Last week Veeam released Update 3 for Backup & Replication 8 taking the build number to 8.0.0.2084 and with the update, Veeam have released a couple new features and enhancements including: Support for Windows 10 as guest virtual machines (VMs), including application-aware processing. Support for vSphere 6.0 Update 1 Improved performance of certain user interface operations, such […] Read More
Altaro VMBackup – The Maltese Connection
Those that know me know that I am a very proud Australian of Maltese decent…so when I was emailed a while back to see if I would review the beta for Altaro’s new version of their Hyper-V Backup solution I was drawn by the surnames of the Altaro founders. After a quick Google I discovered […] Read More
Rubrik – Converged Data Management 2.0 Announcement
Rubrik is a company a lot of IT Professionals have been keeping an eye since release of their v1.0 Appliance back in May. Their industry DNA is extremely impressive and with an equally impressive technical team they are set to shake up the B&R industry. I was thoroughly impressed with the Virtualization Field Day presentation […] Read More
Online Storage Wars – What’s in it for Service Providers?
Last weekend I signed up for an account at MEGA. This is @KimDotCom‘s new venture attempting to send a big F-U to the regulatory forces that are accusing him of copyright infringement and extradition to the US (for more info, head to the Wikipedia page) …off the bat you get a free 50GB account to basically so whatever you […] Read More
The Backup Delusion – Part 2
It’s been a while since my first post on this topic, but there has certainly been a lot of thought and effort put into this subject since then. At first I envisaged this to be a two part post, but I think I’m going to break this up over a couple more posts, that focus on a […] Read More
The Backup Delusion – Part 1
Ill put this right out there! I would rather live in a world without Backup and Recovery. I have burnt countless hours and hair follicles working my way through and trying to tame backup application platforms. Unfortunately we have not reached a point whereby the technology we use is reliable and resilient enough to prevent […] Read More