Posts by Doug Hazelman (VMDoug)

Today we announced the general availability of Veeam Backup & Replication v7 R2. This is an important release because Veeam is the first backup and disaster recovery vendor to support BOTH vSphere 5.5 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V hypervisors. In addition, v7 R2 also includes full support for Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1 as a VMware or Hyper-V guest, as well as support for installing Veeam Backup & Replication components on these operating systems.

vSphere 5.5

If you’re registered on our forums then you’ve most likely seen the “Word from Gostev” that’s sent out every Sunday evening. A few weeks ago Anton pointed out an important requirement with vSphere 5.5. Starting with version 5.5, the vSphere API for Data ... Read more

Today is a big day here at Veeam. Today we released the seventh version of our award-winning Backup & Replication product. It’s hard to believe it’s only been five and a half years since we released version one. With the help of our Veeam ProPartners, we’ve been able to accomplish some truly incredible things in the past five and a half years, including:

#1 VMware and #1 Hyper-V BackupOver 73,000 paying customersOver 200,000 users of our free productsCoverage in 75% of Fortune 500 companiesFastest growing backup software of all time

 

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Modern Architecture Wins Every Time: Veeam Customers Unaffected

Last week Symantec published a blog post scaring all VMware customers about backups on vSphere 5.1. In this post they made insinuations that backup vendors claiming support for vSphere 5.1 were misleading their customers and putting them into unsafe recoverability conditions. While we’d like to think that Symantec did this as a service to their customers, we believe this is just another example of a Symantec trying to use scare tactics against their biggest competitor, Veeam. We believe this creative FUD was created just to explain why Symantec still does not support the latest vSphere release – unlike Veeam which does support it.

Symantec went on a campaign to ... Read more

Every year around this time companies all over the world report their earnings. Here at Veeam we're no different, we issue a press release stating how we performed the previous year. 2011 was yet another GREAT year for us in terms of growth, we continue to grow at over 100% per year for the past 5 years. We owe our continued success to our ever growing ProPartner Community as well as to all of our great customers who continue to choose the #1 backup product for virtualization. Below is a letter from our president and CEO, Ratmir Timashev, that he has been ... Read more

Back on July 20, we were notified by Tolly that they were doing a comparison report on Veeam Backup & Replication v5. Tolly claims to provide “fair, accurate and well-documented testing.” But what if one of your competitors hires Tolly for the testing and determines the criteria? Can it really be fair and accurate? Tolly sent us the basic test criteria, and it was obvious to us that the sponsor had cherry picked the criteria to show their product in the best possible light and to ensure that our strongest features – such our vPower functionality – would not be tested at all. In no way would these criteria ... Read more

Today Veeam hosted a webinar titled “Running Exchange on VMware”. Most of the focus of course was on backup and recovery of Exchange once it’s been virtualized. As I was preparing for the webinar (with a lot of help from Anton) I realized that the information would also make a good blog post. Below are the main points of backup and recovery for Microsoft Exchange and how Veeam Backup & Replication v5 addresses them.

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