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Increasing Operational Efficiency With Kasten K10 V6.0

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We are excited to announce the release of Kasten K10 version 6.0, the latest and most advanced version of our industry-leading platform that provides enterprise-grade Kubernetes data protection and application mobility. This release helps customers scale their cloud native data protection efficiently. Kubernetes deployments are growing at an unprecedented rate. Gartner predicts that by 2027, more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production. However, today’s market conditions are scarred with financial uncertainty and a shortage of cloud native skills. Therefore, you must ensure operational efficiencies are in place to unleash the full potential of your cloud native environments while protecting your data. Additionally, security remains an imperative as organizations focus on keeping their businesses running. With this release, we also continue to innovate in this growing ecosystem, so that you can take advantage of the best-of-breed inn...
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Announcing the Veeam Innovation Award Winners for 2023

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As we continue to get ready for VeeamON, the Community Event for Data Recovery Experts, Veeam is excited to announce eight Veeam Innovation Award (VIA) winners for 2023.  As is our tradition at VeeamON , we are inviting the global Veeam community to vote for one of these VIA winners to also be recognized as Best in Show for VeeamON .  Please click on the video link for each VIA winner to learn more about what earned them their award – and then VOTE HERE for who should be Best in Show.  Results will be announced live on Day Two of VeeamON in Miami. Four Veeam Customers were awarded for the great results that they are achieving using Veeam-powered solutions:   Alpha Bank protects both its VMware datacenters and its Microsoft 365 for both operational resilience and disaster recovery.   Asda protects 660 remote sites with Azure as its recovery environment, while reducing their helpdesk volumes and providing self-service recovery.   City of Bir...
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Software Security Certifications: A Primer and Update

Security is becoming increasingly critical as the world becomes more digital and interconnected. Security is paramount at Veeam Software. We understand the importance of maintaining the highest level of security to protect our customers’ information. We are pleased to announce that we are undergoing Common Criteria certification, DoDIN APL certification, CMMC v2 and Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) to enhance our products’ security measures. What Is Common Criteria Certification (IV&V)? Common Criteria is an internationally recognized standard for evaluating the security of information technology products. It involves rigorous testing and evaluation to ensure our products meet specific security standards. Common Criteria certification is recognized by over 30 countries worldwide, making it a highly sought-after certification for companies that do business globally. What Is DoDIN APL? The Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN) Approved Products ...
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Protecting Your Unstructured Data: NAS Backup Best Practices

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Unstructured data and file repositories are common in most enterprise environments. As organizations try to reduce licensing costs and maintenance overhead, Network Attached Storage (NAS) is still commonplace in many modern enterprises. The ability to store and host data directly on NAS without having to manage OS patches and other lifecycle operations is very attractive to many IT departments. Even though it isn’t suited for all workloads, unstructured data like Microsoft Office documents, JPGs, MP3s, etc. is one of the most common use cases for NAS backup. Centralized repositories can make end-users’ lives easier by having a single location where they can store and share their data. However, for backup administrators, protecting that data brings its own unique set of challenges. As data generation rates steadily increase year over year around the world, so does the volume of data that needs to be reliably protected. Designing a backup solution that can quickly and reliably safeguard...
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Top 6 Enterprise Data Protection Challenges

As the market for data protection grows, customers and consumers have grown accustomed to fast, easy and intuitive data pipelines. Enterprises, on the other hand, face a volume of complexities and dependencies that most consumers never encounter, and are often times discounted from these consumer-focused luxuries. In a world where data is located across many different clouds and systems, organizations must ensure that the data they produce is always available, scalable and protected — but it’s not so simple. Taken from the Making an Impact with Modern Data Protection whitepaper, a successful enterprise data protection strategy is able to: Support complex, hybrid, multi-cloud environments and enterprise workloads Manage across multiple locations and geographies Scale to 1,000s to 10,000s of protected devices Easier said than done, right? Enterprise data protection consists of supplying, handling and monitoring security across all data repositories and entities within an enterpri...
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Veeam Women of the Channel – Raising Each Other Up

I’ve always believed in surrounding yourself with good people who are going to challenge you and make you better. That’s certainly what I’ve found during my short time here at Veeam, as I’m surrounded by 15 colleagues that were recognized today on the CRN 2023 Women of the Channel (WOTC) list. All these women work incredibly hard driving our channel-first mission here at Veeam. It’s an honor to work with women who share the same passion and raise each other up other within our organization, and as a result, we make each other better. Although, we’ve made great strides increasing the percentage of women in technology, it still isn’t enough. Women from Veeam on the WOTC list (all 16 of us!) take it upon themselves to support, be role models and mentor other women because it makes a difference in our future – and it helps to make us ALL better. As a society, we’ve broken down some of the barriers for women by providing more access to the resources needed starting at a young age. We now...
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Controlling Cloud Backup Costs

