Welcome to another installment in our ongoing series focusing on the Cloud Protection Trends Report for 2023, 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. Read more

The popularity of Microservices is on the rise; companies adopting this model increase by hundreds every day. Microservices are no longer limited to a few services. Read more

As you might have heard already, Veeam has released a new solution, Veeam Backup for Salesforce, aiming to help companies eliminate the risk of losing Salesforce data and metadata. Why backup Salesforce? If you don’t believe you need to back it up, read this first. With this new launch, I’d like to talk more about Veeam Backup for Salesforce’s technical aspects, as well as shed some light on interesting capabilities and architectural decisions we made. Read more

As the leading Kubernetes backup and recovery solution, Kasten K10 by Veeam provides the granular identity and access management controls required to secure your K10 environment and easily provide users with the access their roles require. Read more

Updating anything in an environment can be a very stressful process and is easily the least favorite task of any IT team. This is in large part due to the unknowns that can happen while updating any products or components. No one wants to modify something that is currently working, bringing on the mentality of “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”. This common rule can be a double edge sword that leaves your environment open to security vulnerabilities and dated product features. Considering this problem, I think Grace Hopper said it best, “The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘we’ve always done it this way’”. This post serves as a guide for the reasons why you should update ... Read more

If you break down the different responsibilities associated with your Salesforce instance, it becomes clear how much the customer controls when it comes to data and configuration, thus becoming responsible for any mistakes made internally. Read more

Since version 4.0.13 (Release Date: 2021-09-28), Kasten by Veeam has supported using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to protect Kasten K10 encryption keys. This provides an alternative to the passphrase Passkey, which is used by default to protect the master key and encryption key for encrypting snapshots exported to external locations such as S3 or NFS. Read more

It’s been a busy few weeks for our cloud teams launching new versions of our native backup and recovery solutions for AWS, Google Cloud, and now Microsoft Azure! Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v4 a number of significant capabilities that have been added to help customers protect more of their Microsoft Azure environment, enhance security and streamline usability. Let’s jump right into some of the new key features. Read more

When exporting snapshots to an external location such as an S3 Bucket or NFS file store, you might be concerned about the security of your backups in that location. If the S3 bucket or file storage were to be compromised, would the attacker be able to access sensitive data? The answer to this is easy: no. Read more

Recently, I set out to find an easy way for developers to deploy Kasten K10 and experience the value of the solution, without having to deploy public cloud managed Kubernetes environments or rely on virtual environments. Read more