Mike McDonald, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, was kind enough to join Kasten at KubeCon Detroit for a talk around the concepts behind infrastructure as code and the benefits for Amazon EKS users. 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

The Veeam Hardened Repository is Veeam’s native solution to provide trusted immutability for backups of Veeam Backup & Replication on a Linux server. By supporting generic Linux servers, Veeam ensures that customers always have a choice about their hardware without vendor lock-in. Veeam also allows customers to use their trusted Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE) instead of being forced to use a “custom Veeam Linux”. Read more

Veeam is proud to release the findings of yet another independent research project, the 2023 Data Protection Trends Report. For the last three years, Veeam believes that it has been breaking the record for delivering the largest research report in the history of backup and data protection. Read more

“Veeam is a winner — it accelerated our Digital Transformation, played a pivotal role in our data center migration and elevated our cybersecurity operation. We couldn’t have accomplished what we accomplished without Veeam.” Read more

At VNOG, we provide essential fire-fighting services and assistance in the event of accidents, disasters and crises to the 870,000 citizens of North and East Gelderland in the Netherlands. In this blog post, I’ll tell the story of my most memorable day as VNOG’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Read more

Business continuity, simply put, is enabling your business to continue operating at an acceptable level in the event of an incident - large or small. Continuity for your business means being proactive, ready for inevitable disruption and able to react to resume critical services.   Read more

According to a 2019 survey conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), 78% of the respondents said they were using Kubernetes in some form, and 95% report they are using, evaluating or planning storage use in Kubernetes. Read more

One of the cornerstones of Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices is using multiple accounts to manage your workloads. Dedicating accounts to specific business units or even specific applications provides numerous benefits that increase agility, improve security and streamline operations. This practice also helps operators follow the principle of least privilege, whereby only a minimal set of privileges required to perform a task are assigned to responsible users and services, and ideally, only for the time required to complete the task. Read more