We are living in times when it’s hard to imagine our lives without technology. Our center of command is sitting in our pockets, and we are just a few taps away from booking a flight, checking our bank account or reading the news about our favorite football team. Our fast pace of life demands uninterrupted access to each application on any type of device from everywhere. Therefore, organizations need not only speed and versatility, they also need what we call Availability.

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Digital transformation is a topic that is not only dominating the headlines, but also dominating emerging IT strategies and, increasingly, the investments of nearly every company. In the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, “Over the next 10 years, we’ll reach a point where everything is digitized.” You’ve read and heard from Veeam many times about how multi-cloud strategies are emerging as a winning proposition to enable the agility and Availability organizations need to realize their digital transformation goals.

These ideas were on full display last week at VMworld in Las Vegas. Long a pioneer and leader in transformational technologies like virtualization and the Software Defined Data Center, VMware formally launched its partnership ... Read more

Greetings fellow IT professionals! After more than 20 years of TechEd in the late spring and early summer, Microsoft will give us Microsoft Ignite (formerly TechEd) in the fall from Sept. 25 – 29, 2017 in beautiful Orlando, Florida. I am so excited to get together with 10,000 of my closest IT friends at the Orange County Convention Center and talk about the amazing emerging technologies and innovations that will change the shape of our world for the foreseeable future.

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VMworld 2017 is in full swing in Las Vegas. More than 20,000 delegates are in the city, and Veeam is on the top of everyone’s mind. Veeam has a prominent visibility across many areas, not only from a branding perspective, but also in terms of a close relationship with VMware and its ecosystem. This event follows what has been a tremendous few weeks for Veeam…

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Cloud adoption is soaring. According to IDC, worldwide spending on public cloud computing will increase from $67 billion in 2015 to $162 billion in 2020, attaining a 19% CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) . The cloud is here to stay, and it’s only going to become more important.

As enterprises move to the cloud, however, ensuring data Availability has become more critical. This includes making sure that users can access information at any time and from anywhere. Veeam is a pioneer in this space, delivering bullet-proof Availability for multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments, regardless of whether the environment is private, public, managed or SaaS (Software as a Service). Taking this to the next level, as ... Read more

NEW Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 has the ability to back up directly to Veeam Cloud Connect repositories without any additional investments from the VCSP. It just works as part of any existing Cloud Connect Backup infrastructure built on Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 2. As we did with Cloud Connect Backup and then Cloud Connect Replication in resolving the complexity around getting virtual machine backups, backup copy jobs and replicas up into a cloud platform, we have now resolved the complexity of getting physical servers and workstations as well as cloud-based Windows instances into cloud environments operated by our VCSP partners. Read more

Cisco is a technology leader with a strong track record of delivering innovative solutions to customers globally. For some time, Cisco has been a key alliance partner for Veeam. Over the past two years, we have completed numerous Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) to build on our long-lasting technical relationship. Back in March, we announced a significant step forward in our growing partnership when we showcased our direct snapshot integration for Cisco HyperFlex — the first and only one of its kind today.

We are now proud to announce yet another milestone in our strategic partnership with Cisco. Veeam will be added to the Cisco Global Price List by the end of the year. This ... Read more

Today, we saw the publication of the UK Government's Statement of Intent on its forthcoming Data Protection Bill — an interpretation of how the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be delivered into UK law.

The materials accompanying the Statement of Intent focus on several key elements of GDPR including:

The Right to be Forgotten/Right to ErasureConsentThe wide definition of personal dataFree Subject Access RequestsData Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)

Based on the requirements of GDPR, which we wholeheartedly support, we believe it is important for businesses to be more accountable for their data processing and management, with data privacy being an obvious priority for all.

We have seen several vendor-backed research reports stating that businesses are a long way off from ... Read more

I have a mantra in life that those who know and work with me have heard many times: Go big or go home. It is the basis for how I live and how I run Veeam; and I am delighted that Veeam is going BIG! We believe we are going big in many ways and today marks yet another step for us. Gartner has just published the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery Solutions and, for the second consecutive year, Veeam is a Leader.1

We see the Magic Quadrant (MQ) as the latest recognition of our rapid growth in the enterprise end of the market, where our cloud offerings are winning ... Read more

Friday, July 28 is System Administrator Appreciation Day. At Veeam Software, where Availability is key, we want to take a moment to truly recognize and thank the IT professionals that keep our data and applications Available 24.7.365.

Given the date is also the launch of The Emoji Movie, there’s no better way to potentially show what’s going on inside the head of our superhero sysadmins as they answer not only the tough , but often absurd questions that pass across their desk on a daily basis.

Here are some of the more “interesting” scenarios sysadmins have shared with us:

When developers are not making in-house applications efficient and relying on the system administrator to just ... Read more