Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE
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As many of you know (and if you don't where have you been) I am currently in Las Vegas attending VeeamOn 2014. I have learned a lot and gotten to meet some great people. However at lunch yesterday I was given this little tidbit of information but told I couldn't say anything till 12:01 am so here is their official press release!
**Veeam Announces Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE,
Extending Protection to Desktops and Laptops **Stand-Alone Solution Enables Users to Back Up Windows-Based Laptops and Desktops to an Internal or External Hard Drive, NAS Share or a Veeam Backup Repository
VeeamON – Las Vegas, NV: October 8, 2014: Veeam
Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center
, today announced Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, a simple and free standalone solution that enables users to back up Windows-based laptops and desktops to an internal or external hard drive, a NAS (network attached storage) share or a Veeam backup repository.Veeam has a history of providing stand-alone free tools to the IT community that will solve real challenges, beginning with FastSCP, Veeam’s very first product, originally released in October 2006. Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE joins the company’s wide portfolio of free tools used by over 500,000 IT professionals, which include: Veeam Backup Free Edition, Veeam ONE Free Edition, and Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V.
“With Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, IT professionals now have a simple solution for backing up endpoints, which has long been a major data protection headache,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “Veeam believes that modern data centers should be fully virtualized, but we also recognize that unlike servers, endpoints will always remain physical, and they need to be backed up as well. Plus, if the IT organization still has a few physical servers left in their data center, Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE can help fill that gap.”
When recovering, IT professionals can perform a bare-metal restore to the same or different hardware, a volume-level restore, or a file-level restore. The tool will be freely available to all, and will not require the use of any additional Veeam products; but will integrate with Veeam Backup & Replication if one is present in the environment. In this case granular or full application recovery capabilities made possible by Veeam Explorers for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQP and Active Directory are also available.
“Most vendors would charge quite a bit for a tool with this level of functionality, so the fact that it is free could significantly disrupts this segment of the data protection market,” said Dave Simpson, senior analyst at 451 Research. “It’s not a full blown move into the physical data protection space by Veeam, but it does provide a good option for those Veeam customers who have virtualized all but a few servers within their data center.”
Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE will become available in early 2015. For more information, please visit http://go.veeam.com/endpoint.
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Thanks for posting
I'll definitely be utilising this!
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This is a pretty big deal and will be a great thing to add lots of value to Veeam it's self when trying to get customers to make decisions on infrastructure changes.
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This is a really nice add on!
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Is it schedulable?
Thanks for the heads up!
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That's awesome! I can't wait to try it. Ok, I guess I have to wait....
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Wow, this is very, very cool. Can't wait to see how it integrated into my Veeam B&R console.
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Cool! Awesome move for Veeam. There's nothing like a useful, free product to gain loyal fans.
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That's great, I can't wait to try out the new product. Sounds like something that a lot of people will be very interested in.
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@DenisKelley said:
Wow, this is very, very cool. Can't wait to see how it integrated into my Veeam B&R console.
Amen to that - did you sign up to be notified once it is available?
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This is great. I will be trying this out once it is released.
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@NetworkNerd
Will be shortly. Stuck doing a bunch of file archiving. -
Awesome!
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This announcement was used as a selling point today in my meeting.
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@JaredBusch said:
This announcement was used as a selling point today in my meeting.
That's pretty amazing. Great to see the community really coming through!
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Sweet, thanks for sharing. And the news was broken here first!
