World Backup Day – 31 March
World Backup Day is just around the corner – an event that celebrates the importance of protecting our data. Those of us interested in Boomerang know the importance of backing up our VMware VMs (and...
View ArticleCloud Adoption vs Cloud-based Backup, Disaster Recovery: Mind the Gap
A tale of two surveys, one by Solarwinds, the other by Unitrends. In December 2015, Solarwinds surveyed 257 IT professionals in the US and Canada as the basis of its IT Trends Report 2016: The Hybrid...
View ArticleIntroducing VMware’s HTML5 vSphere Client
Over the last few years, VMware has suffered the criticism of customers and industry reviewers for continuing to offer a Web Client that relies on Flash. The arguments against Flash are many; a...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 6.5 Web Client and vSphere Client – VMware Does the Right Thing
More of What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5 VMware faced the same issue that Unitrends did in terms of its user interface when they launched VMware vSphere 6.5: its most commonly used user interface...
View ArticleVMware, Nutanix, and AWS: Top 3 Virtualization Stories of 2016
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” [Blaise Pascal] IT professionals are busy. Really busy. It’s really simple. They have to do more stuff and protect more stuff...
View ArticleElastic Stack and VMware PowerCLI = Great Analytics and Visualization
Elastic Stack is a great big data and analytics platform that can be used for multiple purposes and its core functionality is free. We are using it internally on different projects but I want to share...
View ArticleAre you Outside of Veeam’s Sweet Spot?
I work many computer trade shows each year and get to talk directly to attending IT professionals. Needless to say, I enjoy interacting with Unitrends customers because it allows me to ask them what...
View ArticleCloud Religion: AWS’s Holy War Versus Azure Stack
Last week Microsoft released a technical preview of Azure Stack. What is Azure Stack? To quote Microsoft: Azure Stack extends the Azure vision by bringing the cloud model of computing to every...
View ArticleRecovery Assurance – How to Configure ReliableDR
This is the third part in the Recovery Assurance series where I show how to configure ReliableDR to connect into your infrastructure. My goal is to give you a general overview of the process. For...
View ArticleRecovery Assurance – Which Job is Right For You?
Let’s assume that ReliableDr is up and running in your environment and connected to all of the hosts and Unitrends appliances that you will be including in the DR plan. We went over these steps in the...
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