In this second part (the first part can be found here) of setting up and hardening a Veeam “hardened repository,” I will cover how to set up Ubuntu 20.04 in a secure way. While it’s “just a minimal installation,” I have seen many questions on this topic, so let’s clear some things up. Read more

The Veeam Hardened Repository is Veeam’s native solution to provide trusted immutability for backups of Veeam Backup & Replication on a Linux server. By supporting generic Linux servers, Veeam ensures that customers always have a choice about their hardware without vendor lock-in. Veeam also allows customers to use their trusted Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE) instead of being forced to use a “custom Veeam Linux”. Read more

As your business embraces Amazon Web Services (AWS), it is imperative to ensure that your data remains secure/protected and you are minimizing costs. One of the ways to increase security and minimize costs in AWS is through a Gateway Endpoint. Read more

In this blog we will be sharing some information about Ansible and then diving into how you can use Ansible to deploy Kasten K10 in a desired state either at scale for many Kubernetes clusters or a repeatable way to automate the deployment removing the human error factor, or it could be both. Read more

Information is key in today’s business world. Not just having it, but making sure it does not end up in the wrong hands. This is true regardless if you are in a private cloud or leveraging a public cloud like Microsoft Azure. Read more

VMware’s vSphere has been the predominant hypervisor in datacenters for the better part of two decades. With its increased adoption over time, we’ve seen staggering growth in the number of workloads that are housed within datacenters. Read more

Ransomware attacks need to be viewed under the same category as power outages and natural disasters. The requirement to recover quickly is a necessity. Recently, I'm seeing many vendors in the data protection industry advertise immutability and ransomware detection features. Both of which should absolutely be part of a company's ransomware strategy, but an immutable copy coming from spinning disk or tape can result in too much downtime for the business. It's an easy decision for a CEO or CFO if an attacker's ransom is $100,000 and the cost of downtime for a day is $500,000. The only question at that point becomes how do we make a Coinbase account to transfer Bitcoin? Read more

Protect, Detect and Recover! The three key pillars a backup vendor is expected to offer when it comes to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The top priority on that list is protecting your data. A secure backup both on premises and in a private or public cloud offers immense protection. This can protect data from both a hacker accessing the backup server as well as the backup repository. Secondly, the ability to recovery quickly is crucial. Read more

Nominations are open, for a limited time, for the Veeam Vanguard class of 2023. Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is a solution that allows you to back up and restore Microsoft 365 data: Exchange Online, OneDrive for business, SharePoint Online, Teams. You can also protect data managed by this on-premises installations: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how to restore access to your backup data in case of a disaster that impacted Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server. Read more