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.

‘A lot of SMB enterprises know that they need to migrate their VMs to a multi-cloud or a hybrid cloud environment given their current economics of VMware,’ says Wanclouds CEO Faiz Khan regarding his ...

Snapshots capture the exact state of a VM, disk contents, memory, and power status, at a specific moment. They are ideal for short-term rollbacks during testing, but are not a replacement for proper ...

Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware for US$69bn led to disruptive changes in the virtualisation provider’s pricing. Key here is a move from perpetual licences to a subscription model. This has left ...

Backup software vendor Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backup, support for backups of Proxmox virtualisation environments, and cloud as a target for NAS backups in the latest version – ...

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Cloudy Tactics: In another effort to steer Windows customers toward Azure, Microsoft is offering a new tool that converts virtual machines between two formats. The goal is to help organizations stay ...