For years, Veeam has established itself as the #1 Office 365 backup, and this will be further solidified with version 5 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, which adds purpose-built backup and recovery for Microsoft Teams. Version 5 also includes Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Teams, which provides granular search across Teams components, with faster and easier recovery built for Teams. Veeam has also made architectural enhancements, delivering a massive scale increase to support larger enterprises, and added some new RESTful APIs to help with automation management. Read more

We are once again in that time of year to review and sum up the current year and prepare for the new one. In this case we're talking about it being time to open nominations and renewals for the seventh year of Veeam's top-notch influencer Vanguard community that will turn into the class of 2021 next spring! Read more

Security challenges for IT professionals and organizations today are multitudinous. Every day we learn of an organization that became a victim to a cybersecurity breach or other malicious event, such as ransomware, essentially putting their business and their customers’ sensitive data at risk. Your infrastructure, networks and data should be protected, and most organizations strive to implement appropriate risk aversion measures and tactics. Read more

“Innovate and Iterate” is a Veeam core value that we live by and strive to implement every day in our partner programs, our marketing and our products. It’s a value we extend in our relationships with our customers and partners which drives us to deliver innovative solutions they need to solve real-world challenges. Being honored this week, by CRN with two 2020 Tech Innovator Awards is a testament not only to Veeam’s strong history of innovation, but those relationships as well. Read more

Data security is easy on a conceptual level: Protect your data while maintaining availability. This means protecting your data from malicious outside forces and restricting access to that data based on user roles. For example, someone in sales does not need access to the HR financial and disciplinary records and vice versa. Also, consider that no protection is perfect or impervious to attacks. To limit the potential damage of authorized and unauthorized people, organizations should look at using a layered approach. This is the only way to ensure optimal data security. Locking down a network is equally as important as educating your users and encrypting data. Read more

If you own a car, you already know the concept of preventive maintenance: change oil and filters regularly and the likelihood of your engine failure will dramatically decrease. Your engine is still fine, there aren’t any weird noises and it operates as it should, but you still plan on doing some maintenance because otherwise the costs of replacing a broken engine or gearbox will be much higher. And not only that, try to remember a case when the car broke NOT at the moment when you needed it most. All this means that without preventive maintenance, you are increasing your chances of losing money, time and maybe getting a couple of new grey hairs. Read more

If you’re protecting your on-premises workloads with Veeam, you may already be familiar with Veeam ONE and the powerful monitoring and reporting features it brings to your environment. If you aren’t, don’t worry. You’re about to get a crash course in how Veeam ONE can help you ensure your data is protected, no matter where it is.

Let’s take a look at three ways you can gain visibility into your public cloud data protection with Veeam ONE.

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More and more questions come up from customers, such as whether they can back up Azure File Sync data with Veeam and how to do it. The short answer is “yes we can!” But it’s a good idea to check the different configuration options. Read more

Disasters come in all shapes and sizes, from a full site failure, to failure of something like a storage array. There may be a natural disaster where your data center is, or you may even have a malicious actor inside your environment seeking to harm your business.

Whatever the case, you need a plan, and all plans are not created equal. Then, once you have your plan, you need to test it and update it on a regular basis. Read more

We rely on data, the cloud, seamless, uninterrupted access to information for all that we do. Sometimes we take it for granted, but for those of us in the technology industry, we know delivering a rich and consistent user experience is not easy. To protect and manage data in an online, multi-cloud world is complex. Today, Veeam addressed these challenges and helped organizations understand how to adopt Cloud Data Best Practices and deliver on users’ demands for a seamless digital experience with Veeam Live, a fully live one-day event designed to help organizations learn how to harness the power of their data by providing real-world best practice examples. Read more