of what Hyper-V is and why it’s so important you have to go back to its roots and to the roots of virtualization itself. In the late 1960’s IBM was working on operating systems at their Cambridge Scientific Center. These operating systems were for mainframe computers, the PC revolution had not begun.

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You may think that VM sprawl has never been a problem for your infrastructure, but what if it IS a problem and you just aren’t aware of it?

VM sprawl is a symptom of any rapidly growing virtual infrastructure. When any given department in the company opts to run their specific applications on dedicated servers, they can do this, thanks to virtualization. VMs are often set up for temporary usage, like testing or development labs, and after some peak usage owners may forget about them. The more virtualized applications and workloads you have, the more likely that “virtual junk” will appear in your infrastructure and cause VM sprawl.

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Virtualization is famous not just because of easier management of backup and restore procedures compared to those for physical systems. It has other advantages and one of them is definitely high availability (HA) of VMs. The term means that VM should be available regardless of the availability that the physical host it is running at. There are some specific methods for ensuring HA of the VM. Specifically, I’d like to talk today about failover clustering, which is Microsoft’s native feature for Windows Server with a Hyper-V role and MS Windows’ Hyper-V Server. Read more

When we released Veeam Backup & Replication version 6, one of the big “what’s new” items was our enterprise scalability through our distributed architecture and automatic intelligent load balancing. The move to the proxy/repository architecture was a big one for us because previously all backup activities ran through a single backup server. There were several reasons for moving to this architecture…

Distribute backup processing across multiple proxy servers to make it easier for you to scale your B&R deploymentAchieve higher availability and redundancy: if a proxy goes down, another one can still complete the task – no more single point of failureReduce impact from backups on production infrastructure through intelligent load balancingDramatically simplify job scheduling (by automatically controlling the desired tasks ... Read more