Those Sleepless Nights in the Data Center

3 AM. Another sleepless night in the data center.

Alerts flash across the screen while your phone buzzes with messages from business teams. It’s been three hours of constant bombardment.

“When will the financial system be back online?” “We’re going to miss this month’s KPIs!” “Why is IT always having problems?”

As you type commands, you’re searching for needles in haystacks of system logs. This is the third time this month you’ve been fighting fires in the dead of night.

A New Era of Intelligent Data Protection—Unveiling the Powerful Capabilities of Veeam Intelligence

Introduction: The Painful Experience of Late-Night Documentation Searches

It’s 2 AM. Your backup job has failed again.

The screen displays the error “Failed to create snapshot” and your mind goes blank. If you’re a Veeam administrator, you’ve been here before.

The familiar troubleshooting marathon begins:

1. Google the error code → 30 minutes gone
2. Search through Veeam documentation → Another 45 minutes wasted
3. Ask for help in WeChat groups → Wait for responses
4. Open a technical support ticket → Queue for hours

Six hours later, you finally solve it. A simple permission configuration issue.

Zero-Cost Physical Air Gap: How Veeam Outperforms Million-Dollar Sheltered Harbor Solutions

First, I must thank my colleague Zhang Yuan. The design concept for this solution actually originated from his idea of automatically controlling network firewalls through Palo Alto devices, which he shared internally several years ago. This article simply reproduces his excellent design using zero-cost OpenWRT.

Remember that 2019 article about ransomware attacks?

At that time, I emphasized the importance of data isolation. Ransomware is becoming increasingly intelligent—they no longer just encrypt production data, but also destroy backup servers, delete backup catalogs, and even attack dedicated storage devices.

AI Reshaping Data Protection (Part 2): Using Claude Code to Control Your VBR Server

In our previous article, we set up an AI terminal environment with Claude Code + GLM-4.6. Today, I want to show you a revolutionary way of working: zero-code control of your Veeam Backup & Replication server through Veeam RestAPI. Don’t be intimidated by terms like API - in today’s content, you won’t need to write a single line of code to make Claude Code (hereafter CC) your VBR operations assistant! Let CC bring you a completely different data protection experience.

AI Reshapes Data Protection (Part 1): Claude Code + GLM-4.6 in Practice, Building AI CLI Tools from Scratch

Vibe coding has been incredibly popular lately, with Claude Code and Codex competing fiercely. I’m grateful for these excellent AI tools that bring entirely new capabilities and perspectives to our data protection and security industry. Starting with this series, I want to share how these AI tools can provide different capabilities for our data protection workflows, giving you an up-close look at the changes AI is bringing to our industry.

In our previous articles, we introduced how Veeam v13 continues to enhance its YARA malware scanning capabilities. However, the limitation of official rule sets is a very real challenge. There aren’t many free YARA rule sources available online, and high-quality ones are even scarcer. Today, I want to introduce you to a hidden gem: Ransomware.live - a professional open-source ransomware threat intelligence platform that provides free YARA rules for 62 major ransomware gangs, making it a perfect complement to Veeam’s YARA scanning functionality.