One of, if not the most, challenging aspects of cloud cost optimization and data is achieving your desired outcome without being shocked by your bill at the end of the month. Balancing the needs of your business and your proverbial checkbook is not an easy thing. Read more

In life, we must make informed choices and decisions about the services and products we consume and rely on recommendations and thorough research. In these cases, we often look to those we consider to be experts in their respective areas. Gartner is one of the top technology research firms that’s dedicated to delivering actionable objective observations to the industry. Read more

Data is the lifeline of every organization. From customer data to employee data, sales data to service data — when properly utilized all this data can provide rich information to help organizations prosper and grow. And let’s not forget what is likely the most important type of data — the metadata, which is data about data or the internal structure of data inside CRM. Metadata is the structure of your CRM which helps enable users to understand the story that all the other data is trying to tell. Read more

Microsoft Teams has become a linchpin for communication and collaboration in modern organizations. However, this reliance also brings a heightened risk of data loss, which could result in operational disruptions, productivity losses, or legal issues. Read more

If you’ve bought into or heard the idea of hybrid cloud merely being a precursor to a full cloud approach, you can move on from that thought. Thousands of organizations are using hybrid cloud as their permanent cloud solution. In fact, almost 50% of all workloads are now hosted on the public cloud. Read more

Veeam has been busy preparing for our V2 release of Veeam Backup for Salesforce. Our customers spoke and we listened, adding the most requested capabilities to our latest release. It is just as important to back up your Salesforce data as it is to backup the data form any other parts of your technology stack, but many organizations think it is backed up in the cloud (it is not) or it is not necessary (speak to a sales team that did not have access to their data for a week and they will btell a different story. Read more

The Kasten K10 by Veeam Data Management Platform has a strong integration with OpenShift on many aspects. Among them are security of the containers, authentication, multi-tenancy/RBAC, and support for different storage providers. Read more

Google is hosting its annual Google Cloud Next user conference once again. Google Cloud Next is back, better than ever, and this year as an in-person event (versus a virtual event the past three years) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Read more

Today’s enterprises are increasingly reliant on cloud services, such as Microsoft 365, for efficient collaboration and productivity. But the looming question remains — should you back up Microsoft 365 data? There are many opinions — as well as misconceptions — on this topic, but in this blog, we will help you separate facts from fiction so you can make an informed decision on whether to protect this data. We’ll also provide some insight into how to protect Microsoft 365 data with Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365. Read more

Over the last several years, Microsoft has worked on APIs and authentication methods to help organizations mitigate security concerns around compromised credentials. These advances include Azure Vault, MFA, Ephemeral accounts, enterprise applications and more. Read more