In July of 2011, Distribute.IT, a domain registration and web hosting services provider in Australia was was hit with a targeted, malicious attack that resulted in the company going under and their customers left without their hosting or VPS data. The attack was calculated, targeted and vicious in it’s execution… I remember the incident well […] Read More
Service Providers Be Aware: Samba Vulnerability is out there! SambaCry
Having worked in and around the service provider space for most of my career when I heard about the Linux variant of WannaCry, SambaCry last week, I thought to myself that it had the potential to be fairly impactful given there would be significant numbers of systems that use Samba for file services in the wild. In fact this […] Read More
VCSP Important Notice: 9.5 Update 2 RTM Is Out…With Remote Access and more!
Last Friday, Veeam made available to our VCSP partners the RTM of Update 2 for Backup & Replication 9.5 (Build 9.5.0.1038). Update 2 for Backup & Replication is what we term a breaking update, meaning that if a Cloud Connect client upgrades from the 9.5 GA (9.5.0.711) or Update 1 (9.5.0.823) this will break backup or replication functionality. With […] Read More
World Backup Day …We should be thinking Availability #WAD
Yesterday (30th of March) was Veeam’s World Availability Day. This is a day that Veeam has declared to make people aware about how availability plays a part in all organizations as an extension of Backup and Replication. In it’s self, WAD is a marketing initiative from us here at Veeam that backs onto World Backup Day…which is happening today (31st […] Read More
VMworld 2017 : Session Analysis and Voting Open…Already!
Well this has crept up on us quickly this year! It’s time to vote for the VMworld Sessions that will be part of the US and Europe VMworld’s held later in the year. The Session Voting is more Session liking as you have the ability to mark multiple sessions as ones that you would like […] Read More
It’s ok to steal… VMUG UserCon Key Take Aways
Last week I attended the Sydney and Melbourne VMUG UserCons and apart from sitting in on some great sessions I came away from both events with a renewed sense of community spirit and enjoyed catching up with industry peers and good friends that I don’t see often enough. While the VMUG is generally struggling a […] Read More
Cloud Connect Replication Partial Failover – Example
Veeam Cloud Connect Replication has been part of Veeam’s Backup & Replication product since version 9 was released in early 2016 and like Cloud Connect Backup before it, Replication is starting to get traction in the market due to it’s ease of use, intuitive interface and best of breed disaster recovery networking technologies that are all […] Read More
VMUG UserCon – Sydney and Melbourne Events are Huge This Year!
Last year I claimed that the Melbourne VMUG Usercon was the “Best Virtualisation Event Outside of VMworld!” …that was a big statement if ever there was one however, fast forward a year and credit goes to the VMUG steering committee’s of both Sydney and Melbourne as it seems they have bettered themselves this time around for the […] Read More
Looking Beyond the Hyper-Scaler Clouds – Don’t Forget the Little Guys!
I’ve been on the road over the past couple of weeks presenting to Veeam’s VCSP partners and prospective partners here in Australia and New Zealand on Veeam’s Cloud Business. Apart from the great feedback in response to what Veeam is doing by way of our cloud story I’ve had good conversations around public cloud and infrastructure providers […] Read More
Upgrading Windows vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 In-Place: Issues and Fixes
Yes that’s not a typo…this post is focusing on upgrading Windows vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 via an in-place upgrade. There is the option to use the vSphere 6.0 Update2M build with the included Migrate to VCSA tool to achieve this and move away from Windows, but I thought it was worth documenting my experiences with a […] Read More