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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦

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Opinions always my own. Works in Data Protection. Specialises in #Veeam, #VMware, #Microsoft365 / #M365, Microsoft #Azure. VeeaMVP | Former Veeam Legend | Former Veeam Vanguard | VMware vExpert | Tanzu Vanguard Blogs @ michaelpaul.cloud

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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 08/08/2026
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VBR/VDP v13.1: New Entra ID Capabilities & How to Enable Them
Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 has introduced new object types for Entra ID protection. If you want to know how to enable this or learn more, read here!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 08/08/2026
[📜] VBR/VDP v13.1: New Entra ID Capabilities & How to Enable Them In my latest blog post, you'll find out about the new protection for #EntraID that #Veeam has brought in Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 & how easy it is to start enabling this and enhancing your protection of Entra ID! Link below 👇
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VBR/VDP v13.1: New Entra ID Capabilities & How to Enable Them
Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 has introduced new object types for Entra ID protection. If you want to know how to enable this or learn more, read here!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 21/01/2026
[📜] VB365: Item-Level Retention & Backup Copies In my latest blog post I've dived into how hashtag#Veeam Backup for hashtag#Microsoft365 handles Item-Level Retention & Backup Copies. Check it out below 👇: micoolpaul.com/2026/01/21/v... #VeeaMVP
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VB365: Item-Level Retention & Backup Copies
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 supports multiple retention modes, and backup types. Today I dive into some questions around item-level retention and backup copies.
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 31/12/2025
[🎥] Discover What's New in Veeam Data Cloud - H2 2025 Edition One final post for 2025, a H2 recap of "What's New" in #VeeamDataCloud. Whether it's #EntraID, #Azure, #Microsoft365, or just to see what's changed in #Veeam Data Cloud, there's something for you 👇 youtu.be/5x_dCgnJbcA?... #Veeam100
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What’s New in Veeam Data Cloud | H2 2025 Update Overview
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 22/09/2025
[ 🎥 ] What's new in #Veeam Data Cloud Entra ID Edition! The last month has seen a lot of groundwork being laid for the rest of this exciting year so I wanted to give a long promised overview to our #EntraID Protection within #VeeamDataCloud. youtu.be/lfBZI0IRxsE #Veeam100
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Veeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 / Entra ID Feature Recap August 2025
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 14/08/2025
[ 🎥 ] What's new in Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365 - July 2025 Last month we introduced our #Microsoft365 data protection workload to our modern unified experience within #VeeamDataCloud. I've given a quick tour of this below. youtu.be/AEHQP-Lnfv8?... #Veeam100
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Veeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 Feature Recap July 2025
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 10/07/2025
So excited to finally talk about this! Veeam Software’s Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 joins the Unified Multi-Workload Experience! Full details below 👇 www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-d... #Veeam100
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Veeam Data Cloud Unifies Microsoft 365, Salesforce & Entra ID
Protect Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Entra ID with a single-pane view through Veeam Data Cloud. Gain agility, compliance, and end-to-end resilience
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 06/03/2025
We have this (www.veeam.com/veeam_data_p...) already on our website but I’ve fed back internally, thanks for sharing 🙂
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 06/03/2025
To be fair, it’s because it’s the normal product with some feature restrictions, but good feedback as to why have the filter without any contents 👍
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 03/03/2025
Just saw you said it was the musical one so ignore that part 🤦‍♂️
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 03/03/2025
Was in the email that there were significant sound issues in one episode that was unsalvageable 😔 the musical episode, don’t know if she was on that one.
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/02/2025
ICYMI: New VLOG Series @hangtentech.bsky.social & I have just launched our new VLOG series 'VDC For Me'. Join us each month as we answer the question "What's in Veeam Data Cloud for me?". First session is available now 👇 micoolpaul.com/2025/02/28/n... #Veeam100 #Veeam @veeam.bsky.social
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New VLOG Series Entry – VDC For Me: Microsoft 365
Hey everyone. Have started off 2025 by launching a new VLOG series with Cloud City Veeam User Group leader Hin Tang called ‘VDC For Me’/’VDC 4 Me’. Each month we’re go…
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 06/02/2025
[ 🎥] Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365: 2024 Year in Review Starting a new series, on all the great new features we're continuously adding to #Veeam Data Cloud! First up, a review of some of our key milestone releases over the past year. youtu.be/wuLYm11SYI0
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Veeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 Feature Recap - 2024
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 08/01/2025
Looks like every time I’ve tried to Center a table & picture in word 😆
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 17/12/2024
So the user that published is @coracox.bsky.social and if you see the content they’ve posted it looks like a lot of pirated content…
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 16/12/2024
Advertising your 2nd edition of your book on a telegram channel.
