Posted by Mark Campbell
There exists a belief by some that IT environments, and therefore the backup of those environments, is becoming increasingly homogeneous. I understand the belief. At the same time, it’s paradoxi...Read More
Posted by Sameer Kamat
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is an integral part of the equation to capture crash-consistent and application-consistent backups. VSS produces a point-in-time consistent snapshot by coordinating wi...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Great interview of Enrique Salem, CEO of Symantec, at SearchDataBackup, with regard to Symantec’s backup appliances and proactive monitoring of hardware: SearchDataBackup.com: Do you have to con...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
Have you gotten your Hyper-V environment all setup? Got your shared storage in place? Are you creating snapshots on your shared storage? Well don’t relax too soon. Snapshots alone are not backups. N...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
I was reading a great article the other day by Carl Claunch over at Gartner (Windows Server 8 to Provide Administration and Operations Advantages.) One thing that I thought was particularly interestin...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
I ran across this claim today – “ran across” means that Google decided that they should serve an advertisement to me while I was doing some web searches. I was interested (I...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Symantec announced this week that its sales for the last quarter were below expectations with the reason being poor sales for Backup Exec. The CEO, Enrique Salem, stated during a call to address the e...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
One of the things that virtual backup purports to do is to make data protection easier for the user. HOS (Host Operating System)-level backup is inherently simpler (not always better in all cases, but...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
I don’t want to date myself, but I remember getting an upgrade to a 20MB hard drive in my PC. I thought, “Oh boy, I’ll never fill this thing up!” It blows my mind now to think about that now. ...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
I follow and participate in several Hyper-V Virtualization forums, and thought I’d share the contents of a recent thread about Hyper-V host-level protection and how Unitrends Hyper-V backups work. T...Read More