Software

  • Veeam-Temporary-Snapshot-on-a-virtual-machine

    Check for Orphaned Veeam Temporary Snapshots

    For those using Veeam Backup & Replication in a vSphere environment perhaps backing up hundreds of virtual machines one of the important housekeeping items you may want to keep a check on is any Veeam temporary snapshots that may for…

  • NAKIVO-Backup-and-Replication-v7.3-GA-released-with-deduplication-appliance-support

    NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.3 GA released new features

    NAKIVO is still blazing a trail with rapid development, aggressive release cycles, and listening to customer input. It is excellent to see a company that is driven for providing what customers want to see along with innovation to existing platforms.…

  • Save-OffsiteDR-replication-settings

    Configure Offsite Disaster Recovery Copy

    A crucial aspect of disaster recovery is the ability to provide an offsite disaster recovery site. This provides site resiliency. If you lose an entire production site, you can failover to the secondary DR location and funnel traffic over to…

  • Creating-a-new-Veeam-Backup-copy-job

    Keep Veeam Tape Job from Interrupting Production Backups

    In data protection, utilizing the 3-2-1 backups rule for production notes (3) copies of your backups, (2) different kinds of medium, and (1) located offsite is best practice. Many enterprises are still utilizing a tape backup rotation to achieve the…

  • Vembu-allows-offsite-cloud-DR-storage

    Increase VMware Backup Performance

    When thinking about backups, we may not first think about backup performance, however, it is an important aspect of consideration with any data protection solution.  Backup performance can impact both RPO and RTO values and these are extremely important when…

  • Make-use-of-VMware-Changed-Block-Tracking

    VMware Backup Best Practices Checklist

    When performing backups of VMware virtual machines, it is best to make sure that backup procedures follow best practices.  It is often helpful to have a checklist of sorts when thinking about designing your data protection plan to make sure…

  • Create-a-Dedup-disabled-repository-in-NAKIVO-Backup-Replication-7.3-

    NAKIVO Backup and Replication 7.3 Beta Released

    NAKIVO is certainly blazing a trail of very quick release iterations and adding new features at a rapid pace. NAKIVO just announced the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication 7.3 Beta. I really like NAKIVO’s beta programs as it gives…

  • Restoring-SQL-with-transaction-log-restore-points

    Veeam SQL Transaction Log Backups

    Veeam Backup & Replication provides powerful features for backing up virtual environments.  One of these features is the ability to provide application aware backups.  Application aware backups allow organizations to maintain transactional consistency in backups of virtual machines housing applications…

  • Vembu-BDR-Suite-Unlimited-Free-Backups

    Vembu BDR Suite Unlimited Free Backups

    Vembu is quickly becoming recognized in the industry as a software company offering a tremendously powerful suite of products all in one pane of glass for backing up virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructure.  Vembu’s BDR Suite products allows functionality for…

  • Turn-on-Offsite-Copy-Management-Vembu-CloudDR-Server

    Offsite Backup with Vembu BDR Suite CloudDR

    Vembu BDR Suite provides a great all encompassing feature set for organizations looking to provide site resiliency as well as multiple copies of backup data stored in multiple locations. These days, most organizations if not already utilziing the public cloud…