When you run a backup operation as part of a daily policy, it’s not as transparent. Everything runs in the background while you’re completing other tasks. If anything goes wrong, you won’t know about it until later when you finally take the time to check your dashboard. While you may think everything worked the way it was supposed to, in reality, your application is not protected anymore! Read more

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

Cloud deployments are continuing to gain massive popularity, accelerated by the desire to modernize, evolving telework trends, and cost concerns. While not an exhaustive list of reasons, cloud platforms are here to stay. Eighty-one percent of surveyed organizations leveraged multi-cloud strategies last year. Additionally, Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud Survey found that 93% of respondents plan to implement multi-cloud. That said, what’s all the buzz about? We’ll dive into the ins and outs of multi-cloud, how you can implement it, and its inherent benefits. 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

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

The Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 product helps in the management and archival of Microsoft 365 data, offering flexible deployment options to meet business needs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 partnered with Lenovo to provide options for backing up Microsoft 365 data with a true separation of infrastructure and control. Read more

Veeam Service Provider Console v5 was introduced in February of 2021 and was built upon previous releases to allow Veeam service providers further reach into their customers’ environments, offering them the ability to drive new service offerings around physical and cloud-based workloads. One new key feature of Veeam Service Provider Console was the capability of leveraging the built-in public cloud plug-ins in Veeam Backup & Replication v11, extending to the protection of customer workloads residing in AWS and Azure. Read more

Kubernetes makes application deployment easier, yet application features require an increasing number of components and requirements. A good example of this is the IBM blockchain network, in which the trust on the transaction can be distributed between organizations. Read more