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If you haven’t heard of Instant VM Recovery, you need to go and read up on it in the User Guide. Veeam describes it as follows: “With Instant VM Recovery, you can immediately restore a VM into your production environment by running it directly from the compressed and deduplicated backup file. Instant VM Recovery helps […]
Amazon ECS now includes integrated service discovery. This makes it possible for an ECS service to automatically register itself with a predictable and friendly DNS name in Amazon Route 53. As your services scale up or down in response to load or container health, the Route 53 hosted zone is kept up to date, allowing […]
Oracle founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison (GeekWire screenshot) After years of taunting and dismissing Amazon Web Services, Oracle founder Larry Ellison all but acknowledged Tuesday that AWS “pioneered” the market for rental computing. Oracle now plans to compete in the cloud by focusing on its platform services, such as the new Oracle Autonomous Data […]
Join Chris Greenwood (IBM) and Paul Nothard (VMware) for this special broadcast. Host David Organ will chair this exclusive panel and ask the business why, the benefits and the challenges companies face with cloud migration. You can find out more about Migrating your workloads seamlessly to IBM Cloud with VMware – ibm.biz/IBMandVMwareMigration Broadcast date: Tuesday 27th March, […]
The Amazon DynamoDB team is back with another useful feature hot on the heels of encryption at rest. At AWS re:Invent 2017 we launched global tables and on-demand backup and restore of your DynamoDB tables and today we’re launching continuous backups with point-in-time recovery (PITR). You can enable continuous backups with a single click in […]
As more developers draw from existing code libraries to build new tools, tracking changes in dependencies like security vulnerabilities has become more difficult. Since the launch of security alerts last year, we’ve taken an active role in alerting project maintainers of known-vulnerable libraries in RubyGems for Ruby and npm for Javascript. In almost all cases, […]
Overview While deploying the Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA) in Azure is straightforward, it does require that a Resource Group, networking, and network security groups (NSGs) exist in Azure already. We wanted to eliminate the separate pre-requisite build steps and have the Resource Group, Network, NSGs, and storage all deploy along with the ZCA. Fortunately, Microsoft […]
The popularity of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is on the up among IT departments across the UK. According to figures from IDC at the end of 2017, global HCI sales generated $1 billion in revenue last year, with the usual suspects of Nutanix, Dell EMC, HPE and Cisco competing for market share in an increasingly growing […]
The IoT has been a dominant trend in recent years, with Gartner estimating more than eight billion connected ‘things’ in use today. But one trend begets another, and in order to manage and process the real-time data that devices and sensors are providing, a new development is emerging in the form of edge computing and […]
If you need to move a large collection of files from an on-premises or in-cloud file system to Amazon Elastic File System, this tool is for you. Simple, single-threaded command line tools such as cp and rsync predate the cloud and cannot deliver the throughput required to move massive amounts of data from place to […]