Veeam proclaims VICTORY in Symantec patent spat

Virtualisation management outfit Veeam is claiming twin victories today. One is notional: the company reported its full 2014 results today and proudly proclaimed that it has hauled a billion dollars through its doors since opening them for business in 2007. $288m of that haul landed during FY 2014, in the form of new licence …

[Simple Si]

I have to say, Veeam Backup and Replication V7 (and now v8) is some awesome software for virtual machines. Used Vertitas/Symantec Backup Exec in the past and finding Veeam a lot better.

They also have a free Beta Endpoint backup out at the moment that's worth checking out if you need to backup individual machines, sadly not centrally managed, but still worthwhile:-

http://go.veeam.com/endpoint

[M. B.]

Yes, it is pretty great. Not for every use case, but it does what it says on the tin and our customers are pretty pleased with it in 100% virtual environments.