Posted on by Mark Jordan
World Backup Day on March 31 each year has a slogan ready-made by the calendar; don’t be an April Fool, backup your data. And that is what we do, we backup data day after day, month after month, yea...Read More
Posted on by Mark Campbell
[Preface: Unitrends has a quite a few customers who have a disaster but are reticent about publicly disclosing this information. And yet new buyers quite often ask us for this kind of information. ...Read More
Posted on by Mark Campbell
Fake news, fake backup appliances. What do they have in common? One is hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation delivered via e-mail campaigns, social media, and other techniques designed to mislead...Read More
Posted on by Alberto Gonzalez
Over the past few years, we have seen many new companies that try to classify themselves in a new market category called Copy Data Management or Copy Data Virtualization. In my opinion, this is a mark...Read More
Posted on by Mark Campbell and Katie Freedman
Often when we talk about backup and continuity we focus on the dramatic. Fire. Flood. Snow. Ice. Tornadoes. Hurricanes. Meteors. And yet we don’t focus on a leading cause of needing backups – huma...Read More
Posted on by Alberto Gonzalez
In a previous post, we reviewed a GitLab issue and asked our readers, what is the worst sysadmin mistakes you have made? While searching for information on the topic I discovered this Reddit thread wi...Read More
Posted on by Alberto Gonzalez
Last week GitLab went down because of a human error when a sysadmin made a mistake and removed a production folder. When I read that, I remembered my early days working as system administrator. I man...Read More
Posted on by Mark Jordan
Why should I not buy a backup appliance? Hey, wait a second, didn’t we publish a Why Should I Buy a Backup Appliance blog post just yesterday? Yes, we did. A well-written argument by my friend Jua...Read More
Posted on by Unitrends
Why should I buy a backup appliance? Wow, that question hits me in my wheel house! When pondered, the answer comes after humbling myself and realizing that “I don’t know what I don’t know!” Or...Read More
Posted on by Alberto Gonzalez
VMware Linked Clones is a great technology that creates copies of a Virtual Machine that shares virtual disks with the parent virtual machine. This has two benefits: it conserves disk space creating c...Read More