Similar to most families in the Northern Hemisphere, besides being Cybersecurity Awareness Month, October is also a time of year where scary movies and pumpkin patches take centerstage. For us, we recently took our kids to pick pumpkins still on the vine, suffer through a very bumpy hayride and line up against the eight foot ruler to see “How Tall this Fall” our kids were. All of these activities were free (besides paying for the pumpkins themselves).   Read more

Updating anything in an environment can be a very stressful process and is easily the least favorite task of any IT team. This is in large part due to the unknowns that can happen while updating any products or components. No one wants to modify something that is currently working, bringing on the mentality of “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”. This common rule can be a double edge sword that leaves your environment open to security vulnerabilities and dated product features. Considering this problem, I think Grace Hopper said it best, “The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘we’ve always done it this way’”. This post serves as a guide for the reasons why you should update ... Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6a released a couple of days ago, and we are excited to announce some new features and enhancements. To start, we ! Also included in this release is a , a new user protection report, and tons of efficiency enhancements. Read more

The last two years have seen astronomical adoption of Microsoft 365, especially Microsoft Teams, as remote working has become the new norm. During this time, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 has firmly become one of the leaders in the Microsoft 365 backup market, giving organizations the power to securely back up data to any location — on premises or to cloud object storage. We have proven Veeam and Microsoft 365 are better together. Read more

The next release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 will bring a major change to the way we protect Microsoft Teams chats data. Starting from V6A we will back up Team chats by using the newly released Teams Export APIs. What does it mean for you and how to prepare for this new release? Read more

Earlier this year, Veeam released the latest version of their Microsoft 365 backup solution, and I am excited for some of the features that made it in V6! On May 6, I was invited by Veeam to talk about two of the awesome features that made it in the latest version of the product, and you can listen to the video embedded below, but for those of you who prefer to just read a summary, this blog post is for you! Read more

Backup is important, but equally important is having a variety of recovery options at your disposal. Veeam is famous for its breadth of recovery options within its platform across cloud, virtual, physical, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Kubernetes workloads. In this blog, we’ll unpack the 45 recovery options that come with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and how they can help you bring back data in the way that makes the most sense for your business.  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

In 2017, VMware simplified this choice by announcing a strategic alliance with AWS, offering the ability to run existing VM workloads on a SaaS based platform while also taking advantage of AWS services.

Today you can choose from a plethora of VMware-based public cloud offerings including Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. Whether you prefer Azure VMware Solution (AVS), Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions or Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS), you can still leverage your investments in on-premises VMware products. Read more

As you evaluate Office 365 Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) vendors, you may notice a few similarities in how they describe their solutions – “easy deployments” and “cost efficient” are buzzwords commonly used. However, before you decide to utilize a BaaS vendor, you need to be aware of a few pitfalls. Veeam’s foundational approach to Office 365 backup has 5 clear advantages over most BaaS vendors in the market, and they are reasons why our customers love Veeam. Let’s take a close look. Read more