A blog about my adventures in IT
Background Back in 2020, I wrote that ransomware was getting smarter and that relying on a single, always-online backup target was going to end badly sooner or later. That core idea still holds up....
Setting the scene Think of the Veeam 100 Summit as the ultimate meetup for Veeam Vanguards, Veeam Legends, Veeam MVPs, and select Veeam User Group leaders, all tuning in to hear directly from Veeam’s...
The Journey Begins Let’s hop in the time machine and zip back to late 2013 – picture it: I’m the Support Services Manager for a buzzing VMware-focused IT solutions provider in the rainy U.K....
Background Entra ID or the artist formerly known as Azure AD, is one of those workloads that few backup vendors seem to support, but there are many requests from people to protect it. This...
Background This one came about as I just built a new PC for the kids to do their homework on. I’m waiting for the inevitable “Daaaaad, the computer is broken” conversation! Rather than having...
VeeamON 2022 – May 16-19 For those of you not familiar with the VeeamON conference, it is Veeam software’s annual data protection summit where they showcase new products and features alongside their industry peers...
Background Following on from my previous blog post, using iland object storage for Veeam capacity tier, where I covered what object storage is and gave a primer into what iland object storage I take...
Background If you have been in the IT game long enough, you have likely heard of object storage. Amazon S3 seems to be the gold standard as far as storage object storage protocols go...
Background Following on from my previous blog post, getting started with Veeam agent for Mac, one of the items I wanted to explore further was the direct integration with Veeam Cloud Connect. For those...
Background I recently started a new job and with it came a new laptop, a MacBook Pro with Apples M1 chip to be precise. So I thought to myself, this is a great opportunity...
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