Posted by Mark Campbell
In my earlier post, I positioned that the world of IT is becoming more, not less, heterogeneous. What I didn’t address was “why?” The simple reasons are the old standbys: TCO (Total ...Read More
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 Mark Campbell
Instant recovery – also called failover virtualization or virtual failover – is a big deal these days. What these technologies allow is a faster RTO (Recovery Time Objective) by u...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
This is my sixth and final excerpt from my Don’t Be a Puppet of Your Backup Strategy whitepaper. Some backup vendors support any operating system – as long as the operating system is Windo...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
IDC reported in late 2011 that Hyper-V grew 62% in 2011 versus VMware ESX’s growth of 21% (note: Citrix XenServer grew 25%.) Gartner now projects that in 2012 Hyper-V will account for 27% of t...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 Nicole Reineke
In 2009 with Release 4.2, Unitrends re-architected our fundamental approach to protecting Exchange. We also started offering support for Exchange 2010 along with 2007 and 2003. Over the next few blog ...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
[This is the first excerpt from our How to Sell Backup to Your CFO whitepaper.] A CEO throwing a party takes his executives on a tour of his opulent mansion. In the back of the property, the CE...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
The best subtitle for this continuing discussion about the merits of various “free” hypervisors would be the famous quote: the truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry. An ev...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
One of the great things about working at a backup appliance vendor is that you find yourself involved with a tremendous number of technologies. Recently, I had a partner ask about Microsoft Hyper-V ...Read More