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Recent Blog Posts
- 5 levels of resilience maturity in educationEvery education institution that has experienced a ransomware attack can point to the moment its systems came back online. Far fewer can demonstrate, with evidence, that the recovered data was accurate, uncompromised, and safe to put back in front of students, faculty, and regulators. That gap, between restoring systems and proving what was restored, is… Read more: 5 levels of resilience maturity in education
- Data sovereignty doesn’t stop at productionAsk most IT teams where their data lives and you’ll get a confident answer about production. Ask where every backup, backup copy, and replica lives, and the answer gets a lot less certain. That gap matters, because regulators are asking about both. Data sovereignty comes down to four questions about your data: Storage: Where is… Read more: Data sovereignty doesn’t stop at production
- Recover From the Attacks You Don’t DetectImagine you’ve bought the best home security system money can buy. Cameras on every entrance. Motion sensors in every room. Alarms on every door and window. You open the app and everything is green. Then a structural engineer knocks on your door and tells you the foundation may be cracked. Your security system didn’t fail,… Read more: Recover From the Attacks You Don’t Detect
- Meet Veeam Kasten at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026Trust Your Data and AI on Kubernetes: Join Us at KubeCon North America Kubernetes runs production AI now, along with nearly everything else. This November, the cloud native community will meet in Salt Lake City to discuss what it takes to run that infrastructure well, and Veeam Kasten will be there. Join us at Booth… Read more: Meet Veeam Kasten at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
- Veeam and Arctic Wolf bring backup intelligence into agentic security operationsCyber threats don’t stop at traditional security infrastructure. Attackers increasingly target backup environments to disrupt recovery, yet activity within these environments can remain disconnected from the tools and workflows security teams use to monitor and investigate threats. A new integration between Veeam and Arctic Wolf helps close that gap by bringing backup and security events… Read more: Veeam and Arctic Wolf bring backup intelligence into agentic security operations
- The Silent Ransom Group Leak Shows Why Paying for Silence FailsThe third quarter of 2026 reinforced a decisive shift in the threat environment: ransomware is increasingly shedding the “ware” in favor of pure, low-friction data extortion. Nowhere was this clearer than in the recent high-profile leak of internal chat logs belonging to the Silent Ransom Group. The leaked communications revealed threat actors who have largely… Read more: The Silent Ransom Group Leak Shows Why Paying for Silence Fails
- Data backup and recovery: backup vs. replication and when to use bothKey takeaways A replica isn’t a backup. It inherits deletion, corruption, and encryption at replication speed, which leaves you nothing clean to return to. The mechanism a workload gets should follow from two numbers: How much time’s worth of data the business can lose (RPO) and how long it can be down (RTO). Not from… Read more: Data backup and recovery: backup vs. replication and when to use both
- Multicloud Backup Without the SilosMost multicloud environments weren’t planned. They grew with one smart decision at a time: AWS here, Azure there, and on-premises where it made the most sense. Each of those calls was right in the moment. The trouble shows up later, when someone asks a simple question: Is all of it protected? Every platform arrived with… Read more: Multicloud Backup Without the Silos
- AI Agent Safety Needs Boundaries and Trusted, Recoverable DataFor 20 years, the resilience question Veeam answered was simple: Can I recover? In the agentic AI era, the question now is whether you can tell precisely what was affected, who or what touched it, and how to get back to a trusted state. Agents run for hours or days at a time, with the… Read more: AI Agent Safety Needs Boundaries and Trusted, Recoverable Data
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026)A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the point I kept returning to is that the markets we call traditional… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026)
- AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally availableToday, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities. AWS Continuum is a security service that finds and validates code vulnerabilities, then delivers fixes as patches you can automate or as pull requests in your repositories. AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities confirms which findings are exploitable in your environment, ranks the resulting… Read more: AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
- What Is ROT Data? A 6 Step Guide to Automating Data MinimizationKey Takeaways Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data is data that has no realistic future business or legal purpose but keeps consuming storage, permissions, and attention. ROT data widens your attack surface, influences less accurate AI output, increases infrastructure spend, and puts retention compliance exposure at risk. The hardest part is not deletion, its discovery.… Read more: What Is ROT Data? A 6 Step Guide to Automating Data Minimization
- Veeam Extends Our #1 Market Share in Data Protection Software Market share is a strange thing to celebrate. Customers care whether you can get them back to business when something goes wrong. Partners care whether you make them look credible to their clients. Everything else is just a scoreboard. So when IDC‘s 1H 2026 Semiannual Software Tracker confirmed Veeam at #1 globally in data protection… Read more: Veeam Extends Our #1 Market Share in Data Protection Software
- Introducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A fully-managed ingress solution for ECS servicesWhen platform teams manage containerized applications at scale on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), configuring ingress networking for each service often becomes a bottleneck. For every new service, teams must provision and connect Application Load Balancers (ALBs), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificates, AWS WAF web ACLs, and security groups, then keep those resources in… Read more: Introducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A fully-managed ingress solution for ECS services
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026)Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter in front of it, and Amazon S3 became something you can provision from inside the… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026)
