I wrote about this on my partner blog dataON247.com which you can follow by e-mail. But it’s such a good offer I thought it was worth telling twice. Veeam are offering current Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Plus customers two years of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 free, and customers with Standard or Enterprise edition will get one year free. If you want to read more about the offer and to understand why you would want to backup Office 365 yourself read on here.
Last week’s Veeam announced their next big thing and today I want to cover this and also my next big thing. First my news, I have put pen to paper and started blog number two! I’m super excited about this new venture I think it’s got so much scope. Data is growing at an exponential rate but backup and data protection just isn’t sexy, it gets pushed to the back of most companies to do list and is often inadequate. This will be the focus of the new blog – data protection. I want to deliver all the latest and greatest news from established vendors and exciting start-ups in the arena and present what has long been missing a simple and clear path towards data protection/ availability. I would love to have all you guys along for the ride so join me over at dataON247.com you can subscribe to the RSS feed and Twitter. Business will of course continue as usual at 3ParDude.com
For a month previous to the announcement Veeam had been advertising they were going to make the biggest announcement in the company’s history. This is a bold statement to say the least. I was going to start a sweepstake around this but I was a little slow off the mark. My hopes and dreams were for either the elixir of youth or the discovery of a free endless beer supply, unfortunately my hopes were dashed on both counts.
In all seriousness I was expecting one big announcement as the teaser has suggested. However what we got was not one massive announcement but several smaller ones. However the sum of the announcements was substantial and indicated Veeam has a strong vision and is looking towards the future. Carry on reading this article at dataON247.com to hear the key announcements and Veeam’s vision for the future.
A quick post to let you know that VM backup specialists Altaro are providing some free resources to mark SysAdmin day which takes place later this week, plus the chance to win some ThinkGeek Vouchers.
The free resources include a 10 best practices for virtual server backup, Hyper-V PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI eBook, and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Hyper-V First Aid Kit.
To get the entered into the competition you just need to install a copy of Altaro and display a screen shot of the software. For those that are unfamiliar Altaro is VM backup software capable of backing up both Hyper-V and VMware with time to deployment estimated at under 15 minutes. In terms of features it has all those you have come to expect including support for application level backups, web based interface, sand box facility for test restores plus backups can be replicated to an offsite location. They aim the software at SMB’s and if you have any hosts running 2 VM’s or less you can run Altaro licence free forever. For all the freebies and the chance to win the ThinkGeek vouchers go here.
Altaro also offer a NFR licence for multiple certification tracks, including Microsoft (MCSE, MCSA) and VMware certified (VCP). This is the full blown version and will allow you to backup up to 50 hosts in you lab environment, you just need to request your free NFR License.