IT managers don’t need a recession to appreciate free downloads of useful tools, but many vendors today are packaging scaled down applications and utilities as freeware to help customers take on ...

As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.

While we haven’t compared VMware backup solutions one to one, it is easy to understand based on features. Offers native backup and replication for VMware, Hyper-V, or AWS environments, i.e., work over ...

Collecting data is one thing; protecting it is another. Backup and recovery systems are a necessary part of any IT infrastructure. Even so, no one likes it. Backup is slow, complex and often expensive ...

Virtual machine backup can be done using a traditional backup product with agents in each virtual server's file store but can also be carried out via snapshot or by backing up the virtual machine and ...

Symantec's Backup Exec Agent for VMware lets IT managers back up virtual machines to a SAN, tape or disk without having to offload to a proxy. Virtualization is now an integral part of most data ...

The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took ...

Most organisations these days prefer to deploy most new servers as virtual machines (VMs), with physical servers deployed only in exceptional or business-justified cases. Virtual backup appliances – ...

Virtualization is now an integral part of most data center consolidation and green initiatives at many IT organizations. It's also at the core of technologies such as cloud computing. But while ...