Tag: backup and recovery
VMware Backup Guide for Hyper-V Admins
At first glance, the Hyper-V and VMware virtual environments may seem similar, but upon closer inspection, a number of important differences between these two virtualization platforms become apparent. Initially, performing administration for ...
Sometimes, You Should Fix What Isn’t Broken
DevOps has been with us long enough now that there is a lot of legacy DevOps stuff running in all of the places I have eyes into. Ignoring items that are not ...
Why Do You Need GitHub Backup?
You've probably heard the joke that there are two types of people in IT: Those who do backups and those who will start. Though it's still valid, this joke has become less ...
Make GitHub Backups Part of Your Development Process
GitHub’s platform is the largest host of source code in the world, hosting over 190 Million repositories. So much of the code we rely on every day is hosted there. You are, ...
Veeam Updates Backup and Recovery Platform
Veeam today announced the general availability of version 10 of the Veeam Availability Suite, which, among more than 150 enhancements, adds support for network-attached storage (NAS) systems, additional ransomware protection via an ...
Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments
Shalabh Goyal | | Apache Cassandra, backup and recovery, Backup Cassandra, big data, cloud, cloud-based backup and recovery, database, database architecture, database backup, mongodbWe discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you ...
A Modern Database Backup and Recovery Checklist
Do you have single points of failure? How do you handle deduplication? These questions and more need consideration when you're dealing with database backup and recovery. Enterprises are quickly onboarding next-generation, mission-critical ...
Evolving Data Requirements in Multi-Cloud Environments
Shalabh Goyal | | analytics, backup, backup and recovery, Backup Cassandra, big data, cloud, cloud-based backup and recovery, database, database administrators, database architectureBy design or by accident, multi-cloud is a reality that most enterprise IT teams have to cope with today. Multi-cloud (or, cross-cloud, as Dell EMC calls it) refers to an IT model ...
The Cost of Rework when Developing for OpenStack Clouds
David Safaii | | backup, backup and recovery, cloud-based backup and recovery, data protection, data protection for OpenStack, devops, openstackAccording to the 2016 State of DevOps Report by Puppet and DORA, the mean time to recover when a service incident occurs ranges from less than one hour for high IT performers ...
Things to Know When Planning for Cassandra Backup
Rohit Shekhar | | Apache Cassandra, backup and recovery, Backup Cassandra, big data, data analytics, data protection, Scale-out DatabasesNoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure DocumentDB and others are being adopted by enterprises to meet the data requirements of next-generation applications. Specifically, Apache Cassandra database provides linear ...
Backup and Recovery of Next Gen Apps in MongoDB
Shalabh Goyal | | backup and recovery, cloud-based backup and recovery, global devops platform, mongodb, Platform 3This blog is the first in a two-part series about MongoDB backup and recovery. In this first part, I will discuss the motivations for protecting data that resides on MongoDB and the ...
Why Legacy Backup Solutions Aren’t Ideal for OpenStack
Our team has recently returned from the OpenStack Summit in Austin. While there were many hot topics, we discovered people fell within two camps when it comes to backup and recovery: those ...