Having the right account and knowing your backups’ components is a critical first step in the backup process, but you also need to know the scope of the Microsoft Office 365 environment you want to back up. Which services do you plan on including in this backup scope? Knowing the components you plan on backing up will help greatly when it comes to capacity and resource planning. Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is responsible for backing up and restoring Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint online data. What most administrators don’t know is that Microsoft protects the underlying hardware where the data sits but not the data itself, meaning if someone was to modify your data through an access point, Microsoft is not responsible for restoring it back to a previous state. The following articles in this series will help you get started with the product so you can start protecting your Microsoft Office 365 environment today. Read more

“If you’re moving to cloud primarily to save money, you would be terribly surprised with the result,” – that’s quite a popular phrase that’s been floating around in my team talks. While we always agree about cloud advantages such as ease of use, flexibility and so on, it requires some rethinking in terms of how you spend money there. In this article, I’m going to share a few tips based on my experience with AWS cost optimization. Read more

On May 21, the second generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, a fully managed VMware Cloud service, was unveiled. For customers with limited IT staff, managing infrastructures remotely and managing at scale can prove difficult. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC provides a fully managed cloud service that enables customers to rely on VMware as a single point of contact to service those locations as necessary. Read more

We’re excited to share that we are partnering with Kasten, the leaders in backup solutions for containerized workloads. Kasten’s K10 Data Management Platform, purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for Kubernetes backup and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Read more

As evidenced in this year’s 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant, Google Cloud has quickly ascended as one of the top three hyperscale providers on the market. As the leading provider of Cloud Data Management (CDM), we see and know the value in providing our customers with a fully comprehensive solutions portfolio that addresses the three cloud service providers. Today, we are thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership with Google that delivers more options and value to our customers. Read more

In this tutorial, you will take a hands-on approach to resize a virtual machine in Azure with PowerShell. You will write code to mitigate the need to navigate to the Azure Portal and instead, manage the virtual machine with code from a text editor. Read more

Today, Veeam has announced the general availability of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. It delivers native Azure backup for Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs), enabling users to cost-effectively and securely protect their cloud data to overcome any data loss scenario quickly and efficiently. What’s more, it also integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication, providing a single platform for hybrid cloud organizations to manage and migrate cloud, virtual and physical workloads effortlessly. Read more

More people than ever are using these products to store business data due to its mobility, moving between computers in the office, at home, and the mobile devices in-between which has made the transition to remote workplaces tenable. With this convenience comes the problem with users' data being exposed to more endpoints and threats than it would have before. These threats not only come in the form of ransomware but misguided users updating the wrong section of a shared resource. Which is why protecting this data has never been more critical. Read more

Recently Veeam released Veeam Backup for AWS. A new product providing cloud-native data protection to AWS workloads, whether they are born in the cloud or migrated to the cloud. With this new release of Veeam Backup for AWS, new considerations, specifically how to build a backup environment, must be put in place. Isolated accounts leveraging built-in AWS security boundaries are needed to be implemented. As such, a “Backup DMZ” should be used to protect all the data that is being backed up. Read more