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One of the most challenging aspects of cloud-hosted applications and data is achieving your desired outcome without being shocked by your bill  at the end of the month. Balancing the needs of your business and your proverbial checkbook is not an easy thing. In fact, an entire practice called FinOps – a portmanteau of finance and DevOps – was born just to address this, bringing together business and technical teams to collaborate on efficient and optimized spending, particularly in the cloud. One area where this is of particular importance is cloud backup. We’re dealing with copies of large data sets that are often stored for lengthy periods of time, and all of these consume pay-for-what-you-use compute, storage and networking resources. So, what are some best practices when it comes to cloud backup to meet required service level agreements (SLAs) like RTOs, RPOs and retention without breaking the bank? Right-Sizing All cloud providers offer a wide selection of instance/virtual m...
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Cisco Hybrid Cloud Data Management With Veeam Platform

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So much of the discussion about hybrid cloud is focused on moving workloads from data centers to the cloud (typically public cloud, but also managed cloud services). This makes intuitive sense: the cloud offers flexibility and simplicity of services that can be easily scaled up and down as needed. The most compelling reason is that you only pay for what you use. Let’s face it, you can do things in the cloud that you could never imagine doing in a data center.  Migration to the Cloud and Returning Workloads On-Premises But the cloud is not a panacea. This is why the answers found in Veeam’s Cloud Protection Trends Report for 2023 in regards to the question “has your organization brought any workloads back from public cloud-host to on-premises?” are so revealing. An overwhelming number of companies that were surveyed (88%), repatriated workloads from the cloud back to their on-premises datacenter. As you see from this graphic, there are three main use cases for bringing workl...
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Installing Ubuntu Linux for Veeam Hardened Repository

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In this second part (the first part can be found here ) of setting up and hardening a Veeam “hardened repository,” I will cover how to set up Ubuntu 20.04 in a secure way. While it’s “just a minimal installation,” I have seen many questions on this topic, so let’s clear some things up. Before we start, let’s recap the requirements: A RAID 1 for the operating system on SSDs with at least 100 GB disk space A RAID 6/60 for the backup data Static IP address, gateway and DNS settings Recommended: redundant network connection Switchport: untagged UEFI Secure Boot is enabled With all environmental preparations done, we can now download Ubuntu 20.04. Download Download the latest Ubuntu 20.04 ISO from the Ubuntu website. At the time of this writing, that was the ubuntu-20.04.5-live-server-amd64.iso. The latest ISO ensures that the Linux kernel is as new as possible to support newer hardware. Technically you can also use Ubuntu 22.04, but there are currently no DISA STIGs (Securit...
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Securing Veeam Hardened Repository

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After selecting the right hardware for the Veeam Backup & Replication Hardened Repository and installing the Ubuntu Linux operating system, the next step is secure the operating system according to the DISA STIG (Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides) guidelines. This blog post describes the hardening process for Ubuntu 20.04 free edition. For Ubuntu Pro users, there is an easier way . To keep it as simple as possible, Veeam provides a script that automates the setting of security options. The requirement for the script to work is such that Ubuntu is set up as described in the installing the Ubuntu Linux blog post. Prerequisites Before starting the hardening process, let’s recap the current state and adjust settings if needed. Hardware monitoring is enabled in the out-of-band management of the Hardened Repository server. Vendor-specific hardware monitoring tools are not covered in this blog post Minimal Ubuntu installation on an UEFI...
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How to use a SOBR with Veeam Backup & Replication

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For those of us who have been in the business of backing up data for a while, we’re used to making copies of data on different types of media. I won’t date myself by mentioning reel-to-reel tapes, but the journey started with tape and then backing up data to block/file-based disk storage came along. More recently, a new kid on the block has become a popular destination for backed up data, object storage. Veeam started to use object storage as a target when we released Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 in January 2019 by introducing our use of AWS S3 compliant object storage via the Capacity Tier. A year later, we launched Veeam Backup & Replication v10 which featured support for object locking to provide data immutability for object storage. Immutability provides protection from ransomware attacks by locking the objects which prevents them from being modified or deleted by malicious software or humans. Today, Veeam Backup & Replication is protecting hundreds of petab...
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