Welcome to the fourth edition of my Veeam Vault series and the first for 2017. It’s been a busy first month of 2017 with trips to Orlando where I attended my first Sales Kick Off where I also presented at our SE Training and then a trip to Russia to visit our R&D, Product and QA […] Read More
VCSP Important Notice: 9.5 Update 1 Is Out…With vSphere 6.5 Support!
Last Friday, we at Veeam made available for download Update 1 for Backup & Replication (Build 9.5.0.823), Veeam One (Build 9.5.0.3254) as well as for Backup for Microsoft Office 365 (Build 1.0.0.912). What was slightly unusual about this release for our VCSP partners is that there was no RTM build before GA…this is because Update 1 […] Read More
Top Posts 2016
2016 is pretty much done and dusted and it’s been an good year for Virtualization is Life! There was a more modest 70% increase in site visits this year compared to 2015 and a 2600% increase in visits since I began blogging in 2012. In 2016 I managed to produce 124 posts (including this one) which was slightly up […] Read More
Veeam Vault #3: Two New Product Releases Plus VeeamOn and Vanguard Updates
Welcome to the third edition of my Veeam Vault series. As most of you know I am now working at Veeam as a Technical Evangelist focusing on Veeam’s Service Provider products and working with VCSP’s to help enhance service offering around Veeam’s product portfolio. In this edition I am going to talk about a couple new […] Read More
Veeam 9.5 – What’s in it for Service Providers
Since Backup and Replication 7 Veeam have continued to develop new features in enhancements to support their Cloud and Service Provider community. This started with vCloud Director support…continued with Cloud Connect Backup in v8 and more recently with Cloud Connect Replication in the v9 release. Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 was released a couple of […] Read More
Veeam Vault #1 – VeeamOn CFP and Vanguard Nominations
As most of you know I am now working at Veeam as a Technical Evangelist focusing on Veeam’s Service Provider products and working with VCSP’s to help enhance service offering around Veeam’s product portfolio. Part of that role is creating offical content for online materials and presentations however I still intend to keep this blog […] Read More
Veeam Vault #2: VeeamOn Early Bird plus Blog Competition and Backup for Office 365 GA
As most of you know I am now working at Veeam as a Technical Evangelist focusing on Veeam’s Service Provider products and working with VCSP’s to help enhance service offering around Veeam’s product portfolio. This is the second of my Veeam Vault (renamed thanks to my colleague Michael Cade) series which I intend to use as my working […] Read More
Veeam 9.5 Released: Top New Features
Last week Veeam released to GA version 9.5 of our Backup & Replication product. Even though this is a point release it’s a significant release for Veeam and looks to build on the scalability and reliability that came with previous versions, on top of what was delivered in the v9 release. I’ve spent some time going through […] Read More
Veeam 9.5 – RTM Build Available for VCSPs
Last week (we at) Veeam dropped the RTM build of Veeam 9.5 to it’s Cloud Service Provider partners. As a VCSP partner you need to be ready for the v9.5 GA date (at this stage set for mid November) to ensure that any keen early adopters who have Cloud Connect services with providers are able to backup and replicate […] Read More
A New Direction …A New Company …A New Role
Three and a half years ago I was given a brilliant opportunity to join what was at the time Australia’s leading vCloud Powered Service Provider…Zettagrid. At that time I talked about needing direction in my career and the opportunity to join Zettagrid was undeniably one of the best decisions I have made in my life. […] Read More