The Blog

The Internet Doesn’t Care About Your DR!

Mar 28, 2018
Ian Evans

Today I was looking forward to sitting down and working more on Zerto DR into Azure. I had my schedule (and more importantly my mind) clear and ready to go. I woke up checked email, shuttled the kiddos off to school and grabbed a bite. Everything was ready! Wrong!

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Remediation of Legacy Backup Tapes

Mar 11, 2018
Terry Murray

Imagine if every time you swapped out an old server you had to keep the old server sitting around and powered up for the next 5 to 7 years. Ridiculous right, but that’s what many organizations do with their legacy backups.

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The Check Box vs the Asterisk

Mar 9, 2018
Terry Murray

One of the most powerful tools in the marketing arsenal is the check box. Does your solution do this? Absolutely, there’s the check box right there! Compare our solution to our competitors? See that, we have way more check boxes.

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BCDR with Zerto 6.0 and Microsoft Azure

Mar 8, 2018
Ian Evans

One of the biggest problems for businesses today is an absence of or gaps in business continuity. Business continuity allows business to continue operating during and after a disaster. A business continuity plan (BCP) is comprised of policies and procedures to help fulfill that goal.

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Docker Volumes Primer

Nov 13, 2017
Ian Evans

One of the most common barriers to Docker adoption for production deployments is a misconception around data persistence, or lack thereof. While it is true that if you remove a Docker container it’s destroyed and the data is lost but that doesn’t have to be the case.

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SolidFire & VMware VVols

Oct 10, 2017
Terry Murray

I recently attended the Netapp Insight conference in Las Vegas. There were a lot of great speakers and sessions but for my money, the best one was Best Practices and Deep Dive for VMware with SolidFire. The presenter for this session was Andy Banta, his title was Storage Janitor.

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