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Recent Blog Posts

  • Ransomware Trends Report 2024: Where to Recover & How to Ensure Cleanliness
    For the third year in a row, an independent research firm surveyed IT leaders and implementers whose organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2023. This year’s report surveyed 1,200 respondents — comprised of CISOs (or executives with similar responsibility), security professionals, and backup administrators — to assess different perspectives in the united fight … Read more
  • What is WORM (Write Once, Read Many)?
    As data privacy and retention laws tighten across industries, navigating compliance can seem like a daunting task. Enter “write once, read many” (WORM) storage: a straightforward solution that’s designed to anchor your data securely in place and protect it from accidental changes and deliberate threats.   This guide will highlight the essentials of WORM storage … Read more
  • Empowering Resellers: Demand Generation and Lead Generation
    Like any other type of marketing, channel marketing’s goal is to expand business by gaining more deals and customers. In this regard, demand generation tactics are must-haves for a successful marketing strategy. That said, there are several misunderstandings that surround the concept of demand generation and the marketing activities related to it. In this article, … Read more
  • Why I Trust Veeam to Help Us Keep Nuclear Secrets Safe
    I got into IT totally by chance. Although I’ve always been a technology geek, cars were one of my other early passions in life. To try and break into the automotive industry, I took my first job in the training and development center for a leading car brand. The company was rolling out an innovative … Read more
  • Announcing Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock
    Today, we are announcing the availability of Llama 3.1 models in Amazon Bedrock. The Llama 3.1 models are Meta’s most advanced and capable models to date. The Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size models that demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks and offer new … Read more
  • Veeam Announces New Partnership and Extension for Splunk
    With the powerful new features available in the 12.1 release announced late last year, the Veeam Data Platform is evolving into a more secure, more resilient solution for data security – and the timing couldn’t be better. According to the latest Data Protection Trends Report, we know that 75% of organizations suffered a ransomware attack … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Global AWS Heroes Summit, AWS Lambda, Amazon Redshift, and more (July 22, 2024)
    Last week, AWS Heroes from around the world gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the AWS Heroes program at Global AWS Heroes Summit. This program recognizes a select group of AWS experts worldwide who go above and beyond in sharing their knowledge and making an impact within developer communities. Matt Garman, CEO of AWS … Read more
  • Data Resilience in the Wake of a Global Outage
    Delivering Data Resilience in the Wake of the CrowdStrike Outage: The Critical Role of Comprehensive Backup and Recovery In the ever-evolving landscape of modern IT, the unexpected can quickly become the new normal. On July 19, 2024, a widespread IT outage across on-premises and public cloud resources caused by a CrowdStrike Falcon sensor update impacted … Read more
  • Veeam Email Notifications for Microsoft 365 Backup
    It’s easy to take email notifications for granted — but what if they gave you critical information about the status of your Microsoft 365 backup and backup copy job results? Microsoft 365 is vital for many organizations as it houses critical information and facilitates daily operations. Safeguarding the protection and continuous availability of this data … Read more
  • Veeam Kasten V7.0 is FIPS 140-3 Compliant
    The announcement of Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes V7.0 at Red Hat Summit 2024 brings over 30 new features and enhancements, including the addition of Federal Information Protection Standard (FIPS) for federal sector customers. Kasten also adds Azure Sentinel support. Understanding FIPS Compliance When implemented properly, FIPS can lock your data up tighter than Fort Knox. … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Advanced capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, and more (July 15, 2024).
    As expected, there were lots of exciting launches and updates announced during the AWS Summit New York. You can quickly scan the highlights in Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024. My colleagues and fellow AWS News Blog writers Veliswa Boya and Sébastien Stormacq were at the AWS Community Day Cameroon last … Read more
  • Ransomware Encryption: Prevention and Response
    According to the 2024 Data Protection Trends Report, only one in four organizations (25%) believe they have not been hit by ransomware. Believe is the key word here, because history shows that many bad actors are often in their victim’s environment for up to 200 days before an attack, gathering information, moving laterally across the … Read more
  • From Fighting Real Fires to Disaster Recovery: My Journey to Data Protection Mastery
    My life has taken a very different path from the one I expected. My passion for computers started early, but I was determined not to ruin my hobby by turning it into a career. So, I followed my dad into firefighting. One year in, I had battled exactly zero fires and felt more like a … Read more
  • Veeam Ransomware Recovery Warranty Features
    You can’t have an IT conversation in 2024 without talking about the threat of ransomware being a when, not an if. In fact, according to the 2024 Data Protection Trends Report, which surveyed 1,200 organizations on their overall strategies, three out of four organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2023. It is becoming … Read more
  • Planning for the Future: Veeam and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage
    The Challenges of Data Growth in Microsoft 365 As data within Microsoft 365 continues to grow exponentially, businesses face numerous challenges in securing and protecting their critical information. With over two billion files created daily in Microsoft 365 and some tenants experiencing petabytes of growth each month, it is evident that protecting Microsoft 365 data … Read more
  • A Guide to Implementing Effective Data Retention in Microsoft 365
    As a business leader or IT professional, you know that effective data retention is essential for maintaining regulatory compliance, optimizing storage costs, and securing your organization’s Microsoft 365 data. However, implementing and managing retention policies across Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services can be complex. This article provides actionable guidance to help you … Read more
