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.

If you're not careful, your backups could become useless ...

After all, these backups are the duct tape keeping my tinkering lab together ...

Virtual machine backup can be done using a traditional backup product with agents in each virtual server's file store but can also be carried out via snapshot or by backing up the virtual machine and ...

Virtualization is now an integral part of most data center consolidation and green initiatives at many IT organizations. It's also at the core of technologies such as cloud computing. But while ...

If you want to back up virtual machines, the options may seem confusing. Methods used to back up virtual machines have evolved rapidly over the past couple of years, from an analogue of traditional ...

Server virtualization has crossed the proverbial chasm. Not long ago, when deploying new servers, one had to justify making them virtual, rather than physical. Now, the opposite is becoming true. IT ...

* 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 ...

Symantec's Backup Exec Agent for VMware lets IT managers back up virtual machines to a SAN, tape or disk without having to offload to a proxy. Virtualization is now an integral part of most data ...

Symantec's Backup Exec Agent for VMware lets IT managers back up virtual machines to a SAN, tape or disk without having to offload to a proxy. Virtualization is now an integral part of most data ...