Falko Banaszak

Falko Banaszak is a Principal Field Solutions Architect specializing in "Cyber Resiliency" at Pure Storage and is based in Germany. Over the past decade, he has developed a strong expertise in virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery / BCDR. Falko leads the technical team at Pure Storage in the solution domain called "Cyber Resiliency" which combines the Pure Storage Platform with Cyber Security & Data Protection vendors. Falko is also a certified Business Continuity Manager, a Veeam Vanguard program member and a founder and leader of the German Veeam Usergroup.

Veeam Object Storage Benchmarking – Part 4

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In this blog series, I’m going to talk about plenty of things around the sizing and architecting for using Object Storage with Veeam Backup & Replication. Each part of this blog series covers different topics and things. The fourth and last part of Sizing and Architecting for Object Storage with …

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Note-Taking with VS Code, GitHub and Markdown

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Introduction I’m finally doing Note-Taking with VS Code, GitHub, and Markdown! In my search for the best way to take notes, I’ve tried different tools like OneNote, EverNote, and Notion. They all seemed promising at first, but I found they had some problems that made them hard to use (for …

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Reflecting on 4 years as a Veeam Vanguard

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As I sit down reflecting on 4 years as a Veeam Vanguard, I’m filled with a sense of gratitude for what lies ahead in year five. Being a part of the Veeam Vanguard program has been an incredible experience, both personally and professionally, and it has played a significant role …

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Supercharge Excel with ChatGPT

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Introduction and why I Supercharge Excel with ChatGPT When you read “Supercharge Excel with ChatGPT”, you might think of some magic or something very special. In fact, I used ChatGPT lately to “migrate” my Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel Tool to something independent. I’ve had various good feedback on my Excel …

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Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel Tool

Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel

In this blog post I wanted to introduce my personal Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel Tool which I’ve been using over the years within several customer projects to simply onboarding VM’s to backup jobs. Why vSphere Tags? It is certainly known nowadays, that they hold the key to unlocking the full …

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VeeamON 2023

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VeeamON 2023 is happening from May 22 to May 25 live in Miami or online! Whether you decide to join us in‑person or online, VeeamON is the ultimate event for those seeking to modernize their data management and protection. At VeeamON users and partners from around the globe gather for …

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Storage Field Day 24

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As I announced lately I had the honor to join my first ever Tech Field Day back in June and it is happening again as I’m attending Storage Field Day 24 this November ! I really enjoyed the event and I’m already writing on a review of it as I …

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