Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

Azure Backup Server can protect and can sufficiently back up VMware vCenter Server versions. The first step is to establish a secure connection to the vCenter Server. For this, it is essential to have ...

Traditional backup of virtualization machines can be costly, slow, and complicated. IDrive accelerates savings and backup times with incremental backups, simple restores, and disaster recovery for ...

Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware for US$69bn led to disruptive changes in the virtualisation provider’s pricing. Key here is a move from perpetual licences to a subscription model. This has left ...

When is a backup not a backup? When you can't get information out of that backup. Backups are worthless if you can't actually restore from them, a truism that underlies much of the real-world planning ...

This is for my home lab, which is a pair of NUCs running vSphere/vCenter 7, connected via iSCSI to a Synology NAS, backing up over the network to an SMB share on an old Mac mini. There are only ~10 ...

Recently cyber protection and hybrid cloud storage provider Acronis released Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 4, which introduces "physical data shipping, cross-platform virtual machine (VM) conversion, ...

Technically, backing up virtual servers running on VMware ESX and Infrastructure server should be simple, given that they’re just disk images, not actual disks. In practice, however, it’s not quite so ...