With the advent of virtualization, there are more servers to be backed up than ever in the enterprise. For IT administrators charged with managing this process, the addition of all these virtual ...

* Serverless backup or consolidated backup, which offloads backup processing from virtual machines to a separate physical server. * Snapshotting or cloning the virtual machines using software from a ...

Virtualization technology has increased the challenge of backing up server environments. IT administrators have to choose from among a variety of virtual server backup options, including agent-based ...

Sean Gallagher, who began his career as an IT project manager for the Navy, has spent two decades as a technology writer and reviewer. CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Virtual Machines Most IT ...

In addition, CommVault's new software also became one of the first applications to allow deduplication of data that is backed up to tape. Backing up data from virtual servers has become an important ...

Capacity planning is a major initial consideration for a virtualization project. It is also something IT departments have to continuously refine. Here are some tips to set you down the right path. Tip ...

Symantec Monday introduced Backup Exec 2010, which now integrates optional deduplication technology and adds support for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies. Symantec also introduced ...

Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

With one new product released, and one about to be, server virtualization is becoming a reality in the low-end server space. How can virtual servers help you? While the benefits of virtual machines on ...

As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.