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Veeam Previews Major Product Updates at Annual User Conference

• By John K. Waters
• May 18, 2022

Veeam Software, a leading provider of backup, recovery, and data management solutions, kicked off its annual user conference this week with a product roadmap that showcased features planned for the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v12, as well as key solution innovations for cloud-native solutions, SaaS offerings, and some deeper integrations of Kasten by Veeam K10 for Kubernetes.

Billed as “the Modern Data Protection Conference of the Year,” VeeamON 2022 is a two-day conference (both onsite in Las Vegas and online) that gave users of Veeam solutions an opportunity to see demonstrations of enhancements planned for the second half of the year.

"We help more than 450,000 customers all over the world protect their data from malicious actors, and eliminate down time and data loss," said Danny Allan, CTO at Veeam, in a statement. "With Veeam, you own, control and securely backup and recover your data anywhere in the hybrid cloud. Veeam enables organizations to confidently move to the cloud, avoiding lock-in with cloud mobility. This is the definition of Modern Data Protection.”

The Veeam Backup & Replication solution was designed to provide comprehensive disaster recovery in the form of a single platform for virtual, physical, and cloud environments. It provides a centralized console for administering backup/restore/replication operations in all supported platforms, and the console allows users to automate and schedule routine data protection operations and integrate with solutions for alerting and generating compliance reports. The company currently claims more than 400,000 customers worldwide.

The list of upcoming capabilities highlighted in the conference included:

An expansion of the feature set in Veeam Backup & Replication v12: Veeam unveiled V12 at the conference, and previewed new capabilities focused on the cloud, security, and the enterprise. “Veeam is further hardening the capabilities customers need in today’s ever-changing IT ecosystem,” the company said. Users can expect additional cloud-accelerated features, including direct writes to object storage and cloud-based agents; immutability everywhere for greater control even faster ransomware recovery and protection from cyberthreats; and centralized visibility and management of Kubernetes data protection with the new Veeam Backup & Replication plug-in for the new Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.0.

Kasten by Veeam is the company’s cloud-native data management platform for Day 2 operations purpose built for Kubernetes. The platform is designed to provide enterprise DevOps teams with an easy-to-use, scalable ,and secure system for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility for Kubernetes apps.

Advanced monitoring and reporting for the upcoming Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7: Expected later this year. this update includes the ability to provide a single view of all Microsoft 365 backup architecture and components, real-time alerts, and detailed reporting.

A “sneak peek” at Veeam Backup for Salesforce: This new offering was designed to eliminate the risk of losing Salesforce data and metadata by providing the ability to back up in the cloud and on-premises.

"The fact that Veeam moved more data in the first quarter of 2022 than we did in all of 2020 proves that organizations need better intelligence, data mobility, an ecosystem of collaboration and a hybrid world,” Allan said. “We understand the power that data has to solve real-world challenges, to change the course of history and its impact on individuals. To hold that data for hundreds of thousands of organizations all over the world is a responsibility we are honored to be trusted with."