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I wanted to share some cool stuff that is available over at Cisco, it’s to do with the dCloud offerings they have over there. Custom environments with a huge catalogue of demonstrations, training and sandbox environments for every Cisco product and architecture. The one that I want to bring to your attention is the Cisco HyperFlex and Veeam Availability Suite demo environment. Yes, it brings the HCI platform from Cisco but also the Veeam Availability Suite, allowing you to run through backup and restore scenarios for either full virtual machine recoveries or application item level recovery. Replication between multiple sites including the failover and failbackRead More →

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I started off the tour this week visiting a Microsoft Partner Days event in London, I am now heading up to Manchester to see what useful information I can gather and people I can speak to. IP Expo is one of them events that each year you should try and attend either the one in London or the one in Manchester, it’s a free event but with lots and lots of potential to bump into some great people. There are also some great speaking sessions that are worth listening to. This year I will only be going for one day, I wanted to cram asRead More →

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A few years back (November 2016) I attended the Microsoft UK Partner Summit at Twickenham Stadium, London. I wrote something about that here. Well today I am back there at the home of English rugby to hear some more stuff from Microsoft. This event is two days though now, but I am only able to be there on the first day and to be honest this is the most relevant to me. There are three tracks running during the day for the different audiences. My intention is to arrive for a quick coffee and meet up with some industry peers I would think before headingRead More →

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A few months back I touched on a cool new capability within Veeam Backup & Replication called Location tagging allowing administrators to mark the location of their physical constructs. This in turn can be used for GDPR and data locality but also other rules and regulations a company may have to adhere to. This post will go into the capabilities that this then extends to Veeam ONE in terms of being able to report against these locations and more importantly be able to highlight location violations that may have occurred within the company. At the same time Veeam Backup & Replication was updated to updateRead More →

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VeeamON 2018 – Chicago As we tick over the 30 days till the VeeamON event which will be held in Chicago this year, I wanted to share some of the stuff that we can expect to see over the week for those attending or for those thinking of attending. Here is a rolling countdown to when things will be kicking of in style over in Chicago. Recognise Innovation The first thing I want to mention is something you may want to get involved with before VeeamON and that’s tell us something that you have been doing with Veeam that is not out of the boxRead More →

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Veeam and GDPR As we move close to that GDPR-Day of the 25th May 2018,I wanted to collate all of the related blogs, white papers and other media together so that they could be seen and read. The need to become compliant should have already started for most but for some it’s been put in the corner. It’s happening people. I have to share this link as well as I thought the URL was great. https://howmanydaystill.com/its/gdpr Veeam were very cautious about just releasing the next GDPR compliant message and marketing which generally speaking is completely false, there is not one backup vendor that can makeRead More →

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I wanted to touch base again on what is happening in the new house. I mentioned in this post that I went on a spending spree around smart devices for the new houses. Well now we are a good month into the new house and I wanted to share a few more things that we have done. Firstly, it’s what we did about the home network. You might have seen me moaning about BT in a few tweets recently. And anyone in the UK will have probably experienced something similar to me. The issue being that BT own the majority of the infrastructure, so theyRead More →

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As the clock struck midnight last night on the 9th February 2018 taking us into 2019 a lot of people were given the news of their vExpert status for 2018. This for me wraps up the applied for programs for another year. Veeam Vanguards Firstly, probably a week ago we announced the new class of 2018 Veeam Vanguards, I am very lucky with this group as I get to speak to these people every day and help shape this program, we have a great bunch of guys and gals in the program and looking forward to seeing what they bring in 2018. Congrats to allRead More →

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How to install the Inifinidat plug-in Veeam backup and replication 9.5 update 3 was released just before Christmas, this updated included a major feature in the Universal Storage API, this would allow Veeam to support a much wider range of storage vendors for integration into the product. A closed process led by Veeam and storage vendor the private SDK is provided to the storage vendor to develop against, at completion the storage vendor will then provide the Veeam QC team with the new plug-in where it can be tested in the system for any bugs or configuration issues. At this point it can then beRead More →

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A new feature in Veeam Backup & Replication & ONE 9.5 update 3 this is location tagging; location tagging is going to give some additional information to our infrastructure and our backup data. With the year 2018 being branded not only the year of data but also the year of GDPR. These location tags are going to help not only from a reporting point of view on where your data is residing but also when it comes to restores especially out of location restores. Veeam ONE will also be able to report on these tags ensuring you know where the data is and if itRead More →