Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

Looking at people’s VMWare implementations, the most common problem I see is people who run on snapshots for an extended period of time. And by that I mean months. This can cause downtime issues for ...

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a package that simplifies disaster recovery (DR) in an organisation’s virtual guest operating systems and improves the success of DR processes. It also manages ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 10, 2014) - Axcient, the leader in cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS), today announced the latest version of the Axcient Business Recovery Cloud, providing ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

When is a backup not a backup? When you can't get information out of that backup. Backups are worthless if you can't actually restore from them, a truism that underlies much of the real-world planning ...