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Data Resiliency Reinvented – Optimally utilize current and new infrastructure investments to do more

December 5, 2017

When one element of a facility’s architecture fails or experiences a disruption, the dreaded disaster recovery plan stress can creep up on us. But, what if your architecture could run on a redundant path? What if it could take over seamlessly and was completely transparent so that users never knew that a disruption has even […]

Veeam Availability Solutions Chosen to Replace Legacy Data Backup at Ivanhoe Grammar School

December 5, 2017

Veeam

In a world that requires digital services to be Always-On, Ivanhoe Grammar relies on Veeam Availability solutions to improve availability and reduce backup time, cost, and storage space [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Click to Listen”] Veeam® Software, the Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ innovator, today announced that Ivanhoe Grammar School has replaced its legacy data backup system with Veeam Availability […]

New Hardware Snapshot Orchestration feature for HPE

December 5, 2017

Veeam

The HPE and Veeam partnership brings comprehensive data protection for Hybrid IT. Veeam software integration with HPE storage solutions lets you create application-consistent backups from HPE storage snapshots for fast and efficient data protection. For long-term external storage, HPE StoreOnce provides deduplication for efficient storage utilization and fault isolation for data. In addition, Veeam can […]

How to Lift-and-Shift on-premise VMware workloads to the Microsoft Azure Cloud with the new Azure Migrate Service

December 4, 2017

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Lift-and-shift on-premise workloads to Microsoft Azure just made a lot easier with Azure Migrate Service, which Microsoft released in preview during Microsoft Ignite event back in September this year. Azure Migrate gives you the advice and confidence that your workloads could be migrated to Azure IaaS with minimal impact to the business! “One feature that […]

Now with Deduplication Appliance Support!

December 4, 2017

NAKIVO

Exciting news! NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3 is now out of beta and available for download. We have added support for deduplication appliances to ensure the smooth integration of NAKIVO Backup & Replication into your virtual infrastructure. This integration is achieved through the use of a new backup repository type that is optimized for operation […]

Microsoft: Migrating VMware environments to Azure, and more

December 4, 2017

Microsoft

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, last week was a light news week for Azure. But that doesn’t mean nothing new was announced. On Tuesday, Corey Sanders announced new services that will make it easier than ever to migrate VMWare-based environments to Azure. Central to this is Azure Migrate, which is a free […]

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VMware and AWS Expand Capabilities and Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS

December 4, 2017

VMware

VMware Cloud(TM) on AWS now available in U.S. East region Expanded VMware Cloud on AWS capabilities, including VMware Site Recovery and VMware vMotion, help customers move, run, and protect production workloads at scale [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Click to Listen”] At AWS re:Invent 2017, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced VMware Cloud™ on AWS is expanding […]

Best Backup for VMware: Why NAKIVO?

December 4, 2017

NAKIVO

Today is the time when virtualization becomes a new paradigm of the modern computing world. The idea of virtualization suddenly opened a way for massive virtual implementations, as if under the motto “Virtualize or Die”. This fast-developing trend inevitably brought data protection issues of its own, just like it was with hardware environments before. Once […]

NAKIVO Releases v7.3, Boosts VM Backup Speed by 53X on Deduplication Appliance

November 29, 2017

NAKIVO

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Click to Listen”] The new NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3 adds support for deduplication appliances achieving VM backup speed of 3.2 GB/s on NEC Hydrastor in a customer environment. NAKIVO, Inc., a fast-growing software company that specializes in protecting VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS environments, announced today that it had released NAKIVO Backup & Replication […]

Data Protection Diaries Fundamental Topics Tools Techniques Technologies Tips

November 27, 2017

Greg Schulz

This is Part I of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools topics techniques terms technologies trends tradecraft tips as a follow-up to my Data Protection Diaries series, as well as a companion to my new book Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Server Storage I/O Fundamental tradecraft (CRC Press 2017). […]

How to Turn Your QNAP NAS into a VM Backup Appliance

November 24, 2017

NAKIVO

Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers have long since become a popular solution for reliable and convenient data protection and storage. Ranging from modest home solutions to enterprise-level offerings with versatile features, they can fit the needs of small to large businesses and individuals. QNAP Systems, Inc. is one of the key players in the NAS […]

VMware: HPE simplifies data protection for Hybrid IT with HPE RMC 5.0 and Cloud Bank Storage

November 23, 2017

VMware

RMC 5.0 is here! This new release enables end‑to‑end 3PAR application protection across all consumption models, delivering flash-speed protection while efficiently utilizing low-cost cloud storage for long-term retention and disaster recovery. Hybrid IT—the blending of traditional and cloud services—is the new normal. It’s not hard to understand why. In the idea economy, finding your right […]

GDPR offers guiding principles for building a secure IT infrastructure

November 23, 2017

HP Enterprise

GDPR principles may impact your IT infrastructure selection. HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers can help with “privacy by design” innovations that offer best-in-class firmware protection, malware detection and recovery. The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)—set to go into effect May 25, 2018—is built on principles that may directly impact your IT environment. While complying […]

Microsoft on How we made backups faster with SQL Server 2017

November 23, 2017

Microsoft

In my previous blog post on enhancements in SQL Server 2017, we briefly introduced improved backup performance for smaller databases in SQL Server 2017 on high end servers. In the recent PASS Summit 2017, Pedro and I delivered a session on Intelligent diagnostics where we explained how we leveraged the indirect checkpoint heuristics to enable […]