Actifio Bulks Up with $33.5 Million to Extend Leadership in Virtualizing Data Management

Actifio™, the Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform company, today announced that it has raised $33.5 million in an over-subscribed Series C financing round. Andreessen Horowitz led the round and joins existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures in the new investment, targeted towards executing on the growth phase of… Continue reading Actifio Bulks Up with $33.5 Million to Extend Leadership in Virtualizing Data Management

Small Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization

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Twenty-five percent of small businesses boost IT ROI with virtualized servers; 73 percent of those without virtualization are investigating or planning to virtualize CDW LLC, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare, today introduced the CDW Small Business Virtualization Roadmap, a technology adoption guide that also reports survey… Continue reading Small Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization

Veeam Releases Backup & Replication v6 Data Protection Software

Veeam Continues Innovation in Areas of Scalability, Replication and 1-Click File Restore, in Addition to Previously Announced Multi-Hypervisor Support Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today unveiled major enhancements in Veeam Backup & Replication™ v6. With this new release, Veeam becomes the first… Continue reading Veeam Releases Backup & Replication v6 Data Protection Software

Cloud Survey Highlights IT Pros’ Optimism, Concerns

IT professionals see big potential in the Cloud, but worry CEOs may be expecting too much at Cloud Expo 2011 NEW YORK: A sampling of opinions from information technology (IT) professionals attending this week’s Cloud Expo from a range of major industries (excluding technology providers) reveals gaps between IT pros and their non-technical senior executives… Continue reading Cloud Survey Highlights IT Pros’ Optimism, Concerns

StorageCraft Releases New Virtual Disaster Recovery Software

ShadowProtect Virtual delivers affordable, flexible backup solutions for hybrid environments With so many different combinations of physical systems and virtual environments in today’s storage strategy, it is important for IT professionals to use a disaster recovery solution built to handle systems and data backup in any environment in order to ensure business continuity. StorageCraft Technology… Continue reading StorageCraft Releases New Virtual Disaster Recovery Software

Overview of the Veeam Backup & Replication Software

In my last blog I went through various hardware that we use for backup purposes and their specifications. Since I wrote that article, I’ve been busy testing and deploying Veeam Backup and Replication virtualization backup software along with Symantec BackupExec 2010 R2. I will post reviews and HOW-Tos on both but first I wanted to… Continue reading Overview of the Veeam Backup & Replication Software

Veeam v5 vs. Symantec: Best VMware Backup Solution?

In a 2010 Symantec datacenter survey, IT sites without a virtual infrastructure project planned or in progress represented just 18% of the 1,780 sites surveyed. On the other hand, roughly half of the sites with a virtual operating environment were planning to expand the use of virtual machines (VMs) by running missioncritical database-driven applications. Nonetheless, Symantec’s… Continue reading Veeam v5 vs. Symantec: Best VMware Backup Solution?