Overnight, Veeam made available to our VCSP partners the RTM of Veeam Backup & Replication 11 (Build 11.0.0.825). Seems like only yesterday v10 was released, but just over a year and week to the day, we have the much awaited v11 version of Backup & Replication. Before it goes GA, we give our providers a window […] Read More
v11 Quick Look – Adding Archive Tier to Existing SOBR
Since version 9.5 Update 4 of Veeam Backup & Replication we have had support to firstly move, then copy (as part of v10) backup data from what is, traditionally more expensive local storage, to cheaper storage backed by an offsite or on-premises Object Storage Platform. As part of v11 (Launching on the 24th of February) […] Read More
v11 Quick Look – Agent for Mac
Over the past few days I’ve been working on prepping my old 2014 Mac Book Pro for trade in for a new Mac Mini M1. I’ve had this trusty MBP since 2014 and was my go to travel lappy, but more recently it had become my desktop at home and as reported on Twitter and […] Read More
Still Time! – vExpert and Vanguard 2021
A Challenging Year for Community For a lot of us in the IT Industry, 2020 made it difficult to advocate technology like we had done in previous years. No doubting that the impossibility of in person events and distractions of the last twelve months have taken away the focus on extra activities in and around […] Read More
Release Notice: New v10a Cumulative Patch Is Out… vSphere 7.0 U1 Support and More!
Yesterday, Veeam made available Cumulative Patch 3 for Veeam Backup & Replication 10a (build 10.0.0.4854 P20201202). This is the third cumulative patch for the v10 platform which is at v10a after that build was released in July. This contains a number of fixes but more importantly validates vSphere 7.0 U1 supportability. Having been downloaded over 500,000 […] Read More
Insights into the WHY around Kubernetes Backup with Kasten
Veeam acquired Kasten last month and for those that maybe wondering why a lot of us internal to Veeam are super excited about this taking place I thought I would get Kasten’s Co-Founder, Niraj Tolia onto Great Things with Great Tech to talk about all things Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery and mobility. There is almost […] Read More
HashiConf Lightning Talk – Enhancing Mundane Deployments with Terraform
HashiConf took place a couple of weeks ago now, and during the event I presented a community based Lightning Talk live. The session is based on using Infrastructure as Code tooling to enhance mundane deployments and in the talk, I talk through how mundane approaches are still being used by lots of people and why […] Read More
Veeam Live – New v11 Announcements, Kubernetes Backup with Kasten and Industry Insights
We have one more to go! One more Major Veeam Virtual Event for the year and we have worked hard to ensure that even with all the virtual fatigue, Veeam Live is not to be missed! I am actually pretty excited about being involved with this event as it is for the most, actually, legitimately […] Read More
Acquiring Kasten for Kubernetes Data backup, Disaster Recovery and Mobility
Today Veeam has acquired Kasten. This acquisition is focused on offering a pathway to achieving a multi-platform backup strategy leveraging both data protection technologies that now covers physical, virtual and containerised workloads.. In the Kubernetes eco-system, Kasten has quickly established its self as a top technology platform for the protection and data management of Kubernetes […] Read More
VMworld 2020 – Tech, Career and Community with the vTrail Map
VMworld has been leveraged by a lot of people to help advance their careers with a lot of advancement seeded by personal interactions at the conference. Social, community and networking at VMworld is a huge part of the event, but with this years event being virtual and online only, the social aspect of the event […] Read More