Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication. An authoritative guide to architect a resilient Veeam 13 backup platform with proven best practices - Fourth Edition Chris Childerhose

In today’s evolving threat landscape, protecting data across virtual, physical, and cloud workloads is critical. Veeam Backup & Replication remains a leading modern data protection platform, and version 13 elevates it with AI-driven intelligence, hardened security, and a reimagined appliance architecture. This new edition equips IT professionals and backup administrators to design, deploy, and manage a resilient Veeam v13 infrastructure. This edition covers major new features added to the application, such as Veeam Intelligence AI-driven insights, Universal Continuous Data Protection, and the Veeam Software Appliance with built-in High Availability clustering. This guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam while helping you master advanced concepts such as Zero Trust security hardening and enhanced Active Directory integration. You'll dive deep into other new features as well, such as improved automation through PowerShell enhancements, and learn about CDP and disaster recovery from a service provider perspective with Veeam Cloud Connect. By the end of this book, you'll be able to successfully implement Veeam Backup & Replication to secure your environment and ensure reliable disaster recovery across your entire infrastructure.