Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. The free VMware Player brings many of the benefits of ...

Last week we finished with a brief discussion of VMware’s free VMware Player, which is essentially an amazingly useful run-time for virtual machines that runs under Windows and Linux. As was noted in ...

Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...