In episode 163, Douglas Brown interviews Chris Henley, Product Strategy Specialist Microsoft at Veeam Software.  Chris and Douglas discuss what’s new with Veeam’s virtualization backup & recovery / management solutions.

About Veeam Backup and Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 represents the next wave of Veeam innovation, and delivers even more groundbreaking capabilities, including:

• Free e-discovery and item recovery for Microsoft Exchange
• Easy VM recovery from SAN snapshots
• Advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning (requires Veeam Backup Management Suite 6.5)
• New hypervisor support: VMware vSphere 5.1 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

http://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html?ad=menu 

About Veeam Virtualization Management

• Veeam Management Pack for VMware (SCOM) - Protect your investments in Microsoft System Center and manage your physical and virtual environment from one console with the Veeam Management Pack ™ for VMware (SCOM).  The Veeam MP provides scalable, fault-tolerant and agentless VMware infrastructure monitoring and management directly in Microsoft System Center, eliminating the need for a separate monitoring framework. http://www.veeam.com/vmware-microsoft-esx-monitoring.html?ad=menu 
• Veeam One - Powerful, easy-to-use and affordable monitoring and reporting.  NEW, Veeam ONE integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication to deliver advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. http://www.veeam.com/virtualization-management-one-solution.html?ad=menu

Free Tools:

• Veeam Management Pack 10-Pack- A free VMware monitoring solution available exclusively for new Veeam MP users who are currently using/evaluating Microsoft System Center 2012. 
• Veeam Stencils for Microsoft Visio - Free collection of virtualization Visio stencils for your Hyper-V or VMware deployment planning 
• Veeam Extended Generic Report Library- for advanced Microsoft® System Center reporting
• Veeam ONE Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V- Powerful and easy-to-use monitoring and reporting for VMware and Hyper-V 
• Veeam Backup Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-VFree VM backup, VM migration and file management for your virtual environment using VeeamZIP™. 

Veeam Products and Free Tools!
http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-vsphere-virtualization-tools-hyper-v-products.html?ad=menu

About Chris Henley, Product Strategy Specialist Microsoft
Chris Henley is a fun and energetic product strategy specialist for Veeam Software.  He is focused on Hyper-V and Virtualization solutions from Microsoft.  He has a talent for making difficult technical concepts easy to understand.  He is a published technical author who loves writing.  He has spent more than 2 decades working in technology, most recently completing an 8 year stint with Microsoft. He loves the amazing things that technology can do to make our lives better.  He enjoys spending time outdoors, camping, fishing, hunting, hiking, and bicycling with his wife and their 3 great kids.  He is currently on a quest to find the best chocolate cake on planet Earth!