Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) io2 and io2 Block Express volumes now support storage fencing using NVMe reservations. As I learned while writing this post, storage fencing is used to regulate access to storage for a compute or database cluster, ensuring that just one host in the cluster has permission to write to the …
New – NVMe Reservations for Amazon Elastic Block Store io2 Volumes Read More »
While daylight is getting shorter in the Northern hemisphere, we’ve got two new EC2 instance types optimized for compute and memory and many new capabilities for other services. Last week there was also the EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Munich, an amazing day full of insights and passion. Here’s a nice picture of the participants! …
The fact that organizations need to backup their Microsoft 365 deployments has been well established. Microsoft is based on a shared responsibility model in which Microsoft is responsible for protecting the underlying infrastructure, and subscribers are responsible for protecting their own data. This means that if you use Microsoft 365, you have to back up …
Welcome back to the second part of our three-part blog series, where we continue to revisit what leading IT analyst firm, Gartner, suggests for protecting Microsoft 365. In the first post, we looked at what Gartner identified as risks associated with Microsoft 365. This included: Human error: Compromised accounts and accidental deletion or data misplacement …
You may have seen the big news from Cisco and Nutanix, who recently announced a global partnership to simplify business actions within the hybrid and multi-cloud. Veeam has had longstanding alliance relationships with both Cisco and Nutanix, working with both companies on technical-level integrations and co-innovations and business-level collaborative sales relationships. Veeam looks forward to …
Leading with Customer Choice: Cisco and Nutanix Launch a Global Partnership Read More »
Hybrid cloud infrastructures represent a strategic blend of on-premises and cloud-based resources, offering organizations the flexibility to optimize their IT environments for various workloads and business needs. This approach enables businesses to modernize, harnessing the scalability, agility and cost-efficiency of the cloud without deprecating on-premises investments. While many didn’t “plan” or “strategize” to have …
In July, we announced the preview of agents for Amazon Bedrock, a new capability for developers to create generative AI applications that complete tasks. Today, I’m happy to introduce a new capability to securely connect foundation models (FMs) to your company data sources using agents. With a knowledge base, you can use agents to give …
Just around a week ago, we released a new version for Veeam Backup for Salesforce (VBSF) and have been seeing a warm reception from our customers. As the fog has cleared a bit, it’s finally a good time to get deeper into the product itself and see it in action. You might already know that …
Going Under the Hood of the Newest Veeam Backup for Salesforce Read More »
Ransomware is malicious software that blocks access to a computer system or the data it holds until the victim transfers a specified payment to the attacker. There were 493.33 million ransomware attacks worldwide in 2022, making ransomware one of the most serious cyber threats faced by businesses today. In this guide, we’ll discuss common ransomware …
Ransomware Defense: Detect and Respond to Attacks Read More »
We launched the memory optimized Amazon EC2 R6a instances in July 2022 powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC (Milan) processors, running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz. Many customers who run workloads that are dependent on x86 instructions, such as SAP, are looking for ways to optimize their cloud utilization. They’re taking advantage of the …
