The cloud — a seemingly monolithic, flippant catch-all term for what is an amorphous, complex ecosystem of platforms, software, APIs and design principles. For those dipping their toe in the cloud waters, it can seem like a vast wilderness, full of quicksand traps and unknown creatures, all there to catch you on your back foot. Read more

In today's digital world, what is the worst fear of any business relying on digital systems and data? Unexpected downtime! Every organization will suffer downtime at some point in time but systems and controls should be put in place to restore the system and/or data rapidly and reliably according to the business’s needs in such an event. Read more

Providing data resilience is one of the key competencies required by any IT department. As professionals who have to keep everything up and running, part of that responsibility includes being able to respond and ultimately recover from disaster quickly, securely and reliably. Just five years ago, whenever we talked about outages we would often think about the hypothetical “data center on fire” scenario. However, a lot has changed in the past five years. Read more

Backup is a critical aspect of any data management strategy and is still the primary key to achieving data resilience. Data loss due to hardware failure, cyber-attacks and human error can occur at any time with no warning. Without a reliable backup system, your organization may suffer long-lasting consequences. To minimize your risk of data loss and to ensure reliable data recovery, many organizations are moving away from traditional backup solutions and are embracing object storage as a primary backup target. Object storage is a new type of data storage architecture that is designed to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data while being inherently scalable and immutable. Read more

Let’s be honest; a ransomware warranty isn’t a silver bullet that can solve all your ransomware problems. However, a warranty can be an important part of your ransomware recovery strategy. Read more

Product launches are good but keeping your business running is better. As Veeam’s CTO, I love to see the incredible work that our global quality assurance, product development and product management teams put forth to bring innovation to market. It’s the innovation that drives everything we do here at Veeam. Today’s V12 Launch Event isn’t just an illustrated “what’s new” of the release, but instead, we are drawing the line on how technology will keep business running. This is backed by key customer and partner perspectives, solid demos and an incredible perspective from Anton Gostev on how we got here. 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, representing the whole market — not only Veeam customers — and was conducted by a third-party research organization, with no one knowing that Veeam was involved. Read more

Ransomware attacks are an unfortunate reality faced by companies of all shapes and sizes. When the Kodiak Island Borough had its data threatened by a ransomware attack, we used Veeam to help us recover our data. 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. The research in this report is fully independent and represents the whole market — not only Veeam customers. It was conducted by a third-party research organization, with all respondents having no knowledge of Veeam’s involvement. Read more

While most enterprise IT shops have a cybersecurity strategy that includes a backup policy, many have focused more on prevention than recovery, understandably. After all, the attack that fails does the least amount of damage. However, sooner than later, you may suffer a cyber incident that puts your business data and operations at risk — and an airtight cyber incident recovery solution can minimize the damage. Read more