VMware and Hyper-V: Ceding SMB?
[To get things started on this Hyper-V blog, I'm going to take a few of the Hyper-V posts from the Modern Backup blog and reprise them here. Here's the third of these.] There’s a great article on the...
View ArticleUnitrends Enterprise Backup and Cross-Vaulting (Bidirectional Replication)
Had a great meeting last night with everyone at Unitrends introducing them to our worst-kept secret – Unitrends Enterprise Backup – a software-only VMware- and Hyper-V-based virtual appliance that...
View ArticleDogma, Faith, and Fact: Do You Have to Pick a Virtual Backup Religion? (Part 3)
In this continuing series of blog posts we are going to cut through the self-serving and competing claims and examine each of the arguments in favor and against the various techniques used for virtual...
View ArticleUnitrends Recovery-943: The Soul of a New Backup Appliance (Part 4)
Unitrends recently introduced the Unitrends Recovery-943. This appliance is the next generation flagship of the Unitrends Recovery-series of backup appliances. We began this series of blog posts by...
View ArticleFlexibility, Replication & Archiving –– Unitrends Recovery-943: The Soul of a...
Unitrends recently introduced the Unitrends Recovery-943. This appliance is the next generation flagship of the Unitrends Recovery-series of backup appliances. We began this series of blog posts by...
View ArticleHyper-V Replicas – Feature rich, yet insanely simple
I have been working with Hyper-V for a while now and while I think overall it has just the right feature set to create a dent in the virtualization space, I was particularly impressed with the Hyper-V...
View ArticleUnitrends 7.3 Performance Improvements
Yesterday I wrote a blog post concerning the availability of the beta version of Unitrends release 7.3 for our Recovery-series physical backup appliances and our virtual appliances (Unitrends...
View ArticleBackup Per-Job Deduplication Versus…Well…Real Deduplication
Actual Unitrends and REDACTED VMware vSphere 5.5 Storage Deduplication for a Single VM and a Single VMDK [Preface: Note that the although the data is real, the name of our competitor has been obscured,...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica and Backup
(The image above represents an example of replication and replicas – the cloning of sheep. We’ll stay with this theme in our images over the next few posts.) In the next few blog posts we’ll discuss...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica New Features and Backup
(The image above represents an example of replication and replicas – the theoretical cloning of people. We’ll stay with this theme in our images over the next few posts.) In our last post we talked...
View ArticleHow to replicate Hyper-V VMs to the Microsoft Azure cloud
Disaster recovery planning and testing should be important in any business, but budget, resource and co-location availability are often non-existent. Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced Hyper-V...
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Unitrends and Veeam: Why Veeam Is Talking About Unitrends Now
Recently a few buyers made us aware that Veeam has some web pages asking people to switch from Unitrends to Veeam. That’s fair enough; I actually think that more backup vendors should openly publish...
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Unitrends and Veeam: Continuity and Availability
Unitrends tends to promote continuity (and business continuity) while Veeam touts availability. In fact, in Veeam’s advice for Unitrends software users to switch to Veeam on their web site the term...
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Why 3-2-1 Backup Sucks
The 3-2-1 backup rule is a revered and time-honored backup strategy. It seems like every backup vendor has endorsed it with at least one going so far as to call it “timeless.” The United States...
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Do You Want Your Data Hot or Cold?
Unitrends release 9.0 has brought about significant changes in the user interface to make administering your backup solution much more intuitive. The new HTML based interface is easy to use and...
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You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
Running out of backup storage space? Funny, when you deployed that new backup solution a few years ago you never thought you would use ALL of that space up. Let’s face it, data is growing for...
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Recovery Assurance – How to Design a DR Plan With ReliableDR
Every effective DR plan starts with a good design documenting the environment and how all of the different pieces work together. This series is going to take you through the different phases of...
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Recovery Assurance – Where Should I Deploy the ReliableDR Server?
This is the second part in the Recovery Assurance series where we decide the best location for the ReliableDR server. The first part of the series, How to Design a DR Plan Using ReliableDR, showed how...
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Recovery Assurance – How to Configure ReliableDR
This is the third part in the Recovery Assurance series where I show how to configure ReliableDR to connect into your infrastructure. My goal is to give you a general overview of the process. For...
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Recovery Assurance – Which Job is Right For You?
Let’s assume that ReliableDr is up and running in your environment and connected to all of the hosts and Unitrends appliances that you will be including in the DR plan. We went over these steps in the...
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