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This week Rickatron and ​@Madi.Cristil are back in normal circumstances after some trips, but getting ready for VeeamON! We have a solid block of content, special department news and the Who’s New report from ​@safiya. Watch this week’s episode here: Featured Content via ​@Scott via ​@Dynamic via ​@SSimpson and last week’s update: KB4696: Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 Vanguard Blog Spotlight - Muhamed Adel via ​@mhmdadl Veeam B&R best practices + New Kasten Hands on Labs! - Archtonic Special Department News via ​@Chris.Childerhose ​@alrasheed and ​@NicBackup via ​@Madi.Cristil Who’s New We are happy to welcome +102 new members to the Veeam Community. The coolest usernames are ​@loco-jabba, ​@yummylee, ​@thatfield, ​@BlazeSigns, ​@OmegaBox and ​@thenomadit! Alfred’s pick is ​@howdoyoudo - You have a badge coming your way! Have a great weekend everyone!

VeeamON countdown alert! We’re just 24 days away from Veeam’s biggest and most action-packed event of the year. Less if you don’t count weekends, but anyway. If you’re registered, we can’t wait to see you in San Diego. If not, don’t let FOMO get the better of you. Register and join us online for free. Here’s what you can expect if you’re one of the 20,000+ who register to join us live and on demand. Guests, news, and more news. Livestream the Welcome Keynote and Closing Keynote. You’ll get an update when it’s time to watch or when the keynotes go on demand. The latest technical content. Access nine on-demand sessions. We picked the most essential content to bring to our global online audience – browse all of them on veeamon.com. Super Session access. Post event, we release all 8 super sessions to our online audience. The only way to get access is to register for the online event. I’ve just finished pre-recording my 3rd session for the online experience and let me tell you; this content is great from a product perspective. If you want to know what’s coming across the Veeam Portfolio → This is the event! PS – if San Diego FOMO is setting in, there’s still time to register. Use code JOINUSNOW to save $200 on a full price conference pass

At the beginning of March, we completed a cycle of 2025 intakes in the Veeam Community when members of this year's Veeam Vanguard class were notified of obtaining their Veeam Vanguard status. It's always difficult to select the limited number of individuals who can join each year's class of this longest running community program at Veeam - we're entering our 11th year! Fortunately, we receive many great applications, but given the nature of our community, we need to keep it consistent and allow all members to get to know each other through the various initiatives and opportunities we offer them throughout the year. And that's just a fraction of the many benefits that come with membership in any of the Veeam 100 Community programs. Bigger Picture We often use terms like Vanguard, Legend, VeeaMVP interchangeably with Veeam100. Why is that? At Veeam we have 3 different types of community programs - Veeam Vanguards and Veeam Legends are dedicated to our external technical advocates who are not Veeam employees and do all their work for the community in their free time to enrich the community with their knowledge through content they share to educate others. Then there are VeeaMVPs - Veeam employees who actively contribute to the success of their peers and the broader Veeam community. All three of these community programs fall under the umbrella of the Veeam100. If you look closely at the graphics, you will see symbols from all three programs in each number, representing this mix of the brightest minds in the industry from all around the world. What makes you a hero? I often call the Veeam Vanguards community heroes because they have so many years of experience in various IT fields and they are willing to share their knowledge with others by creating different types of content ranging from in-depth technical articles, how-to videos, vlogs, conference speeches and podcast hosting. During my (almost) 6 years at Veeam, I have been able to see the impact this content generation has on the global community of Veeam enthusiasts who use it as a solid source of learning and inspiration. This is generally the main attribute that each member of the Veeam Vanguard program has - impact, influence, contribution while sharing their own knowledge gained through years of their professional career. I often read the same answer to the question "Why should you become a Vanguard?" in applications for the new Vanguard class – „I have XYZ years of IT experience and have been with Veeam for XYZ years“. That's nice, I appreciate that, but the Veeam Vanguard program doesn't reward you for the years you've spent in IT or working with our products. It's about how you've used that experience to help others by sharing what you've learned over the years on your career path, how you've enriched the local or broader community with your knowledge. Have you published articles to help others learn from you? If yes, great, let us know, link to any content you've published, and I'll be happy to review it and consider you as a candidate. If not, you need to start, or you'll never get in - even after half a century in IT. Sharing is caring and we just love to pamper our community with the latest knowledge sharing from our members. I can´t wait for the veeamazing content coming in from the current 2025 Veeam Vanguard Class that contains 49 IT professionals from all over the world. If you want some more numbers, we got Vanguards representing 16 countries and 6 continents! Here´s a full list of our heroes: Al Rasheed ​@alrasheed Andre Pulia ​@AndrePulia Andrea Mauro ​@AndreTheGiant Ben Harmer ​@benharmer Ben Thomas ​@NZ_BenThomas Beth Souza ​@BethSouza Cary Sun ​@CarySun Chris Childerhose ​@Chris.Childerhose Christian Calabro ​@calabro Christopher Glémot ​@c_glemot Dave Kawula ​@Dave Kawula Dean Lewis ​@saintdle Derek Loseke ​@dloseke Didier Van Hoye ​@WorkingHardInIT Eric Machabert ​@Eric Machabert Falko Banaszak ​@falkob Federico Venier ​@Federico Venier Geoff Burke ​@Geoff Burke Greg Barney ​@replicatius Ian Sanderson ​@Ian Sanderson Jim Jones ​@Jim Jones Joaquim Santos ​@joaquim Jochen Seeger ​@JSeeger Joe Houghes ​@JoeHoughes Jonah May ​@JonahMay Jos Maliepaard ​@jos.maliepaard Julien Mousqueton ​@Julien Mousqueton Justin Farrugia ​@Faruge Keiran Shelden ​@keiranshelden Kristof Poppe ​@kristofpoppe Luciano Patrao ​@JailBreak Lukas Klostermann ​@lukas.k Markus Hartmann ​@Dynamic Mateus Wolff ​@wolff.mateus Matthias Beller ​@MatzeB Maurice Kevenaar ​@mkevenaar Mikhail Kisselyov ​@mikkisse Mohamed Adel ​@mhmdadl Nico Stein ​@NicBackup Nicolas Bonnet ​@nbonnet13880 Paolo Valsecchi ​@PValsecchi Peter Steffan ​@PeteSteven Petr Bouška ​ ​@Samuraj Steven New ​@StevenGDV Thiago Dos Santos Nunes ​@Thiago dos Santos Nunes Thomas May ​@Mayhem Victor Wu ​@victorwu Vladan Seget ​@Vladan Zane Allyn ​@allynz