vInfrastructure

Veeam acquires Object First

Veeam has acquired Object First, a backup target appliance provider specializing in pre-integrated, immutable backup storage for Veeam environments. This acquisition will expand Veeam’s ecosystem with ...
Computer Weekly

Veeam Cloud Tier adds tiered storage for backups in S3 clouds

Backup software provider Veeam has added Cloud Tier, which provides Storage tiering to public and private clouds in an update to its Availability Suite data protection environment. The move – which ...
ITWeb

CASA Software announces SA availability of Nexsan’s enterprise-class immutable backup storage appliance designed for Veeam Hardened Repository

CASA Software has revealed the availability of the newly released Nexsan VHR-Series, a fully integrated, enterprise-class Hardened Repository appliance purpose-built for Veeam software environments.
Ars Technica

RHEL-based Veeam Hardened Repo on WD Sentinel DS5100?

TL;DR: How to install RHEL on WD Sentinel DS5100 for test purposes? I'm running Veeam Backup and Replication 12 on two HP Microserver Gen10 boxes, one as the server and primary repo, and one as a ...
Ars Technica

Win10 Storage Spaces: What's the advantage of "thin provisioning"?

I have a Win 10 Pro/64 box with 4 SATA drive bays that I'm using as a 2nd-tier backup storage box (Veeam repository). When I first populated the box, I did a "thin provisioning" and created a 16 TB ...