ROBO backup necessary for ample corporate data protection

Corporate data needs to be protected to a corporate standard, even if the servers don’t reside within corporate data center walls. There are three locations where data might reside within your environment: data centers, endpoint devices and remote office or branch offices (ROBO) data. In general, we might make two over-simplistic recommendations: Data center servers … Read more

Backing up virtual machines doesn’t have to hurt

Backing up virtual servers was a serious challenge for a number of years. Even today, many shops use traditional, agent-based backup to protect virtual servers. But it’s a classic example of something working well until it doesn’t. Virtual server backup has a threshold of sorts. If you just need to protect a few, or even … Read more

VMworld 2015 Had Some Great Marketing

There was some great marketing execution at VMworld 2015. As a sequel to my blog last year that “Event Marketing Doesn’t Get Enough Credit,” here is my tip of the hat to some of the unsung heroes of tradeshows: the events planners and marketing leaders that ensure that the technology experts and sales folks have … Read more

VMware DRaaS Announcements are a Good Thing!

Today, VMware announced enhancements to both its vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. In both cases, VMware is essentially asking, “Why just BaaS when you can DRaaS?” Over the past three VMworld events: In 2013, VMware was talking about vSphere Data Protection (VDP/VDPA). In 2014, VMware discussed maturations and enhancements in … Read more