Read more about the article From Dirt Roads to Data Clouds: My Journey from Farmer to IT Engineer, Veeam Legend, Vanguard and Object First Ace (Part 2)

From Dirt Roads to Data Clouds: My Journey from Farmer to IT Engineer, Veeam Legend, Vanguard and Object First Ace (Part 2)

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Continued from Part 1 A New Role Over the course of the next few weeks, I had several interviews. I had a recruiter looking for me as well. Some really good leads, but some things just didn't pan out. Until I got a call from a recruiter from Kidwell. I had previously applied for a position at Kidwell, not really knowing much about them as I was located in Omaha and their main office was…

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Object First Introduces the Ootbi Mini, Honeypot and Fleet Manager

While Veeam may be getting a lot of publicity with VBR v13's release of the Veeam Software Appliance (VSA) and the upcoming VBR v13 Windows release, promised by end of year, let's not forget about Object First who builds some of the best immutable repositories specifically for Veeam. While there haven been varying sizes of Object First Ootbi appliances available, they really have been focused on larger businesses and enterprises. Object First's consumption model helped…

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Read more about the article 503 (ServiceUnavailable) when Adding a Local S3-Compatible Object Repository to an Offline VBR Server

503 (ServiceUnavailable) when Adding a Local S3-Compatible Object Repository to an Offline VBR Server

I have this client - they're in the manufacturing vertical and utilize me for projects and maintenance of their SCADA environment. Because this is a secured environment, the network is segmented with no internet access for nearly all machines and very restricted access for those that require it. Running Veeam Backup & Replication segmented from the internet is generally no problem and in many ways is even recommended. And it has worked great for years…

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Read more about the article New Upcoming Series – Object First Ootbi

New Upcoming Series – Object First Ootbi

By now, most folks in the Veeam community should be aware of Object First. But if you've been living under a virtual rock, Object First that is a company that came out of secrecy mode less than two years ago at VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas. Co-founded by the co-founders of Veeam, Object First has developed the Ootbi, or the "Out of the box immutability" immutability appliance. It's a SuperMicro server running a hardened Ubuntu…

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