- Autonomy Is Only Safe When It Is ReversibleLenovo AI Express ships a validated Hybrid AI Factory in weeks. Veeam helps ensure it can keep running. Around 93% of enterprises expect a return from AI at scale, but only 7% qualify as ready to run it. What separates the two groups is confidence, which means something specific: Knowing you can return any AI… Read more: Autonomy Is Only Safe When It Is Reversible
- Is Your Data Actually Ready for AI? A Readiness Check by Maturity LevelAI adoption has moved fast. In Veeam’s Data & AI Trust Maturity Model research study, 95% of organizations say they’ve already deployed AI in their environment. The data and operational foundations to support that adoption haven’t kept pace. More than half of respondents scaled back at least one AI initiative in the past 18 months.… Read more: Is Your Data Actually Ready for AI? A Readiness Check by Maturity Level
- Backup Software Comparison for Hybrid SMB Environments: How to Protect Servers, Cloud, and SaaS Without Tool SprawlKey Takeaways Hybrid SMBs run endpoints, physical servers, VMs, cloud/IaaS, and SaaS. Endpoint-only or consumer-grade tools can’t cover all of it. A separate tool for each workload creates sprawl: Higher cost, multiple consoles, inconsistent retention, and gaps where data loss hides. Compare options on eight criteria, not price alone: Broad workload coverage, unified management, recovery… Read more: Backup Software Comparison for Hybrid SMB Environments: How to Protect Servers, Cloud, and SaaS Without Tool Sprawl
- Precision Resilience for the AI Era with Veeam Intelligent ResOpsVeeam iResOps for Microsoft 365 is generally available today, with Private Previews opening for Veeam Data Platform and Okta. Today, we’re proud to announce Veeam Intelligent ResOps (iResOps), a new family of offerings that brings precision intelligence to resilience. Veeam iResOps for Microsoft 365 is generally available, as an add-on to Veeam Data Cloud for… Read more: Precision Resilience for the AI Era with Veeam Intelligent ResOps
- Partners: Your Next Revenue Opportunity Is Here. Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 Is Now Available.Key Takeaways: Intelligent ResOps is an upsell, not a new logo: Any customer already on Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 is a warm conversation and new deals are an opportunity to attach from day one. The Microsoft 365 intelligence conversation is also a migration catalyst: It gives you a business-driven reason to move customers… Read more: Partners: Your Next Revenue Opportunity Is Here. Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 Is Now Available.
- Veeam Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privacy UXKey Takeaways Veeam is a Leader in the first-ever 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Privacy UX, positioned based on its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. We believe the recognition reflects the graph-based data mapping and discovery that came to Veeam through the Securiti AI acquisition. In our view, privacy programs now depend on… Read more: Veeam Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privacy UX
- Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by VercelDevelopers building web and AI applications on Vercel can now add Amazon S3 storage resources directly from the Vercel Marketplace and v0, combining the durability, scalability, and performance of S3 with the convenience of Vercel’s provisioning workflow. Starting today, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), including Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon S3 Vectors, is natively… Read more: Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event. Prime Day ran back in June, so this post always lands as… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)
- Announcing AWS Lambda Web FunctionsToday, we’re announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions, a new form factor that lets you run standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting your code into an event handler. You can take a standard port-listening server built with Express, Hono, Fastify, Next.js, or any Node.js framework, deploy it with a single command, and Lambda automatically… Read more: Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions
- Backup for Small IT Teams: How to Choose and Run Backup as a ServiceKey Takeaways Backup as a Service (BaaS) hands the infrastructure and the day-to-day monitoring of your backups to a provider for a predictable subscription, so a lean team stops babysitting jobs and backup becomes a set-and-forget function. Cloud backup is a storage destination. BaaS is the managed service wrapped around it. Knowing the difference changes… Read more: Backup for Small IT Teams: How to Choose and Run Backup as a Service
- Veeam Recovery Orchestrator v13.1: More Flexibility, Less Manual WorkVeeam Recovery Orchestrator v13.1, part of Veeam Data Platform Premium Edition, is here with quality-of-life improvements that make data orchestration simpler and more flexible. Here are the quick takeaways: Stand-alone Hyper-V host support and direct restore to Azure make tested, orchestrated recovery accessible to more environments. Read-only repository access keeps cleanroom recovery plans current, so… Read more: Veeam Recovery Orchestrator v13.1: More Flexibility, Less Manual Work
- Provable Compliance, Built in From Day OneYou know your backups are immutable. You know retention is enforced. You know your DR plan works because you’ve tested it. But when an auditor, insurer, or regulator asks you to prove it, “knowing” and “showing” turn out to be very different problems. For most IT teams, audit preparation means weeks of manual evidence collection:… Read more: Provable Compliance, Built in From Day One
- Salesforce Archiving: How to Cut Storage Costs Without Losing ComplianceSalesforce budgets are under pressure from a new direction. Teams are shifting spend toward Agentforce and other AI initiatives, and that often means less money left over for the storage and resilience work that keeps Salesforce running well. During a recent webinar, I joined Sam Nicholls, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Veeam Software, and… Read more: Salesforce Archiving: How to Cut Storage Costs Without Losing Compliance
- All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWSAmazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), I want to share the services and chart-topping metrics… Read more: All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)Last week, we announced a public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, built on a customized version of OpenAI’s Agents API engineered to be AWS-native and integrated with AWS resources. You can now build agents optimized for OpenAI models that run entirely inside AWS with the identities, permissions, and governance controls you… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)