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
Kubernetes… Kubernetes… Kubernetes!
Kubernetes is getting centre stage at KubeCon and Cloud Native Con this week and it has attracted 12000 attendees which is amazing for an open source non vendor specific conference. Kubernetes has dominated the IT water-cooler talk this year and a lot of people talk about it… but are they also doing it? This post […] Read More
#Kubcon – 12,000 People Can’t Be Wrong… Right?
This week, KubeCon and Cloud Native Con is happening in San Diego. In the lead up to the event, there was talk about 12,000 registrations which puts it up there with one of the fastest growing industry events by numbers and apparently the biggest independent, non vendor specific event ever in our industry. When you […] 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
v10 Enhancements – Downloading Object Storage Data per Tenant for SOBR
Version 10 of Veeam Backup & Replication isn’t too far away and we are currently in the middle 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
vCloud Director is no more… Long Live vCD! [VMware Cloud Director Service for VMC]
There was a very significant announcement at VMworld Barcelona overnight, with the unveiling of a new service targeted at Managed Service Providers. VMware Cloud Director Service (CDS) looks to leverage a hosted SaaS based instance of vCloud Director to offer multi-tenancy on VMware Cloud on AWS. The VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC becomes the provider […] Read More
Public Beta – Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4
Overnight at Microsoft Ignite, we announced availability of the Public Beta for the next version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. This is again a much awaited update for VBO with a ton of enhancements and the introduction of Object Storage Support for Backup Repositories. The product has done extremely well and is one […] Read More
Quick Post: Using Terraform to Deploy an Ansible Control Node on vSphere
In the continuing spirit of Terraforming all things, when I started to look into Ansible I wanted a way to have the base Control Node installed in a repeatable and consistent way. The setup and configuration of Ansible can be tricky and what I learnt in configuring the Ansible Control Node is that there can […] Read More