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Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the interesting new features of Veeam Backup & Replication is the introduction of YARA (Yet Another Recursive Acronym) rules to scan the VM guest files. As explained in this great blog post, YARA is one of the most effective ways to help identify and classify malware like ransomware. YARA is an open sourced resource that enables cybersecurity teams to search for, detect and alert you to the presence of malware before it can do any damage.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe release version of Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 is available for download at veeam.com/backupreplication-download.html starting from December 5, 2023. For more information see the release notes document. It adds some improvements, some new features and some updates in the software compatibility matrix.

Reading Time: 3 minutesVeeam announced two new offerings which combine the confidence and reliability of Veeam’s backup and restore capabilities with the ease-of-use of Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS). The news is that those two offers are not delivered through cloud partners, but directly as a Veeam’s portfolio service called Cirrus by Veeam. Cirrus by Veeam was acquired from CT4, an Australian company who developed the cloud-native service utilizing Veeam’s industry-leading data backup and ransomware recovery platform.

Reading Time: 4 minutesVeeam Continuous data protection (CDP) is a technology that helps you protect mission-critical VMware virtual machines when data loss for seconds or minutes is unacceptable. CDP also provides minimum recovery time objective (RTO) in case a disaster strikes because CDP replicas are in a ready-to-start state. First, CDP creates replicas and, then, keeps these replicas up to date. CDP constantly replicates I/O operations performed on VMs. To read and process I/O operations in transit between the protected VMs and their underlying datastore, CDP uses vSphere APIs for I/O filtering (VAIO) that gives an option not […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUsing Veeam Backup & Replication, sometimes you may find a strange failure error in your backup jobs: The job will fail and the related VM is not saved.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVeeamON 2023 will start next week in Miami May 22-25. There are two different way to attend it: in person and online. The online way is totally free but is limited to:

Reading Time: 4 minutesPure Storage has been working with Veeam since 2017 to provide storage snapshot integrationleveraging Veeam’s Universal Storage Application Programming Interface (USAPI). With the release of Veeam Data Platform and Veeam Backup & Replication v12, Veeam hasadvanced the functionality of this API with USAPI v2. USAPI v2 includes the orchestrationof replicated snapshots and the ability to offload/archive storage snapshots in their nativesnapshot format to secondary storage for longer term retention. Pure Storage has beenVeeam’s development partner through the USAPI v2 development effort and is the first storagevendor with a software plugin able to take advantage of […]

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