  • Vector search for Amazon MemoryDB is now generally available
    Today, we are announcing the general availability of vector search for Amazon MemoryDB, a new capability that you can use to store, index, retrieve, and search vectors to develop real-time machine learning (ML) and generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) applications with in-memory performance and multi-AZ durability. With this launch, Amazon MemoryDB delivers the fastest vector … Read more
  • Build enterprise-grade applications with natural language using AWS App Studio (preview)
    Organizations often struggle to solve their business problems in areas like claims processing, inventory tracking, and project approvals. Custom business applications could provide a solution to solve these problems and help an organization work more effectively but have historically required a professional development team to build and maintain. But often, development capacity is unavailable or … Read more
  • Amazon Q Apps, now generally available, enables users to build their own generative AI apps
    When we launched Amazon Q Business in April 2024, we also previewed Amazon Q Apps. Amazon Q Apps is a capability within Amazon Q Business for users to create generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered apps based on the organization’s data. Users can build apps using natural language and securely publish them to the organization’s app … Read more
  • Customize Amazon Q Developer (in your IDE) with your private code base
    Today, we’re making the Amazon Q Developer (in your IDE) customization capability generally available for inline code completion, and we’re launching a preview of customization for the chat. You can now customize Amazon Q to generate specific code recommendations from private code repositories in the IDE code editor and in the chat. Amazon Q Developer … Read more
  • Agents for Amazon Bedrock now support memory retention and code interpretation (preview)
    With Agents for Amazon Bedrock, generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications can run multistep tasks across different systems and data sources. A couple of months back, we simplified the creation and configuration of agents. Today, we are introducing in preview two new fully managed capabilities: Retain memory across multiple interactions – Agents can now retain a … Read more
  • Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock can now detect hallucinations and safeguard apps built using custom or third-party FMs
    Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock enables customers to implement safeguards based on application requirements and and your company’s responsible artificial intelligence (AI) policies. It can help prevent undesirable content, block prompt attacks (prompt injection and jailbreaks), and remove sensitive information for privacy. You can combine multiple policy types to configure these safeguards for different scenarios and … Read more
  • Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports additional data connectors (in preview)
    Using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, foundation models (FMs) and agents can retrieve contextual information from your company’s private data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). RAG helps FMs deliver more relevant, accurate, and customized responses. Over the past months, we’ve continuously added choices of embedding models, vector stores, and FMs to Knowledge Bases. Today, … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio to streamline ML workflows
    Today, we are announcing a new capability in Amazon SageMaker Studio that simplifies and accelerates the machine learning (ML) development lifecycle. Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio is a generative AI-powered assistant built natively into the SageMaker JupyterLab experience. This assistant takes your natural language inputs and crafts a tailored execution plan for your ML … Read more
  • Understanding Virtualization and Containerization
    As technology continues to advance, optimizing resources by balancing investment between infrastructure and application deployment becomes increasingly important. Two leading methods for addressing these challenges are virtualization and containerization. This article will educate readers about the differences between these technologies and help determine which approach is best suited to achieving their goals. The distinctions between … Read more
  • Monitor data events in Amazon S3 Express One Zone with AWS CloudTrail
    In a News Blog post for re:Invent 2023, we introduced you to Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. It is well-suited for demanding applications and is designed to deliver up to 10x … Read more
  • Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024
    Get ready for the excitement of the AWS Summit in New York City, one of our biggest annual events that takes place tomorrow, Wed., July 10, 2024. In-person space is full, but you can still register to watch the keynote, where Dr. Matt Wood, AWS VP for AI Products, will announce the latest launches and … Read more
  • Integrate your data and collaborate using data preparation in AWS Glue Studio
    Today, we announce the general availability of data preparation authoring in AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL. This is a new no-code data preparation user experience for business users and data analysts with a spreadsheet-style UI that runs data integration jobs at scale on AWS Glue for Spark. The new visual data preparation experience makes it … Read more
  • AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 R8g instances: best price performance in Amazon EC2
    Today, I am very excited to announce that the new AWS Graviton4-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances, that have been available in preview since re:Invent 2023, are now generally available to all. AWS offers more than 150 different AWS Graviton-powered Amazon EC2 instance types globally at scale, has built more than 2 … Read more
  • Azure Security Cloud Strategy 
    As an IT professional, you know that security is paramount when migrating your systems and data to the cloud. Microsoft Azure provides a comprehensive set of built-in security capabilities to protect your cloud environment, but fully optimizing these features requires forethought and diligence. This article will walk you through Azure’s core security components, detail best … Read more
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