We had a chat with Zerto’s contact Steve Blow, during VMworld Barcelona 2018 event. I’ve asked a few questions about Zerto and their insights on their new Elastic Journal which will be a key element of the new Zerto 7.0 when released in Q1 2019. Steve works for Zerto as a technical evangelist. Update: Zerto […]
Nakivo 8.1 Public Beta Announced during VMworld Barcelona – Download Now
During VMworld Barcelona 2018 I also had a stop at Nakivo booth where Tatyana shared some insights from a new Beta Version of Nakivo 8.1. This release brings universal application recovery allowing you to recover objects from any application. Another feature coming up is a Policy-based protection where you can set up policies and have […]
VMworld Barcelona and Vembu Software Roadmap shows Oracle support and More
During VMworld Barcelona 2018 I went to see Vembu software at their stand. This vendor isn’t located far away from Reunion Island. In fact, they are from Chennai (India) so part of the culture from Reunion is same as there as part of our population came from India when slavery was abolished, to work at the […]
Cohesity Data Platform Overview
During my VMworld Barcelona 2018 last week I was invited to a Cohesity briefing and was introduced to their product. I and other analysts and vExperts were able to get some insights into Cohesity’s product called Cohesity Data Platform. This product is currently a complete storage solution (software and hardware) which handles data protection of your […]
Disaster Recovery with NETGEAR and Nakivo
We have already talked about integration between Nakivo Backup and Replication and NAS hardware products, such as Synology or QNAP. Today we’ll highlight another integration between Nakivo and Netgear. This post’s title is Disaster Recovery with NETGEAR and Nakivo. NAKIVO Backup and Replication supports quite a few Netgear ReadyNAS devices. Before we get started, let’s first talk about […]
Zerto 7 Intelligent Index and Search Capabilities
Intelligent index and search capabilities present in Zerto 7 will be one of the key points when used in conjunction with the Zerto Elastic Journal for backup and recovery. Zerto 7 software is scheduled for release in Q1 2019. In this post, we’ll talk about Zerto 7 Intelligent Index and Search Capabilities, but also about […]
Vembu BDR Suite 4.0 Announced
Vembu BDR suite 4.0 has been announced. The exact release isn’t known yet, but shall be out sometimes next month – November. Vembu BDR suite 4.0 has some new features which we’ll detail in this post. We’re slowly approaching VMworld Europe 2018 so I think that every backup vendor out there will be announcing lots of […]
VembuHIVE FileSystem Details
Vembu software uses an interesting file system within their backup product and we’ll have a look today at some details. It is an object-based file system which stores the metadata allowing to expose every incremental backup as full. So the restores are faster and can also be used for migrations from and to different hypervisors platforms (Hyper-V to VMware for example […]
Nakivo Synology Details, Benefits and Advantages
Nakivo Backup and Replication is available for certain NAS. There are some benefits in doing so and in this post, we’ll discuss that and have a look at the details. As you know, Nakivo is no longer the new software vendor but rather the one who’s product has very flexible deployment options. You can deploy […]
Nakivo Backup and Replication v 8.0 Released
Nakivo Backup and Replication v 8.0 Released. The product’s highlight is a Site Recovery feature allowing you to create site recovery jobs (SR). Part of those jobs can be not only regular recovery or replication actions, but you’ll also be able to orchestrate things around with for example gracefully shut down source VMs, run a […]