A fundamental part of protecting IT is ensuring that the services provided by virtual machines are resilient and robust at all levels of the compute stack, from hardware through to the application.

The Hyper-V replica feature is primarily thought of as a protective mechanism for organizations that lack the budget for a full-blown Hyper-V server. The replica feature maintains a nearly up-to-date ...

Last month we looked at the basics of Hyper-V Replica, including how to configure it, selecting the transport protocol between two servers and setting up a virtual machine (VM) for replication. This ...

The final part of Brien's Hyper-V upgrade involves using a 10GbE connection for replication traffic -- without having access to enterprise-class hardware. In Part 1, I talked about some of the ...

Managing transient data (data that is created within an application session that is not saved in the database after the application is terminated) is important, but all backup and disaster recovery ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

I am getting ready to protect VMs and replicate from our production to DR datacenter. Our underlying storage is Equallogic and we have a very important decision to make: 1) Replicate at array level ...

New VM offering for download from Microsoft Azure Marketplace enables AppAssure customers to easily replicate backups to the public cloud Offering enables efficient backup retention, reliable archive ...

EMC is putting replication and recovery into the hands of VMware administrators with a software version of its RecoverPoint appliance that’s designed for cloud computing. The new tool, RecoverPoint ...