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What if I told you, you could take any Veeam image based backup and convert / restore that to an Azure virtual machine without the requirement of any additional storage or file system within Azure other than the disks and resources required to run that virtual machine or virtual machines. And what if I told you, this has been around for years with Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam have had this capability for a while now since 2016 in fact. Primary use cases that we have seen have been, Test and development When you have the public cloud at your fingertips why not take advantageRead More →

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Last week Veeam released its version 1 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. What is Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure? This new product focuses in on the Azure IaaS workloads you have running in the public cloud, much like the Veeam Backup for AWS edition that was released early this year, this product provides you the ability to protect those Azure VMs without having to install and agent on each one. It is a policy driven approach allowing for both snapshots and backups to be part of your data management plan when it comes to Microsoft Azure. The product is a standalone solution that isRead More →

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The next #ignitethetour training I took was with Cecil Philip of Microsoft. Data is of huge interest of me and has been my whole IT career, knowing where that data is stored for production, backup for analytics regardless of it being on premises or in the public cloud or even being hosted by a service provider. I think with the options we have available today to store our personal data and our mission critical enterprise data and everything in between we have so much choice. This session was focused on how the cloud could help when it comes to storing your data in Microsoft Azure.Read More →

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Well it is Summer some place, but this learning curve has been going on since the summer in England where I really wanted to take some of the pre events season down time and learn something new, this has spanned a wide range of new and upcoming technologies of which some I have not even written about yet but I have been looking at I promise. A big focus on Containers & Kubernetes Public Cloud Hyperscalers (Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform) Infrastructure as Code & Automation My aim for the public cloud and in particular Microsoft Azure was to get a better understandingRead More →

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We seem to be heading fast toward VeeamON 2019, this year our conference heads to Miami and none other than the famous Fontainebleau Miami Beach luxury hotel and resort. I have never been to Miami, so I am really looking forward to being there but also there is nothing quite like the VeeamON feeling and that of your own conference. The conference officially runs from May 20th to May 22nd all in the same resort. But the fun actually starts on the Saturday for the die-hard techies heading out to Miami they will be starting their VMCE course that runs from Saturday to Monday beforeRead More →