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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Today, March 8, is International Woman’s Day, a day where we celebrate women in every industry across the Globe. Throughout my career, I have worked at a variety of engineering and technology firms. It is in these industries where we always hear that women are underrepresented, with an average 80:20 men-to-women ratio. Thankfully, this is starting to change.

On the international stage, we now see women breaking the glass ceiling. In the technology industry, Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Ginni Rometty is the Chief Executive Officer of IBM and Meg Whitman holds the position of Chief Executive Officer in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Within Veeam, we have several women in key leadership positions at director ... Read more

Today’s HyperFlex version updates from Cisco come almost a year to the day of its launch. The updates are important for organizations — many of which are Veeam customers —interested in the benefits of all-in-one compute, storage, network and virtualization technologies.

Veeam’s relationship with Cisco has continued to strengthen. And last week’s news about our integration with Cisco HyperFlex has made it even stronger.

At just one-year-old with about 1,000 customers to its name, many of our Veeam customers now view Cisco HyperFlex as an important business platform. We’ve watched the rapid growth of ... Read more