VeeamON 2024 Recap

This week, I participate at VeeamON 2024 in Fort Laurdedale (Florida) as Veeam Partner & Veeam Vanguard. By the way is at full capacity this year! Over 50% of the breakout sessions are technical this time, which is the best distribution ever! So be sure those of you attending will not regret it…

And… on Tuesday, Rick Vanover introduced Veeam Backup & Replication for Linux, is coming with the next version of VBR (v13). This feature requests right now at VeeamON 2024 main stage, by th way, it will be exciting for the end users. This feaure Great set of technical demo’s from the general session, really good work of Veeam Team! Read all the latest updates from Veeam Software below…

At VeeamON 2024, The Diplomat – Hollywood Beach, Veeam started to announce some features which will be integrated into the next release of Veeam: Veeam Data Platform. Then, Veeam Evangelists were talking about new products such as Veeam for M365 v8, KVM and Proxmox support, Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO), Coveware security, Microsoft Copilot support with M365 (AI Powered Insights for Microsoft 365), Security Partner Ecosystem extented (especially with Palo Alto for SIEM integration), Data Intelligence, MongoDB support etc. Most important via this post is to show you the components which will let you manage easier your backup infrastructure. The new release allows you to improve your security policy and 3-2-1-0 rule (3 backups on 2 different medias with 1 offsite backup + 1 offline backup) so 3 copies of your data and to meet your modern data restoration needs. Basically, you will be able to move from low RPO to continuous Data Protection!

You can find my trip on my Twitter feed (@c_glemot). The number one reason to attend was specifically Veeam Backup & Replication v13 (including HA database) – VeeamON was where Veeam had first announced and Tech Keynote: Hands-on with the lastet Veeam innovation and updates from our partners (Anton Gostev’s Sneak Peek). This event let the company make more educated decisions for your 2024 IT investments. Besides, there also was an incredible amount of field knowledge shared (Partner session, deep dive, Veeam Evangelists session, University booth, VMCE training, Lab Warz etc.) that you can use right now for Veeam products versions which are generally available. As a Veeam-powered services Partner in Monaco and France: Veeam Service Provider – Veeam Gold Partner (Monaco Digital) and Blogger, VeeamON was very interesting.

Vision & Strategy overview:

Veeam’s vision: to be the most trusted of Cloud Data Management solutions to meet the expectations of a world that demands the availability, agility and business acceleration of data. Data Management is the new expectation for data in today’s enterprise. Data must move to a new state of intelligence, able to automatically anticipate the need and meet demand. Data must securely move across multi-cloud infrastructures. And data must meet the expectations of the mobile, always-on world. Cloud Data Management brings new insights from data and rapid increases in productivity to speed the pace of innovation and the delivery of new digital services and experiences that improve how we live work. An enterprise securely automates the provisioning and management of the massive, constant flow of data running across multi-cloud infrastructures. This automated orchestration of dat detect suspicious threats in backup with Inline Malware Detection (Yara rules), migrate to the right location based on need with Data Freedom (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix, AWS, Microsot Azure etc.), secure itself during anomalous activity, and recover instantaneously. Enterprises that run on Veeam solutions respond faster to any business need, gain multifold improvements inefficiencies, and have far greater agility to deliver new digital services and experiences that improve how we live and work. Veeam Backup for Entra ID was the best demo ever on stage. Anton acting as a malicious hacker, and then restoring data perfectly fine from a backup. The restore took just seconds, what an absolutely powerful product for one of the most used SaaS out there.

Veeam’s strategy: Data changes everything – To provide the most complete trusted platform for Veeam and purpore-built for powering data resilience: Data Backup – Data Security (hardware-agnostic security with Data Zero Trust Data Resilience) – Data Recovery – Data Freedom – Data Cloud – Data Intelligence (pioneering AI-driven insights from immutable secured data) that ensures business continuity, reduces risk and accelerates innovation. With Digital Transformation, data has the potential to bring far greater value to our lives and businesses. But today’s data is very different from yesterday’s data, as is the environment in which it lives. Every customer interaction, every employee task, every company operation, every business transaction leaves a trail of data that can be stored and later mined for insights. But only if the organization is prepared and able to do so. Otherwise, the full value of that data is lost.