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 16/12/2024
@chrischilderhose.bsky.social FYI is this a pirated copy?
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 13/12/2024
You sure can, the Veeam Explorer will authenticate you to your target tenant for the restorations
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 29/11/2024
Lots to look forward to next week. First time in Sweden. First time at #ESPC24 and looking forward to first speaking session at ESPC24 as well! Who else will be there?
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 05/07/2024
[📜] Ubuntu 22.04 LTS & Netplan: Troubleshooting Bonded Interface Creation When building a physical Linux server with some questionable switching, I opted for active/passive networking configuration but Netplan didn't like it. After much testing I've made a guide 👇 micoolpaul.com/2024/07/05/u...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS & Netplan Not Creating Bonded Interface
Did you know that you can't monitor both MII and ARP in a bonded network interface with Netplan? I didn't! In this blog I explain the difference between them, and how to configure them and troubleshoo...
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/06/2024
Check if AWS announced anything whilst you were in the lobby! Could’ve been an inside job to silence you 😆
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/06/2024
First other person I’ve found talking about them! So excited for make some noise s3! The Noise Boys Are back!!! 🙂 not watched any of the d20 shows yet, any recommendations?
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/06/2024
Are we talking dropout.tv? 😁
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 23/05/2024
I see Bing is down…
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 22/05/2024
[📜] #Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup Jobs In this blog post I show you how Veeam Data Cloud alerts you to deleted #SharePoint or #Teams sites, and how to resolve these warnings if it's intentional. #VeeamVanguard #VeeamLegend micoolpaul.com/2024/05/22/v...
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Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup Jobs
If you're using Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 to backup your SharePoint sites, and then you delete a SharePoint site, you're going to get a warning it can no longer be backed up, obviously, becau...
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 27/03/2024
[📜] World Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware Failures All devices have a limited lifespan, but we don't need to wait for them to break to know it's time to replacement, as I discuss in this #WorldBackupDay post! micoolpaul.com/2024/03/22/w... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard #vExpert
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World Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware Failures
Hello again! Onto my second post for world backup day, this time looking at the moments leading up to a disaster. In this post we’re going to look at ways to proactively prevent failures. After all, t...
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 26/03/2024
[📜] World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them Why do we invest so much redundancy in infrastructure, then let backups, our last resort for data resilience, have minimal room for error? Thought piece in new post! micoolpaul.com/2024/03/21/w... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard #vExpert
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World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them!
Hi, for this year’s world backup day I’ll be providing two posts on topics that I believe are important for data protection, this is the first one: SLAs & Exceeding them! So, what is an SLA? An SLA (S...
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 13/03/2024
Years ago I wrote a script to automate packaging a PS Vita homebrew payload for macOS users, and to this day I get people on reddit asking for help with the script, because they don’t understand how a script needs an absolute path if you don’t put it in the same folder as the files it is to use. 😞
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 01/03/2024
[📜] VMware vCenter Update Manager: Unable to Import ISOs or Upload Patches In today's quick tip post, I wrote up an issue with #VMware vCenter's update manager in a recent project I worked on, and how to fix it. #vExpert micoolpaul.com/2024/03/01/v...
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VMware vCenter Update Manager: Unable to Import ISOs or Upload Patches
After working on a project recently where vCenter's Update Manager wouldn't import files, I decided to write up the troubleshooting steps and fix for my particular scenario.
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 23/02/2024
Great way to end the week! Reaching three years with the amazing #VMware #vExpert programme! It's been great to learn so much from the talented people within the #vCommunity and I look forward to another year of knowledge sharing and opportunities!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 25/01/2024
[📜] Google: Egress Fees Waived - The Reality vs The Marketing You may have heard that #Google is waiving egress fees from #GCP, but as always there is more to the story than a headline. I've provided a breakdown of when these fees are waived, and how you'd go about getting them waived below. 👇
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Google: Egress Fees Waived – The Reality vs The Marketing
Google Cloud Platform has been making news recently with many headlines claiming egress fees have been waived, but *spoiler alert*, they haven't. In this article I've attempted to separate the marketi...
