One aspect of VMware that they have often prided themselves on is this whole notion of virtual machine portability and interoperability. With so many different virtualization platforms to choose from, ...
Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon.org continue their VMworld 2012 coverage in this spotlight segment on backup and recovery for VMware customers and practitioners. Vellante and Miniman ...
Network Appliance Inc. today unveiled software that it said can ease backup and storage management tasks for corporate IT operations running VMware Inc. virtual servers. NetApp’s new SnapManager for ...
EMC, IBM, and others are strengthening their ability to back up virtual machines. Initial versions focus on database servers. More will be needed down the road. Major storage players EMC and IBM are ...
The virtual machine (VM) is the standard unit of deployment in today’s IT. Utilisation rates reach 80% or more, with many organisations running completely virtual environments. As a result, VM backup ...
VMware has launched its Lifecycle Manager product aimed at IT managers looking for help in managing virtual machines. As well as control over virtual machines the software helps managers to measure ...
Specialist virtualisation backup and data protection software maker Veeam has announced it has upgraded its Availability Suite version 8 to support VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), Virtual SAN (VSAN) ...
Today, VMware has introduced a public beta test of a program called ACE 2 Enterprise Edition. The original ACE program was a version of VMware that allowed users to construct specific virtual machines ...
Having a virtual machine on-hand can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as testing software or tweaks in a sandboxed environment that is separate from your primary operating system. A virtual ...