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3CX Phone System Backup Options

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3CX Phone system is a software solution allowing you to put in place a complete phone system software very quickly.  You can use hardware or deploy it in a VM. It’s even possible to deploy the solution on a $100 Mini-PC. (with some cautions). The simplified installer can deploy the solution in 15 minutes. I […]

Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 – What’s New?

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Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 has been announced during VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas! It gets even better with a nice add which can do a simultaneous replication of a VM within the same site and to multiple remote sites. This includes replication from, between and to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments as well as […]

Nakivo Flash VM Boot and how to configure and use

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Today’s post will be about a feature called Nakivo Flash VM Boot, which was introduced back in 2014 in Nakivo Backup and Replication product. This feature allows boot VMs from a backup repository and to be up and running fast instead of waiting to restore to the production storage first. Flash VM Boot provides the ability to run VMware […]

Veeam 9.5 and Microsoft ReFS – Win Win for a Virtualization Admins

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This is a “killer” feature to blog about toady. Sorry about the title if too catchy, but It seduced me the most. It is not the only announcements that we could assist yesterday during Veeam’s Online event (you can re-watch the recording here) where 16 000 Virtualization admins listened to Veeam’s Plans for the very […]

Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) Product Review

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Who is Vembu Backup & DR? Vembu Technologies is a software company which isn’t well known, because they focused at the service provider level first, since 2004. As a result, Vembu has 60000 clients through 4000 service provider network. Vembu Technologies has recently released a backup and DR suite called Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery […]

Rubrik Data Protection – Physical workloads, Multi-Clouds, ROBO and Edge environments

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Rubrik is not an unknown company to our readers as I already reported twice on this interesting startup. The first time I met with Rubrik it was during Virtualization Field Day in Boston I reported about their efficient data management architecture.  The second time it was during VMworld Barcelona where you could read the post and watch […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 9 U2 Released

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Veeam released Update 2 for v9 of their flagship product – Veeam Backup And Replication. This new update that Anton Gostev has announced in Veeam Monday’s newsletter, brings vCloud director 8.1 support as well as VSAN 6.2 support. I personally run VSAN 6.2 since its official release (back in March) and backing up with Veeam without […]

Nakivo 6.1 Released – What’s New?

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Nakivo 6.1 Released yesterday, which again, enhances existing features and brings new ones. We’ll show you the details in a minute. Nakivo stays one of my preferred products as they have a clean and fast web based UI. I think VMware should take a closer look at their blazing fast HTML 5 UI….. What really […]

Altaro Backup Can be deployed on Server Core/Hyper-V Core – Did you know?

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I stumbled through this on Altaro website when searching through a documentation, and I found an Interesting fact about Altaro software, which you may do not know. It is a fact that Altaro Backup Can be deployed on Server Core/Hyper-V Core. You can use Server Core/Hyper-V Server, WS2008 R2, WS2012 and WS2012 R2. The Windows […]

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