Veeam V7 vCloud Director Preview
Veeam has been advertising some of their Veeam Backup and Replication V7 features for a while now, but I finally got access to the beta and was allowed to bring you a preview of some of the new technology. This…
Category: Backup and Recovery
Zerto: First week experience
Update Oct 2016 – Please note that the version of Zerto used for screenshots in this article is version 3.x. While similar, the user interface in current Zerto releases if very different looking and uses an all HTML5 interface. I…
Zerto, could it be the answer to your DR prayers?
From the Zerto site: Zerto provides enterprise-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions for virtualized infrastructure and cloud. Zerto won Best of Show at VMworld 2011, as well as 2011 Product of the Year Gold Award because our software,…
Cloudberry Online Backup Review
If you are looking to push your small business or even just your personal laptop backups to the cloud, Cloudberry‘s Online Backup product might just be what you are looking for! Cloudberry offers several backup products for almost any situation,…
Win some lab gear from Unitrends!
This contest has perfect timing, I am working on my review of several backup products and Unitrends was already on the list to review. If however you are a geek like me and also need some lab gear head over…
Appassure 5 Backup: Installation and Configuration Review
As promised this is the first of a couple articles on the backup products I have been watching. I plan to go through them in alphabetical order, starting with Appassure and ending with Veeam. In the middle I plan to…
Veeam 6.5 Released!
Personally I have been waiting for this one since VMworld… Mainly because Veeam 6.5 now supports vSphere 5.1, aside from that Veeam 6.5 also has some other new features. Probably the second biggest new feature in 6.5 is the Exchange…
Upgrading Data Domain Appliances without Sacrificing Capacity
Data Domain 620 appliances come in two flavors, a 12TB version and a 7TB version, for both versions the chassis is the same only the drive count is different. For the 12TB version you get 12x1TB drives in RAID 6,…
Veeam and Data Domain: A Case Study
This is the story of a customer who recently implemented Veeam and Data Domain; all names have been changed to protect the innocent, etc etc 🙂 Background “BOB’S BAIT AND TACKLE” was running VMware 4.1 on a mostly HP environment,…
Win a Dream Lab from Veeam
If you need some new lab gear you will want to stop by booth 1709 at VMworld this year. Veeam is giving away pretty sweet home lab setup this year, and it looks like all you need to do is…