As a recently awarded Veeam Vanguard and Veeam User Group Leader, I'm proud to announce that I will be presenting at Veeam User Group Netherlands' virtual meeting on March 19th, 2024. About the Veeam User Group Netherlands Maurice Kevenaar, Jos Maliepaard and I run the Veeam User Group (VUG) Netherlands Dutch. Our goal as … Continue reading "I'm presenting at the Veeam User Group Netherlands meetup"
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Veeam Vanguard
I'm a 2024 Veeam Vanguard
Today, I received an e-mail from Nikola Pejkova from Veeam congratulating me with being selected for the 2024 Veeam Vanguard Program as part of the Veeam100 family of programs. For me, it means I successfully renewed my previous eight Veeam Vanguard Awards in this veeamazing program, dating back to 2016. I feel honored. Thank you! 🙏 … Continue reading "I'm a 2024 Veeam Vanguard"
Five Truths in Veeam's 2024 Data Protection Trends Report
Veeam launched its 2024 Data Protection Trends report on January 17th. For this report, Veeam had a third party interview 1200 IT leaders and implementers accross 10 countries throughout EMA, APJ and the Americas in 2024 – each leading the data protection strategies for their enterprise organization. The data was then compared to the data … Continue reading "Five Truths in Veeam's 2024 Data Protection Trends Report"
What's New in Veeam Backup and Replication v12.1 for Identity Admins
The Veeam Data Platofrm 23H2 update was released on Tuesday December 5th, 2023. 11 products received updates, including Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1, Veeam ONE v12.1, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 7, Veeam Agent for Windows 6.1, Veeam Agent for Linux v6.1, Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris v4.1, Veeam Agent for IBM AIX v4.1, Veeam Agent for … Continue reading "What's New in Veeam Backup and Replication v12.1 for Identity Admins"
Join me for my Tech Talk at VeeamON 2023 in Miami
I'm excited to announce that I will be hosting one of the Tech Talks at VeeamON in Miami this year. About VeeamON VeeamON is Veeam's yearly community event tailored for Data Recovery experts. Just like other conferences, it offers technical sessions. However VeeamON also features celebrations, LabWarz, a playground and the community hub to … Continue reading "Join me for my Tech Talk at VeeamON 2023 in Miami"
I'm a 2023 Veeam Vanguard
Today, I received an e-mail from Rick Vanover from Veeam congratulating me with being selected for the 2023 Veeam Vanguard Program as part of the Veeam100 family of programs. For me, it means I successfully renewed my previous seven Veeam Vanguard Awards, dating back to 2016. I feel honored. Thank you! About Veeam Vanguards … Continue reading "I'm a 2023 Veeam Vanguard"
What's New in Veeam Backup and Replication v12 for Identity Admins
Yesterday, Veeam released version 12 of its Backup and Replication (VBR) product. This version is a huge milestone for the company as it contains no less than 585 new and improved features, when compared to VBR version 11, released on March 23rd, 2021. In these (almost) two years, Veeam has done a lot of work … Continue reading "What's New in Veeam Backup and Replication v12 for Identity Admins"
Ten recommendations against ransomware incidents from a backup and restore perspective for this year's Holiday Season
It’s no secret that many organizations run on skeleton crews to support their infrastructures during holidays. That’s why attackers treat these days as special. With Christmas next week, we can get all the help we can get. In many attack cycles, restoration of data is usually one of the last steps administrators can take to … Continue reading "Ten recommendations against ransomware incidents from a backup and restore perspective for this year's Holiday Season"
Veeam Backup & Replication v11a supports VMware vSphere 8.0
Hot on the heels of VMware Explore Europe, Veeam announced its support for VMware vSphere 8.0. About VMware vSphere 8.0 vSphere is VMware’s advanced server virtualization solution, consisting of ESXi (the core virtualization product that is installed on host machines – a type 1 hypervisor) and vCenter Server (the solution to manage multiple ESXi hosts … Continue reading "Veeam Backup & Replication v11a supports VMware vSphere 8.0"
A Critical Vulnerability in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud was automatically addressed (CVE-2022-43549)
Last week, Veeam identified a critical vulnerability in a component of its Backup for Google Cloud solution, that allows attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and execute arbitrary code. About Veeam Backup for Google Veeam Backup for Google Cloud is a solution offered by Veeam to backup and restore Google Computer Engine instances, their persistent disks, … Continue reading "A Critical Vulnerability in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud was automatically addressed (CVE-2022-43549)"