I’m currently going through the process of acquiring a new Let’s Encrypt free SSL Certificate against a new domain I registered. For a great overview of what Let’s Encrypt is and what is can do for you, head over to Luca Dell’Oca’s blog here. I was following Luca’s instructions for getting the new domain authorised […] Read More
VeeamOn 2018: Recognizing Innovation and what it means to be Innovative
True innovation is solving a real problem…and though for the most, it’s startups and tech giants that are seen to be the innovators, their customers and partners also have the ability to innovate. Innovation drives competitive advantages and allows companies to differentiate themselves compared to others. In my previous roles I was lucky to be […] Read More
vExpert 2018 – The Value Remains!
After a longer than expected deliberation period the vExpert class of 2018 was announced late last Friday (US Time). I’ve been a vExpert since 2012 with 2018 marking my seventh year in the program. I’ve written a lot about the program over the past three or four years since it’s “perceived” value started to go […] Read More
Veeam Vault #10: Latest Veeam Releases and Vanguard 2018 Update
Welcome to the 10th edition of Veeam Vault and the first one for 2018. It’s pretty crazy to think that we have already completed two months of the year. After an extremely hectic first half of January attending two of our Veeam Velocity Sales Kick off events (Bangkok for APJ and Saint Petersburg for EMEA) […] Read More
Insider Protection: Tenant Storage Usage and Cost Calculator
Last month I published a blog that looked deeper into the Insider Protection feature that was added as a feature to Veeam Cloud Connect as part of Update 3 for Backup & Replication 9.5. As a refresher, deleted backup protection…or Insider Protection allows the VCSP to enable the deleted backups protection option for specific tenants and looks […] Read More
Veeam Powered Network: Azure and Remote Site Configuration
This week we announced the offical GA of Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure featuring Veeam Powered Network (Veeam PN). This new product also features Director Restore to Microsoft Azure in combination with Veeam PN to create a solution that allows you to recover VMs into Azure and then have those VMs accessible on the original […] Read More
Cloud Connect and VAC Portal Maintenance Modes
Lately i’ve been digging deeper into the Veeam Availability Console and have been wrapping my head around it’s extended feature set. With that I thought it would be good to start a series of short blog posts pointing out examples of how certain parts are configured and what is happening under the covers. To kick […] Read More
2018
Looking back over the past couple of years I haven’t written a forward looking blog post about the year ahead since 2015 and as I sit here working through my notes on the first workday for 2018 I though that for the good of myself, I should have a think about what I want to […] Read More
Top Posts 2017
2017 is done and dusted and looking back on the blog over the last twelve months I’ve not been able to keep the pace up compared to the previous two years in terms of churning out content. In 2017 I managed 90 posts (including this one) which was down on the 124 last year and the 110 […] Read More
A Year of Travel – A Few Interesting Stats
This year was my first full year working for Veeam and my role being global, requires me to travel to locations and events where my team presents content and engages with technical and social communities. We also travel to various Veeam related training and enablement events throughout the year as well as customer and partner […] Read More