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Storage Q&A: “The New Requirements of Backup Hardware” with Drobo and StorageSwiss

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Backup, backup, backup: it’s what everyone’s talking about these days. You have to save all those files, for one reason or the other, and probably because someone is telling you that you have to save those files. I recently sat…

Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Drobo, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SSD, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Storage Q&A

Virtualized Hybrid Disk Backup for Veeam

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Disk based backup has become a staple in many data center environments. But now thanks to advanced recovery capabilities from virtualized backup applications like Veeam, Unitrend’s PHD Virtual and Dell’s vRanger, more is being asked of disk backup systems. For…

Tagged with: Backup, Drobo, HDD, Hybrid, Recovery in Place, SSD, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Blog

Overcoming the Recovery-In-Place challenge

Posted on June 30, 2014 by George Crump

The advanced capabilities of virtualization-specific backup applications, such as Veeam, have brought new flexibility to the protection and recovery of virtual servers. In fact, these improvements, plus better availability, may be justification enough to virtualize a workload. Two of the…

Tagged with: CBT, Changed Block Recovery, Drobo, HDD, Hybrid Disk, Recovery in Place, SSD, Virtual machine, VM
Posted in Article

The perfect Disk Backup for Virtualized Backups?

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Disk Backup Appliance Designed for VMware?
With its support for SSD, the Drobo B1200i could be one of the most viable platforms for supporting random I/O generating changed block backups and data in-place recoveries, the capability to execute a VM directly from the backup target. In this product analysis, StorageSwiss examines the Drobo B1200i to see how it handles the new requirements of VM disk backup and recovery.

https://storageswiss.com/2014/06/19/perfect-disk-backup-virtualized-backups/

Tagged with: Deduplication, disk backup, Drobo, Hybrid, RAID, Recovery in Place, SMB, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtual Server, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis

ChalkTalk Video – How disk backup breaks Recovery in Place

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Recovery in Place, offered by companies like Veeam, Dell’s AppAssure and PHD Virtual, is a powerful and valuable feature. It allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be recovered and executed directly from the backup device instead of having to transfer…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Recovery in Place, SSD, Storage, Virtual machine
Posted in Video

ChalkTalk Video – The Veeam Backup Challenge

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Veeam and other virtualization specific backup products have solved many of the data protection problems that slowed down initial server virtualization deployments. These solutions, and now even some traditional enterprise backup applications, offer the ability to cut the amount of…

Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block Tracking, Data Protection, Drobo, Recovery in Place, Veeam, Virtualization, Virtualized Backup
Posted in Video

Making Virtual Server Recovery-In-Place Viable

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Backup technology for virtualized environments has become increasingly more advanced. Many organizations have implemented backup applications which are specifically designed to efficiently backup data in a virtualized environment without causing any disruption to application performance. In addition, some backup applications,…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Hybrid, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtual Server
Posted in Blog

VM Recovery In Place vs. Changed Block Recovery

Posted on October 22, 2012 by George Crump

One of the benefits of virtualization has been the ability to recover applications and servers more rapidly. Recently some backup software vendors have added the ability to recover a virtual machine directly from the backup image. A technique commonly called…

Tagged with: Avamar, Changed Block Recovery, EMC, Recovery in Place, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Article