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Recent Blog Posts

  • Don’t Get Haunted by Data Loss: Salesforce Backup in the Age of AI
    As the Halloween season arrives, it’s not just cobwebs and carved pumpkins that can send chills down an IT team’s spine. For organizations leveraging Salesforce—especially those embracing AI-powered automation and insights—the real fright comes from unseen risks lurking in the digital shadows. But here’s the treat: with the right approach, you can keep business running … Read more
  • Supply Chain Risk Management: How Veeam Strengthens Your Resilience
    Key takeaways: Supply chain cyber risk is escalating attackers exploit vendor and third‑party weaknesses to gain access to critical systems. Visibility and verification are essential: you can’t protect what you can’t see, and blind trust in suppliers leaves gaps. Resilience is now a business imperative: it’s no longer enough to prevent breaches; you must recover … Read more
  • Build more accurate AI applications with Amazon Nova Web Grounding
    Imagine building AI applications that deliver accurate, current information without the complexity of developing intricate data retrieval systems. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Web Grounding, a new built-in tool for Nova models on Amazon Bedrock. Web Grounding provides developers with a turnkey Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) option that allows the Amazon … Read more
  • Secure Kubernetes Storage Made Easy
    Earlier this year, Veeam Kasten launched support for exporting of secure snapshots to VDC Vault. This allows Kasten admins to protect their Kubernetes stateful data and take advantage of the built-in security and redundancy protection features natively provided by VDC Vault as a securely managed storage platform. The new integrated model allows Kubernetes admins to … Read more
  • Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings: State-of-the-art embedding model for agentic RAG and semantic search
    Today, we’re introducing Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a state-of-the-art multimodal embedding model for agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search applications, available in Amazon Bedrock. It is the first unified embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model to enable crossmodal retrieval with leading accuracy. Embedding models convert textual, … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS RTB Fabric, AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, AWS Secret-West Region, and more (October 27, 2025)
    This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who … Read more
  • Insider Threats Loom while Ransom Payment Rates Plummet
    As we enter the final quarter of 2025, the cyber extortion landscape has split along two clear paths: volume-driven Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) campaigns targeting the mid-market, and high-cost, targeted intrusions aimed at larger enterprises.   In the volume category, mid-market companies remain the most impacted by traditional RaaS groups. The Akira RaaS group leveraged a vulnerability that … Read more
  • Introducing AWS RTB Fabric for real-time advertising technology workloads
    Today, we’re announcing AWS RTB Fabric, a fully managed service purpose built for real-time bidding (RTB) advertising workloads. The service helps advertising technology (AdTech) companies seamlessly connect with their supply and demand partners, such as Amazon Ads, GumGum, Kargo, MobileFuse, Sovrn, TripleLift, Viant, Yieldmo and more, to run high-volume, latency-sensitive RTB workloads on Amazon Web … Read more
  • Customer Carbon Footprint Tool Expands: Additional emissions categories including Scope 3 are now available
    Since it launched in 2022, the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) has supported our customers’ sustainability journey to track, measure, and review their carbon emissions by providing the estimated carbon emissions associated with their usage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) services. In April, we made major updates in the CCFT, including easier access to carbon … Read more
  • Veeam + Securiti AI creates the unified and trusted data platform to run AI with confidence
    Today marks a defining moment for Veeam and for our industry I am thrilled to announce that Veeam has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti AI – bringing together two category leaders to deliver something the market has been waiting for: a unified platform that brings data protection, security, governance, privacy, and AI trust … Read more
  • Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Strengthening Salesforce Data Protection Amid Persistent Threats
    October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month — a time to reflect, educate, and act. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud platforms like Salesforce, the stakes for data protection have never been higher. Recent headlines have spotlighted a worrisome surge in cyberthreats targeting CRM environments. While lawsuits and breaches make the news, the real story is about … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro waitlist, EBS Volume Clones, EC2 Capacity Manager, and more (October 20, 2025)
    I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is … Read more
  • Risk Management Framework: How Veeam Strengthens Cyber Resilience
    Key Takeaways: A risk management framework provides a structured approach to identifying, assessing, mitigating, and continuously monitoring organizational risk. NIST frameworks are widely recognized as the industry gold standard for security best practices. Regulations and standards around the world follow NIST recommendations. Data resilience is central to effective risk management and ensuring critical data remains … Read more
  • Monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager
    Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, a centralized solution to monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage across all accounts and AWS Regions from a single interface. This service aggregates capacity information with hourly refresh rates and provides prioritized optimization opportunities, streamlining capacity management workflows that previously required custom automation or manual data … Read more
  • Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure: The SaaS Solution You’ve Been Searching For Secure Backup with No Surprises
    Are you ready for a data protection experience that’s truly effortless, scalable, and built for the future? Look no further—Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure is the SaaS solution you’ve been waiting for. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure is joining our unified One UI platform, making it easier … Read more
