Anyone who has been working in the IT industry over the years has seen technology continually evolve, expand and develop to overcome data management challenges of the past. As technology evolves to meet data demands today, new obstacles associated with innovation occur. To help prevent and meet these challenges, monitoring the data center and gaining insight into how your applications and machines utilize resources to operate provide an extra insight to any organization. Read more

We know that ransomware is attacking us from all angles. With strains of ransomware and malicious activity exploring new routes to your data, it’s just a matter of time until you and your business are compromised. Your unstructured data is just another target for these strains of ransomware. In the past, businesses were typically infected via email or exploit kits hidden within websites. These new attack methods focusing on NAS devices use a different method. Read more

With everything that’s been happening in the world over the last few months, my company had to make some radical changes in our IT department. We’ve recently shifted to remote work ~100% of the time, which forced my group to react quickly to new challenges. Protecting user and company data on remote workstations has become a priority. Read more

Kasten uses and helps develop Kopia, a fast and secure open-source tool to manage backups. Today, Kopia can work standalone on data sets ranging from small laptops to large servers and comes with a variety of out-of-the-box options for encryption, deduplication, and compression. Read more

Veeam had the pleasure to present its Cloud Data Management vision to the Cloud Field Day delegates. This event was a little different being a virtual event. Typically, Cloud Field Day is presented to a room full of extremely technical delegates, but this time we did it a little different. For this event, Veeam brought together David Hill, Anthony Spiteri and Michael Cade, three key members of the product strategy team managed by Danny Allan, Veeam’s Chief Technology Officer. Read more

CIOs have been tasked with many of the same issues for decades. Cost concerns, generating revenue growth, supporting the digital business, and managing cyberthreats, all while navigating skills shortages, have been a way of life for CIOs. And then 2020 presented additional challenges for data centers. Let’s examine in more detail the top CIO priorities, and examine how Veeam can help. Read more

I have lost count of how many times I have heard the word “unprecedented” used to describe the last few months or read the phrase “new normal;” however, they have been apt descriptors. Despite everything, Veeam has remained laser-focused on its mission to be the most trusted provider of Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, to continually innovate, provide a customer-first work ethic, and protect our community. We believe these are characteristics that make Veeam what it is and validate our being named a LEADER in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions for the fourth year in a row. Read more

In February 2020, Veeam introduced enhanced NAS backup with the launch of Veeam Availability Suite v10. NAS functionality has increased in popularity as amounts of unstructured data (e.g. videos, photos, presentations, webpages) have increased. Managing disparate NAS devices and the vast amount of data residing on them has brought additional challenges for businesses, especially when you take into consideration the size of files from data sources such as surveillance video, medical records and barcode images. A major consideration for Veeam when deciding how to provide customers the best possible backup and recovery capabilities was not only how to support the uses cases for NAS today, but also what these large unstructured datasets might look like in the future. Read more

What is the #1 activity that CEOs turn to in today's challenging business environment to meet these goals? Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation is still the #1 driver for business growth in all organizations. In fact, 75% of all CEOs believe that Digital Transformation is the #1 activity to drive top-line revenue growth. There’s a lot of advantages when it comes to DX: from transforming customer service and delivering cost savings to modernizing business operations and processes. DX has many far-reaching benefits, and it’s why organizations continue on this journey even today. Read more

This week we are excited to announce general availability for the latest release of NEW Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3 as well as its new pricing option – DR Pack! Read up to learn how Veeam allows for DR planning to become accessible to much more businesses and all their workloads, and at the price point that is unheard of at the DR market. Read more