One of the cornerstones of Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices is using multiple accounts to manage your workloads. Dedicating accounts to specific business units or even specific applications provides numerous benefits that increase agility, improve security and streamline operations. This practice also helps operators follow the principle of least privilege, whereby only a minimal set of privileges required to perform a task are assigned to responsible users and services, and ideally, only for the time required to complete the task. 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

Enterprises routinely face challenges when it comes to protecting their critical workloads. Meeting demanding Service Level Agreements (SLAs), unsought multi-team workflows, and convoluted or sprawling toolsets are just a few of the common constraints that organizations routinely face. When these challenges start to compound, you quickly wind up in situations where simple tasks can grind your applications to a halt.  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

2023 is fast-approaching, as is the release of Veeam Platform v12. Now is a great time to take a closer look at your backup strategies from all directions: To the cloud, of the cloud and even from the cloud. From consistent cloud bill shock, to the overwhelming tyranny of choice in cloud platforms and services, to the ever-looming threat of a cyber-attack, there’s a litany of reasons organizations should consider taking time to evaluate and optimize. Read more

Welcome to the third installment of our Cloud Protection Trends Report for 2023 blog series. Last week, Sam and I discussed some of the research findings from the , which surveyed 1,700 “as a Service” administrators, including those responsible for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) for file services and/or databases. Veeam contracts with independent research firms to ask questions on an assortment of topics – including the adoption trends for both IaaS and PaaS scenarios. Read more

As Kubernetes applications grow in number and scale in diverse deployment environments, organizations face a shortage of skilled personnel whether it be DevOps or Platform Ops to ensure that critical data management functions like backup, disaster recovery (DR), and application mobility are in place. In other words, organizations need to not only transition to a new, modern cloud-native development technology and workflow, but they require operations at scale without having an army of certified Kubernetes administrators. Read more