Automated data protection is becoming increasingly important given the fact that multiple IT stakeholders are taking a more active role in protecting their critical data. Virtual server administrators, database administrators and other application owners are now involved in the data…
Reducing the cost of storage may seem like a fool’s errand in a world where enterprise production data is predicted to grow by 800% over the next five years. It’s the proverbial “finger in the dyke”. But if there was…
Veeam Backup and Replication brings many advanced data protection and recovery features to virtualized environments. And backup appliances have become a popular way to efficiently store, recover and electronically vault virtualized data for disaster recovery (DR) purposes. The challenge is…
One of the simplest ways to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of storage is to make its entry point less expensive. Legacy storage systems are designed with custom hardware, custom silicon and sophisticated, often proprietary software. This can…
Is high availability an affordable option for small to medium sized businesses? Many large enterprise data center environments utilize server clustering and replication technology to protect their critical business systems from disruptive outages. And while these solutions can provide the…
Many businesses and service providers (SPs) are looking for ways to leverage cloud based backup solutions. For businesses, backing up data into the cloud represents a cost-effective way to manage the day-to-day task of protecting critical business data. For service…
What is the next wave of virtualization? Now that many businesses have consolidated their server infrastructure, a potential next logical course is to find ways to simplify the management of other resources in the data center like storage and networking…
IT professionals know that the ultimate test of the data protection process is performing a recovery; whether a single server recovery or recovering an entire data center. That said, we are all guilty of focusing too much on the backup…
Recently Veeam and ExaGrid teamed up to create a joint solution that should make the jobs of virtual administrators easier by allowing them to tap into the full capabilities of Veeam without impacting backup performance. Veeam backup and replication brings…
Server side network storage (SSNS) is attracting the attention of many data center planners. It aggregates internal server storage and presents that storage as a sharable virtual volume. Virtual machines access this shared volume no matter what host they are…
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