In a world that seems to be dominated by “next big thing” messaging, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V have found a way for the last decade or so to dominate the hypervisor market share – maintaining over 80% of the market share throughout the last ten years. However, based on the emergence of several other competitors,
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Even though OpenStack environments were meant to be stateless by design (so that VMs could be easily recovered from templates) – in many cases are used as a regular virtualization platform. Stateful VMs still need to be protected and in this short article I’ll give you several ideas how you can accomplish it. Agent-based backup
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In an earlier blog post, I discussed the transformation that is occurring in the virtualization industry. That article went on to describe the increased adoption of various open-source hypervisor platforms and how the virtualization market continues to grow at a remarkable rate. Along with that growth and increased adoption comes evolution and new ideas. One
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Growing market expectations to deliver services on demand with minimized waiting time has strong influence on IT services. It can be observed that during past years the central point of interest of IT services is automation of all parts that can be automated. Most business processes went through transformation to exclude as many wastes as
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After years of almost exponential growth, with many businesses virtualizing over 80% of their workloads, the virtualization industry has hit a tipping point. Now more than ever, organizations are questioning the value proposition of the “Big Two”, VMware and Hyper-V, and looking at alternative hypervisors. And this means looking at backup eco-system alternatives as well.
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Five points – my VM backup must-have points. Every time I spoke with a technology partners, other vendors, customers I stay with this 5 golden rules. Write a comment if you agree or not 🙂 1) agentless backup Agentless backup enables VM’s backups to be performed without needing to deploy agent software on the host.
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