Reduce Costs with Infrastructure-less Backup for VMware

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, with ubiquitous access to good communications infrastructure these days (WAN/Internet throughput), it’s becoming less of a requirement, and in many customers no longer required. So how is this achieved: a) Object Storage – This could be considered infrastructure to some, but for the purpose of this blog post and discussion, I am referring to infrastructure as something you need to purchase, install into your premises or Data Centre’s, and then continue to manage it…

Mount & Migrate feature for SQL Databases

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. This feature is way ahead of the market. But in brief it does these things. Allow customers with large (in fact any size, but the larger the size the better this feature is…) to get mission critical DBs back online in a very low RTO capability. This gets your business applications back online quick. It then solves the problem of running the restore of the Database back to the location where you now want the DB to run from. It then continually restores the changes that are being made to the mounted database, and trickling those changes to the local files, in preparation for the switch to take place, from a mounted DB to a fully local DB. Performs a final…