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Webinar – Improving the State of MS-SQL Backup

Posted on July 15, 2013 by George Crump

Organizations of all sizes are delivering mission critical applications to users and customers that are built on Microsoft SQL. But many of these organizations lack the time, skill sets and tools required to develop a capable data protection strategy. Instead…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, SQL, Webinar, Zetta
Posted in Webinar

PHD Virtual Brings Public Cloud Connectivity to Virtual Server Backup

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Eric Slack

Cloud backup used to be largely a consumer application, designed to handle relatively small data sets. But now with technologies like deduplication, compression and changed block tracking, which reduce the amount of data that actually ‘walks the wire’ up to…

Tagged with: Backup, Citrix, Cloud, Disaster recovery, PHD Virtual, PHDvirtual, VBA, Virtual backup appliance, VMware
Posted in Product Analysis

Multi-Hypervisor, Multi-Use Application Availability

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Colm Keegan

In an ever changing IT landscape, business owners and data center managers are finding it increasingly challenging to ensure that critical business information is not only adequately protected, but that the underlying system infrastructure is resilient enough to withstand outages…

Tagged with: Availability, Disaster recovery, Hyper-V, Multi-Hypervisor, Neverfail, RPO, RTO, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

Cloud Backup Requires Intelligent Recovery

Posted on March 7, 2013 by George Crump

Using the cloud as a destination for backups has evolved from a consumer solution into a viable option for many small businesses and larger enterprises. Today production applications and even entire virtualized environments are leveraging the cloud to augment their…

Tagged with: Backup, Business, Cloud computing, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHD Virtual Backup, PHDvirtual, Virtual machine
Posted in Article

Is DR Assurance Missing from VMware Backup?

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

A lot has been going on with PHD Virtual, a company that, despite having dramatic success, may not be well known in the virtualization backup space. To begin with, they just announced their 12th consecutive record quarter and a 40%…

Tagged with: Amazon S3, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual backup appliance, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Solving the RMAN Backup Challenge

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Eric Slack

Database applications are typically the lifeblood of organizations, supporting revenue generating activities and/or mission critical business data analysis. Database administrators are the stewards of this infrastructure and often have an almost personal interest in the welfare of these precious information…

Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, DD Boost, Disaster recovery, Oracle, Oracle RMAN, RMAN
Posted in Product Analysis

When Disaster Strikes, What’s Most Important?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by George Crump

Other than the obvious people issues, when a disaster strikes what’s most important for the data center? Given the time to think about it, most IT managers will answer the question correctly. The most important thing is to restore access…

Tagged with: Application Aware, Data Movement, Disaster recovery, Neverfail, Snapshot
Posted in Article