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I wanted to highlight the integration between Veeam and HyTrust and their CloudAdvisor product, this integration has been around since mid 2017 and has been available to use in your Veeam environments, it wasn’t until the recent GDPR and focus on data regulations though that the use case has really been asked for. What is the integration? The integration gives visibility into your environment of both the virtual infrastructure and backup environment. This post will run through the steps to get the HyTrust Cloud Advisor up and running in your environment. The deployment comes in the form of an OVA to be downloaded from HyTrust,Read More →

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One of the main principles of GDPR is the way in which personal data is processed, this means we must consider things like risk analysis, organisational policies, physical and technical measures. Later in the post I am going to touch on pseudonymisation and encryption and how these can be used to assist the measures to becoming compliant. The measures must ensure “confidentiality, integrity and availability” of systems, services and personal data. My favourite is there must be the ability to restore access and availability to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or a technical incident. Does this mean theRead 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 →

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Veeam Replication – SureReplica What if I told you that the same tool that you purchased for Backup & Replication could also perform a level of verification against your replication jobs. Oh and did I mention that this test would automatically test the verification of Virtual Machine, Operating System and Application. SureReplica gives you the ability to spin up an isolated network in your secondary location to confirm that the restore point is in a good state should you require to actually recover from it, rather than waiting for a failure scenario to occur and then you are sat there with crossed fingers hoping theRead More →