A recent fire in London’s Soho district meant some businesses were locked out of their offices for several days. The Buncefield Oil depot fire had a similar effect on many more businesses for much longer. How would your business cope if a nearby incident or disaster meant you couldn’t access vital IT systems for days [...]
Options for disaster recovery: How to cope if the office is flooded
Whitepaper 17th August
Real-time replication for Windows clusters
News 10th June
Today real time replication specialist Neverfail began beta testing of ClusterProtector, which provides real-time data replication over a WAN for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server systems running under Microsoft Cluster Server. Andrew Barnes, Neverfail senior vice president of corporate development, told The Hypervisor that the disaster recovery suite should be ready for production environments by [...]
Data dedupe for 98% less storage
Lab Notes 13th May
We’ve heard reports of one user that is seeing a 50x reduction in the amount of storage space needed for backups of their virtual machines thanks to data de-deplication, or dedupe, technology from DataDomain. In this case the DataDomain dedupe tool was integrated with Vizioncore vRanger Pro backup software, so the user simply needs to [...]
Replication replaces server backups
Comment 3rd May
Judging by some of the virtual machine (VM) management tools we evaluated recently, server backup software could soon be replaced by server replication tools. The trouble with backups is they spend most of their life archived on some tape or disk storage system. Even if you test the tape as soon as you’ve made it, [...]
Neverfail launches HA module for VirtualCenter
News 18th January
Neverfail today announced the launch of Neverfail for VMware VirtualCenter. The new software enables firms to make a real time replica of their VirtualCenter management server. When used in conjunction with VirtualCenter 2.5, the two servers can be linked using normal Internet links, without the need for a VPN connection. John Posavatz, vice-president of product [...]
Vizioncore vReplicator 2.1 available for download
Lab Notes 4th September
We’ve now downloaded and installed our copy of Vizioncore vReplicator 2.1 from this link. The installation package has grown in size somewhat since the previous release. The version 2 download package was under 6MB, while the latest version is a whopping 63.3MB. Of course, some of the new features account for much of the increase [...]