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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 […]

How-to Restore vCenter Server VM with Veeam Instant Recovery

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If you’re running vCenter Server in a VM and something terrible happens, like a virus, file system corruption, Microsoft patch which went wrong, or a certificate problem, then read on. Anything can happen to your vCenter Server. So if you end up in that situation and you’re running Veeam Backup as your primary backup solution, you […]

Veeam Agent for Linux – Image level backup for Linux [BETA]

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Veeam releasing another free product for IT administrators. This time, it is a product which will interests IT admins managing Linux systems as the new product’s name is Veeam Agent for Linux. (Beta). I previously reported on this as Veeam Endpoint for Linux but the name is Veeam Agent for Linux. The product has minimalistic […]

Zerto Virtual Replication – Stay Protected even if ESXi host is in Maintenance mode

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Today it’s another post about Zerto Virtual Replication and what to do in case you have to put your ESXi host into a maintenance mode. Previous posts showed the Installation, creation of VPG (virtual protection group), but also a configuration of long term backup with up to 1 year retention period. This long term backup allows […]