Looking for the Right Data Backup Solution for the Virtual World? Ask Yourself These Three Questions
Backup is like an insurance policy. You want it for the peace of mind, but you don’t want it to dominate your workday (also, nights and weekends!). You need to protect data on your virtual machines to guard against hardware/storage failures and user errors. You may also have regulatory and compliance requirements to protect data for the longer term.Defying Convention at VMworld 2013: Designing VMware backups that work!
VMworld 2013 is just a week away. Perhaps this is the one of the biggest technology events where I get to see experts who really get their hands dirty (functional IT staff like system administrators, VM administrators, Storage administrators, solution architects etc.) back in their jobs.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Infinite Scalability!!!
One of the things that weigh on an IT director’s mind is how he/she can keep up with their company’s growth in the data center. These areas include server growth, application growth, bandwidth and network growth, and just as important, data growth. In addition, how do they keep all that up with limited budget, both from a CapEx and OpEx perspective?
