New Orleans, Louisiana will be hosting VeeamON 2017, the world’s premier Availability event, from May 16 – 18. Not only will you get the latest in data Availability innovations, but you’ll have the chance to interact with industry leaders around the world, attend breakout sessions held by Veeam experts and listen to what industry-renowned speakers have to say. VeeamON 2017 will take place in a special location. New Orleans is a unique blend of cultures that has so much to offer. I hope you’ll plan your agenda in such a way that you’ll have the chance to enjoy the Big Easy. Today, I will share with you several attractions that will definitely make your stay in New Orleans unforgettable. Read more

Veeam has a great relationship with Microsoft and, as a result, we have many industry-leading data protection options for Microsoft solutions. But what about heterogeneous environments? Many customers run a mixture of open source technologies and Microsoft technologies. Veeam Backup & Replication is agnostic as to the operating system running in a virtual machine, but specific features such as Application-aware Image Processing (AAIP) and File-Level Restore (FLR) must interact with the guest OS. That’s where our continued enhancements ensure that your environments are protected across a broad array of technologies.

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There are many changes that can be brought from ReFS (Resilient File System). It is a storage technology introduced in Windows Server 2012 (with new features and improvements ever since) and this blog is the gateway to the opportunity to do Hyper-V the right way with Windows Server 2016 today. Read on! Read more

With the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v8 in 2014, Veeam redefined the way in which businesses of all shapes and sizes could extend their system and data Availability strategies to consume backup offerings from trusted service providers, with the launch of Veeam Cloud Connect Backup. Veeam Cloud Connect was made available for all Veeam customers who now had the ability to engage with a number of Veeam Cloud & Service Provider partners worldwide directly from their Backup & Replication console and configure offsite backup repositories to which virtual machines could be sent to over a secure internet connection, redefining the 3-2-1 rule of backups (three copies of data, on two types of media, one of which is off-site).

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I’ve heard about the "Ransomware as a Service" concept before and it was a big eye opener to me in regards to the real level of threat we could be facing soon. And last week, I found this blog post that went into detail about RaaS and new threats. Take some time to read it, because I think RaaS will change IT as we know it.

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Technology changes not only the way we do business, but the way we live. Not embarking on the latest innovations is a risky proposition, which in business can sometimes be fatal.

At Veeam we often say that in the world of Digital Transformation, every company is an IT company — it’s hard to imagine doing business in 2017 without taking advantage of any type of technology, be it virtual or physical workloads, endpoints, smartphones or even IoT. Technology is the main engine of progress and revenue and being on the leading edge of technology can deliver competitive advantages making companies quite profitable.

Data Availability is not optional anymore but still, 84% of IT administrators state they have an Availability Gap between ... Read more

It shouldn't be a surprise that Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a very popular CRM application across many customers, both large and small. A critical workload application such as CRM must have a good backup strategy.

The good news is that you can protect your CRM infrastructure using Veeam backup, and setting up Veeam replication is an easy process. It is also very easy to deploy. When it comes time to recover, Veeam can offer several options, depending on the SLA in place.

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In previous parts of this Nano Server deployment series, we learned how to create, deploy and configure Nano Server as a Hyper-V host. In this part, we will look for a clustering option. We will create a Hyper-V cluster of 3 Nano Server host nodes with Storage Spaces Direct on it. Read more

It only seems like yesterday that I stepped into my role as Veeam President and COO, but it’s actually been more than eight months — and what an amazing eight months they’ve been! When I took this role, I knew I was joining a special company, one with a rich heritage of innovation and success, a loyal customer base, passionate employees and a terrific reputation in the industry. Veeam’s vision for a highly virtualized, cloud-first era, where 24.7.365 access to information from anywhere, at any time — or Availability, as we call it — is something users can expect and not dream about hooked me.

However, what I heard about Veeam prior to joining the team was a massive understatement, ... Read more

In “The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing,” Peter Mell and Timothy Grace point out that there are four types of clouds: Private, public, community, and a hybrid mix of at least two of these. If you are thinking “What is a community cloud?” then I encourage you to go back and read the NIST paper. It’s really short and succinct, and your personal cloud vocabulary will be better for it. The vast majority of business will end up using their own private clouds and interfacing with various public cloud offerings from their partners. Availability seems to fit just perfectly as a hybrid cloud opportunity.

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