Sirius is well known for testing solutions as part of their Data Protection Heatmap study, and they recently focused on reviewing Microsoft 365 backup solutions. Concluding this recent review, it was determined that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 outperformed all other solutions in all the key areas. I had the opportunity to interview Michael Stempf, who is the Data Protection & Information Management Practice Owner at Sirius, so we could learn more about the study and understand why our Veeam solution ranked the highest. Read more

People have asked what we mean when we say, “secure backup is your last line of defense.” Over the last ten years, the security industry has realized modern ransomware protection requires an integrated security architecture from endpoints to network and cloud to detect, correlate and remediate attacks completely. Read more

With Veeam Backup & Replication version 10, it’s possible to back up NAS shares with the SMB (CIFS) and NFS protocol. One of the challenges with backing up large file shares is doing so in a consistent state. This blog post shows how to create a consistent backup of an SMB share hosted on a NetApp FAS storage by using Microsoft VSS snapshots. Read more

As another installment from the Data Protection Trends 2022 report, we’re covering the topic of downtime and data loss. These results really give us a view on the current trends happening in the IT environment. Read more

People, process and technology are the triad for cybersecurity strategy. Too often we focus on the technology portion and struggle to respond when failures occur or attacks are successful. Too often there’s confusion and delay because processes aren’t documented, teams are siloed and possibly in conflict or, worse, assumptions are made regarding responsibility. In a world of modern attacks like ransomware, this turns into real dollars due to downtime and data loss. Read more

When it comes to data protection for healthcare, the industry is both similar and unique in its overall trends and IT strategy. That is abundantly clear when you look at both the global and the healthcare industry results in the recently released Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends report. Read more

Enterprise organizations are big and complex, and their IT strategies are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the business. With assured access to data being increasingly important, enterprise data backup and recovery is a vital element for IT organizations to deliver in order to meet their objectives to the business. So, what is most important to organizations when considering their enterprise backup solution? The 2022 Data Protection Trends Report explored that question and produced interesting insights from the 3,000+ enterprises (> 1,000 employees) across 28 countries. Read more

In our previous Be the Hero issues, we talked about Veeam-powered BaaS and DRaaS, the foundational technologies that make these solutions possible and the partner opportunity with the Veeam Platform. This is the final issue in the series which highlights how Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners can take their Veeam-powered services to the next level with competencies and engaging other channel partners. Read more

In our previous Be the Hero Issue, The Veeamazing BaaS and DRaaS, we covered why DRaaS makes sense for clients, how it’s defined and is different from BaaS. There’s also this e-book, Conversational Disaster Recovery as a Service, that covers the basics. Here, let’s deep dive on the partner opportunity and the details behind Veeam-powered DRaaS. Read more

Veeam recently published the latest and largest research report on data protection, as surveyed by an independent research firm with nearly 3,400 responses from 28 countries. Among these responses were over 350 IT leaders from federal agencies, state and local governments, and educational institutions. Read more