Information is key in today’s business world. Not just having it, but making sure it does not end up in the wrong hands. This is true regardless if you are in a private cloud or leveraging a public cloud like Microsoft Azure. Read more

VMware’s vSphere has been the predominant hypervisor in datacenters for the better part of two decades. With its increased adoption over time, we’ve seen staggering growth in the number of workloads that are housed within datacenters. Read more

2022 has been an amazing year for both everyone here at Veeam and our Veeam partners and customers worldwide. Looking back at the year’s exciting milestones, it is very impressive what we’ve done together. And we want to celebrate and give you a chance to win great stuff from Veeam to start the New Year off with a bang. Read more

Remember the days when your data protection strategy was designed around system failures or loss of a data center due to a catastrophe, whether manmade or natural? While preparing for these types of disasters is still very much a priority, in the past decade a new menace has surfaced, demanding the attention of organizations everywhere. Read more

Welcome to another installment in our ongoing series from the Cloud Protection Trends Report for 2023, which surveyed 1,700 “as a Service” administrators, including those utilizing Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Read more

Enterprises routinely face challenges when it comes to protecting their critical workloads. Meeting demanding Service Level Agreements (SLAs), unsought multi-team workflows, and convoluted or sprawling toolsets are just a few of the common constraints that organizations routinely face. When these challenges start to compound, you quickly wind up in situations where simple tasks can grind your applications to a halt.  Read more

Every IT team, no matter the size or industry of their organization, must be aware of compliance mandates and operate to meet their appropriate requirements.  Read more

Ransomware attacks need to be viewed under the same category as power outages and natural disasters. The requirement to recover quickly is a necessity. Recently, I'm seeing many vendors in the data protection industry advertise immutability and ransomware detection features. Both of which should absolutely be part of a company's ransomware strategy, but an immutable copy coming from spinning disk or tape can result in too much downtime for the business. It's an easy decision for a CEO or CFO if an attacker's ransom is $100,000 and the cost of downtime for a day is $500,000. The only question at that point becomes how do we make a Coinbase account to transfer Bitcoin? Read more

As Veeam released Veeam Backup for Salesforce, Veeam also published the data protection industry’s first independent research project on protecting Salesforce data by surveying 800 unbiased respondents across three personas (Salesforce administrators, backup administrators, IT operations): The 2022 Salesforce Protection Trends Report. Read more

Protect, Detect and Recover! The three key pillars a backup vendor is expected to offer when it comes to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The top priority on that list is protecting your data. A secure backup both on premises and in a private or public cloud offers immense protection. This can protect data from both a hacker accessing the backup server as well as the backup repository. Secondly, the ability to recovery quickly is crucial. Read more