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Recent Blog Posts

  • Crafting an Effective Incident Response Plan
    No organization is immune to cyberthreats. 75% of organizations experienced at least one ransomware attack in 2023, meaning having a robust Incident Response Plan (IRP) is no longer optional  — it’s a necessity. An incident response plan acts as your organization’s defense playbook, ensuring a swift, coordinated response to mitigate damage, minimize downtime, and protect … Read more
  •  What’s New in Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 7.2?
    In 2025, enterprises face mounting challenges in meeting new regulatory requirements and maintaining compliance. This year marks the full implementation of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) for countries part of the European Union (EU), requiring financial institutions as well as certain third-party service providers to demonstrate their ability to withstand, respond to, and recover … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Developer Day, Trust Center, Well-Architected for Enterprises, and more (Feb 17, 2025)
    Join us for the AWS Developer Day on February 20! This virtual event is designed to help developers and teams incorporate cutting-edge yet responsible generative AI across their development lifecycle to accelerate innovation. In his keynote, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, shares his thoughts on the next generation of software development based on … Read more
  • OneDrive Unlicensed User Storage Update: Things to Know and Next Steps
    Starting on Jan. 27, 2025, Microsoft will initiate the process of ending OneDrive storage access for all unlicensed users. We advise all organizations to take note of the following information. Here’s what you need to know: This change applies to any OneDrive for Business user without a paid OneDrive license: There are many reasons why … Read more
  • AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available
    Today, I’m happy to announce the general availability of network activity events for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints in AWS CloudTrail. This feature helps you to record and monitor AWS API activity traversing your VPC endpoints, helping you strengthen your data perimeter and implement better detective controls. Previously, it was hard to detect … Read more
  • Enhancing Business Continuity with the Digital Operational Resilience Act
    In the digital age, cybersecurity is not just about protecting data; it’s about ensuring that the very fabric of our financial systems remain intact and resilient against threats. The introduction of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) by the European Union marks a significant milestone in the journey toward a safer and more stable financial … Read more
  • Understanding Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS): Benefits, Use Cases, and Implementation Strategies 
    Introduction Data protection has become one of the most critical components of modern business operations. Protecting business applications is also important. Ransomware, natural disasters, and system failures are all threats organizations could face that impact business continuity and resiliency. For many businesses, DRaaS offers a scalable, reliable, and efficient solution to help you remain resilient. … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Step Functions, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Q Developer, and more (February 10, 2024)
    We are well settled into 2025 by now, but many people are still catching up with all the exciting new releases and announcements that came out of re:Invent last year. There have been hundreds of re:Invent recap events around the world since the beginning of the year, including in-person all-day official AWS events with multiple … Read more
  • AWS CodeBuild for macOS adds support for Fastlane
    I’m pleased to announce the availability of Fastlane in your AWS CodeBuild for macOS environments. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. Fastlane is an open source tool suite designed to automate various aspects of mobile application development. It provides mobile application … Read more
  • Secure by Design: Building a Safer Data Future
    Cyberthreats are evolving at an unprecedented pace, and organizations must rethink their approach to data security. Traditional reactive measures are no longer sufficient. Enter Secure by Design, a proactive strategy aimed at embedding security into every stage of product development, ensuring robust defenses from day one. This blog explores the key principles, benefits, and practical … Read more
  • 5 Reasons Why You Should Be Backing Up Microsoft Entra ID
    In today’s IT environments, Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) stands as the backbone of identity and access management (IAM) for most organizations.  It controls user access, secures sensitive data, and ensures smooth operations across the enterprise.  While businesses invest heavily in backing up servers and endpoints, one critical aspect often gets overlooked – … Read more
  • Will Law Enforcement Success Against Ransomware Continue in 2025?
    Throughout 2024, law enforcement agencies worldwide intensified their fight against cybercrime, leading to significant arrests and takedowns of major cybercriminal groups. Q4 alone saw a substantial flurry of actions. On Oct. 1, 2024, authorities arrested four individuals linked to the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, including a developer, a bulletproof hosting service administrator, and two other … Read more
  • Veeam is the Gold Standard for Kubernetes Data Protection; Five Years Running!
