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Welcome to my tech-savvy haven where we unravel the mysteries of cloud computing, dive deep into storage solutions, explore the intricacies of data backup, and navigate everything in between. If you’ve ever found yourself lost in the jargon of terabytes, cloud migrations, or RAID arrays, fear not – you’re in the right place!

Recent Blog Posts

  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Developer, AWS Step Functions, AWS Cloud Club Captain deadline, and more (September 22, 2025)
    Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community … Read more
  • Get Ready for Dreamforce: Keynote Highlights, Major Themes, and How to Connect With Us!
    Can you believe it? Dreamforce is around the corner. Whether you’re a Dreamforce veteran or attending for the first time, there’s nothing quite like the rush of learning, networking, and (let’s be honest) tracking down the partner with the best coffee around campus. Dreamforce 2025 promises a mix of fresh ideas, inspiration, and opportunities to … Read more
  • How Generative AI Can Strengthen Your Security Posture
    Key Takeaways: Triage faster, miss less: Generative AI (GenAI)-based solutions can turn floods of alerts into concise, context-rich summaries so analysts can act in minutes. Prioritize by real risk: AI tools blend threats data and indicators of compromise with identity, data-sensitivity, and context to score risk and route to the right playbook. Automate the paper … Read more
  • Multi-Agent AI for SQL Databases: Turning Natural Language into Business Insights
    Following on from Veeam Built the AI Revolution While Others Prepared, this post shares a specific project: how I built AI agents that can transform natural language questions into intelligent database interactions. Key Takeaways: SQL AI Agents make databases conversational: Multi-agent systems translate plain-English business questions into accurate SQL queries, bridging the gap between technical … Read more
  • Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
    Today we are adding Qwen models from Alibaba in Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock continues to expand model choice by adding access to Qwen3 open weight foundation models (FMs) in a full managed, serverless way. This release includes four models: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, and Qwen3-32B (Dense). Together, these models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) … Read more
  • DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock
    In March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the first cloud service provider to deliver DeepSeek-R1 in a serverless way by launching it as a fully managed, generally available model in Amazon Bedrock. Since then, customers have used DeepSeek-R1’s capabilities through Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications, benefiting from the Bedrock’s robust guardrails and comprehensive … Read more
  • From Gaps to Gains: The Measurable Impact of Data Resilience Maturity
    The reality is resilience is no longer just about having a backup. It’s about whether your systems and your people can perform under pressure. From ransomware to regulatory scrutiny, enterprises today are carrying more risk than ever. That’s why a maturity-based approach to data management, protection, and recovery isn’t optional anymore. It’s the difference between … Read more
  • What Is Cloud Disaster Recovery?
    Key Takeaways: Cloud disaster recovery (DR) is a strategy and set of processes that use cloud-based resources and services to back up, replicate, and restore critical data and IT systems in the event of a disaster, such as hardware failure, cyberattack, or natural catastrophe. It aligns architecture, automation, and runbooks to meet recovery point objective/recovery … Read more
  • Entra ID (Azure AD) Backup Solutions: Protecting Your Identity Infrastructure
    Key Takeaways: Native Entra ID protection is limited: Recycle Bin soft-deletion is not true backup and offers short retention windows that aren’t suitable for long-term, compliant recovery. Third-party backups close critical gaps: They protect against insider threats and mass deletions by offering full, independent recovery capabilities. Granular, attribute-level restores are non-negotiable: Fixing a single user … Read more
  • Choosing Your Go-to-Market: VAR, MSP, or MSSP with Veeam Data Platform
    Key Takeaways: VARs can boost profitability by combining Veeam Backup & Replication licenses with implementation, migration, and training services. MSPs use the Veeam Service Provider Console to build recurring revenue streams with scalable BaaS and DRaaS offerings. MSSPs strengthen their security stack by leveraging Veeam’s immutable backups, Secure Restore, and orchestration for end-to-end cyber resilience. … Read more
  • Cyber and Data Resilience: How CrowdStrike and Veeam Empower End-to-End Threat Response
    Ransomware attacks are evolving, and so are expectations for response and recovery. Organizations must demonstrate that they can defend their data, detect threats quickly, and recover with confidence. That’s why Veeam and CrowdStrike have come together to unify data resilience into a coordinated approach. By enhancing security visibility and breaking down silos between backup and … Read more
  • AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
    A month ago, I shared that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS), with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the fifteenth consecutive year. In 2024, AWS was named as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, Cloud-Native … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)
    Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support … Read more
  • Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances
    As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their launch 4 years ago, I’ve helped numerous customers scale their continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. Today, I’m excited to share that Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available. Development teams building … Read more
  • Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE
    Today, we’re announcing LocalStack integration in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the AWS Lambda development experience, including the console to IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities we launched in July … Read more
  • Navigating Market Shifts and Embracing Change as a Catalyst for Growth
    Key Takeaways: VMware’s partner program overhaul is forcing change. Broadcom’s acquisition introduced new licensing, SKU consolidations, and stricter partner tiers, leaving many partners and customers reevaluating their virtualization strategies. Uncertainty creates opportunity for advisors. Organizations are actively exploring alternatives. Veeam ProPartners can step in with guidance, data migration services, and modernization expertise to become trusted … Read more
  • The Evolution of Data Resilience in the Enterprise
    Today’s technology environment is scaling at an explosive rate. This makes for thrilling growth opportunities but the innovation invites cyberthreats. And data integrity remains at the mercy of natural disasters, power outages, and human error. Data resilience is the measure of how quickly and thoroughly an organization can fight off, overcome, or bounce back from … Read more
  • The Crucial Role of Security in the Age of Quantum Computing
    Robust security measures are not mere features; they are essential components of any viable product or service. Security must be ingrained in every aspect of design and operation of software. With rapid advancements in AI and the looming influence of quantum computing, the state of “secure enough” has changed dramatically. Technologies that promise groundbreaking capabilities … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform, Amazon Neptune, and more (September 8, 2025)
    Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Community Day 2025, hosted at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The single-day event will bring together over 500 cloud practitioners from across the Netherlands, featuring 25 breakout sessions across five technical … Read more
  • What Is Cloud Data Protection?
