Virtualization technology has increased the challenge of backing up server environments. IT administrators have to choose from among a variety of virtual server backup options, including agent-based ...

As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.

Physical servers are so last year ...

In addition, CommVault's new software also became one of the first applications to allow deduplication of data that is backed up to tape. Backing up data from virtual servers has become an important ...

When Microsoft released Windows Vista with a backup tool that images your entire system down into one file, I was very interested. My interest in this new feature, called CompletePC Backup, waned ...

Looks interesting, playing with their vPower stuff which allows vm's to be run off the de-dupe backups in a read only mode over NFS. I'm the 'storage guy' not the VMWare guy, but we certainly do use ...

A random survey of VMworld attendees found that more than a quarter have virtual backup success rates of less than 60 percent and that 41 percent use multiple backup products Data backups in ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...