Storage has always been tough. As I have mentioned before, I bare many scars of storage platforms gone bad. To be fair, I exited out of the infrastructure game in terms of being hands on managing production storage since joining Veeam and with that, I feel like I missed out on having better experiences with […] Read More
Quick Post: New Backup & Replication v11 Patch – VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 Support and more!
Overnight we released a new patch release (Build P20210507) for Veeam Backup & Replication v11. This is actually quite a big patch release and contains a number of fixes to issues that have been picked up since v11 went GA. Probably the biggest addition in this patch is the supportability for vSphere 7.0 Update 2 […] Read More
Why the Kubernetes wave is not equal to Virtualization… but why that doesn’t matter!
If you are engaged with the general IT community that deals with infrastructure, virutalization or cloud, you have probably heard the comparison between Kubernetes and Virtualization. The narrative goes something along the lines of “Kubernetes will have the same level of impact on IT as what Virtualization had”. That is to say that Kubernetes is […] Read More
v11 For Service Providers – Extending Cloud Based Object Storage for Longer Term Retention
When Veeam Backup & Replication v11 went Generally Available on the 24th of February I posted the What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I briefly outlined all the new features and enhancements in v11 as it related to our Veeam Cloud and Service Provider Partners. As mentioned each new major feature […] Read More
Leveraging BlockChain Technology for S3 Object Storage Repositories
The only thing hotter than Kubernetes at the moment is Crypto. While the price of BitCoin takes centre stage for the most, there is so much more behind this technology that enables value to be applied to the smart contract mechanisms of a BlockChain and what can be stored inside the immutable ledgers. Practical applications […] Read More
v11 For Service Providers – VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal SSP Enhancements
When Veeam Backup & Replication v11 went Generally Available on the 24th of February I posted the What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I briefly outlined all the new features and enhancements in v11 as it related to our Veeam Cloud and Service Provider Partners. As mentioned each new major feature […] Read More
Quick Look – Patching Remotely Managed VBR Servers with Service Provider Console
One of the cooler features to come out as part of the Veeam Service Provider Console (Console or VSPC) v5 is the ability to remotely patch Veeam Backup & Replication severs under management. While remote patching applications are fairly common for Managed Service Providers, the R&D and Product Management teams behind Console decided to build […] Read More
Technology, Partnerships and Choice
Before I joined Veeam I spent all my career working for service providers. I spent my first 7 years working for a hosting provider working on Windows and Linux systems. At that stage there was really no competition around in terms of what platform you hosted a website on… if the developer was writing in […] Read More
Quick Post – Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5b RESTful API Fixes and More
This is a very very quick post to highlight that earlier this week we released v5b of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 (Build 5.0.1.225) mainly to address enhancements to the RESTful API which has been driven mostly buy our Service Providers leveraging VBO for their Office365 Backup service offerings. There are also a number […] Read More
One Click Managed Kubernetes Labs with Platform9
I first blogged about Platform9 all the way back in 2015 after discovering them in 2014 at VMworld… that was around their VMware/KVM and OpenStack solutions at the time… this time around it’s Kubernetes. Platform9 will give you a fully configured and managed Kubernetes single node master cluster within 10 minutes. For lab environments, i’ve […] Read More