Posted by Mark Campbell
World Backup Day is just around the corner – an event that celebrates the importance of protecting our data. Those of us interested in Boomerang know the importance of backing up our VMware VMs...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Three orders of magnitude – 1000X – over seven years. When you talk about bacterial growth, that’s slow. When you’re talking about a business, it’s an incredible number. Ne...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Apple, AWS, and VMware. Last fall, Apple jilted VMware in favor of KVM according to industry publication CRN. Now a Morgan Stanley analyst has speculated that Apple may be dumping AWS...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Last week Microsoft released a technical preview of Azure Stack. What is Azure Stack? To quote Microsoft: Azure Stack extends the Azure vision by bringing the cloud model of computing...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Is there an Amazon AWS tax? Or is AWS the exact opposite – a subsidy? I’d argue the latter – that AWS and the other hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[This is a companion post to VMware, Containers, and Backup that can be found at the Unitrends blog site. The background for VMware containers is given in both; where they differ is th...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
It’s no surprise that the “all on premise” hardware and software vendors are under attack from the New Age cloud companies. Many continue to promote the rationalization of their conventional v...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Is Ransomware a disaster? Most who have been targeted would say that it is. Those that have bee struck will tell you that it’s a particularly cruel type of disaster. Just how bad is it? Th...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
HP gives up on Helion. Who benefits the most? My guess is that Amazon AWS will receive more than its fair share of benefit from HP Helion’s demise. The parallel here is the money t...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
A customer who recently purchased Boomerang for DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) reached out yesterday who wanted to know what we thought about nested virtualization of VMware vSphere within Ama...Read More