The news is out and congratulations are in order for our worldwide team! Gartner, the leading research and advisory firm providing information technology insight for enterprises worldwide, has recognized Veeam as a LEADER in the new 2016 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery, which we know reinforces the success of Veeam’s determined focus to deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise for our almost 200,000 worldwide customers. Read more

Here at Veeam we work hard at building great relationships with our customers and our partners. We have some amazing alliances with the industry’s leaders. Our Microsoft alliance relationship is of incredible value! Microsoft plays such a key role in technology, we seem to encounter them at every level of our business from software development to marketing, channel partners, sales and promotions, innovation, and of course, we share the same end customers who are committed to availability using Veeam, Windows Server, virtualization, and cloud.

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As part of my role leading the SE team for the ANZ region, I speak to CIOs and IT decision makers on a regular basis. And their top concern recently is Business Continuity and the need to have tested and verified plans. The need for businesses to effectively and efficiently manage unplanned outages of any scale is essential in today’s environment in effort to support the requirements of an Always-On Enterprise.

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As the CTO for OGD ict-diensten, a Dutch managed service provider (MSP), I try to spot market opportunities for my region early and often. We live in a new paradigm where software is eating the world, so it’s crucial for me to keep up with new technology whenever and wherever possible. This is why I attended and presented at VeeamON 2015 and learned about the much-anticipated Veeam Availability Suite v9 and all the awesome new features it delivers for MSPs. Read more

Many things have changed in the way we use technology since Windows 7 was released. The key trigger for these changes is the end-users — an office worker, an IT admin, the mobile workforce or someone from management who needs to always be connected, from anywhere with any kind of device. Windows 10 was built around the end-user's needs and it offers more personal interactions on a variety of devices — PCs, smartphones, tablets or even Xbox One. Windows 10 Enterprise brings more to device management and security through the new features and enables organizations to have better control of their mobile and interconnected workforce. Read more

The second feature announcement of NEW Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 brings the full integration of the previously released stand-alone feature, Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure. This new, fully integrated feature provides businesses with the ability to optimize resource allocation to drive scalability and minimize cost — to efficiently extend Availability to the hybrid cloud.

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This is the 3^rd article from my Active Directory protection series. In the previous one, I covered the domain controller recovery process. However, I believe that is a less common operation when compared to other Active Directory requests system administrators constantly receive. Among those requests, I believe the most frequent is Active Directory objects change.

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The best things about virtual computing are its ease of scale, management, portability and consolidation Virtualization also presents unique challenges for the IT team members who ask the following questions:

• • How do I monitor this constantly evolving and changing environment?
• • What metrics are the most important?
• • Do we keep using the legacy tools we're used using?
• • Do I procure something that's purposely built for the virtual infrastructure (VI)?
• • Like most IT decisions, there are pros and cons to each approach, but what if we took a bit of a hybrid approach?
• • What if the VI could be monitored and reported on within an existing toolset?

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The For Dummies series from Wiley has been helping millions of people learn the basics of a wide variety of subjects. This time, Veeam and Wiley Brand have teamed up to create DRaaS For Dummies, a book which covers the basics of Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).

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Today’s business relies on the IT department more than ever. The Internet of Everything (IoE) now requires a fully functioning datacenter to avoid business grinding to a halt, products not reaching the market and services disappearing. It is impossible to meet all user, customer or partner expectations without a fully functioning datacenter, which is the driving force for organizations to modernize and optimize their IT resources.

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