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What is Zerto Elastic Journal?

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Zerto’s recent news about their upcoming Zerto 7 might be a changing point for the data protection industry. Their recent announcement about the Elastic Journal which will combine short and long-term retention into a continuous stream of recovery points where you’ll be able to search for VMs, files or application from 7 sec to 7 […]

Nakivo Self-Backup – What is it and How to Configure

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One of the latest additions in Nakivo Backup and Replication software is Nakivo Self-backup feature. Today, we’ll explain how it works, what’s the catch up (if there is) and the different possibilities you have when using it. As you know, Nakivo can install in 4 different ways. To different physical/virtual systems and also on some NAS devices. […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5U3a Upgrade

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This is a short post which will demonstrate the upgrade process of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U3 to U3a. The U3a was released a week ago and also directly integrated to the Full 9.5 U3a ISO, but for the upgrade, you’ll only need the “veeam_backup_9.5.0.1922.update3a_setup.exe” which is a separate download, once logged in at […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3a Released Supporting vSphere 6.7 – Download Now

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Since last week, Veeam has made finally available the latest update of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3a, which supports VMware vSphere 6.7. It is an important update to install before you’ll upgrade your vSphere to the latest 6.7 release. It also has a vSphere 6.5 U2 support for those who updated their vSphere 6.5 to […]

Nakivo Bandwidth Throttling – Create a Speed Limit on a Per-Job Basis

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Today we’ll have a look at Nakivo Backup and Replication, and particularly at one function, it has – Bandwidth Throttling. Nakivo Backup and Replication supports Bandwidth Throttling since it’s version 7.4. This post will talk about Nakivo Bandwidth Throttling and How it works. Bandwidth throttling allows you to limit the speed of your jobs so your […]

StarWind Free Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

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Today we have a free software announce – StarWind Free Virtual Tape Library (VTL). Besides the free version, they also have Paid Software solution or Appliance (hardware+software). The free version of StarWind VTL has All the features of the commercial version. The “catch” is in the GUI where you can use it only in monitoring […]

Zerto Announces IT Resilience Platform and Zerto 7 during ZertoCON

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A big news today from Zerto as they have just started ZertoCON 2018 in Boston, yesterday. Zerto announces IT Resilience Platform and Zerto 7. IT Resilience platform converges backup, DR, and cloud mobility into a single platform scalable platform. We’ll also talk about new Elastic Journal protection which is previewed during ZertoCON and which allows not […]

Nakivo Automated VM Failover – How it works?

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Nakivo with their latest release, Nakivo 7.4 brought an interesting feature allowing setup an Automated VM failover. In this post, we’ll have a look what’s necessary to do in order to be able to use this feature, and then how it works. Let’s say your infrastructure have a second, remote site. It’s fairly common not […]

Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.1 Released With New Standard Edition

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Previously we had an only single edition with Vembu BDR Suite. Now things changed as Vembu is targetting more the SMB sector, which is obviously good news for all SMBs. The latest Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.1 for VMware and Hyper-V introduces Standard Edition destined for Small Businesses (SMBs). With this new Standard edition of Vembu BDR Suite, SMBs has […]