Have you ever wanted to know more about Virtual Machine (VM) backups but didn't know where to start? Whether you have questions around backing up a VM, restoring application data or understanding the ins and outs of a disaster recovery plan; this guide will help you get started. From on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid... find out the best way to protect your VMware VMs and meet your SLAs across your environment. We'll discuss the considerations for a successful backup and recovery, including some tips and tricks for a better virtual machine backup. Read more

Every year, before we announce the members of the new Vanguard class, we carefully review hundreds of applications. There’s a bit of a wait at first since we open nominations and renewal submissions in early December, keeping it open till early January so everyone has enough time to apply. Vanguards who are already members have their own application. Everyone who applies to join the program from outside can find the application link in the Veeam blogpost published prior to opening submissions in the beginning of December. After closing the submission process, we carefully evaluate all the applications, from existing Vanguards to new prospects submitting their application in hope to join this incredible Veeam advocacy program. The toughest part is selecting ... Read more

People, process and technology are the triad for cybersecurity strategy. Too often we focus on the technology portion and struggle to respond when failures occur or attacks are successful. Too often there’s confusion and delay because processes aren’t documented, teams are siloed and possibly in conflict or, worse, assumptions are made regarding responsibility. In a world of modern attacks like ransomware, this turns into real dollars due to downtime and data loss. 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

When it comes to data protection for healthcare, the industry is both similar and unique in its overall trends and IT strategy. That is abundantly clear when you look at both the global and the healthcare industry results in the recently released Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends report. Read more

Enterprise organizations are big and complex, and their IT strategies are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the business. With assured access to data being increasingly important, enterprise data backup and recovery is a vital element for IT organizations to deliver in order to meet their objectives to the business. So, what is most important to organizations when considering their enterprise backup solution? The 2022 Data Protection Trends Report explored that question and produced interesting insights from the 3,000+ enterprises (> 1,000 employees) across 28 countries. Read more

In our previous Be the Hero issues, we talked about Veeam-powered BaaS and DRaaS, the foundational technologies that make these solutions possible and the partner opportunity with the Veeam Platform. This is the final issue in the series which highlights how Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners can take their Veeam-powered services to the next level with competencies and engaging other channel partners. Read more

Persistent Volumes (PVs) and Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) are the underpinnings of Kubernetes persistent storage, especially with respect to the growing collection of stateful workloads being containerized and deployed with Kubernetes. Read more

In our previous Be the Hero Issue, The Veeamazing BaaS and DRaaS, we covered why DRaaS makes sense for clients, how it’s defined and is different from BaaS. There’s also this e-book, Conversational Disaster Recovery as a Service, that covers the basics. Here, let’s deep dive on the partner opportunity and the details behind Veeam-powered DRaaS. Read more

Veeam is excited to announce the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 6! That’s not a typo, we have updated the name of our fastest growing product to be in line with Microsoft’s official naming convention change to “Microsoft 365.” Along with this name change, we have added a self-service restore portal and backup copy to low-cost object storage, teased. In addition to these great features, we have now added the ability to restore SharePoint to new locations, a new ISO installer, support for multi-geo organizations, and much more! For details, please read the full release notes. Read more