Software
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VMware Data Recovery Finding the Best Replacement
VMware historically has provided a few good backup technologies that used to meet the needs of many SMBs and even small enterprise environments. Recently, one of those products – vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – was announced to be end-of-life. However,…
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Vembu Perpetual Licensing Service Provider Program and GDPR
Recently, Vembu Technologies has made some exciting announcements for customers regarding their suite of products, pricing and keeping pace with the various compliance standards on the horizon. Vembu is a great data protection solution that covers the entire gamut of…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
