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In just over 2 weeks I will be making the trip over to Las Vegas for my 3rd VMworld event. That is just the two events from last year both US and Europe, it is still a little crazy to think I have been in this game for a few years now and this is only my third time attending. My first VMworld post from last year. I wanted to put a short post together just highlighting some of the things that Veeam and I will be doing at this year’s event. For the official Veeam at VMworld page you can get that here. VeeamRead More →

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Veeam Availability for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud This post will walk through the areas and demo of the newly released Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV. It is important to note that the screen shot used in this post are based on the beta versions, there should be very little difference between the GA and beta edition. Basic Overview The Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance for AHV, used to authenticate with a Veeam Backup & Replication server to gain access to Veeam repositories. The appliance will also provide a web interface where full VM restores and disk restores can take place. The Veeam Backup & Replication server isRead More →

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HyTrust and their CloudAdvisor product has some great integration with Veeam, in a world where new regulations and rules are upon us but also the vast amount of data we have to manage. One thing we have not really had is visibility into data types within the backup set. When it comes to data within your backups it is important to understand what types of data is being stored within your backup files. Now this can be achieved through indexing and search but take that requirement one step further and think how could we search against a specific type of data, credit card information forRead More →

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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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I expect everyone has been experiencing the annoying calls and emails asking if you have been involved in an accident or you are entitled to something because of something even though neither has taken place. Well by all means this has not been done by breaking any laws! But these companies have obtained your information through some ways or means. With GDPR this should tighten this action from happening. One of the key points moving forward or after the 25th May 2018, consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. It cannot be buried in lengthy terms and conditions. This will make it muchRead More →

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Hi Everyone, it’s that week we have been speaking about for the last year or so. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect this Friday (25th May) Hopefully this is not new news to anyone that must adhere to this new regulation, if it is then there are heaps of content out there and I summarised the Veeam efforts here in another blog post – Veeam & GDPR – The Journey to being GDPR Compliant Last week, Veeam had their annual conference VeeamON in Chicago, at the conference I was fortunate enough to team up with some fellow Veeamers to talk about theRead More →

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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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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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Following on from the post I shared on Word to WordPress, I wanted to share another post that makes my life much easier when it comes to work and that’s having the ability to receive notifications in one place. I seem to have become a big user of Slack, which the email side of my life has really calmed down the instant messaging, always on nature of Slack has rocketed I think at last count I had 9 Slack teams including the one that I am using for this notification piece. We all read blogs, and we all consume information from various sources this canRead More →