With Veeam Backup & Replication version 10, it’s possible to back up NAS shares with the SMB (CIFS) and NFS protocol. One of the challenges with backing up large file shares is doing so in a consistent state. This blog post shows how to create a consistent backup of an SMB share hosted on a NetApp FAS storage by using Microsoft VSS snapshots. Read more

The Be the Hero series is designed for Veeam partners to learn about Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), the Veeam Platform, and how partners can deliver the business outcomes customers need today. Read more

Veeam recently published the latest and largest research report on data protection, as surveyed by an independent research firm with nearly 3,400 responses from 28 countries. If that was big – this is bigger: 8,000 responses between the DPR 2020, DPR 2021, and now the DPR 2022 reports. Read more

Version 6 of Veeam Service Provider Console has been out for little over a month now and contains highly anticipated features and enhancements that our Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners have been asking for. In this technical blog, I’ll answer the most common questions brought up to me as a VCSP-dedicated engineer regarding the new features of this latest release. Read more

Cybersecurity threats are threats that focus on gaining access to an organization's digital environment. Unfortunately, it is called a threat for a reason. Attackers generally don't want to get inside to do good things to your computers and data. There are many different ways and reasons that attackers want to get into an IT environment, so let's take a closer look.  Read more

Welcome to the final part of our three-part series on Veeam and object storage. In part one we looked at the similarities and differences between the big three "hyperscale" cloud providers, then in part two we looked at how Veeam can be configured to optimise your object storage utilisation and efficiency. Now in part three we'll look at some benchmarks to provide real results to help shape your object storage designs. Enabling you to accelerate your adoption of object storage in an effective manner. Read more

Veeam ONE can help every organization with decision-making, proper resource allocation and issue identification and resolution. Veeam ONE compliments Veeam Backup & Replication in several ways for every type of deployment. Service providers can gain many benefits from utilizing Veeam ONE, like maintaining compliance, planning for backup infrastructure needs, and sizing your environment properly. As a service provider, you can utilize these Veeam ONE capabilities to drive profitability, scale customer environments, potentially increase customer satisfaction and sell more successfully. 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

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

Third-party software that interacts with VMware vCenter must store credentials somewhere. These credentials are the target of attackers as they often provide high privileges on one of the central components of a busines IT infrastructure. This blog post shows how a “least privilege model” implementation with Veeam Backup & Replication can work. Read more