The world is becoming increasingly digital and technology is designed to make our lives easier. To meet the most demanding needs of their customers and users, firms must provide unconditioned access to their services. For many of these organizations, this is at best a challenge and at worst a survival matter.

Many organizations are still anchored in the past with their infrastructures reliant on legacy backup solutions and they just can’t do the job. It is the responsibility of the CIO and IT executives to navigate their organizations through digital transformation. But why is Availability so important?

Availability is more than just backup. It provides 24.7.365 access to an increasing amount of data from any device, anywhere. Organizations invest in virtualization, sophisticated ... Read more

“Rumor”: A currently circulating story or report of uncertain or doubtful truth.

By definition, a rumor is dubious — at best. That said, many people still interpret rumors as facts. I would now like to address the recent rumors about Veeam directly.

Over the past few days, several media articles have circulated across the globe stating that Veeam is an acquisition target. While we may be a target (frankly speaking, many vendors would probably love to integrate Veeam’s world-class Availability solutions into their own portfolios!), I am happy to state on the record that Veeam is not for sale and this is not part of our company strategy.

For the past decade, Veeam has been innovating Availability solutions that are easily the ... Read more

It’s no secret that data management is an important part of a system administrator’s agenda. We are constantly looking to implement technologies and services that allow us to manage information flow better and let us store data efficiently without eating up our budget. There are many ways to achieve that but today I wanted to talk about one special example — Data Deduplication technology. Read more

In the observance of World Availability Day, I wish all of you stay out of downtime and have your data always there for you and your customers. Yes, we know that tomorrow is World Backup Day, but we consider that backups are insufficient for modern organizations. They need more than that, they need unconditional access to their applications and data, anywhere at any time.

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It is a well-known and accepted fact that data rules our modern lives – we feed on it (email, calendar, maps, newsfeeds), we travel with it (Uber, train schedules, any airline) and we sleep with it (ALL fitness trackers available in the market monitor sleep patterns).

Therefore, it comes as no surprise when we at Veeam evangelize the importance of data Availability 24.7.365 because to put it quite simply, it’s our survival. Not only as individuals but as part of an organization, part of the economy, part of our “global village.” The ramifications of not meeting these expectations run deeper than just merely an inconvenience, but can cause the kind of issues that keep everyone from the IT Pro to ... Read more

The Digital Transformation of business is driving IT to evolve in order to satisfy flexible business processes and requirements, which lately involves more and more heterogeneous production systems. Modern IT environments are not limited to physical servers, but also operate on virtual machines and store data offsite, in the cloud. Today organizations are running a mixture of technologies (with virtualization as the prevailing standard) that need to be available 24.7.365. This is not a straightforward task – trust me!

So, what matters the most when looking to address modern organizations' protection issues? In a recent study, ESG highlighted four important features:

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) should lead to the right solution. In the life of an ... Read more

IT managers tasked with ensuring the Availability of business services may often feel like the tragic figure Sisyphus of Greek mythology. Punished for eternity by the gods, Sisyphus was forced to roll an enormous bolder up a hill only to see it come tumbling back towards him once it reached the summit. Feel like you’re living in your own Greek passion play when it comes to managing your data protection environment? Fear not. Your sentence may soon be commuted.

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For a number of years now, Veeam has been talking about the 3-2-1 rule of backups, whereby you keep three copies of your backup data on two different media types with at least one of those backups held off-site. Traditionally, most organizations have been able to put this into play by taking advantage of on-premises storage and media hardware along with multiple data center locations to cater for the off-site requirements. This is where off-site data backup services can come into play to satisfy the off-site backup services requirement.

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Server uptime defines high Availability, there’s no denial of that. To ensure that all the critical services are available for customers, you need to provide a near-continuous uptime of your infrastructure. Inability to do so will result in a downtime that will cost you real money. But that’s not the only application of an uptime measurement. Read on to learn how you can create server uptime reports that will help you to improve your infrastructure. Read more

Sometimes, circumstances can vary and you need to adjust your company’s investments based on its resources. Being on a budget and reducing investments can weaken key areas of your organization, but the integrity of your data shouldn’t be affected. At Veeam, we have many FREE solutions ready to sharpen the reliability of your data. Today, I will showcase some of our free tools and explain how you can actually reach a high level of protection at no cost, for both your organization and your personal use.

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