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

Providing our customers with the industry’s best data protection platform is at the heart of everything we do, and we are immensely proud of the continuous feedback we get from across the globe; whether from our strong customer satisfaction scores, or from the reviews we receive on Gartner Peer Insights or Trust Radius, customer feedback unanimously tells us that we are delivering on their data protection and data management needs. Read more

As I look back on what 2020 has meant for me here at Veeam, this also is an opportunity that I feel is the right time to let the Veeam community know that we are here for our customers, partners and more. There are a few things that Veeam is working on that I want to highlight as we go into 2021. 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

Security challenges for IT professionals and organizations today are multitudinous. Every day we learn of an organization that became a victim to a cybersecurity breach or other malicious event, such as ransomware, essentially putting their business and their customers’ sensitive data at risk. Your infrastructure, networks and data should be protected, and most organizations strive to implement appropriate risk aversion measures and tactics. Read more

“Innovate and Iterate” is a Veeam core value that we live by and strive to implement every day in our partner programs, our marketing and our products. It’s a value we extend in our relationships with our customers and partners which drives us to deliver innovative solutions they need to solve real-world challenges. Being honored this week, by CRN with two 2020 Tech Innovator Awards is a testament not only to Veeam’s strong history of innovation, but those relationships as well. Read more

There are many risks to data: from the IT admins worst nightmare, ransomware, to a company's worst nightmare, a malicious admin. Data security is a huge challenge and becomes increasingly more important to understand as data grows rapidly, sprawls to different platforms and becomes more valuable. This topic is a straightforward concept, protect the data, but the many ways to go about achieving this goal make this a complex and fascinating subject.

This article will help you with your first steps in understanding what data security is, how this relates to security and compliance, and the risks and challenges you might face on this ever-expanding topic.

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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

If you’re protecting your on-premises workloads with Veeam, you may already be familiar with Veeam ONE and the powerful monitoring and reporting features it brings to your environment. If you aren’t, don’t worry. You’re about to get a crash course in how Veeam ONE can help you ensure your data is protected, no matter where it is.

Let’s take a look at three ways you can gain visibility into your public cloud data protection with Veeam ONE.

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We rely on data, the cloud, seamless, uninterrupted access to information for all that we do. Sometimes we take it for granted, but for those of us in the technology industry, we know delivering a rich and consistent user experience is not easy. To protect and manage data in an online, multi-cloud world is complex. Today, Veeam addressed these challenges and helped organizations understand how to adopt Cloud Data Best Practices and deliver on users’ demands for a seamless digital experience with Veeam Live, a fully live one-day event designed to help organizations learn how to harness the power of their data by providing real-world best practice examples. Read more