If you packed your bags up and started to shutdown after the Wednesday keynote thinking you have heard the last of the VeeamON announcements then you might want to think about digging out that notebook and sharpening your pencils again as we aren’t done yet here at VeeamON 2017!
Thursday, Paul Matiz took the stage for the final keynote of the show and made some more announcements around existing products – and threw the gauntlet down on one brand new product, the Veeam PN, which I released a separate post about! That said, Veeam PN wasn’t the only Thursday announcement – there were a few others outlined below.
Veeam Backup for Office 365
Veeam’s released their first version of their SaaS email based backup for Office 365 last year and honestly people flocked to it! With more and more companies migrating to the Microsoft hosted solution rather than putting up with the headaches of dealing with the multiple on-premises Exchange servers Veeam wanted to take advantage and help those organization protect their most critical communication asset!
With the version 1.5 announced just the other day, things like scaleablity have been added in order to horizontally scale your Office 365 backups by adding new proxies and repositories to help speed up the time it takes to pull down your O365 mailboxes.
In addition to this, automation has also been a focus. With full PowerShell support coming into the product we can now use the easy verb-noun cmdlets to backup and restore Office 365 mailboxes. And, more than just PowerShell – a fully supported RESTfull API is also available.
That said why stop at version 1.5 – let’s get moving on to 2.0 The Veeam community spoke – we loved the ability to back up the email and use the explorer functionality to perform restores back into mailboxes – but Office 365 is so much more – What about SharePoint? What about OneDrive?
Well, Veeam now has an answer for those questions as they released somewhat of a roadmap for their Office 365 backup strategy, with both SharePoint and OneDrive on it in version 2.0.
Veeam Management Pack v8 update
For those Systems Center users that use Veeam Management pack to monitor and gain insights into their critical applications running on both VMware and Hyper-V you will be pleased to know that Veeam has released a slew of new features into the Veeam MP v8. Now providing Azure backed dashboards in update 4, Veeam MP users will be able to update instantaneously.
Veeam has certainly announced a lot of things this week – with a heavy focus on cloud. With Mark Russinovich doing the final keynote of the conference I can certainly say that cloud is most definitely the future – and data protection needs to be part of that!
