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Backup for virtual servers

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  With Time on its hands, Meredith drives storage consolidation

  Following an acquisition of Time Inc., Meredith Corp. dumped most of its traditional IT gear and added newer technology developed around virtualization, convergence and the cloud.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Vancouver Canucks defend data with Veeam backup

  To prepare for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Vancouver Canucks used Veeam to protect against point-of-sale system failures -- a major upgrade over its previous tape backup.

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Commvault lays out Metallic and Hedvig roadmaps

  Commvault is adding nonbackup capabilities to Metallic and integrating Hedvig with HyperScale. The vendor will roll out features for the two ventures over the course of next year.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Emerson Electric consolidates on Nutanix, Commvault

  As part of a project to get its branch offices and business units on the same backup product, Emerson Electric used Commvault to simplify, save money and lower its RTO and RPO.

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Oaktree Capital Management invests in upgraded backup

  Switching to Veritas NetBackup let Oaktree perform hourly backups instead of daily, greatly reducing risk of data loss during restores. Oaktree also uses Data Insight for audits.

• August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19

  Actifio GO 'SaaSifies' copy data management in GCP

  The new Actifio GO for GCP has expanded from backup as a service to include copy data management and disaster recovery, putting it on par with the vendor's on-premises product.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Intelligent data management drives smarter use of copy data

  Intelligent data management has turned copies of backup data into tools for analytics, test/dev and other use cases. But company culture prevents some organizations from adoption.

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  Asigra FreeNAS plugin brings open source data protection

  The Asigra FreeNAS plugin covers up to ten physical machines, ten virtual machines and ten cloud accounts for free. Customers wanting more must get Asigra on TrueNAS.

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  ShadowXafe 2 supports Hyper-V, network tunneling

  StorageCraft wants to bring its ShadowXafe data protection software to midsize enterprises and managed service providers, rather than only small and medium-sized businesses.

• May 13, 2019 13 May'19

  Nakivo backup supports Nutanix AHV in latest update

  In its quest to reach feature parity with Veeam, backup software vendor Nakivo adds support for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor and the ability to replicate VMs from backup sets.

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Arcserve UDP update supports Nutanix AHV, Office 365

  The Arcserve UDP update extends the backup software's support to Nutanix AHV and Office 365, with the promise of other hypervisors and SaaS applications to come.

• March 27, 2019 27 Mar'19

  Storware vProtect backup supports OpenShift and CloudForms

  Storware updates its vProtect data protection software for open platforms, adding backup support for Red Hat OpenShift containers and the latest version of CloudForms.

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Synology Active Backup boosts recovery speeds for Shiseido

  Worried about slow recovery times and the impact ransomware might cause endpoint devices, Shiseido swapped in Synology Active Backup to reduce recovery time to 30 minutes.

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Actifio GO turns Sky into SaaS backup

  With Actifio GO, multi-cloud backup doesn't require backup software or any on-premises appliances. The SaaS data protection is based on the Salesforce model.

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Veritas NetBackup provides Docker container backup

  A new NetBackup client enables users to back up application data on Docker containers, becoming one of the few products to offer data backup and recovery in the container space.