This week it gave me great pleasure to see my former employer, Zettagrid announced a significant expansion in their operations, with the addition of three new hosting zones to go along with their existing four zones in Australia and Indonesia. They also announced the opening of operations in the US. Apart from the fact I […] Read More
Veeam Vault #11 – VBR, Veeam ONE, VAC Releases plus Important Update for Service Providers
Welcome to the 11th edition of Veeam Vault and the first one for 2019! It’s been more than a year since the last edition, however in light of some important updates that have been released over the past couple of weeks and months, I thought it was time to open up the Vault again! Getting […] Read More
Assigning vSphere Tags with Terraform for Policy Based Backups
vSphere Tags are used to add attributes to VMs so that they can be used to help categorise VMs for further filtering or discovery. vSphere Tags have a number of use cases of which Melissa has a great blog post here on the power of vSphere Tags, their configuration and their application. Veeam fully supports […] Read More
Mapping vCloud Director Backup Jobs to Self Service Portal Tenants
Since version 7 of Backup & Replication, Veeam has lead the way in regard to the protection of workloads running in vCloud Director. With version 7 Veeam first released deep integration into vCD that talked directly to the vCD APIs to facilitate the backup and recovery of vCD workloads and their constructs. More recently in […] Read More
First Look: On Demand Recovery with Cloud Tier and VMware Cloud on AWS
Since Veeam Cloud Tier was released as part of Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, i’ve written a lot about how it works and what it offers in terms of offloading data from more expensive local storage to what is fundamentally cheaper remote Object Storage. As with most innovative technologies, if you dig a little […] Read More
Veeam Availability Console v3 Important Patch Release
Today, a new patch was released for Veeam Availability Console v3 which brings the build to 3.0.0.2725. Contained in this patch is a number of fixes that covers reporting and licensing, server fixes, agent fixes and there are also a number of other resolved issues including some RESTful API fixes as well as for those […] Read More
Veeam Backup & Replication v10 Sneak Peek: Cloud Tier Copy Mode
For a look sneak peek at the highly anticipated Cloud Tier Copy mode… head here to veeam.com https://www.veeam.com/blog/v10-sneak-peek-cloud-tier-copy-mode.html
The Reality of Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing
As recent events have shown, outages and disasters are a fact of life in this modern world. Given the number of different platforms that data sits on today, we know that disasters can equally come in many shapes and sizes and lead to data loss and impact business continuity. Because major wide scale disasters occur […] Read More
Cloud Tier Deep Dive Super Session On Demand!
Last week at VeeamON 2019, Dustin Albertson and myself delivered a two part deep dive session on Cloud Tier, which was released in Update 4 of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 in January. I’ve blogged about how Cloud Tier is one of the most innovative features i’ve seen in recent times and I have been […] Read More
VeeamON 2019 – Highlighting theCUBE Show Wrap
Hard to believe that another VeeamON has come and gone… for us in the Product Strategy Team the lead up and the week is immensely busy… but this is what we live and breath for! Everyone came away from the conference extremely pleased with how it panned out and we believe it also was a success […] Read More