On Febrary 14th, Veeam has announced the availability of Veeam Backup & Replication 12. For more information see the release notes document.

The release version of Veeam Backup & Replication 12 is available for download at starting from February 14, 2023. Veeam Backup & Replication Version 11 became End of Fix in February 2023 and will go End of Support in February 2024.

With the new version 12 of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Data Platform, Veeam expands its product range with more cloud features, flexibility and innovations to Veeam’s environment.

PostgreSQL embedded database

Veeam Backup & Replication v12 use a different embedded database: instead of Microsoft SQL Express (with all its limitations), now if you choose an embedded deployment the PostgreSQL database will be used!

Direct-to-Object Storage

Direct-to-Object Storage opens up new possibilities for customers and partners to further expand their backup strategies and cloud backup offerings.Backup data can be stored directly on object storage without needing archives or copies.

This feature broadens your capabilities when building a reliable backup strategy and offers a completely new way for customers to approach the 3-2-1 Rule and the rest of their safety requirements and policies.

When using object storage as a primary repository, organizations can benefit from:

• Easy-to-implement immutable storage
• Very high availability (i.e., 99.999999999%) and reliability offered by cloud storage vendors
• Simplified storage for branch offices or home office users without needing to purchase dedicated hardware
• More flexibility in VMware hyperscale environments (i.e., no stage repository with expensive virtual hard discs)

VeeaMover

VeeaMover makes it easier to manage all kinds of backup data. Especially with Direct-to-Object Storage, many customers will look to easily migrate their data from on-premises to object storage without losing the relationship with the corresponding backup jobs.

Previously, customers had to make manual changes to their configuration and leverage various workarounds so that their backup data could be migrated with their respective backup jobs.

With VeeaMover, this process has been greatly simplified. It enables organizations to perform a full-fledged migration in just a few clicks.

There are many other use cases including:

• Moving data to an immutable repository
• Moving an NTFS repository to REFS/XFS
• Moving workloads to new hardware or object storage
• Rebalancing backup storage

Immutability everywhere

With the aim of containing the consequences of ransomware attacks and counteracting any malicious, increasingly sophisticated and aggressive actions, the response of Data Security by Veeam is the immutability of the data. Easy to managed and appliable to different types of repositories.

Native MFA

Empower a zero-trust journey with multi-factor authentication (MFA), password-less service accounts (gMSA) for Windows and single-use credentials for Linux and fortify your defense against cyberattacks with Kerberos-only and IPv6-only environment support.