Veeam has always had a strong story with VMware Cloud Director. From releasing the first Self-Service Portal back in v7 of Veeam Backup & Replication through to the ability to have a VCD organization as a Cloud Connect Replication target site, Veeam has always offered value for our cloud and service providers using VCD. In V11, we have taken this a step further with the release of VCD-to-VCD replication and a fully supported HTML5 Tenant UI for deeper self-service. Read more

In a recent LinkedIn Live session, we talked about the undeniable impact COVID-19 has had on IT. From the immediate sprawl of a newly remote workforce, to supply chain impacts, to a marked increase in cybersecurity and ransomware attacks, IT has had to adjust FAST.

To support these shifts in demands, 91% of IT organizations have increased their reliance on cloud services. Time to market, web-based services easily accessed from home, elasticity, and scale of storage — the benefits are clear.

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In Veeam Backup & Replication v10, Veeam released the ability to protect your NAS shares and file servers at scale, the key differentiators being the storage agnostic approach and super-fast incremental backups of your unstructured data. NAS backup in V10 also enabled some fast and efficient ways to recover your NAS data, recovering what you want when you need it. Veeam Backup & Replication v11 continues to focus on that NAS backup experience with a distinct focus on expanded recovery. Read more

The new RESTful API in Veeam Backup & Replication v11 is a big moment for Veeam. We have been working to modernize our automation and orchestration toolset with our more recent product releases and the experiences learnt from those has been added into V11 in the form of a new RESTful API Service. JSON based, installed by default and separate to Enterprise Manager, this will allow our partners looking to leverage the power of APIs to get more from Veeam Backup & Replication. Read more

We all go through the Digital Transformation journey at our own pace. The pandemic, however, accelerated the journey for most organizations. Instead of the allotted time in years, it was done in months! This was an eye-opener for many on how dependent their core business processes are on digital technology in the event of disruption.

Digital resilience defines your capabilities for survival and forward evolution, considering that change is the only constant in a fluid, super-connected digital environment. The question to ask is, are you actively strengthening resilience for both business processes, existing digital infrastructure and new infrastructure?

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The Scale-out Backup Repository is one of Veeam’s unique innovations that really brings a lot of capabilities to the backup storage lifecycle management, yet in a simple, flexible, policy-driven and reliable manner. Veeam expands customer choice by offering the option to archive to a lower cost tier of cloud storage. Read more

Veeam remains focused on developing integrated cloud and managed service operation capabilities, so service providers can continue to have awareness and control of workloads no matter where they live. With the release of Veeam Service Provider Console v5 we have expanded on its purpose-built capabilities, adding full agent support and extending to the public cloud the ability for our service providers to leverage, giving them the ability to drive new service offerings. Read more

One of the first features added to Veeam Backup & Replication was backup copy jobs, and with backup copy jobs, we added GFS. GFS stands for Grandfather, Farther, Son. It is the term used for archival retention points originally in just backup copy jobs, but now it’s available in traditional backup jobs in more recent versions. These archival points allow customers to save a point-in-time full copies of their data in intervals of weeks, months, quarters and years. Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication v11, there will be some changes to how GFS is handled in backup copy jobs and some new best practice configurations. Read more

The Instant Recovery story at Veeam started in the v5 release in 2010, which seems like such a long time ago! Every release since has had some form of enhancement to the capability. Whether it is performance, scalability or new platforms. New platform support included Hyper-V Instant VM Recovery and allowing Agent backups to recover instantly as a VM. V10 also introduced multiple VM Instant VM Recovery alongside significant performance improvements. But Veeam isn’t going to stop there. Read more

We know you’re all excited for the many benefits of Veeam Backup & Replication v11, including the many features and improvements and how this platform continues to expand to protect even more of your critical workloads. The benefits of this V11 release include bulletproof ransomware protection, increased security, Continuous Data Protection (CDP), greater cloud portability and cloud-native backup options in AWS and Microsoft Azure and much, much more. The list is truly impressive and a testament to our R&D team, listening to your feedback and responding with continued innovation that is Simple, Flexible and Reliable. Read more