One thing that all CIOs have had on their minds the last couple of years is if their infrastructure and services are safe from ransomware attacks. So far in 2021 we have seen a surge of ransomware attacks that have targeted even large enterprises like Colonial Pipeline which supply 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, petrol and jet fuel and ended up paying 5 million for getting back access to their data. The latest statistics show that there is a ransomware attack every 11 seconds, where the attackers utilize different attack vectors to try to get access. So how can we protect ourselves or at least reduce the risk from these types of attacks? Read more

With the explosive growth of AWS, more and more people are turning to Amazon RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) for database services. With Amazon RDS instances, you can deploy databases without having any of the overhead of managing the actual database service or underlying operating system. Now, because of this growth in Amazon RDS, a new challenge faces consumers of this service. Read more

If you’re operating in a Windows or Windows Server environment, and have critical data to protect, then Windows Storage Spaces can come in handy. Many data centers and server farms implement both HDDs and SSDs for storing important data. Unfortunately, 10% of hard drives fail past the three-year mark. Organizations must recognize this threat — and the numerous other hardware, software and human snafus that may threaten data integrity. Read more

Are you struggling with this initial offload process and want to learn how to design a Scale-Out Backup Repository that will scale? This Blog will take a look into the lessons learned from the field and our storage partners that could possibly impact your offload process. Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is subject to throttling rules placed on SharePoint sites. These rules limit traffic speed for any item downloaded per user from any SharePoint site or OneDrive for Business on Microsoft servers. These throttling rules generally go unnoticed in day-to-day use of the cloud product but can drastically limit backup recovery point objectives. Veeam has a solution to this problem in the way of Auxiliary backup accounts. Read more

With more and more businesses relying on public clouds to run their IT infrastructure, it’s becoming more of a challenge managing these environments. When we look at AWS for example, a best practice is to use AWS accounts to segregate workloads and create security boundaries. Read more

Previously, we discussed how to use Microsoft Intune to install Veeam Agent for Mac. Now we will continue this series with how to configure Veeam Agent for Mac via Microsoft Intune. Read more

Where has the time gone? It was in 2015 when Veeam jumped in to enable endpoint protection for Microsoft Windows. In 2016, we expanded agent support to include Linux, and in 2020, provided application consistency for MySQL and PostgreSQL via the Veeam Agent for Linux. Now with the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11, Veeam enables protection for macOS with Veeam Agent for Mac! Read more

You may have heard Veeam is the leader in backup for Microsoft 365 with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. But did you know this software has many flexible deployment types from CapEx on-prem to completely OpEx IaaS in the cloud? In fact, this software can be deployed directly from the AWS or Azure marketplace, and in IBM Cloud, with the software already installed and ready for your organization. Running the software on a hyper-scale cloud like Azure, AWS or IBM Cloud can help align your company with any cloud-first initiative and cloud migration goals while giving you back control of your data. 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