Veeam Availability Suite v9 extending in the Storage land with further EMC,...
Today is a very exciting day at Veeam, for those who use NetApp ONTAP and/or EMC VNX\VNXe primary storage in their environments. We are announcing further integration to our existing storage...
View ArticleUpdate – A hiatus? Yes please!
Happy new year! I hope that my readers have had a good break and are fully refreshed to hit 2016 running, I know for me it is going to be a defining year after 2015. (its now March and 2015 seems a...
View ArticleA new year brings…………..?
Good new year to you! I trust that if you are reading this then you survived the Christmas and New year break and hopefully took some time off to spend it with family and friends. Last year, brought a...
View ArticleVMware, Oracle, Cloud in Ravello?
It is not very often that I get to talk or write about VMware related technologies within Oracle, other than Customer purchasing our Oracle X86 based servers for their VMware farms or some workshops I...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 released
Finally! vSphere 6.5 Update 1 is now available and it has some further enhancements and fixes, quite notably the vCenter HTML5 client receives a number of new functionality to it, what is impressive is...
View ArticleWelcome Cloud-land sponsor Vembu!
Quick post to welcome Vembu as an official sponsor of cloud-land.com!!! Vembu has been around for a little while and has been a quiet achiever in the backup and disaster recovery space covering backup...
View ArticleMore announcements from Vembu!
More on the Vembu front, with recent announcements coming on the licensing front as well as a new service program aimed at providing service providers a platform to offer Backup as a Service (BaaS)...
View ArticleNo Downtime for the Enterprise Blog Post
My first write up for Oracle is live, head over to https://blogs.oracle.com/infrastructure/no-downtime-for-the-enterprise to read!
View ArticleVembu release version 3.9.0 announcement
Some exciting news from our friends over at Vembu with the announcement of version 3.9 of their backup and recovery software, for those who arent aware of what Vembu; their BDR Suite product provides...
View ArticleVembu BDR Suite v3.9.0 is now generally available!
If you read my recent “No downtime for the Enterprise” post I wrote for Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure blog site, you would of learned that even in today’s words, system outages are still costing the...
View ArticleData Quality and Governance – why should you care?
Working in data storage in my earlier years, there was always an element of what type of data would be stored on the storage we would architect so that we would get a feel for the performance and...
View ArticleToday is World Backup Day and…..
Today is world backup day, which was created as a way to remind people of the importance of backups and to have them publicly pledge that they will start taking reliable backups of their data...
View ArticleVembu VMBackup 3.91 released and now with Standard Edition (Sponsored Post)
The team over at Vembu are really making waves this year, having released v3.9 earlier back in January of this year (you can read about that release here but at a high level summary it introduced...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 6.7 support added in Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.1 (Sponsored Post)
I always get amped when new releases of vSphere are released, the latest version (6.7) got released a few months back and introduced a host of new improvements. Most noteably, the new and improved...
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