    Key Takeaways: Cloud data protection is the practice of securing, backing up, and recovering workloads hosted in public or hybrid clouds, so data stays confidential, available, and compliant across its lifecycle. Why it matters: Cloud providers secure the platform, but you are responsible for your data, configurations, and recovery outcomes (i.e., the Shared Responsibility Model). … Read more
  • Veeam Service Provider Console v9: Innovation, Efficiency, and Data Resiliency for Modern Service Providers
    Key Takeaways Simplified operations: V9 reduces infrastructure overhead (including certain Veeam Cloud Connect dependencies), unifies tenant management, and streamlines reporting, billing, and administration for service providers. Centralized control and automation: A new API Control Center and enhanced management tools give managed service providers (MSPs) one place to automate tasks, enforce security, and manage Veeam Software … Read more
  • What Is Cloud Data Management?
    Key Takeaways: Cloud data management is the plan to organize, protect, govern, and optimize data stored that’s in the cloud to ensure its security, availability, and compliance from creation to deletion. It’s bigger than backup. Backup is one pillar, but cloud data management also covers visibility, lifecycle policies, access control, cost optimization, and compliance. Hybrid … Read more
  • Multi and Hybrid Cloud Architecture: A Complete Guide
    Key Takeaways: Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies offer flexibility, resilience, and performance but require careful planning. Organizations use these models to avoid vendor lock-in, enhance availability, and support global operations, but each comes with its own challenges. The key difference lies in structure and purpose. Multi-cloud involves multiple public cloud providers, while hybrid cloud blends … Read more
  • Veeam Software Appliance: Smooth Deployment. Secure from Day One. Manage from Anywhere.
    Modern IT teams face increasing pressure to deploy secure, reliable backup infrastructure without the complexity of security hardening, manual patching, or hardware lock-in. Expectations are clear: Simplicity and security must be built-in from the start. Veeam Software Appliance delivers a fast, secure, and frictionless backup experience. It has a secure-by-default design that’s built on a … Read more
  • Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
    Kia ora! Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-6. With the new Region, customers can now run workloads and securely store data in New Zealand while serving end users with even lower latency. The new AWS Asia Pacific … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2, Amazon Q Developer, IPv6 updates, and more (September 1, 2025)
    My LinkedIn feed was absolutely packed this week with pictures from the AWS Heroes Summit event in Seattle. It was heartwarming to see so many familiar faces and new Heroes coming together. For those not familiar with the AWS Heroes program, it’s a global community recognition initiative that honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to … Read more
  • Akira Exploits the Gaps Between Patching and Identity Security
    Coveware by Veeam experts have observed a sharp rise in Akira ransomware cases, with more than 40 of those incidents tied to a single exploitation pathway. At the center of these cases is a recently mitigated VPN vulnerability in widely deployed enterprise appliances, which Akira has been actively exploiting to gain initial access. What makes … Read more
  • How to Prevent Supply Chain Ransomware Attacks
    Key Takeaways: Supply chain attacks are growing fast: Attackers target the weakest vendor or provider to gain legitimate access and spread ransomware downstream. Common entry points include compromised software updates, APIs, insider threats, and tampered hardware. Strong vendor risk management is essential: requires SBOMs, monitor suppliers continuously, and align to frameworks like NIST, ISO 27001, … Read more
  • New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i Flex instances are now available
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) general-purpose M8i and M8i-Flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency. These instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They also … Read more
  • AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones
    Amazon Prime Day 2025 was the biggest Amazon Prime Day shopping event ever, setting records for both sales volume and total items sold during the 4-day event. Prime members saved billions while shopping Amazon’s millions of deals during the event. This year marked a significant transformation in the Prime Day experience through advancements in the … Read more
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