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Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat is the four-eyes principle? The “four-eyes principle” (also know as the two-person rule) means that a certain crucial and critical activity (prone to human errors) must be approved by at least two people. This controlling mechanism is used to facilitate delegation of authority and increase transparency but also minimize errors or security attacks. In Veeam Backup & Replication, starting with v12, is possible enable the Four-Eyes Authorization feature to protect some crucial operations.

Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last VeeamON event, one of the interesting announces was the possibility to run Veeam Backup & Replication Server on a Linux system! This features was required from several year (for example, see this thread) and during those years more and more Veeam roles have been modified to run both on Windows or on Linux. And, by the way, all the appliances used for Veeam Backup for AWS, Azure or GCP are based on Linux!

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeeamON 2024 will be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from June 3 to June 5 2024. After there will be, probably, the usual VeeamON Tour, around the world, put those small local events are not comparable with the big event. The pillars of this year are data protection, intelligence, and security and how they are converging.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVeeam® Software has announced that will deliver support for Proxmox VE in its Veeam Data Platform. Support for this virtualization platform has been a popular request from Veeam’s existing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers and service providers. General availability for Proxmox VE support is expected in Q3 2024. For more information, visit https://www.veeam.com. 

Reading Time: 2 minutesVeeam has acquired Coveware, a leading provider in cyber-extortion incident response. Coveware combines aggregated ransomware case data, refined negotiating techniques and sound financial and operational controls to achieve superior ransomware incident response and recovery for our clients. The company created Recon and Unidecrypt, two proprietary software packages for cost analysis and ransomware decryption, respectively.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVeeam Backup & Replication support for KVM was limited, at the VM image level, only to Nutanix AHV and RedHat Virtualization (RHV)… until now. Of course, is possible to use Veeam Agent to manage the backup of workloads on different type of hypervisors, but having a native image level backup support is important to improve backup speed, simplicity and also have fast recoverability. KVM solutions are growing fast, but it’s a fragmented world, with too many variants and dialects. Now Veeam is announcing the support for Oracle Linux KVM!

Reading Time: 6 minutesVeeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN can be used for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases and in some cases (as described in the previous article) it could be the only way (or the preferred way) to manage Oracle database backup. Probably the best way to manage it is from the Veeam Backup Console, as described in the previous article. But it’s also possible manage it manually.

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