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 21/01/2024
That’s a big company!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 09/01/2024
[📜] Veeam & Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024 Take time to reflect on the year ahead & make sure you're not leaving yourself vulnerable to security risks in OS or applications. All #Veeam & Veeam supported platforms with an EOL in 2024 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard
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Veeam & Veeam Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024
Times change, and software changes with them, until it's no longer supported. At any point, a patch to an operating system, a .NET framework update, or anything else really, could end up with the soft...
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 27/11/2023
[📜] Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements ICYMI: #Veeam dramatically improved the performance & efficiency of compression in v12! By how much? Check out my blog post below 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard micoolpaul.com/2023/11/27/v...
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Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements
One lesser discussed improvement in Veeam B&R v12 is the compression improvements they've made when working at higher compression levels. Full benchmarks and details inside this blog post.
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 22/11/2023
[📜] #Veeam B&R x #Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob If you're having issues with lifecycle operations failing due to 'Failed to Copy Blob' when working with Veeam and #MicrosoftAzure storage, I've got a solution 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard micoolpaul.com/2023/11/22/v...
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Veeam B&R x Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob
If you're using Veeam Backup & Replication and Microsoft Azure Storage and you find yourself with the 'Failed to Copy Blob' error, this post just might help!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 13/11/2023
[📜] #Veeam B&R - NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck I was migrating some NAS Cache shares when the jobs started to get stuck, so I wrote up how to gracefully deal with this issue and how to work around this. #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard
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Veeam B&R – NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck
Ever had Veeam get stuck when attempting to migrate your NAS Cache repository data? In this post I show you how to gracefully resolve this stuck task, and another way of migrating the data.
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 09/11/2023
Thanks for sharing, I’ve wanted to have a poke about with this for a while!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 07/11/2023
Can’t even blame the Wii these days
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 31/10/2023
Day One is underway at the #Veeam100Summit and I'm reporting as close to live as I can over on the Veeam Community hub! community.veeam.com/blogs-and-po... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 30/10/2023
The #Veeam100Summit is underway and Michael Cade is smashing it with a great hands on #Kasten session. Amazing to be in the same room with so many amazing #VeeamLegend & #VeeamVanguard's!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 25/10/2023
[📜] #Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type In my latest blog post I'll show you how to work around those pesky symlinks that can impact your ability to protect NAS shares! #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard
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Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type
NAS Backups and Symlinks don't have to be enemies, in this blog post I show you how to work around this within Veeam Backup & Replication!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 21/09/2023
And we're back for day two of #SFD26, today we'll be looking at data & storage trends from none other than SNIA! Don't miss out 👇 techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 20/09/2023
And we're back for the last segment of the day, the delegate roundtable, tune in below 👇 #SFD26 techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 20/09/2023
Solidigm are up next and they're announcing a new product! Tune in below 👇 #SFD26
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 20/09/2023
TechFieldDay's #SFD26 is underway shortly, looking forward to hearing from CTERA, SNIA & Solidigm on their latest innovations and announcements. Don't want to miss out on Storage Field Day? Be sure to watch it all happening live on the TFD website: techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 20/09/2023
Congrats to you and the team 👏👏👏
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 08/09/2023
Poor Security Standards from Transport For London. Had to register for the ULEZ emissions, you can’t have any special characters in your password 😩
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/08/2023
Was fixed in switches years ago, so no joy unfortunately!
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 21/08/2023
[📜]#Veeam Backup & Replication: Performance Impact of Pending Tasks If your VBR server is demanding additional resources, you might be putting it under unnecessary stress. Read on to find out more 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard
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Veeam B&R: Performance Impact of Pending Tasks
Tell me if you've seen this situation before. You've got some servers & applications that need protecting. You create your backup jobs as necessary, there's different backup jobs for your various appl...
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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 17/08/2023
Excited to announce I'll be speaking at #VeeamON Tour in London! ICYMI, #Veeam are coming to London, UK on the 14th Sept to continue the Tour! Explore what's new & upcoming within the world of data protection, and hear from Veeam, their partners, and other industry experts! Register now 👇
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