It’s not a surprise that Generative AI featured heavily as a topic at VMware Explore US last week in Vegas. 2023 is the year that most large tech companies jump on this movement/bandwagon and try to ride it all the way through to the top of the hype curve and then down the other side. […] Read More
Unlocking the Full Potential of Serverless with Fermyon and WebAssembly
As the demand for serverless computing continues to rise, WebAssembly (WASM) is emerging as a game-changer in the industry. With the potential to simplify the deployment and management of serverless applications, WASM could even surpass Kubernetes as the go to defacto platform for application deployment and management. WASM addresses some potential flaws in Kubernetes, such […] Read More
Backup for AWS v6 and Azure v5 Released!
Over the last couple of weeks we have continued to add to our v12 Data Platform by releasing new versions of Veeam Backup for AWS v6 (Build 6.0.0.335) and Veeam Backup for Azure v5 (Build 5.0.0.5079). It’s crazy to think that we only first released the AWS product back in late 2019, followed by Azure […] Read More
Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 – Self Service, Immutability and Integrations!
The releases keep coming in 2023 from Veeam! This week, we have released the GA of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VBM) version 7.0 (Build 7.0.0.2911). This new version again builds on the previous releases that added a new Self Service Restore Portal, backup copy, new update mechanism and much more. Version 7.0 is focused […] Read More
Veeam Backup & Replication v12 – Top New Features
This week, Veeam made Generally Available Veeam Backup & Replication v12 (Build 12.0.0.1420) and with it comes over 500+ anticipated new features and enhancements. This release has gone through a slightly longer cycle compared to that of v10 to v11, however v12 is here, and with almost 4x more features and enhancements than the […] Read More
Console v7 – What’s in it for Service Providers (and Enterprises)
Last week, with the release of the RTM of Veeam Backup & Replication v12 we also released Veeam Service Provider Console v7 (7.0.0.12777). Veeam continues focused on developing and integrating cloud and managed service operation capabilities, so service providers can continue to have awareness and control of workloads no matter where they are around the […] Read More
v12 RTM Is Out…With Enhanced DRaaS, Direct to Object Storage and more!
Today, Veeam made available to our VCSP partners the RTM of Veeam Backup & Replication 12 (Build 12.0.0.1402). It actually feels like it’s been a while between major releases for us since v11 was released to manufacturing. In fact it’s been just under two years since that last RTM date, but in that time there […] Read More
That’s How They Roll! Bare-Metal Cloud for AI and HPC Workloads
There has been a shift of late to bare-metal cloud. The amount of companies popping up and starting to offer specialised services has risen in recent years and a horses for courses approach to cloud computing has become a growing trend. The way in which servers can be procured and paid for in a cloud […] Read More
Thoughts on 2023
NOTE: The following content was transcribed and modified from the Thoughts on X podcast…Click Play if you would like to listen. I think we should all put a pin in 2022. But before we do, I want to finish talking about 2022 by quoting something from Rocky Balboa and then let me put some context […] Read More
SpyderBat: Threat prevention and security operations in a rapidly changing cloud world
I don’t have to remind anyone of the importance of security and threat detection when it comes to protecting your critical systems, applications and the data being created. For the most part i’ve spent my time in IT worrying about the design and implementation fo end user platforms and data protection, and have always […] Read More