Unitrends ReliableDR 4.0 Extends Enterprise Recovery Assurance to Hyper-V

Unitrends today announced general availability of Unitrends ReliableDR™ 4.0, the industry’s first automated disaster recovery failover and testing solution for Microsoft® Hyper-V® environments. Version 4.0 extends the widely-sought recovery assurance capabilities previously available for VMware vSphere. The release of ReliableDR 4.0 is the latest in a remarkable succession of product innovation unveiled by Unitrends in… Continue reading Unitrends ReliableDR 4.0 Extends Enterprise Recovery Assurance to Hyper-V

How to setup Multi Site SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Cluster with Two FCIs Across Datacenters?

In this how-to tutorial, we will look at implementing multi-node, multi-site SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) with two Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) across two geographically dispersed datacenters for High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR). I am currently working on a project where we’re going to upgrade from previous version of SQL… Continue reading How to setup Multi Site SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Cluster with Two FCIs Across Datacenters?

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

Small Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization

Server Virtualization

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

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

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?