Copy Data Tips

Long time since I last posted, and while a lot has changed, a lot of things are still the same… [Read More]

Two times in the past month I have met with orgs who are sick and tired of just purchasing more and more storage. So they are stopping, and trying to make do with what they have, rather than continue the constant trend of purchasing storage as they grow. Well, this is intact what Copy Data Management addresses. While storage companies in the plenty have added many significant features like zero byte clones, snapshots, and dedup... [Read More]

**Say What ???** OK, So I’ll start by saying that I am taking a little bit of a marketing liberty here… But please let me explain further. It might save you a bundle of cash. Traditional and So called Next-Generation VMware backup solutions, while living in a so-called Software Defined world, drag a heap of hardware sales with them (think storage, compute and networking), and while this is still valid and required for many customers,... [Read More]

A while back I created this short demo video, using a real world sized SQL database (1TB) to highlight the rapid recovery options that Actifio 10c enables for customers. [Read More]

Let me preface this post by saying, this is not a supported way to get vSphere / ESXi 7.0+ running on legacy hardware. Please only perform these actions if you are comfortable with the steps below, and know that you will not be entitled to support for VMware. [Read More]