VeeamON 2023 has officially concluded! 

The biggest event for data recovery experts brought together community members online and in Miami. Veeam Legends and Vanguards were given the opportunity to travel and join Veeam in-person this year for VeeamON. Over 60 Legends/Vanguards from across the world traveled to Miami this year, as well as 6 VeeaMVPs who were also present in Miami. Let’s recap the community involvement at VeeamON this year.  

Presenters  – VeeamON 2023 had the greatest presence of Veeam community members out of all VeeamONs yet. Over 20 Vanguards/Legends/MVPs presented their ideas and expertise to the public this year. 

Breakout Sessions:

• Architecting Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 at Scale (Falko Banaszak @falkob and Jim Jones @k00laidIT)

  

  

   

•  10 Years Working with Veeam: How it Helped Shape Our Careers (Matt Crape, Ian Sanderson @Ian Sanderson, and Dean Lewis @saintdle) 

  

   

• What I Wish You Knew About SureBackup (Michael Paul @MicoolPaul) 
• 7 Common Misconfigurations for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (Tim Smith @tsmith)
• Lessons From the Field: Modernizing and Enhancing Your BaaS & DRaaS Infrastructure (Tim Hudson @tim.hudson, Jim Jones @k00laidIT, and Ivan Kochemasov)
• You're Hit by a Ransomware Attack, What's Next? (Julien Mousqueton @JMousqueton, Christopher Glemot @c_glemot, and Eric Machabert @Eric Machabert) 

  

   

• VRO to Hero (Joe Gremillion @vmJoe and Douglas Cheung)
• Ransomware Recovery Unplugged (Brad Linch @bradlinch and Rick Vanover) 
•  Transforming IT Operations: Discover the power of Desired State Monitoring and Resource Utilization (Chris Arceneaux @Chris.Arceneaux and Ben Young @benyoung)
•  A-Z Automation Journey with Veeam’s Automation Desk (Maurice Kevenaar @mkevenaar and Joe Houghes @JHoughes) 

  

   

• Protecting Thousands of Machines with Veeam Agents (Danilo Chiavari @DChiavari  and Dima P Popov)
• The Essential Guide to Veeam Recovery Orchestrator for Disaster Recovery Management (Andre Atkinson @AndreAtkinson and Ben Thomas @NZ_BenThomas)  

• Kubernetes for the Virtualization Admin (Dean Lewis @saintdle and Michael Cade) 

• There is a Hole in my Bucket! How to Plug Security Leaks (Olivier Rossi @olivier.rossi and Nicholas Serrecchia)

• How Veeam-powered DRaaS Keeps Businesses Running and Ransomware Resilient (Brandon McCoy @mrmccoy007  and Michael Loos)  
• Deep Dive of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Restore Portal (Tim Hudson and Chris Arceneaux) 

  

   

• How Ryanair Achieved Operational Resiliency Through Fortified Backups (Rasmus Haslund @haslund and Paul Walsh)  

Short Bytes: 15-minute sessions exclusive to Miami attendees. 

• Veeam Backup for M365...M Doesn't Mean Just Mail (Craig Dalrymple  @Cragdoo)
• Building a Secure Fabric to Protect Hyper-V and Veeam Backup Infrastructure (Dave @Dave Kawula and Cristal Kawula) 
• Infrastructure as Code 101: Declaring your Backup Environment (Joe Houghes @JHoughes)

• Hidden Cloud Costs of Backup in the Cloud and Enterprise Applications - Self-service Recovery (Brad Linch @bradlinch)
• Veeam Community from A to Z (Madalina Cristil @Madi.Cristil and Safiya Mohamed @safiya) 

Tech Talks: a 30-minute small, casual gathering hosted by Vanguards/Legends. Experts discussed a topic chosen by the host with the goal of building knowledge & networking with VeeamON attendees.

Aside from sessions, you could see the community presence at the Veeam Community Booth inside of the Village Playground. Throughout the week, attendees could visit, grab swag, and speak to V100 members about the Veeam Community. A BIG thank you to all members who came out and joined us at the booth! We would not have been able to pull it off without each of you. 

A big thank you to all of the Veeam Community who made this event remarkable. We greatly appreciate your passion for sharing knowledge and fostering the thriving community Veeam has. As Anand said, Veeam is only #1 because it has the #1 community.  

Thank you!

Veeam Community Team