Disaster Recovery – or saving your a$$

Posted on 12th August 2013 by Millennia

If you are responsible for the data in your business, whether it be your job or your business, then it is your a$$ that is on the line should disaster strike. Much has been written about business continuity and disaster recovery, but it is fair to say that in many – if not most – […]...

Archived Posts, Disaster Recovery

True VMware BC/DR with Zerto

Posted on 31st July 2012 by Millennia

Here you can see that replication can be bi-directional and although there are only two sites shown here there can be multiple sites in the replication network, and they can replicate in any direction and to any site as required.Look closely and y......

Archived Posts, MS Windows

Windows crumbles under own update system

Posted on 12th April 2011 by Millennia

Once upon a time when you updated Windows you would test an update and leave it for a couple of weeks in case there were any reported problems, and then install to your production environment. This usually went well, and with the advent of virtual......

Archived Posts, Networks

Ethernet Fabric – Towards Unified Networking

Posted on 29th March 2011 by Millennia

As Ethernet networks grow they invariably become more complex and difficult to manage, and due to the way they have to be configured they often suffer performance penalties as they grow. Ethernet networks also have to contend with an increasingly ......

Archived Posts, Networks

Using MPLS to add routability to Coraid’s AoE

Posted on 10th March 2011 by Millennia

A common point raised when comparing iSCSI to AoE protocols is that AoE is not routable and therefore not satisfactory for Enterprise use where there may be many sites between which you wish to share data. In fact this feature is what lead to the ......