Veeam 100 Summit Prague 2025

Here we are again, in a nice Prague, for a Veeam 100 Summit 2025. This year, we have in addition to Veeam Vanguards, Veeam MVPs and Veeam Legends, also Veeam User Group (VUG) Leaders. This gave me a great opportunity to meet some new faces and make new friends. Also, for me as a Czech born, an occasion to speak some czech while living abroad most of the time. The czech language ofcourse isn't something you forget, but in order to get back into it, it needs some effort (and beer -:p).

BTW, if you zoom into the photo, the right-top says “Pilsner Uquell is the only beer imported from Pilsen” which is funny because it is written in French -:). On the photo, from the left: Petr Bouška , Antonin Strnad (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton%C3%ADn-strnad-13a49284/), and Marcel Kacmar from Slovakia.

Today is tuesday (already) and so we are having a general session right now. Further forward, we'll have some further details about the latest news from Veeam, update on the whole product line directly from the product managmeent team, as well as some demos and slides.

Securiti AI has been acquired by Veeam, just couple of weeks before. And we'll have more info on that. With (DSPM) Data Security Posture Management, which is a cybersecurity approach that focuses on protecting data directly by discovering, classifying, and monitoring sensitive information across an organization's entire environment, this acquisition makes sense and enforces Veeam's possition as a major leader in the data protection and AI driven markets.

This year we have a major release of Veeam Data platform with Veeam Backup and Replication v13 delivered as a hardened Linux virtual appliance. I have already blogged in details about this v13 release and what we have in there:

Further down the road, we should see the release of v13 of the windows product allowing you to migrate all your DBs and data onto the v13 platform. Curently the v13 Linux appliance does not allow import so it can only be used in green field deployments.

We're in the Ballroom (the biggest room they have in the Hilton hotel in Prague), but this year we're more so for some sessions we do have to split into two other smaller rooms. This makes sense also as matter of fact, some sessions aren't interesting for some while other sessions are. In my case I'm not really into a serice providers space so for my personally I'll look into other sessions which runs at the same time in other rooms.

Last year we were in Berlin, and the year before, in Prague again. It seems that this strategy will continue, but we do not know for next year, if we gonna return to Berlin or have another place.

There will be more that I'll add to this post, but for now, let's push that into the online space. After the end of the Veeam 100 Summit we'll get all the PPTs and PDFs so I'll be able to post some more technical details (if not RED content, because there is some), and dive a bit deeper into some areas that are new and new features comming.

Veeam Intelligence

this session is interesting as this technology and AI-powered solution developed by Veeam Software as part of its data resilience and backup portfolio. It leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance data protection, automate analysis, provide user support, and deliver actionable insights for IT operations, cybersecurity, and compliance. Essentially, it transforms traditional backups into intelligent assets by detecting threats, resolving issues proactively, and enabling data reuse for tasks like mining, development, and testing.

Session presented by Jorge de la Cruz and Emilie Tellez.

Veeam Software Appliance

Veeam intelligence is now part of the web-based UI console in Veeam Backup and replication.

The full Veeam Backup and replication will receive the intergration of the Full Veeam Intelligence in the near future. So you'll be able to query whether you're using the Veeam Windows based console or whether you're using the web-based UI.

New AI Report is comming!

Html report is a summary of the past 24 hours with all the errors, warnings (if any) so you can click directly on the group to see what was wrong. You're not receiving bunch of emails, but just one, summary email.

Veeam ONE 13.X

Compared to the v12, the v13 uses less access api calls to the VBR and then sends the datas.

Agent-based Veeam Analytics Service for efficient, scalable data gathering; new Deep Analysis Agent in Veeam Intelligence for dataset navigation and insights extraction.

The historical reports are like 15 times faster than in the v12!

It's because of an architectural changes.

In fact, there are data that are de-staged into the Postgress Reporting database and when you need to run a historical report, it will pull data only from this DB.

The v13 has a fully HTML 5 report and they are very flexible. You can group reports by platform, job status etc. Filtering are also available.

You can now also, after creating your custom report, share the direct link to the report.

