This year was my third 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
Updated – Important ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 Patch Release – CBT Fixes and More!
Over the last few years the amount of CBT related issues has decreased significantly from VMware. I remember back in my previous roles of having to deal with multiple issues and wrote some pretty heavy posts around the topic. While those posts where not popular in some circles at the time, they certainly highlighted the […] Read More
Instant VM Recovery at 40,000 Feet… Streamed from Amazon S3!
Last week I wrote about a cool new enhancement coming in v10 of Backup & Replication where we are introducing a Mount function that will enable users to import backup restore points for recovery purposes in the case of disaster. Those restore points being located on an Object Storage Repository initially backing a Capacity Tier […] Read More
v10 Enhancements – Mounting Object Storage Repository for DR
Version 10 of Veeam Backup & Replication isn’t too far away and we are currently at the end of a second private BETA for our customers and partners. There has been a fair bit of content released around v10 functionality and features from our Veeam Vanguard’s over the past couple of weeks and as we […] Read More
Released: Backup for AWS …Free for up to 10 EC2 Instances!
This week at AWS re:Invent, exciting news for a lot of us in Veeam was announced as we made available for GA Veeam Backup for AWS (Build 1.0.0.1345). Available through the AWS Marketplace the product can be deployed within five minutes and be ready to backup EC2 instances. From my point of view, apart from […] Read More
Released: Veeam Powered Network 2.1 … Upgrade in Under a Minute!
A couple of days ago we snuck out a minor update to Veeam Powered Network (Veeam PN) bringing the version up to 2.1 (Build 2.1.0.461). We released 2.0 back in May which was a significant release as we ripped out OpenVPN and replaced it with WireGuard for the site to site networking functionality. Version 2.1 […] Read More
Released: Backup for Office 365 4.0 …Now with Object Storage Support!
Yesterday, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 (VBO) version 4.0 (4.0.0.1345) went GA. This new version again builds on the 3.0 release that enhanced overall performance for Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive as well as further enhancements around backup policy, reporting and APIs. Version 4.0 is heavily focused on the addition of Object Storage support for […] Read More
Tech Field Day Recap #TFD20
Tech Field Day 20 has come and gone, and it was an honour to play a small part in the 10th year anniversary Tech Field Day event. This was my second TFD event for the year having attended Cloud Field Day 5 back in April. It’s always a privilege to present to the delegates and […] Read More
#TFD20 Follow Up – Veeam Cloud Tier Glossary
Yesterday I presented at Tech Field Day 20. My first topic was on the enhancements we are bringing to Cloud Tier in our Backup & Replication v10 release. Rick Vanover setup the v10 enhancement session by doing some ground work on what a Scale Out Backup Repository is and briefly went over the initial features […] Read More
Heading to Tech Field Day 20 #TFD20
I’m currently sitting in my hotel room in sunny sunny San Jose. Today and tomorrow will be spent finishing off preparations for Tech Field Day 20. This will be my second Tech Field Day event following up from Cloud Field Day 5 in April. #TFD20 is the 10th year anniversary of Tech Field day and […] Read More