Video: Separate VM backups or Unified Protection?

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As many in the IT industry are getting ready for VMworld, my mind always wanders back to what seems to be the perennial question – “Use a separate backup solution for protecting VMs … or a single solution for physical and virtual servers?” It used to be that the Virtualization-specific solutions did an inarguably better … Read more

Using snapshot and replication in your data protection strategy

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How does replication fit with snapshot backup as part of a data protection strategy? And what are the biggest mistakes or misconceptions you see today about replication and backup? We are seeing big upticks in adding replication to snapshots and traditional backup. In fact, in ESG’s recent report on data protection strategies for highly virtualized … Read more

Video summary of Disk-Based Backup Target Systems

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A few months ago, ESG completed its research on Disk-Based Backup Target Systems – the storage platforms that data protection solutions are often built upon. The nice folks in ESG’s video team were kind enough to help me record some of our findings, as well as what made the research compelling. CLICK HERE to read … Read more

Thinking about Xbox Home Server

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My friend Mark Bowker recently blogged about the hypothetical potential of a Microsoft Surface Server. Since he covers Virtualization for ESG, he has a lot of opportunities to think about converged infrastructure, as well as the impressive hardware stacks of converged infrastructure that are powering today’s data centers. At the same time, another friend, Rod … Read more