Jan 12

Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.0 GA release!

This month Vembu BDR v3.9 Suite has been released. Here a post contains the added/enhanced features of the new version. Vembu BDR Suite serves the purpose to be one of the most comprehensive, simple and affordable backup & disaster recovery solutions for the small & medium businesses. Vembu can backup VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Servers, Workstations, Exchange Items, SharePoint Items, SQL Items, Office365, G Suite, etc. – and they can back that up on-site, off-site, or even to the cloud – not to mention that most of this is done within a single UI.


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Jan 11

Spectre & Meltdown: Patch Virtual Machine (Guest OS) too!

Updated (January 24, 2018):

Spectre and Meltdown – Patches are being recalled by VMware & Dell EMC – Veeam’s feedback

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Hello, I will not explain to you the implications what Specter or Meltdown on a security level. Basically, there are a lot of articles that you can read with many different opinions… Especially about if yes or no you should patch your Virtual Machine! VMware provides several versions of the microcode for Intel and AMD through the ESXi patch, so applying this patch you are covered in this aspect (Guest OS patches list). ESXi patch will also update the CPU microcode but I would play safe and patch both host and guest!

 

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Jan 08

Security – Spectre and Meltdown overview

Anton Gostev wrote a great post on the Spectre and Meltdown attack in his weekly forums digest. By now, most of you have probably already heard of the biggest disaster in the history of IT – Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities which affect all modern CPUs, from those in desktops and servers to ones found in smartphones. Unfortunately, there’s much confusion about the level of threat we’re dealing with here because some of the impacted vendors need reasons to explain the still-missing security patches. But even those who did release a patch, avoid mentioning that it only partially addresses the threat. So, Anton gave a good explanation of these vulnerabilities on the right level! Below is a functional explanation of two major security flaws revealed by cybersecurity researchers last Wednesday (TheRegister).

 

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Jan 05

Avangarde Partner Summit 2018 (Paris): Secure your Information System!

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Avangarde (Monaco Informatique Service) will organize his Summit in Paris – February 8, 2018 – Avangarde Partner Summit : Secure your Information System! ! This first Summit is a great partner enablement initiative for our customers. Avangarde continues to display deep signs of growth as customers begin to understand the importance of Security and Availability as the cornerstone of their Digital Transformation strategy. The company has a powerful portfolio of solutions which ensures a high level of customer retention and satisfaction for our business. Avangarde will host its annual Partner Summit in early February in Paris with a lot of partners including Veeam, Dell EMC, DataCore, Varonis, Stormshield, VadeSecure, Trend, and ERCOM. Registration is for free and each attendee can participate in an amazing experience with a flight indoor skydiving in a safe and fun environment (iFLY)! Preregistration here... 🙂

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Jan 04

Step by Step Guide Veeam B&R 9.5 U3 Upgrade

Veeam released Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3, which contains some significant improvements: Built-in agent management, Insider protection for Veeam Cloud Connect, Data location tagging, IBM Spectrum Virtualize Integration, Universal Storage Integration API an others…

You can learn more about Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U3 new features here.

This technical article provides a step by step guide to upgrade Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 2 (version 9.5.0.580, 9.5.0.711, 9.5.0.802, 9.5.0.823, 9.5.0.1038 or 9.5.0.1335) to Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 3 build be version 9.5.0.1536 (Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 3 Upgrade). If you need to upgrade your Veeam Backup Server (v8 or v9) you can follow this article.

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