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Veeam v9 Scale-Out Backup Repository – Maintenance Mode

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Veeam v9 Scale-Out Backup Repository can have one (or several) nodes to be put into maintenance mode. A node which is part of a Scale-Out backup repository after being put into a maintenance mode, backup files can be evacuated off that node. What is that maintenance mode and how it can help? We have discussed […]

Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository

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Veeam is introducing another new feature called Scale-Out Backup repository. A global single pool which contains all your existing backup repositories. This feature will be is present in Veeam Availability Suite v9. Check out my latest post Veeam Backup and Replication 9 Released! How does it work? In fact, you’ll be able to gather all your existing […]

Veeam Backup and Replication v9 New Features [Video]

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I recorded this video during VMworld Barcelona 2015 (check my detailed page), with Luca Dell’Oca (@dellock6) from Veeam Software. I had a few questions to ask him about the upcoming v9 of Veeam Backup & Replication. He told me that another new feature shall be announced this week as well. The product shall be out […]

Nakivo 5.8 allows being deployed on on Western Diginal NAS to speed up backups

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Nakivo which our readers know for their backup and replication solution and fast setup and UI, brings some new innovative features to the already crowded virtualization backup eco-system. Nakivo is announcing in its 5.8 release possibility to install their solution directly on a NAS (Western Digital currently) which apparently brings more speed to backup jobs […]

Altaro VM Backup 6 for VMware And Hyper-V Released

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New release of Altaro VM Backup 6 for VMware And Hyper-V is out. This new release is supporting vSphere 6 and it’s the first time in history of Altaro as previously the product supported only Hyper-V. The backup market is very dynamic and traditional (legacy) backup products leaving the space now occupied by younger startups […]

Unitrends Virtual Backup FREE for VMware – Product Review

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Unitrends has a new FREE product allowing you to backup/recover VMs running under VMware or Hyper-V environments. The free version has no limits in functions, only in capacity so you’re able to use this product over an unlimited time period with full functionality. The only limits on your backups is the amount of protected data. […]

Veeam Endpoint Backup 1.1 With Universal Restore (Dissimilar Hardware) enhancements

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Veeam Endpoint Backup 1.1 was released few days ago to in first point assure a compatibility with Windows 10. Even though it was possible to use a simple trick without upgrading to Endpoint 1.1, the reason why you might be interested to upgrade (for Free) to this latest reease is the fact that this new […]

Veeam Explorer for Oracle DB

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Veeam has announced last week that Veeam Explorer for Oracle will be part of the Veeam v9 release scheduled later this year. Veeam Explorer for Oracle DB will be already 6th Explorer as the family of explorers has already AD, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Storage Snapshots. I suppose that the utility will be part of […]

RecoverPoint 4.3 for VMs – Free DR product for VMware with multi-site protection

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There is a new software available for VMware vSphere and the good news is that it’s completely free. It’s called RecoverPoint and it comes out from EMC. The software is free, but if you’d like to have support, you must pay for the support. RecoverPoint 4.3 for VMs can replicate source RDMs (Raw Device Mappings) […]