  • Veeam Data Cloud for MSPs: Effortless SaaS, Unified Data Resiliency, and MSP Success Simplified
    Key Takeaways: Future-ready SaaS-based data protection. Safeguard customers’ Microsoft 365 and Entra ID data to simplify Veeam Vault cloud storage management with ease. Seamlessly expand as new workloads and capabilities are supported. Built for MSP efficiency. A multi‑tenant platform that streamlines customer onboarding, management, and reporting. Trusted, secure, and always up to date. Protect customer … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes
    ATTENTION BLOG POST REVIEWERS—please note the following before beginning your review: (1) Focus your review on technical accuracy. (2) Provide comments. Do not try to rewrite the post, as that may result in your post being canceled. (3) Respect the writer’s voice. If you see a typo or grammatical mistake, you can cite it, but … Read more
  • AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity
    Many organizations rely on the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) as the industry standard for exchanging critical business data. Traditionally, securely connecting to private SFTP servers required custom infrastructure, manual scripting, or exposing endpoints to the public internet. Today, AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support connectivity to remote SFTP servers through Amazon Virtual Private … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Quick Suite, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, and more (October 13, 2025)
    This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). I am also excited to try the new Amazon Quick … Read more
  • 7 Backup Mistakes That Cost More Than You Think
    Key Takeaways: Downtime and data loss can derail operations, damage customer trust, and create lasting business impact. Common backup mistakes, from skipped restore tests to relying on a single location, leave data vulnerable and recovery uncertain. Modern threats demand a modern backup strategy with immutability, air‑gapping, and off‑site resilience built‑in. Aligning backup processes with business … Read more
  • Veeam Data Platform Advanced for Proxmox VE
    Key Takeaways: Proven protection for Proxmox VE. Veeam Data Platform delivers enterprise‑grade backup, recovery, and monitoring for virtual machines running on Proxmox VE. Seamless migration support. Restore workloads from other hypervisors or clouds into Proxmox VE with minimal risk and no steep learning curve. Immutable backup options. Prevent data tampering and ensure integrity with immutable … Read more
  • Announcing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic teammate for answering questions and taking action
    Today, we’re announcing Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic teammate that quickly answers your questions at work and turns those insights into actions for you. Instead of switching between multiple applications to gather data, find important signals and trends, and complete manual tasks, Quick Suite brings AI-powered research, business intelligence, and automation capabilities into a … Read more
  • New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available
    Today, we’re announcing the availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8a instances, the latest addition to the general-purpose M instance family. These instances are powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors with a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz. Customers can expect up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better … Read more
  • Veeam Cyber Secure: Elite Services for Full Data Resilience
    Key Takeaways The market reality: Cyber resilience isn’t optional. Cyberattacks are constant, move fast, target backups, and boards expect provable plans and recovery. The new Veeam Cyber Secure program: From security assessments to threat actor intelligence security briefings and Coveware-led cyber extortion readiness & response, the Veeam Cyber Secure program helps improve organization’s security posture … Read more
  • Veeam Now Supports Scale Computing HyperCore™ operating system: Secure, Simple, Scalable Modern Virtualization Protection
    The IT industry has been rapidly evolving over the past year with many changes in the virtualization market driving organizations looking for cost effective, scalable alternatives to legacy infrastructure solutions. Major challenges for IT teams include migrating hypervisors and securing data from cyberthreats while controlling costs. If you’re an IT leader, these changes aren’t just … Read more
  • Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances
    After launching Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) memory-optimized R8i and R8i-flex instances and general-purpose M8i and M8i-flex instances, I am happy to announce the general availability of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency and feature a 2:1 … Read more
  • AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest
    Starting today, you can use your own AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt identity data, such as user and group attributes, stored in AWS IAM Identity Center organization instances. Many organizations operating in regulated industries need complete control over encryption key management. While Identity Center already encrypts data at rest using AWS-owned … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025)
    Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand … Read more
  • Remote Access Risks & the Path to Resilient Organizations
    Key Takeaways Remote access compromises, especially VPN exploits, are now the leading initial vector in ransomware attacks. Most breaches succeed due to missed basics: weak authentication, unpatched vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. Resilience depends on consistent processes: enforce MFA, patch promptly, audit accounts, and monitor VPN activity. Remote access security is inseparable from business continuity and backup … Read more
  • Veeam and Pure Storage: Cyber Resilience Delivered as-a-Service for the Modern Enterprise
    Navigating a New Era of Resilient Enterprise Data Protection Enterprises face a relentless barrage of cyber threats while grappling with growing IT complexity and data sprawl. The cost of downtime and data loss is soaring, and traditional backup alone is no longer enough. Enterprises demand true cyber resilience—continuous, automated, and verifiable protection and clean recovery … Read more
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