At Veeam, we continually strive to provide the most robust, secure, and reliable data protection solutions. Today, we're excited to announce a significant development in that pursuit: Veeam's new support for Rocky Linux 9.4 in Veeam Backup & Replication v12.2, complete with the DISA STIG security profile. Read more

As data privacy and retention laws tighten across industries, navigating compliance can seem like a daunting task. Enter "write once, read many" (WORM) storage: a straightforward solution that’s designed to anchor your data securely in place and protect it from accidental changes and deliberate threats.   Read more

Since I wrote my blog post about how to install and harden Ubuntu Linux for Veeam Hardened Repository about a year ago, I get questions on how to do the same with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The reason why this blog post took so long to write is that Veeam Backup & Replication fully supports DISA STIG hardened RHEL systems only with the most recent update (version 12.1.2). Read more

Unstructured data and file repositories are common in most enterprise environments. As organizations try to reduce licensing costs and maintenance overhead, Network Attached Storage (NAS) is still commonplace in many modern enterprises. The ability to store and host data directly on NAS without having to manage OS patches and other lifecycle operations is very attractive to many IT departments. Even though it isn’t suited for all workloads, unstructured data like Microsoft Office documents, JPGs, MP3s, etc. is one of the most common use cases for NAS backup. Read more

Anyone with console access to a Linux machine can get root access on the machine by booting into “single user mode”. In this blog, I will show how to boot into single user mode and how to protect the bootloader against unauthenticated attempts to boot into single user mode. Read more

One of the biggest challenges that corporate IT departments face is protecting all their workloads. Teams spend significant amounts of time architecting, deploying and configuring solutions for their hypervisor and cloud workloads. Physical workloads that typically consist of enterprise databases that run on Windows, Linux or Unix get their fair share of attention too. However, an often-overlooked gap are the end users themselves. Read more

In this second part (the first part can be found here) of setting up and hardening a Veeam “hardened repository,” I will cover how to set up Ubuntu 20.04 in a secure way. While it’s “just a minimal installation,” I have seen many questions on this topic, so let’s clear some things up. Read more

The Veeam Hardened Repository is Veeam’s native solution to provide trusted immutability for backups of Veeam Backup & Replication on a Linux server. By supporting generic Linux servers, Veeam ensures that customers always have a choice about their hardware without vendor lock-in. Veeam also allows customers to use their trusted Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE) instead of being forced to use a “custom Veeam Linux”. Read more

Enterprises routinely face challenges when it comes to protecting their critical workloads. Meeting demanding Service Level Agreements (SLAs), unsought multi-team workflows, and convoluted or sprawling toolsets are just a few of the common constraints that organizations routinely face. When these challenges start to compound, you quickly wind up in situations where simple tasks can grind your applications to a halt.  Read more

Veeam is known for having the best protection for VMware, Hyper-V, Windows and Linux. By creating solutions that effectively protect virtual environments and adding additional features for physical protection, Veeam has grown to be the industry leader in data protection. With four years of the top ranking in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, ongoing industry-leading Net Promoter Scores (NPS) at 82 and, most recently, the acknowledgement that Veeam is in a statistical tie for #1 in market share. This is all because of YOUR support and trust in Veeam.   Read more