Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft virtualization blog

Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:49:00 +0000

Protecting your business against catastrophic data loss is vital, and offsite storage is the key. Although tapes are often used for long-term, secure data storage, public storage clouds provide the reliability you need without the cost or complexity associated with tapes. Veeam Backup & Replication™ Cloud Edition makes offsite backup to the cloud easy and [...]

Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Server Monitoring Solutions

Ilija Brajkovic — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:58:00 +0000

Server monitoring offers a multitude of benefits to beleaguered system administrators. We’ll look at the top seven benefits and how they can make your life easier, as well as save you time. Even better, they’ll do all that without putting a strain on your budget. Does it sound too good to be true? Well we [...]

Unitrends Enterprise Backup

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Earlier this year, Unitrends announced a new software-only product called Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) that protects virtual and physical environments both locally and in the cloud. UEB is available as a virtual appliance integrated with both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, and offers all the advantages of their physical backup appliance solutions, but with the [...]

Altaro first to support Windows Server 2012 with release of Hyper-V Backup v3.5

Ilija Brajkovic — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:47:58 +0000

Altaro Software, a fast-growing developer of backup solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V, a couple of weeks ago announced the release of Altaro Hyper-V Backup v3.5, becoming the first Hyper-V Backup solution provider to fully support Windows Server 2012, including support for CSV, Volume Shadow Copies of SMB 3.0 and more. “Windows Server 2012 and [...]

Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware and Hyper-V

Ilija Brajkovic — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:47:56 +0000

Virtualizing servers to reduce cost is the first step. Now you need to ensure virtual machines (VMs) are protected and your disaster recovery strategies are intact. However, without a solution specifically built to leverage the disruptive power of virtualization, IT is forced to use backup tools designed for the physical world. Veeam Backup & Replication [...]

Hyper-V Server 2012 RTM

Ilija Brajkovic — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:39:53 +0000

Aidan Finn just announced Hyper-V Server 2012 RTM! Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 is a hypervisor-based server virtualization product that enables you to consolidate workloads, helping organizations improve server utilization and reduce costs. Hyper-V Server is a dedicated stand-alone product that contains the hypervisor, Windows Server driver model, virtualization capabilities, and supporting...

Review of Altaro Backup for Hyper-V

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:07:10 +0000

Altaro provides reliable protection for backing up Hyper-V virtual machines with its line of premier backup software. There are three available editions: a free edition that covers two virtual machines, a standard edition that supports five virtual machines and unlocks several advanced features, and an ultimate edition that protects an unlimited number of virtual machines [...]

[INFOGRAPHICS] Essential facts on Microsoft virtualization

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:17:42 +0000

Microsoft holds 27% of the virtualization market. Virtualization saves Microsoft almost $50 million yearly. The Microsoft Virtualization community has 1,397 members. These and some other interesting facts on Microsoft virtualization can be found in this new infographics, provided exclusively for this site by Conosco. Tags: virtualization Related [VIDEO] How to install Hyper-V Server 2008?...

MVP for the third year in a row!

Ilija Brajkovic — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:43:04 +0000

I have been rewarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the 2012! Althouhg I don’t write much lately and don’t deliver many technical presentations, I’m still quite involved in Microsoft community. This is my third MVP award, and I‘m very proud of it! I’m very happy to be recognized by Microsoft for [...]

V-Index – how much is virtualization being used?

Ilija Brajkovic — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:04:48 +0000

V-index is an online virtualization industry study performed by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company. It is based on a survey of at least 500 enterprises across the US, UK, France and Germany and is designed to measure 3 parameters – virtualization rate, consolidation ratio and primary hypervisor in use. Results for quarter 3 [...]