Posts by Danny Allan

Earlier this month, we spent three great days during VeeamON 2018 that made me feel inspired, energized and motivated. I had productive conversations with customers, partners and analysts and I’m looking forward to innovating together.

Throughout our history, Veeam has grown from being THE solution for the modern highly-virtualized data center to the #1 Data Protection for Multi-Cloud Enterprise. Data represents today what oil represented for the industrial revolution and it’s growing at a faster rate than even before, becoming indispensable for our digital lives. Consequently, the solutions to keep data available need an upgrade.

At VeeamON, I was on the stage and I was delighted to talk about our new vision and messaging of ... Read more

Throughout our journey, we learned about the breadth, scope and location of our data, we started to manage it, and we validated that it was protected and secured. However, completing these tasks still did not ensure compliance.

This only encompassed the first 3 principles of the 5 lessons which we learned.

This journey brought us to the final two principles: Documentation and Compliance, as well as Continuous Improvement.

Lesson 4 and 5 can be brought together. Everything you do today for documentation, and that is automated, can also be used for continuous improvement.

First, it is important that each process in your environment is documented. The data itself might be classified and secure, ... Read more

After the general overview and the delving into the first and second principles in our GDPR journey, it is time to look at the third principle: Protect the data. As a reminder, below are Veeam’s 5 lessons or 5 key principles in the GDPR journey:

There are many Information Security articles about protecting your data. Implementing and ensuring data protection heavily relies on tools and technology. While tools and technology are essential in protecting data, it is not sufficient. Protecting your data comes ... Read more

Let’s continue our journey that we started in the previous two blogs. In the first post, we gave a general overview of Veeam’s journey to GDPR compliance and shared our 5 lessons learned. In the second post, we went deeper in the first of those five principles.

Let’s look closer at the second principle: Manage the data.

If you finished the tasks from the first principle and identified the personally identifiable information (PII) you own and where it resides, you can now start the process of establishing rules and processes to access and use that PII data.

The key questions here are: ... Read more

In my previous post we explained how Veeam, as a Swiss-based company with many European customers, needs to be compliant with GDPR just like many other companies that handle data for European citizens.

I also promised that we would share our learnings to help you in your compliance process. Our lessons learned can be brought back to 5 key principles:

Today, I want to go deeper on the first principle: Know your data.

The first essential step that you need to take is to determine if your organization has personally identifiable information (PII) of an EU resident. I have had several conversations with organizations which believed that ... Read more

May 25, 2018 is approaching quickly. This is when the grace period for the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is over and an organization may be penalized for non-compliance. Just like any company that does business with EU customers, Veeam needs to be compliant with this regulation, especially considering we are a global, Swiss-headquartered company.

Over the next weeks, we will guide you through the steps and effort that Veeam has been taking and continues to take, to ensure compliance. This is and will be an ongoing process that does not stop on the 25th of May. Our expectation is that these activities will continue as part of our ongoing business model. These efforts have included legal consultation, regulatory consultants and ... Read more

It’s that time of the year when technologists like myself put our “futurist” hat on, take a moment to reflect on the year that was, and scope out some exciting (and sometimes scary) visions of what the next 12 months will look like.

We are still a ways off from teleportation (a personal favorite) and the replicator (another personal favorite, that is more urgent), so I’ll temper our technology predictions to what we know best: Availability. Predicting the future is always subjective, but forecasting is critical so that we can innovate better solutions and in turn, ensure customers can benefit from new and improved offerings. So here ... 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:

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

There is no question that ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly prevalent. In fact, some have proposed that 2017 is the Year of Ransomware. The WannaCry attack led to the infection of more than 230,000 computers and more recently, the Petya outbreak on June 27, 2017 led to a second global spread of ransomware. While traditional methods of data protection are essential, they are not sufficient.

Traditional data protection strategies have centered around the three foundational components of IT:  people, process and technology. Data protection with people begins with education and a continuous focus on making employees aware of the most ... Read more

Here we are, one year out. Just 365 days separate us from the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), one of the biggest changes to how personal data is handled and managed in the last 20 years. If you’re reading this blog, you’re likely affected by it either as an employee of a business with customers in the EU, as a EU citizen yourself or perhaps both.

At Veeam, we believe in rules that protect the rights of consumers, and have welcomed GDPR since it was adopted by the European Council some 14 months ago.

What is it all about, and why now?

In short, GDPR strengthens and gives new rights to individuals over their personal data such as: Who can ... Read more