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InMage vContinuum Taps into VMware to Provide a Near Zero Impact and Recovery Solution for SMBs

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Small and medium businesses (SMBs) are rapidly moving towards virtualizing their physical servers using VMware. But as they do so, they are also looking to minimize the cost, complexity and overhead that the backup of VMware servers introduces while increasing their ability to recover their newly virtualized applications. It is...[more]

7 Considerations When Choosing a Replication Software Product (Part 2 of 2)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Last week I took a look at the first three factors to consider when choosing a replication software product. This week I wanted to finish my thoughts around that subject and discuss the final four factors that should be part of any evaluation of replication software.

The first three...[more]

7 Considerations When Choosing a Replication Software Product (Part 1 of 2)

Monday, July 19, 2010

Replication is becoming an ever more important component in the protection and recovery of applications. Anecdotal evidence already suggests that 50% or more of all SAN and NAS storage systems ship with some form of replication software while many more organizations use replication in its other forms (application, appliance or...[more]

What a Windows Recovery Solution Should Look Like

Monday, June 7, 2010

One of the principle struggles within organizations in the first decade of the new millennium has been solving Windows backup issues. Now that a new decade has arrived the problem has changed as organizations turn their attention to how they can recover their Windows application servers in a time frame...[more]

Burst into the Cloud with InMage's New Cloud-Optimized Infrastructure

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Now that most organizations are starting to consider moving some or all of their applications and data into the cloud, questions as to how the applications and data hosted in the cloud will be controlled and managed are being raised. One of the key concerns that businesses have is how...[more]

Take off Those Rose Colored Deduplication Glasses and Look at Data Protection Anew

Monday, March 29, 2010

These days it seems that all someone has to do is use the word "deduplication" in conjunction with a data protection product and that data protection product magically looks "better". But what organizations have to be careful to do is not allow deduplication to color their view of what they...[more]

Deliver High Speed CDP with SATA Disk: Here's How It Is Done

Monday, March 22, 2010

There is a perception among enterprise organizations that in order to deploy continuous data protection (CDP) technology, they also need to use high performance disk in conjunction with it. But enterprises probably should re-assess that assumption. The emergence of new and better CDP architectures such as what [more]

The Truth about CDP's Storage Capacity Requirements

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Here's a multiple choice question for you. When using continuous data protection (CDP), how much storage does CDP need when compared to the amount of application data that it is protecting? Is it:

(A)  2x
(B)  3x
(C)  5x
(D)  7x
(E)  10x or more
I'll get to the...[more]

A Disk Backup Target Can be Much More than a Glorified Form of Tape

Thursday, March 4, 2010

The introduction of disk and deduplication into the backup process over the last few years has certainly helped to minimize existing backup problems. Organizations using these technologies have found that their backup success rates now approach 100% and that they no longer have to continually troubleshoot backup problems. But while...[more]

Point, Click, Recover: Cloud-based DR has Arrived

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

At the conclusion of a recent call I had with Rob Tellone, the CEO of vBC Cloud, he asked me, "What do you consider the difference between business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR)?" I gave him my definition of each but then went on to explain...[more]

The New Server Virtualization Imperative for 2010: Application Consistent Recovery with Low Overhead

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Server virtualization was one of the hot technology trends in 2009 and there is every reason to believe it will remain that way in 2010.  But as this trend broadens to include the virtualization of mission critical applications like Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server, new considerations come into play. Most...[more]

Disaster Recovery is Definitely a "Start Small but Think Big" Application when it comes to Virtualization

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Even though Gartner Research says that server virtualization is not yet widely implemented (only 16 percent of workloads currently run on virtual machines according to Gartner), Gartner does point to a more virtualized environment in the very near future. It expects...[more]

Creating Test, Dev and DR Environments that can Co-Exist without the Complexity

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Disaster recovery (DR), testing and development environments have historically been closely linked whether or not anyone liked to admit it. Organizations would construct test and development environments and then use them for DR purposes if needed; or, they would quietly repurpose computer gear purchased using DR funds for testing and...[more]

CDP Makes the Value of Disk-based Data Protection Self-evident

Monday, November 9, 2009

This past spring a debate erupted on BackupCentral.com between a user complaining about not getting new features in his backup software as part of his annual maintenance contract and his backup software provider wanting to charge extra for it. The user was, in his...[more]

New Multi-Tenancy Feature Makes DR Software a Viable SaaS Option

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Software as a Service (SaaS) is on almost every company's radar screen as a cost-effective means for outsourcing applications that are not core competencies of their IT staff. Yet while outsourcing more applications sounds great in theory, applications such as disaster recovery (DR) that organizations are looking to outsource must...[more]