What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.0? – Part 1
I thought that it would be a good idea that I do a post on what’s new in VMware’s latest major increment of vSphere. This is part 1 of several posts where I’ll be looking at 6.0! So what’s new in...
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One of the banner features introduced in vSphere 6 is virtual volumes. VMware documentation describes VVOLs as an integration and management framework for storage, particularly SANs and NASs, which...
View ArticleThe Continued Evolution of Flash Storage in IT
Unitrends recently announced the inclusion of flash storage in their Recovery-Series physical backup appliances. So, I thought it might be timely to take a look at the continued rise of flash. Over the...
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Announced in February of 2015 and made generally available just last week, VMware vSphere 6 comes with some long awaited features that deliver innovations in the field of virtualization solutions. This...
View ArticleWhat’s Also New in VMware vSphere 6.0!
Once again I’m taking a look at VMware’s next 6.0 installment of the popular miniseries that is VMware vSphere! …. And by miniseries I mean hypervisor! The first thing I decided to mention in this post...
View ArticleWindows 10 Opens Up for Enterprises
Life without Windows seems impossible to imagine with more than 1.5 billion people across the world connecting, working and playing on this popular Operating System (OS). Almost three decades after...
View ArticleWindows 10 Hello – is facial recognition the end of passwords?
Last week Microsoft made yet more announcements about integrated features being introduced in upcoming build of Windows 10. Their goal is to continue to personalize users’ computing experiences across...
View ArticleDocker, Taylor Swift, and Protection
Docker is hot. Red hot. Taylor Swift selling platinum albums and rejecting Spotify hot. But not since VMware’s early hypervisors has a product been so hyped with so little means of protection. As...
View ArticleThanks to Docker, Containers Are Everywhere
“Build, ship and run any app, anywhere.” That’s the simple promise from Docker, which is credited with popularizing the idea of software containers a couple of years ago. Many have taken the company up...
View ArticleUnitrends Announces Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform
Up until today, IT admins with small virtualized environments had a choice to make when it comes to data protection. They could either: Try to use a free backup tool. But many of these solutions are...
View ArticleFree ESXi: Top 5 Must-Have Free Backup Features
How many times have you seen vendors marketing protection for your Free ESXi deployment only to be disappointed by huge limitations in functionality or scalability? Even more frustrating are all the...
View ArticleDetailed Analyst Rankings for Virtual Machine Backup Solutions (Unitrends vs...
By now, you’ve no doubt read a few of the blogs in this series designed to help users wade through information that Veeam has posted about Unitrends on their website. If not, I certainly recommend...
View ArticleCloud Cost Comparison Calculator
Cloud Cost Comparison Calculator : Unitrends vs Amazon and Google Many organizations have recognized that cloud based backup is a superior solution for storing copies of backups for long term retention...
View ArticleMEDITECH, VMware, and Backup
MEDITECH, VMware, and backup – how are these related? Unitrends Recovery-Series PBBA (Purpose Built Backup Appliance) and our UEB (Unitrends Enterprise Backup) software both are able to protect...
View ArticleUnitrends and Veeam: Recovery Assurance and Verified Protection
Unitrends is the only company in the industry that offers recovery assurance (what Veeam calls verified protection) for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and physical/virtual Windows servers and...
View ArticleWhat to Consider with Unitrends SAN Direct Backups
Backups are simple, right? Ideally, that’s true. However, backups can be a secondary process often overlooked and often far more intricate than initially perceived. One area in particular we’ll review...
View Article7 New Rules for Recovery
Our digital world is transforming. We believe it’s time for backup, recovery and business continuity to transform as well. We have recently launched our 7 New Rules for Recovery. These rules are...
View ArticleTake the Ransom Out of Ransomware
2016: The Year of Ransomware Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts victim’s files with unbreakable encryption and demands payment, typically around $200 to $500 in bitcoins, in order to unlock...
View ArticleCloud Solutions for Business Continuity: Are You Keeping Up with the Jones?
Understanding Cloud Solutions To understand the use of Cloud-based solutions for backup and recovery, Unitrends recently conducted their 3rd annual survey of a broad range of IT professionals. We were...
View Article[Infographic] How to Take the Ransom Out of Ransomware
Ransomware like CryptoLocker has infiltrated countless businesses, encrypted files and demanded a pound of flesh for their safe release. With no relief in sight and new variations emerging regularly,...
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