Why you need Veeam to backup your cloud data

December 16, 2020December 21, 2020 ~ Adam Fisher ~ Leave a comment

Veeam v10 was released earlier in 2020 and brought with it a slew of new cloud focused products and announcements. Throughout 2020, Veeam has enhanced it's cloud portfolio, including an acquisition of Kasten to bring Kubernetes into the fold. Recent updates to Veeam Backup for AWS, the release of Veeam Backup for Azure and soon … Continue reading Why you need Veeam to backup your cloud data

Deploying Veeam Backup for AWS – Free Edition

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 ~ David Ball ~ Leave a comment

Introduction During AWS re:Invent 2019, Veeam released "Backup for AWS", a backup and recovery solution designed, at this time, to protect AWS EC2 instances. In this upcoming (and now here) series of posts, I'll detail how to deploy and use Veeam Backup for AWS to backup and restore data from your AWS EC2 instances. This … Continue reading Deploying Veeam Backup for AWS – Free Edition

Knowing Your Veeam Restoration Toolbox

January 2, 2020 ~ David Ball ~ Leave a comment

With so many tools available in the "admin toolbox", overlooking the best tool for the job is easy, especially when it comes to restoring data. We all need to keep in mind that the process or tool used "because we've always done it this way" may not be the best one, especially when you have … Continue reading Knowing Your Veeam Restoration Toolbox

Backing up VMware Cloud on AWS with Veeam

October 30, 2019 ~ Adam Fisher ~ 1 Comment

One common misconception about Public Cloud is that things like backup and security are automatically taken care of for you. Most cloud providers operate under a shared responsibility model, meaning they provide only up to a certain level of responsibility for security, availability, data protection, etc. This means that cloud architects must plan for backup … Continue reading Backing up VMware Cloud on AWS with Veeam

Clumio dives into the Data Protection as a Service market

August 13, 2019August 12, 2019 ~ Adam Fisher ~ 1 Comment

Clumio unveiled a new cloud based backup service today and formally threw their hat into the Data Protection ring. Built from the cloud up, Clumio looks to expand upon the relatively new "as a service" model of Data Protection. Most of the major Data Protection players have focused on private cloud solutions and evolved into … Continue reading Clumio dives into the Data Protection as a Service market

Data Protection as a Service with Druva

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 ~ Adam Fisher ~ Leave a comment

My first experience with Druva was a number of years back when a customer purchased their product to backup all of the laptops for their remote workers. This customer had a lot of employees that were traveling all over the world and doing much of their work from hotels, airports, and various remote offices. While … Continue reading Data Protection as a Service with Druva

New Release – Veeam/N2WS Backup and Recovery 2.6

July 15, 2019 ~ David Ball ~ Leave a comment

Just last week, Veeam/N2WS released version 2.6 of their easy to use, yet powerful AWS backup and recovery tool. And in keeping with previous releases and N2WS' unrelenting customer-driven approach, the 2.6 release incorporates several enhancements requested and championed by Veeam/N2WS customers. New Features in N2WS Backup and Recovery 2.6 Backup and Recovery for Amazon … Continue reading New Release – Veeam/N2WS Backup and Recovery 2.6

Veeam Extract – Restoring Data When All Hope Is Lost

March 13, 2019May 9, 2019 ~ David Ball ~ 1 Comment

If you find yourself fighting to restore business operations after a ransomware attack, you may get discouraged and begin to wonder if anything will go your way if you try to restore from backups and see a "Storage version is not supported for read-only access" error. Now, me personally, I'm an experienced consultant...like an IT … Continue reading Veeam Extract – Restoring Data When All Hope Is Lost