Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

Veeam Innovation Awards for 2020

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Each year, Veeam takes nominations for Veeam Innovation Awards (VIA’s) from partners and customers, in order to highlight some of the great solutions in market that are powered by Veeam software components. This year, we received nearly 50 nominations, which were then vetted by a panel of 18 judges, under the following criteria: Innovation and … Read more

VeeamON 2019: Innovation happens here

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If you aren’t in Miami this week, you are missing a lot of fun — and that doesn’t include the famous Veeam Party planned for this evening. Building on what happened yesterday: Veeam announced the general availability of Veeam Availability Orchestrator version 2. I’ve preached for quite a while that there are two distinct differences between … Read more

The 2018 Veeam Innovation Awards

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In 225 BC, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Archimedes wrote, “Give me a lever and a fulcrum, and I will move the world.” Today at VeeamON, we celebrated a few organizations that aren’t just using Veeam Software as a solution for their own sake, but as the fulcrum and lever by which they are changing the worlds of … Read more

Wrap-Up on Backup from Veritas Vision 2017

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veritas-vid.jpgIt would be easy to assume that because the Veritas name has been around for more than 20 years, its products are all legacy and no longer suitable to modern data centers or IT scenarios; you would be wrong. Veritas is “back” after its divestiture from Symantec—with a laser focus on data management that very effectively narrates a comprehensive portfolio to its customers and partners.

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Wrap-up on Backup from VMworld US 2017

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vmworld-2017-vid-ss.jpgVMworld is still “the place to be” for discussing data center modernization—and that means that there were several data protection vendors in attendance, each with something to say.

But what was most interesting is the general shift in VMware’s tone from a hypervisor or data center-centric vision to a cloud-first vision, particularly with its announcements around running VMware on AWS. As ESG often states, “When you modernize production, you must modernize protection”—because changes to production infrastructure (physical, virtual, or cloud-powered) will often require changes in data protect strategy and tools.

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