A few quotes that stuck with me from some of our great keynote speakers:

“The world runs on data. An ounce of prevention is more valuable than a pound of cure.”

“No one rises to the occasion of incident recovery, you fall to your level of preparation.”

Challenge: Data Explosion of Backup?

Data is the lifebllood of business, and is under threat. The sheer amount of data and its rapid growth is a massive challenge. The size of the digital universe is at least doubling every two years. That means more than 50 fold growth of data in a little over a decade. 150+ ZB created in 2024. Human and machine-generated data together are growing 10x faster than traditional business data, GenAI, and machine data alone is growing at 50x the rate of traditional business data. As data grow and change so do the costs of managing it, not just storing, securing and moving it from place to place but also the lost opportunity costs of not having data where and when you need it, of missed insights, of flawed analysis. There is not only much more data, but there’s also much more data everywhere. Today, apps and data may be located anywhere in the world, in private clouds, public clouds, managed clouds, SaaS clouds, locked in legacy apps and disparate databases with fragmentary ownership, trapped in data silos, lost amongst a myriad of often incompatible devices, systems, and processes. More and more data being generated from emerging sources like Edge Computing and the IoT. We are entering an age where data is produced by nearly everything. Compliance with new regulations like GDPR fo into effect anywhere and that it’s always available for services and users. Increasing volume and sophistication of ransomware: 75% of companies have experienced at least one ransomware attack ine the past year. 27% of organizationns paid the ransom and never got their data backup (source: Veeam Ransomware Trends 2024).

Veeam Backup for Microsoft v8 coming soon. What’s New:

– MFA for the Console,
– Proxy Pools and proxy/repo decoupling,
– Immutability for Backup Jobs,
– Restore Operator Audit in Veeam ONE.

Finally, it was an honor to be part of the #VeeamVanguard lin up at #VeeamON 2024. Enjoyed a great time there. Hope to see you next year again in San Diego! Thanks to Monaco Digital and Veeam especially Rick Vanover, Patrick Rohrbasser, Karine Miaux, Madalina Cristil, Julia Furst Morgado, Frederica Saba, Safiya Mohamed, Evangelists, Vanguards mates etc.

v12.1 release – Veeam Data Platform: Blog Post
Veeam v12.1 – Integration with SIEM Systems : Blog Post
Veeam v12.1 – Object Storage as backup target: Blog Post
Veeam v12.1 KMS Support: Blog Post
Veeam v12.1 Malware Detection and YARA: Blog Post
Wasabi Object Storage new features: Blog Post
VUG Fr Day in Monaco Recap
Detection & Response to Ransomware with Veeam: Blog Post
Offline versus Immutable Backups: Blog Post
Cuba ransomware and Veeam CVE-2023-27532: Blog Post
Akira ransomware infection routine: Blog Post
2023 Ransomware Trends Report
Play ransomware infection routine: Blog Post
New Veeam v12 Platform Overview: Blog Post
Veeam v12 Linux Without SSH And SUDO: Blog PostHardened Repository in Veeam v12: Blog Post
Wasabi Object Storage Usage with Veeam B&R v12: Blog Post
VeeaMover in v12: Blog Post
Ransomware & Cybersecurity with Veeam v12: Blog Post
Why backup directly to Object Storage? Blog Post
Veeam B&R v12 New Features Overview: Blog Post
[REPLAY] Webinar Veeam v12 and Wasabi: Replay
Protect your data with Veeam and Wasabi: Blog post
Wasabi – Object Lock feature spotlight: Blog post
Veeam and the S3-compatible object storage solutions: Blog Post
[PODCAST] VeeamUser Group France #1: Record
Conti initiates their attacks on Backup: Blog Post
Backup with Trusted Repository Storage: Blog Post.
Protect your Backup against Ransomware: Blog Post

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