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From June 3-5, 2024, some of the smartest and most attractive minds from around the globe gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to listen and talk and then listen some more about all the fantastic new features coming to the Veeam family of products. There are lots of blogs that have already been published or will be soon covering the great innovation that’s coming from Veeam. This article highlights the ones specific to the Veeam public cloud products and SaaS products. So here we go!

 

New in Veeam Backup for Microsoft365 v8

  • Primary Backup Immutability
  • Linux Proxies
  • Proxy Pools
  • MFA for console
  • Private and shared channels support
  • Microsoft Backup Storage Integration

 

New in Veeam Backup for AWS v8

  • FSx
    • Windows File Server
    • Lustre
    • OpenZFS
    • NetApp ONTAP
    • Can be configured as hybrid to migrate or synchronize from on premise file-system
    • Highly available leveraging Availability Zones
    • Veeam can backup and restore FSx files shares
    • Safely store data in AWS Backup Vaults
    • Incremental backup method
    • Can restore to different region or account
    • Can restore full file systems or point-in-time
    • Windows, Lustre, and OpenZFS supported
  • Redshift
    • What is it?
    • Fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse
    • Used for data analytics workloads
    • Deliver insight for your business
    • Support multiple data formats as source
    • Integration with data science tools
    • Two types
      • Clusters
      • Serverless

 

 

 

  • General Enhancements
    • Improved security and scalability
    • UI and UX enhancements
    • NEW RDS support for PostgreSQL 16
    • NEW RDS Credential Manager
    • NEW Full GP3 support for RDS instances

New in VBAzure v7

  • CosmoDB
    • Fully managed NoSQL, relational, and vector database
      • Single-digit millisecond response times
      • Automatic and instant scalability
      • Guaranteed speed at any scale
    • Database engines
      • NoSQL
      • MongoDB
      • PostgreSQL
      • Table
      • Apache Gremlin
      • Apache Cassandra
    • Native backup and restore for above database types
    • Restore from single UI
    • Deeper Integration with PostgreSQL
      • Backup to Azure Blob Storage (hot, cool, archive)
      • Stored in native Veeam format
      • Immutability
      • Restore to original or new location
  • Virtual Networks
    • Enhanced existing Virtual Network backup capability
    • Store the backups in Azure Blob storage
    • Built-in within the existing backup policy
    • Can restore from any backup appliance in case of disaster
  • Worker Updates
    • Can specify a tenant or subscription where workers are launched
    • Can launch workers in the same subscription as protected resources
    • Security enhancements for private deployments
    • Simplify resource usage for daily operations
    • Manage cost consumption for daily operations
    • Easier billing for service providers and enterprises

 

 

    • New Deployment Method
      • VBR will deploy a clean Ubuntu image from marketplaces
      • VBR will handle upgrades and updates
      • Simplified management and ease-of-use
      • Easier integration into existing company security policies

 

  • New in Veeam Backup For SalesForce v3
    • Data encryption
    • Data archiving
    • Data pipeline

(New cloud backup products expected to be coming in Q3 2024)

Also coming! Veeam Backup for Entra ID

  • Will be integrated into VBR
  • Objects backed up to PostgreSQL either VBR instance or standalone instance
  • Audit Logs backed up by NAS backup engine to NAS repository
  • VUL based on number of users
  • If VBR has PostgreSQL installed, it will create a separate DB for objects. If still on MS SQL, PostgreSQL will have to be installed locally
  • External PostgreSQL not currently supported
  • No ETA on availability

Great summary Hin on this.   Was a great event.


Thanks for the summary


Great review Hin!


thanks Hin, usefull list with updates 


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