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Avamar’s Virtualization Journey Continues

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Colm Keegan

As we headed down the back stretch of our full day of EMC briefings, we sat down with the Avamar folks to discuss the latest developments on that front. As our readers know, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division has…

Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, Data deduplication, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hyper-V, VMware, VMware ESX
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Scale Data Protection With Your Virtual Environment

Posted on August 14, 2013 by George Crump

Thanks to an easy-to-measure return on investment (ROI) most data centers’ virtual server environments are growing rapidly. Many organizations have implemented a “virtualize first” policy, where all new servers are virtualized. In addition, legacy servers are being migrated to virtual…

Tagged with: Backup, Business, HP, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX
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Should Your VMware Backup Use Agents?

Posted on July 16, 2013 by George Crump

Initially most VMware projects start off by leveraging the backup applications that were in place prior to the virtualization effort. Then, IT Planners realize that they need something more and they turn to VM-specific backup applications. But then they are…

Tagged with: Backup, Hypervisor, Operating system, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtual reality, VMware, VMware ESX
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Server Side VMware Caching Gets Smarter

Posted on May 6, 2013 by George Crump

Increasing virtual machine (VM) density is critical for organizations looking to continue to reap the ROI benefits of virtualization; the more VMs per server the more cost effective the virtualization project becomes. There is one primary roadblock to increased VM…

Tagged with: Cache, OpenVMS, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware ESX
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