Hi, I’m in Vegas this week for VeeamON 2022, just had a sneak peek of some of the content, and some very cool demos to look out for (a special session by Rick Vanover). Moving to S3-compatible object storage next. An interesting trend is the adoption of S3-compatible object storage by enterprises. If in 2021, …
Category: Storage
May 15
Veeam and the S3-compatible object storage solutions
Talking about the 4 hyperscalers (Amazon/Azure/Google/IBM), as expected Amazon and Azure are unquestionable leaders leaving just a few percent of the Veeam backup market to IBM and Google. While among the last two, IBM seems to be laser-focused on larger customers as indicated by a few times higher average used space.
Oct 18
Backup with Trusted Repository Storage
Backup with trusted repository storage is essential (secure, reliable and efficient). Here’s a fresh example of data loss issues Veeam is seeing in support (Anton Gostev’s Weekly Word) from users who chose “low-end” NAS as their backup storage. What makes this one worth highlighting here is the usage of NFS protocol, which removes all those …
Nov 24
Veeam B&R v11 and ReFS
The ReFS filesystem is commonly used for Virtualization, Backup, and Microsoft Exchange because of its resiliency, real-time tier optimization, faster virtual machine operations, and great scalability. But until recently, ReFS didn’t support data deduplication, which was available on NTFS formatted volumes only. Data deduplication can provide significant savings on storage costs by using block-level technology …
Oct 17
Vanguard Summit 2019 – NAS Backup Sneak peek!
Hello! Finally, Veeam Backup and Replication v10 will be able to protect those SMB (CIFS) and NFS shares with a scalable disk-to-disk backup and numerous restore options, including share state rollback following the ransomware attack. Support for file shares and network-attached storage (NAS) backup. This was another huge request from Veeam’s customer base, as it’s …
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