As cloud-first mandates push more application development, database hosting, compute workloads and more to clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), it’s equally important that backup, security and cloud professionals alike ensure that their data is reliably recoverable in the face of any downtime or data loss scenario. Read more

Applications are critical to businesses and ensuring their continuity is a top priority. Different applications and workloads carry different levels of criticality and need to be protected differently depending on your specific business needs. With workloads covering more platforms that extend past on-premises data into service provider clouds, the public cloud and SaaS based platforms, it’s important to understand how to protect key workloads no matter where they reside. Read more

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator helps Veeam users take control of their disaster recovery (DR) strategy by making it easier to plan, document and execute their recovery plan flawlessly in the event of disaster. Built on top of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (Orchestrator) leverages the replica and restore capabilities built into the platform to provide validated recovery documentation and enhance the recovery options available for single applications or entire sites. Read more

We heard a lot about object storage during the Veeam Backup & Replication v12 launch event. Although support for object storage is not new to the Veeam Data Platform, the ability to utilize it as a primary landing zone for backups is new in V12. Even though the list of new features and enhancements is astonishingly long for our latest release, anticipation around this capability has been a part of almost every conversation regarding V12. Read more

Veeam is proud to release the findings of yet another research project, the 2023 Data Protection Trends Report, which is the industry’s largest independent research on backup and data protection. This research is fully independent, representing the whole market — not only Veeam customers — and was conducted by a third-party research organization, with no one knowing that Veeam was involved. Read more

Ransomware attacks are an unfortunate reality faced by companies of all shapes and sizes. When the Kodiak Island Borough had its data threatened by a ransomware attack, we used Veeam to help us recover our data. Read more

Veeam is proud to release the findings of yet another research project, the 2023 Data Protection Trends Report, which is the industry’s largest independent research on backup and data protection. The research in this report is fully independent and represents the whole market — not only Veeam customers. It was conducted by a third-party research organization, with all respondents having no knowledge of Veeam’s involvement. Read more

While most enterprise IT shops have a cybersecurity strategy that includes a backup policy, many have focused more on prevention than recovery, understandably. After all, the attack that fails does the least amount of damage. However, sooner than later, you may suffer a cyber incident that puts your business data and operations at risk — and an airtight cyber incident recovery solution can minimize the damage. Read more

Veeam is proud to release the findings of yet another research project, the 2023 Data Protection Trends Report, which is the industry’s largest independent research on backup and data protection. This research is fully independent and represents the whole market — not just from Veeam customers. It was conducted by a third-party research organization with no one knowing that Veeam was involved. Read more

In this second part (the first part can be found here) of setting up and hardening a Veeam “hardened repository,” I will cover how to set up Ubuntu 20.04 in a secure way. While it’s “just a minimal installation,” I have seen many questions on this topic, so let’s clear some things up. Read more