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Veeam Community Forums Digest October 23 - October 29, 2017   THE WORD FROM GOSTEV Another week, another major ransomware attack! This time it is the Bad Rabbit . While the first few days of attack targeted primarily Eastern Europe, it still makes sense to notify your end users and clients, instructing them not to fall into a trap of fake Flash Player update notifications that look like this . As these autopsy results show, this ransomware uses the standard approach of scheduling itself instead of just triggering instantly. This was actually one of the topics I spoke about at the event last week: these sort of "sleeping" threats present a significant challenge in data protection. You think you have the perfect backup because you tested one for recoverability, and you think the OS inside is "healthy" just because the antivirus inside could not detect a 0-day threat – but when you restore this backup a few ...

Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #148 Welcome the the 148th edition of the Azure Weekly Newsletter. To start off this newsletter, a new blog post from us; Mike Larah explains how endjin set up daily Azure spending alerts and saved $10k . The big announcement this week was Azure Container Service (AKS - the managed Kubernetes service) and Azure Container Registry improvements . The big news is that AKS (the management plane) is free, you only pay for the container compute - this is real Container as a Service as PaaS. Two articles worth your time are Azure Cosmos DB: An experts introduction and Azure Event Grid – Making the Cloud Reactive ; these two services will change how you use Azure. Filed in the "I didn't even know that was possible" category; Kay Singh has created a neat Solarized Dark theme for the Azure Cloud Shell . Tim Burrell explains how to Detect the latest ransomware threat (aka Bad Rabbit) with Azure Security Center , and Rob Mead d...

Veeam Community Forums Digest April 24 - April 30, 2017   THE WORD FROM GOSTEV Big news this week - we have reached the RTM build milestone for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 and Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 2 . As per our standard release process, we are now starting the early access program for both releases – and I encourage all Veeam enthusiasts to become early adopters! Barring any unexpected issues reported with pilot deployments, we are planning to make both releases generally available in a few weeks. For Veeam Agent for Windows 2.0 (the next version of Veeam Endpoint Backup 1.5), we have an unrestricted early access program, so you can download the bits immediately. And no, it is not just for Windows 2.0 (as some jokingly read the product name) - we support Windows 10 too, including the latest Creators Update! I have collected all the related information and the download link in this forum annou...

Veeam Community Forums Digest May 1 - May 7, 2017   THE WORD FROM GOSTEV More Veeam releases – our QC has just signed off the RTM build for Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Update 1 . This is mostly a bug fix release – however it does include a few minor features: file system indexing for 1-Click FLR via Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, ability to customize recovery media with storage and network drivers from local computer, recovery media SSH server that auto-starts if no input has been received from keyboard in 60 sec, and ExaGrid repository support. As usual, we are now starting the early access program. Unfortunately, we do not have a good way to distribute the RTM build publicly: we can't update our release repository until GA, and we've no "testing" repository at the moment. So, you can only get the update from our support for now (plus, they will be reaching out to those of you with support cases already opened on t...

Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #147 Welcome to the latest edition of the Azure Weekly Newsletter. Firstly if you're going to Future Decoded I'm very pleased to announce that endjin are presenting a session about our experiences with Cosmos DB; James Broome & Mike Larah will be talking about how we used Cosmos DB in a recent project to build an Aircraft Predictive Maintenance system. I've sat in on a couple of rehersals and it's a great talk. See you on the 1st of November from 11:30 – 12:30 in L3 – Session Room 11 . Microsoft have finally provided a multi-cloud comparison map which Azure and AWS Cloud Services at a Glance . It's not quite as detailed as our Cloud Comparison Poster (which covers Google Cloud Platform and provides a review of the available services), but I'm glad Microsoft is starting to help people make the comparison, as from our experiences most organisations are experimenting with multiple cloud platforms. The Azur...