Veeam has been serving large organizations for so long that many have categorized it as a company that only does backups. Well, times have changed, and so has the approach to making data safe. Jeff Reinhard begins the discussion by defining the terms: backup, replication, and snapshots. From there, he dives into more serious strategic concepts.

A decade ago, a systems administrator could rely on a backup solution and feel comfortable. Today's hybrid systems combined with malicious attacks and petabytes of data make those days look like a walk in the park.

Federal systems are increasingly hybrid, meaning that protecting data must have the ability to integrate into several applications as well as legacy systems. Multiple clouds are one concept, but when you have dozens of systems with patches, upgrades, and critical data, it requires sophisticated methods to have valid backup copies.