When looking closely at data backup strategies, you will notice that there are several methods in the planning of data backups. Each data backup plan addresses a Service Level Agreement and employs a strategy that aligns with the criticality of the workload to be protected. Continue reading →

We all know that data encryption is a good thing to have when we wish to secure our data from a roving eye. Throughout the history of the digital era and computing, many companies invested in, and enhanced, data security and encryption to keep our personal data secure; BUT, what if data encryption is Continue reading →

Bare-Metal Restoration (BMR) to the cloud is still a cumbersome process; especially when the cloud provider doesn’t provide a traditional boot USB/CD-ROM to start the recovery. If your Disaster Recovery requirements dictate a BMR strategy, then you will probably be shopping for a Third Party product, or Continue reading →

Many customers find that migrating their workload to the cloud is still a show stopper; this is, in part, due to the complexity of the overall migration journey.  Over the years, many products have been developed to assist customers in making the migration journey to the Cloud less painful. Continue reading →

For the last two years, I have been working closely with many service providers across Australia and New Zealand to build  Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) as an offering using Veeam Cloud Connect.

Veeam Cloud Connect introduces a great new opportunity for many service providers to become an off-site backup target for customers data and workload in the event of a complete Production site disaster. Continue reading →

One of the challenging aspects of my job is keeping up with all the cool and innovative products that Veeam R&D introduce every now and then. This blog will introduce you to another exciting product from Veeam. The product is the Veeam Availability Console; and yes, it a console if you just read the title. Continue reading →

3-2-1-0: 3 copies of the data, 2 independent media, 1 offsite and 0 errors on recovery.  It’s common sense, it doesn’t even need to be said.  Veeam has introduced some new and powerful Agents to cover the workloads that sit where Veeam Backup and Replication cannot reach.  The thing is that although you can send the agent data to a cloud connect to service provider, by themselves, it is tricky to have the agents cover all of 3-2-1-0. Continue reading →

If you are like me, you are getting more and more excited about Microsoft Windows Server 2016; especially the core deployment with HyperV. No doubt then, you are already aware that after the quick and easy installation and configuration of the operating system, everyday Continue reading →

In August last year, Veeam Software had just announced the availability platform. The vision was well defined and well communicated to the audience and to the Veeam customers. One of the highlights of the announced platform was the Veeam Availability Orchestrator. Continue reading →