When Veeam Backup & Replication v11 went available in February of this year, I had no idea how much of an impact this release would have on the market. V11 came in my 11th year here are Veeam, and while I knew it was the biggest release we’ve ever had — call me impressed! Read more

Veeam Backup & Replication v11a isn’t just any old alphabetical release. It is undoubtedly one of the most significant cloud releases in Veeam’s history, delivering many new capabilities for the cloud platforms you’re using today. These capabilities enable organizations to accelerate cloud adoption, ensuring data is reliably secured, protected and managed from a single platform that provides unparalleled choice and simplicity. Let’s take a brief look at the major new additions. Read more

Welcome to the final part of our three-part series on Veeam and object storage. In part one we looked at the similarities and differences between the big three "hyperscale" cloud providers, then in part two we looked at how Veeam can be configured to optimise your object storage utilisation and efficiency. Now in part three we'll look at some benchmarks to provide real results to help shape your object storage designs. Enabling you to accelerate your adoption of object storage in an effective manner. Read more

Veeam and NetApp have a long history of partnership that has allowed customers to leverage powerful storage with Modern Data Protection. Whether it be leveraging NetApp’s snapshots for quick backup and restores, utilizing E-Series for backup storage or utilizing S3 Object Lock with StorageGRID, NetApp gives you options when it comes to protecting your data. Since ransomware is top-of-mind for many IT professionals, lets discuss how Veeam and NetApp can maintain business continuity with their joint solution. Read more

Veeam ONE can help every organization with decision-making, proper resource allocation and issue identification and resolution. Veeam ONE compliments Veeam Backup & Replication in several ways for every type of deployment. Service providers can gain many benefits from utilizing Veeam ONE, like maintaining compliance, planning for backup infrastructure needs, and sizing your environment properly. As a service provider, you can utilize these Veeam ONE capabilities to drive profitability, scale customer environments, potentially increase customer satisfaction and sell more successfully. Read more

With total enterprise data volumes projected to exceed 2.02 petabytes by 2022, smart safeguards must be implemented to keep it protected. Those strategies themselves are changing in lockstep industry trends. Now that hybrid and full-cloud deployments are dominant, multiple external variables can impact how data is stored and preserved. Additionally, over one quarter of Cloud Vision 2020’s survey respondents could shift 95% of critical workloads cloudward by 2025. 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

When you run a backup operation as part of a daily policy, it’s not as transparent. Everything runs in the background while you’re completing other tasks. If anything goes wrong, you won’t know about it until later when you finally take the time to check your dashboard. While you may think everything worked the way it was supposed to, in reality, your application is not protected anymore! Read more

Veeam customers have come to expect continued innovation and integration with Dell Technologies storage. Veeam customers have benefited from integrated capabilities with Dell EMC Data Domain (2014), Dell EMC VNX/VNXe (2015), Dell EMC Unity (2016), and most recently, Dell EMC SC (2019). Now customers leveraging Dell EMC PowerMax storage may download the new PowerMax Plug-in for Veeam! I’m delighted that this new feature is available as I’ve personally spoken to many of you who have expressed an interest in taking advantage of advanced VMware restore capabilities of Veeam with Dell Technologies enterprise data storage. Read more

In part one we looked at the characteristics that make up the cloud object storage offerings of the main three cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services/AWS, Google Cloud Platform/GCP). Now that we understand what to look for from our cloud providers and the features they have available, we’ll look at what information we need to gather to build our own cost and performance estimates to implement object storage ourselves. Read more