Last week, VMworld 2019 greeted us with open arms at a newly renovated Moscone Center in downtown San Fran. After a four-year hiatus from the convention center (temporarily held at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas), the return to California was well worth the wait. The keynotes were inspiring, the breakouts were relevant and informative, and the…
And more importantly, are they protected? Secure backup is essential for all of our data, and with the rapid increase in data being generated, we all struggle with how to best solve this problem. One of the key elements of a backup strategy is getting copies of your backups offsite. There are so many…
AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in March 2006. At the time, it easily earned its “simple” moniker in contrast to traditional storage systems that were complex in all the ways that frustrated IT teams. This included price haggling, complex delivery and deployment, and time-consuming management that never ended. Oh, and you needed a…
Protecting an IT environment is a non-stop game of whack-a-mole where the board continuously gets larger and the moles tend to get faster and smaller. Two recent vulnerabilities show how quickly a mature and widely distributed software package can turn into a major security hole. First, Microsoft announced CVE-2019-0708, a flaw in Remote Desktop Services…
Earlier this week, we announced our fully managed recovery service called iland Autopilot for Managed Recovery. For those that follow iland and this blog, you know that iland has been innovating in the cloud for years. We were one of the first to use a VMware-based platform. We designed our own cloud management console from…
Jan 1 2021, as of this update Veeam is no longer allowing VCC-B as part of its free trial. For full compatibility see the matrix at: https://www.veeam.com/products-edition-comparison.html Want to Backup to the Cloud, right now? Start here. iland Cloud is all about the customer. Since the beginning, we have been focused on finding new…
With over 140 million users last year, it is undeniable how popular Microsoft’s Office 365 service has become. It provides companies the ability to get out of the business of managing email servers and allows them to put more focus on true business differentiators. Unfortunately, one thing Office 365 doesn’t provide, though, is freedom from…
Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses and, consequently, the protection of data is critical. Protection from loss isn’t the only protection data needs these days. The theft and leakage of data can cause massive damage to a company and its customers, and has unfortunately become all too common. With so many reports of data…
Overview With the release of Veeam 9.5 Update 4, offloading data to a Cloud or Capacity Tier is finally possible. However, there has been some confusion in understanding exactly what this Cloud Tier structure is and what it is not. Let’s take a closer look at the Veeam Capacity Tier capabilities and use cases. What…
Veeam is an amazing company to partner with when building services for our joint customers. With a strong focus on providing a robust data protection product, and an equally strong focus on enabling service providers, Veeam makes it easy to provide their solutions. iland’s customers are able to create very easy remote cloud backups to…
