Sirius is well known for testing solutions as part of their Data Protection Heatmap study, and they recently focused on reviewing Microsoft 365 backup solutions. Concluding this recent review, it was determined that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 outperformed all other solutions in all the key areas. I had the opportunity to interview Michael Stempf, who is the Data Protection & Information Management Practice Owner at Sirius, so we could learn more about the study and understand why our Veeam solution ranked the highest. Read more

Since the inception of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, Veeam has made it our mission to educate the IT community on the importance of protecting data in Office 365. Fortunately, as time has gone by, more and more organizations understand the “why” of SaaS backup and want to focus on the “how”. So, we have created a new easy-to-read technical guide on Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 which explains everything from what the components are, to how get up and running creating your first backups and restores. Let’s cover a few important aspects of deploying Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Read more

People have asked what we mean when we say, “secure backup is your last line of defense.” Over the last ten years, the security industry has realized modern ransomware protection requires an integrated security architecture from endpoints to network and cloud to detect, correlate and remediate attacks completely. Read more

The main idea of the previous was to provide a deep and detailed overview of Veeam ONE capabilities, with a strong focus on service providers’ infrastructure. The feedback of our community and the reports which were highlighted there dramatically simplifies service providers’ daily monitoring and activity. Today we’ll uncover how service providers using VMware Cloud Director can build additional services based on Veeam ONE solution. And in contrast to previous blogs, we will move our attention from “what” to “how”. Read more

The following article is an excerpt checklist based on the eBook Conversational Microsoft Teams Backup. Although backups have been around for as long as IT itself, backing up Microsoft Teams presents some unique challenges. This checklist is designed to give you some practical guidance for backing up Microsoft Teams. Read more

As another installment from the Data Protection Trends 2022 report, we’re covering the topic of downtime and data loss. These results really give us a view on the current trends happening in the IT environment. Read more

According to our 2021 Clouds Protection Trends report, 85% of organizations are utilizing the public cloud for two years or more, and this number continues to grow. With that, the need for those who are knowledgeable about the cloud and have experience working on it, especially on AWS, are more important than ever. Read more

Have you ever wanted to know more about Virtual Machine (VM) backups but didn't know where to start? Whether you have questions around backing up a VM, restoring application data or understanding the ins and outs of a disaster recovery plan; this guide will help you get started. From on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid... find out the best way to protect your VMware VMs and meet your SLAs across your environment. We'll discuss the considerations for a successful backup and recovery, including some tips and tricks for a better virtual machine backup. Read more

People, process and technology are the triad for cybersecurity strategy. Too often we focus on the technology portion and struggle to respond when failures occur or attacks are successful. Too often there’s confusion and delay because processes aren’t documented, teams are siloed and possibly in conflict or, worse, assumptions are made regarding responsibility. In a world of modern attacks like ransomware, this turns into real dollars due to downtime and data loss. Read more

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows v5 was released in early 2021. Additionally, two traditional minor releases (5.0.1 and 5.0.2) were released as well, the latest as recently as late December 2021. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows has become the best ally to protect enterprise workloads, no matter if the workload is bare metal, virtualized or in a private or public cloud. Read more