| Shorter update this week as I keep travelling the world between regional sales kickoffs.
First, monthly update on ReFS issues. I've been getting many PMs with the confirmation that beta ReFS driver version 10.0.14393.1934 fixed all issues, including from those with very large volumes. And reported are not just those repository server lockups fixed, but also significantly improved performance of all backup operations. These were all excellent news, so I shared them with the ReFS team at Microsoft – and got even better news in response: looks like the new ReFS driver is scheduled to be shipped in the next (February) cumulative update! So finally, the driver will become available for everyone and supported for production use – which I'm obviously cannot be more happy about! Many of you had spent much time working with Microsoft on this issue (which I cannot thank you enough for), and finally our collective effort is bringing the happy end.
In related news, last week I've got an invitation from Microsoft to participate in one interesting POC project related to using ReFS at a huge scale. And while I cannot share all the NDA details, I can tell you it's focused on backup and archival use cases specifically. Meaning, my continuous push of this ReFS use case to their product management has finally resonated with someone. PUSH = Persist Until Something Happens! I think it's going to be a huge win for everyone if as a result of this project, Microsoft will make ReFS scale to multi-PB volumes (or confirm that it already does), because then we would no longer have to worry about its reliability and scalability with more typical volume sizes. Plus, for one this shows that ReFS is still very important for Microsoft. I'm very excited about all this, and will be sure to provide more details here as soon as I'm allowed to.
Here's a very good ransomware story that is not so much about ransomware, but rather about the importance of having infrastructure and technologies in place that can ensure fast data recovery (aka low RTO) – such as instant recovery from storage snapshots and backup, or using replicas. Because these folks had good backups available, but figured that paying the ransom and having their production systems decrypted is a much faster way to recover, than actually restoring from backups! Pretty shocking, just think about it - backups are there, but due to their recovery times they are basically useless and they'd rather pay USD 60K ransom. Also, too bad they didn't read this digest, otherwise they would've probably implemented two-factor authentication for RDP already, saving themselves much money! I'm sure you're seeing yourself by now, how most of those attacks begin from hacking into the environment through RDP.
Finally, since Veeam Community Forums wouldn't exist without the Product Management team – please join me in congratulating our entire department with the 10 years anniversary! It all started from me 10 years ago – and now we're a big and a very international team! Talking to you directly has always been our top priority – which is why all of our product managers are on the forums day and night, answering all your tricky product questions, and carefully processing all the feedback to make sure no important issue or a great idea slips our attention. And by all means, this relationship is working out very well so far. |
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