BTW, I must ask Jorge to share his PPT so I get better pics… -:)

The 13.1 will add support for Veeam VBR high availability.

Localization

English, but also Japanese!

Day 2 – The continuation

The evening time we had some time off so we went to a restaurant for some Pislnerr Urquell and a dinner with some old friends Vanguards. Time flies as the Vanguard program has had 11 years of existence! Wow. Esteban, Andrea, Nicolas, Paolo and me.

Today we have another day full of content. It's packed that I have difficulties to choose from the sessions I want to see! Anyways, we'll get all the PPTs at the end, but nothing beats a live session with the presenter, right?

Let's go!

Veeam Automating Installation session from Baptiste Tellier and Hannes was simply excellent. How to deploy hundreds of VSA from ISO by modifying kickstart file and creating batch files with Claude AI, Baptiste has done it for a very large customer and provided some excellent insights!

Note that there are already some documentaiton from Veeam about it and that's where my original article came from:

Veeam Backup Appliance 13.0 ISO automated installation

However, Baptiste with Hannes they showed really a great amount of options and the issues you will have!

Example screenshot below. Again, I'll have better screenshots when the PPTs become available.

Veeam Backup and Replication 13.01

Performance improvements by 2-3x!

Number of agents per backup server improved massively.

There is also improvements in number of SOBR extents and more.

CPU and RAM consumption was getting improved too. The Veeam backup manager taks less RAM. You can start 1000 jobs at the same time now.

The performance improvements of VMware proxy

NBD improvements too…

CBT Improvements too…

Calculator

https://www.veeam.com/calculators/simple/vbr/machines

and another one… Massively reduced API calls.

The final

The last session we had was at https://www.pilsnerexperience.com/en and it was a great choice. We had another opportunity to network, talk to old and new friends and make new friendhips.

How I would say this in one word?

I-n-v-a-l-u-a-b-l-e

Yes, another great event.

Wrap up

Anothr powerfull Veeam100 event. Much better than Berlin tbh. I just felt that the atmosphere in Prague was better than in Berlin, but probbably I'm a bit biased -:). Anyway, we had a great opportunity of getting the latest info about VBR 13.x, and upcoming releases of VeeamONE and other products from the Veeam's portfolio. The opportunity to get in touch directly with Veeam product strategy team, with Veeam developpers, to be able to ask questions, submit new requests, it is just very valuable. Onto the next one!

With the end of the Prague Veeam 100 Summit we had an opportunity to know many new people as a new group got integrated into our already large group! Those are Veeam User Group (VUG) Leaders. I could get in touch with VUG leaders from Czech Republic, but also from other countries. Smart move Veeam!

The only thing I regret is, that the event is only during short period of time (but there are reasons for this). During 2 days of content we literarly stays in the hotel, attend sessions, and have no free time (almost), but hey, that's fine. Perhaps 2 days is what it really needs and another day full of sessions would make everybody really, really tired? Perhaps.

In any case, I really enjoyed this years event and hope to come back next year. Where? We do not know yet, but it should be another city as Prague as I heard. For the future, Prague shall still be the one where we'll come back every second year, because Veeam has a large office here for developpers.

Thanks again, to all members of the Veeam product strategy team and other. To name a few: Hannes Kasparick, Dmitrii Popov, Petr Makarov, Jorge de la Cruz, Michael Cade. Also great to have Rick Vanover from the organizing team, Nikola Pejková, Madalina Cristil and Safiya Mohamed, and Federica Saba and Tudora Raluca.

Posts from previous years? Yes of course!

Note that not every year has a dedicated blog post about Veeam 100 Summit (but only a social media posts). I think I should stick to a blog post, which centralize my experience. Some years I was also attending VeeamONE conference in the US (2x Las Vegas, New Orleans or Miami) but not recently.

Veeam Vanguard Summit Prague 2018 (The First One!)
Veeam 100 Summit Prague – My Czech Roots! (2023)
Veeam100 Summit in Berlin 2024 – This year is extraordinary
Veeam 100 Summit Prague 2025 – (this post)