In part one we looked at the characteristics that make up the cloud object storage offerings of the main three cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services/AWS, Google Cloud Platform/GCP). Now that we understand what to look for from our cloud providers and the features they have available, we’ll look at what information we need to gather to build our own cost and performance estimates to implement object storage ourselves. Read more

Office 365 numbers continue to grow — at the time of writing this there are 250 million daily users on Microsoft Teams — the information being produced and stored is critical to any business. Veeam offers native protection for these workloads with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. For those customers who are already using native protection for Office 365, this article is an overview of product observability, reporting, dashboards, and more. Read more

Third-party software that interacts with VMware vCenter must store credentials somewhere. These credentials are the target of attackers as they often provide high privileges on one of the central components of a busines IT infrastructure. This blog post shows how a “least privilege model” implementation with Veeam Backup & Replication can work. Read more

Some of the challenges facing IT organizations today are around not only protecting and restoring workloads, but also the configurations of the actual cloud environment itself. This is just like in the on-premises world where infrastructure configurations are protected, like network switch configurations, VMware vCenter, firewall rules, etc. In AWS, the equivalent service that provides these resources is called Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Read more

This is a question not to be taken lightly. Unfortunately, more often than not, such questions are one of the last to consider when planning a migration to the cloud. It’s sort of a unified assumption these days that whatever goes to the cloud is protected by default. Well, how can it not be? Isn’t it the part of the “as-a-service” piece? Read more

Today we’re going to explore the big three (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform), how their pricing models are similar and differ, and how to make the most of them when designing a backup strategy that incorporates any of them. These three aren’t the only object storage providers that Veeam integrate with, and most of the lessons within this blog will be applicable to any storage vendor. Read more

Periodically when I’m talking with customers, they may ask a question, and my response is, “Did you know about…” or “The answer can be found…”. Often, the customer will indicate they were not aware of that specific resource, and it got me thinking. It would be great to share some of the best Veeam resources that you may have never heard of. Read more

As technology evolves, so too must the tools we rely on for efficient and secure data management. Veeam FastSCP, a beloved solution for file transfers among IT professionals, has undergone a significant transformation. Read more

With the explosive growth of AWS, more and more people are turning to Amazon RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) for database services. With Amazon RDS instances, you can deploy databases without having any of the overhead of managing the actual database service or underlying operating system. Now, because of this growth in Amazon RDS, a new challenge faces consumers of this service. Read more

If you’re operating in a Windows or Windows Server environment, and have critical data to protect, then Windows Storage Spaces can come in handy. Many data centers and server farms implement both HDDs and SSDs for storing important data. Unfortunately, 10% of hard drives fail past the three-year mark. Organizations must recognize this threat — and the numerous other hardware, software and human snafus that may threaten data integrity. Read more