Posted by Mark Campbell
The 3-2-1 backup rule is a revered and time-honored backup strategy. It seems like every backup vendor has endorsed it with at least one going so far as to call it “timeless.” The Uni...Read More
Posted by Joe Noonan
VMware vSphere is by far the most advanced hypervisor for backup and recovery. They pioneered critical features for data access, speed, efficiency, and management that allow virtualization administrat...Read More
Posted by Joe Noonan
Who cares about Citrix XenServer? When I spend time on various forums related to hypervisor preferences, I often see Citrix XenServer users having to justify their choice of hypervisor. Five years ago...Read More
Posted by Joe Noonan
A few days ago, we announced the availability of Release 9.0 for our Recovery Series physical appliances and Unitrends Enterprise Backup software. While the PR was great, we could not possibly have co...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
There are numerous campaigns circulating the internet these days on the merits and best practices dealing with data protection and virtualized environments. While there are tons of products and tools ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Almost a year ago I wrote a blog post, “In Defense of Farmers,” after Symantec posted poor performance and then CEO Steve Bennett explained the reason for the gloomy guidance was, you guessed it,...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[Continuing on the previous post: 7+1 Reasons Unitrends 7.1 Leads in Virtual, Physical, and Cloud Data Protection (Part 1).] Unitrends has released 7.1 which continues its dominance in Unified Data P...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
With the Unitrends system, you can create a customized backup schedule (or set of schedules) to protect your virtual machines. For example, let’s look at an environment that has multiple Hyper-V VMs...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
Is your Exchange this well-protected? In my last post, I provided an overview of the Exchange data protection architecture provided by Microsoft. If you’re unfamiliar with how VSS-based Exchange...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[This is the final excerpt from my How to Sell Backup to Your CFO whitepaper.] The first two optimization techniques discussed in previous posts centered around reducing capital expenditure and operat...Read More