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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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SaaS Backup – Veeam Backup for Office 365 v2 GA I want to start by showing some of the major players in the Software as A Service (SaaS) market, I want to put an ask here, if you are using any of these SaaS based workloads and there is no native way to protect your data then I would like that feedback and to understand what that workload is and what areas and specific features would you like to see around that SaaS offering. Office 365 the journey so far Version 1 and 1.5 was completely concentrated on Office 365 mail and mitigating the riskRead 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 →