    The hits keep coming! For the fifth year in a row, Veeam has been named a leader and outperformer in the newest edition of GigaOm’s Radar Report for Kubernetes Data Protection v5.0. This makes Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes the only solution to have achieved these results each year since the report’s inception. This annual report … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)
    Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared … Read more
  • DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS
    During this past AWS re:Invent, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared valuable lessons learned from Amazon’s own experience developing nearly 1,000 generative AI applications across the company. Drawing from this extensive scale of AI deployment, Jassy offered three key observations that have shaped Amazon’s approach to enterprise AI implementation. First is that as you get to … Read more
  • The State of Data Backup: Trends in Resilience and Trust
    Data is essential, whether it’s for personal use or business operations. However, with the growing reliance on cloud services and backup tools, individuals and companies both still experience data loss more often than expected. Our recent survey1 provides a detailed look into how consumers and IT professionals manage data backup and reveal gaps in trust, … Read more
  • Migrating Your Data Estate from an Incumbent Hypervisor to Nutanix AHV: Key Considerations with Veeam Data Platform
    Introduction Migrating from an incumbent hypervisor to Nutanix AHV offers numerous advantages, including simplified management, enhanced security, and improved total cost of ownership (TCO). To ensure a seamless transition and robust data protection, integrating Veeam Data Platform into your migration strategy is essential. This blog outlines the critical considerations and best practices for migrating your … Read more
  • AWS Weekly roundup: EventBridge, SNS FIFO, Amazon Corretto, Amazon Connect, Amazon Bedrock, and more
    I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessions in the AWS Console is my favorite … Read more
  • Luma AI’s Ray2 video model is now available in Amazon Bedrock
    As we preannounced at AWS re:Invent 2024, you can now use Luma AI Ray2 video model in Amazon Bedrock to generate high-quality video clips from text, creating captivating motion graphics from static concepts. AWS is the first and only cloud provider to offer fully managed models from Luma AI. On January 16, 2025, Luma AI … Read more
  • Microsoft 365 Ransomware: Your Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Prevention, and Recovery
    Welcome to this in-depth guide on Microsoft 365 ransomware attacks. The digital age has brought unprecedented convenience and capabilities to our fingertips. From cloud storage solutions to real-time collaboration tools, platforms like Microsoft 365 have revolutionized the way we work and interact. However, this digital transformation has also opened the door to new forms of … Read more
  • What is Veeam Data Cloud? A Backup Service for Microsoft 365 and Azure
    Veeam has close to two decades of history in delivering market-leading data protection and ransomware recovery solutions on a global scale. We are dedicated to providing our customers with freedom of choice within our product set, and this commitment led us to an important milestone in our history. In early 2024, we announced Veeam Data Cloud, … Read more
  • Understanding Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance
    Microsoft 365 is the cornerstone of business communication worldwide, containing invaluable intellectual property and business-critical applications. It is vital to understand the threats to this landscape and how to mitigate the risks with native security and monitoring tools. In this blog, we will take a deeper look at these challenges, some steps you can take … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Mexico (Central) Region, simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts, and more (January 20, 2025)
    As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a perfect moment of serenity. These glimpses of brightness feel particularly special during January, when … Read more
  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO): A Deep Dive into Strategies and Best Practices
    Imagine this: your business-critical application goes offline unexpectedly. Every minute of downtime could mean lost revenue, frustrated customers, and operational chaos. The question is — how quickly can you recover? This is where Recovery Time Objective (RTO) becomes critical. In this blog, we’ll dive into actionable strategies for optimizing your RTO, discuss real-world scenarios, and … Read more
  • Proxmox and Veeam: Partnership Benefits for Service Providers
    As businesses increasingly migrate to virtualized environments, service providers are on the lookout for robust solutions that offer the flexibility of cloud infrastructure and the cost-effectiveness of on-premises systems. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is a powerful open-source platform that increasingly stands out as an excellent choice for service providers aiming to implement multi-tenant architectures. In … Read more
  • Understanding Ransomware as a Service and Its Risks
    The Birth of Ransomware: The PC Cyborg Virus In December 1989, an evolutionary biologist named Dr. Joseph Popp sent out a floppy disk to around 20,000 people, marking the beginning of what would become the first known ransomware virus in history. The recipients of this disk were attendees at a World Health Organization conference in … Read more
  • Scaling Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure for Business Growth 
    Introduction Hybrid cloud scalability is an essential aspect of modern IT infrastructure. By integrating on-premises and cloud resources, organizations gain the ability to manage dynamic workloads efficiently, ensuring uninterrupted operations. This scalability becomes especially vital as businesses grow, impacting both their performance and continuity. This blog provides actionable strategies for achieving hybrid cloud scalability, addressing … Read more
  • Now open — AWS Mexico (Central) Region
    In February 2024, we announced plans to expand Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Mexico. Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Mexico (Central) Region with three Availability Zones and API code mx-central-1. This new AWS Region is the first AWS infrastructure Region in Mexico and adds to our growing presence … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: New Asia Pacific Region, DynamoDB updates, Amazon Q developer, and more (January 13, 2025)
    As we move into the second week of 2025, China is celebrating Laba Festival (腊八节), a traditional holiday, which marks the beginning of Chinese New Year preparations. On this day, Chinese people prepare Laba congee, a special porridge combining various grains, dried fruits, and nuts. This nutritious mixture symbolizes harmony, prosperity, and good fortune — … Read more
  • 5 Essential Strategies for Enterprise Application Modernization
    Staying competitive in today’s business world is no small feat. Enterprises face constant pressure to adapt to new technologies and meet ever-evolving customer expectations. For many, modernizing legacy applications has become a critical step in achieving this adaptability. Whether it’s embracing cloud solutions, hybrid environments, or adopting DevOps practices, modernizing your applications is more than … Read more
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