PHD Virtual Launches Enhanced Backup Appliance for Complete Data Protection

PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual machine backup and recovery, and innovator of virtualization monitoring solutions, announced today its enhanced PHD Virtual Backup 6.1, the purpose-built backup appliance for improved data protection at a fraction of the cost of competitive solutions. With the release of PHD Virtual Backup 6.1, users have access to the… Continue reading PHD Virtual Launches Enhanced Backup Appliance for Complete Data Protection

Top 10 Cloud Backup and DR Best Practices

Building out a complete disaster recovery infrastructure can be cost prohibitive for many organizations. This paper identifies the many ways the public cloud can supplement backup and recovery strategies and offers overall best practices to ensure secure and efficient data protection. Many organizations want to improve their ability to recover from system failures and data… Continue reading Top 10 Cloud Backup and DR Best Practices

Actifio Launches PAS 20T, Radically Simple Copy Data Management for the Midmarket

VMworld US 2012 Actifio™, the radically simple copy data management company, today launched a new addition to its award-winning Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) portfolio: PAS 20T. Designed for zero-administration and zero-install, PAS 20T is a single, virtualized solution for data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, test and development or any application that creates copies… Continue reading Actifio Launches PAS 20T, Radically Simple Copy Data Management for the Midmarket

EMC Avamar Powers New VMware vSphere Data Protection Solution

VMworld 2012 – Solution Highlights VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, powered by EMC® Avamar® software, is an all-new backup and recovery solution to be included with VMware vSphere 5.1. VMware vSphere Data Protection is tightly integrated with vSphere, simple to set up and can be managed directly from the new vSphere Web Client. VMware vSphere Data… Continue reading EMC Avamar Powers New VMware vSphere Data Protection Solution

Quest Software Adds Physical Server Backup and Restore Capabilities to vRanger

VMworld US 2012: With virtualization now the norm in the data center, a growing number of organizations are augmenting their legacy physical backup tools with modern technologies purpose-built for the virtual environment. A recent Quest Software survey indicates that 86 percent of organizations use two or more backup products to protect their physical and virtual… Continue reading Quest Software Adds Physical Server Backup and Restore Capabilities to vRanger

Backup and Restore VMware ESXi host configuration

So, how do you backup and restore ESXi host configuration? Having a backup plan for your virtual machines is important but you can enhance resiliency of your virtual environment if the backup plan includes configuration of the actual ESXi host running the virtual machines. If a host crashes, it is matter of running a command… Continue reading Backup and Restore VMware ESXi host configuration

FalconStor Software Enables Data Protection for Educational Institutions

FalconStor Software, Inc., a market leader in disk-based data protection, today announced that higher educational institutions and school districts are using FalconStor’s suite of data protection solutions to ensure students, faculty and administrators have continuous access to information, regardless of downtime resulting from IT maintenance, malicious acts or natural disasters. With FalconStor’s solutions, organizations such… Continue reading FalconStor Software Enables Data Protection for Educational Institutions

Quest Unveils NetVault Extended Architecture to Align Backup and Recovery with Service Continuity

The role of backup and recovery has changed. In addition to ensuring organizations have at least one good copy of their data, IT must now make sure mission-critical applications and databases can be restored in accordance with service level agreements (SLAs). Problematically, traditional data protection software focuses on servers and infrastructure, with no visibility into… Continue reading Quest Unveils NetVault Extended Architecture to Align Backup and Recovery with Service Continuity