We all love storage and these days even in a home setting we store terabytes worth of data. The new cliché saying is “Data is the new oil” and when you think about it that is very true.
We generate an unreal amount of data each day which must be stored somewhere, what better way to store this data than on your own NAS. In this run through of the new Synology DS1621xs+ we will be taking a look at the NAS unit itself, The new Synology HAT5300-8T HDDs and the new Synology Active Backup for Business suite offered by Synology.
Azure and Back Again – A Veeam Tale – Part 2
Welcome back to our adventure to Azure and Back again. In the previous post we managed to get our VM successfully restored to Azure.
Azure and Back Again – A Veeam Tale – Part 1
We talk a lot about cloud mobility and how it has affected the IT landscape of the past decade. It has disrupted business as we know it as it seems every company is going through a cloud journey of some sort most prominent being the public cloud.
We see customers moving workloads to public cloud in anger and in some cases require the ability to move that particular workload back due to unforeseen issues. This is more common than one would think so today I will being taking you on an adventure to Azure and back again using Veeam.
Continue reading “Azure and Back Again – A Veeam Tale – Part 1”Veeam Office 365 Modern Authentication Setup
Setting up modern authentication in Veeam for Office 365 recently came up in a conversation so thought I’d write a quick blog post about it because honestly its amazingly easy and makes life a lot easier 🙂
Continue reading “Veeam Office 365 Modern Authentication Setup”Deploying vCenter 7 to my HomeLab
I have been running a VMware HomeLab for quite some time now and considering I rebuild my lab often I decided its probably time to re-deploy my VMware home lab using vCenter 7. I’ve held off for a while due to hardware constraints but the time as finally come…
Continue reading “Deploying vCenter 7 to my HomeLab”Upgrading Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to V5
Veeam Office365 V5 dropped today which includes native support for Teams. This is a huge step in the right direction as MS Teams usage has exploded since COVID, I know I spend a lot of my day in Teams and have recently uploaded a significant amount of data to Teams so being able to protect it is very important.
Continue reading “Upgrading Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to V5”Backup Azure SMB Share using Veeam
As more customers move to Public/Hybrid cloud models, we increasingly get asked “how do we protect our workloads in this new way of operating?”. My answer to that question is always Veeam.
Continue reading “Backup Azure SMB Share using Veeam”Becoming a Vanguard and the journey so far.
2020…what a roller coaster of a year this has been this has been for all of us, however for me personally there was a massive highlight, I was invited to join the Veeam Vanguards!!
Continue reading “Becoming a Vanguard and the journey so far.”Publish SQL Database using Veeam
This post will hopefully be the start of a series of small but useful tips for everyday Veeam users.
We use Veeam almost everyday so we know our way around it but every now and then you stumble upon a feature that gets you all excited because its been there but you just haven’t used it or weren’t aware it was there. 🙂
Configuring SAML on Azure AD for Veeam Enterprise Manager
Veeam version 10 released a heap of new features along with SAML 2.0 support for Veeam Enterprise Manager (VEM). What this means is that you can now use 3rd party identity providers to authenticate users into the Enterprise Manager, adding support for non-Active Directory users, multi-factor authentication etc.
Continue reading “Configuring SAML on Azure AD for Veeam Enterprise Manager”Installing VeeamPN on Ubuntu
This is an interesting time for I.T. and the entire world, As most people start working from home VPNs have become a fresh hot topic.
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