Today is an exciting day for the Veeam Team, as we launch Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, rounding out our cloud-native backup support for the leading hyperscale public cloud providers! Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform delivers native protection for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Virtual Machines (VMs) in the most cost-effective and secure manner on the market. No matter what happens to your data, Veeam will let you easily recover from any cloud data loss scenario in minutes! Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 5 is here, and we’re excited to announce the addition of integrated Teams backup and restore, so don’t miss out on all the great features added in this version. To understand why this is so important, you must understand what Microsoft Teams is and the journey we took to get here. Read more

Veeam Backup & Replication has been protecting your critical workloads for well over a decade. Each release brings amazing new features like CDP, the ability to offload and archive backups to the cloud, and more. The upcoming v11 release has over 150+ improvements and new features, bringing more benefits and helping you eliminate data loss and ransomware. What you may not realize, is with each new feature in Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE also gets valuable, related updates. Read more

In this article, I will not only explain the difference between retention types available in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, but will also demonstrate how it works at several different points of a backup job cycle. Read more

Storing and sharing data is not unique to the digital age and has always been an essential part of the business. What has changed is the way we achieve this exchange. In the evolution of technologies came the evolution of communication. To exchange large data sets, we no longer need to copy information physically to hand it to another stakeholder. This can be achieved by storing data to a public cloud provider, which both parties have trust in. This kind of trusted transaction can help with sharing data both externally and internally. One of the most notable public cloud providers who facilitate this kind of exchange is Microsoft, with OneDrive and OneDrive for Business. Read more

This blog explains five essential security, compliance and availability capabilities built into Office 365. These capabilities provide excellent value to Office 365 users, and there is no reason for you not to leverage them. However, these features were not purpose-built to be a backup solution, so there are gaps and trade-offs to consider if you want to use them for backup. Microsoft makes strategic business decisions about where to invest in certain features. They have chosen not to invest in a purpose-built Office 365 backup solution. They have left this gap for their strategic partners, like Veeam, to fill. Read more

For years, Veeam has established itself as the #1 Office 365 backup, and this will be further solidified with version 5 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, which adds purpose-built backup and recovery for Microsoft Teams. Version 5 also includes Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Teams, which provides granular search across Teams components, with faster and easier recovery built for Teams. Veeam has also made architectural enhancements, delivering a massive scale increase to support larger enterprises, and added some new RESTful APIs to help with automation management. Read more

If you own a car, you already know the concept of preventive maintenance: change oil and filters regularly and the likelihood of your engine failure will dramatically decrease. Your engine is still fine, there aren’t any weird noises and it operates as it should, but you still plan on doing some maintenance because otherwise the costs of replacing a broken engine or gearbox will be much higher. And not only that, try to remember a case when the car broke NOT at the moment when you needed it most. All this means that without preventive maintenance, you are increasing your chances of losing money, time and maybe getting a couple of new grey hairs. Read more

More and more questions come up from customers, such as whether they can back up Azure File Sync data with Veeam and how to do it. The short answer is “yes we can!” But it’s a good idea to check the different configuration options. Read more

2020 has certainly been one strange year, causing us all to reconsider what is important to us personally and professionally. It is possible that 2021 may signal another era of macro-economic penny pinching like we saw around 2008. Veeam can help you be prepared with cost-effective tips. While the Veeam Backup & Replication v10 release was a few months ago, there are a few things that many users do not know, which can help ease the pains, costs and complexities of ensuring your data protection plan is both reliable and sound for the days ahead. Read more