Posts by Dave Russell

2024 has been the year of data resilience. AI has become mainstream, cybersecurity threats have grown in volume and sophistication, and there’s a growing wave of digital transformation with organizations moving their platforms from hypervisors to the cloud, Kubernetes, or elsewhere. Read more

The need for reliable data backup and recovery solutions has never been more critical. Cyberthreats, hardware failures, and human errors are constant risks that can disrupt business continuity. Read more

Deciding how to best invest your limited budget for the year is a complex issue. Putting the right investment behind technologies that support and drive your strategic business plans is no small task. Getting it right is a complex equation that brings together people, processes and products in the right mix to power your organization’s success. Read more

When it comes to data protection in small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB), the sector is similar in many ways, but unique in a few, when compared to larger organizations and their IT trends and strategies. That is abundantly clear when you look at both the global and the SMB-specific findings in the recently released Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends report. Read more

With 2022 well under way, Veeam is getting ready to release the latest version of the industry’s largest data protection research endeavor (3,300 IT leaders) on February 22. When you download it, you’ll see that data loss and downtime continue to plague far too many organizations. Unsurprisingly, many of those organizations expect to increase their use of cloud services as part of their data protection strategies. Read more

In part one, we've talked about personas involved in protecting cloud workloads. Second blog focused on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and hybrid IT cloud workloads. In this third and last blog post in the series, we focus on cloud database backup and container adoption and protection. Read more

Veeam has created a series of videos where Jason Buffington, vice president of Solutions Strategy, and Dave Russell, vice president of Enterprise Strategy, discuss key findings from Veeam’s Cloud Protection Trends 2021 report, where 1,550 data center professionals were surveyed regarding their cloud data protection activities.

In this second blog post, we focus on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and hybrid IT cloud workloads. Read more

Veeam has created a series of videos where Jason Buffington, VP of Solutions Strategy, and Dave Russell, VP of Enterprise Strategy, discuss key findings from Veeam’s Cloud Protection Trends in 2021 report, where 1,550 data center professionals were surveyed regarding their cloud data protection activities. In this first blog post, we focus on the personas involved in protecting cloud workloads. Read more

Veeam Backup & Replication v11a isn’t just any old alphabetical release. It is undoubtedly one of the most significant cloud releases in Veeam’s history, delivering many new capabilities for the cloud platforms you’re using today. These capabilities enable organizations to accelerate cloud adoption, ensuring data is reliably secured, protected and managed from a single platform that provides unparalleled choice and simplicity. Let’s take a brief look at the major new additions. Read more

In November 2019, Veeam published our 2020 Technology Predictions. We highlighted five key technology trends that we thought would be impactful and things to consider in the coming year. Overall, the predictions were fairly accurate, pointing to rising cloud adoption and increasing cyber threats. Let’s revisit the five technology predictions from last year. Read more