A fundamental part of protecting IT is ensuring that the services provided by virtual machines are resilient and robust at all levels of the compute stack, from hardware through to the application.

VMware's huge slate of new features fills in blanks, makes it more competitive -- but sometimes at the cost of its partners Today, EMC VMware has detailed a raft of new enhancements to its line of ...

I wanted a little feedback on something that I think I may have been approaching from the wrong angle. Our current environment consists 2 vSphere hosts and an iSCSI SAN (HP StoreVirtual) running in ...

I am getting ready to protect VMs and replicate from our production to DR datacenter. Our underlying storage is Equallogic and we have a very important decision to make: 1) Replicate at array level ...

VMware vSphere 5.5, the latest release of VMware’s flagship virtualization hypervisor and central management server, has something for companies of all sizes. Usability and speed enhancements to the ...

VMware announced enhancements last week to its VMware vSphere, new versions of vShield 5, vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vCloud Director and a new vSphere Storage Appliance. VMware vSphere 5 now ...

In a previous article on virtualisation and disaster recovery, Computer Weekly looked at some of the aspects that enable disaster recovery (DR) in a virtual server environment. As a brief reminder, ...

Small to medium size businesses often have the same basic needs as a larger organization, but don't have the staff, the expertise or the desire to deal with a complex infrastructure. Some of their ...

One of the most compelling aspects of Site Recovery Manager 5 (SRM) is that its handles storage replication at the virtual machine (VM) level using VMware vCenter Server. Gaetan Castelein, director of ...

A fundamental part of protecting IT is ensuring that the services provided by virtual machines are resilient and robust at all levels of the compute stack, from hardware through to the application.