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Millions of wishes are sent to Santa every year. This year, Veeam will be your Santa! We’ve listened to your wishes and prepared a great gift! In December you may become the happy winner of the ULTIMATE NEW YEAR’s RESOLUTIONwhich includes a VEEAM DREAM LAB, Microsoft Surface and more! Enter for a free chance to win – and WIN BIG: REGISTER TO WIN *The winner will be selected on January 14. *Register just once and you’ll automatically be entered in every monthly drawing!

Veeam has published a new version of their Backup & Replication software. Check their website for an overview. Here’re the facts.

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

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

Product data sheet for VMware: http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_6_5_vmware_en_ds.pdf