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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 […]
As a follow-up to our earlier work to provide longer IDs for a small set of essential EC2 resources, we are now doing the same for the remaining EC2 resources, with a migration deadline of July 2018. You can opt-in on a per-user, per-region, per-type basis and verify that your code, regular expressions, database schemas, […]
You’ve installed Zerto Virtual Replication and you can finally relax. The installation went seamlessly and all that remains is to check in with your environment to ensure everything is running as expected. There’s just one problem – you see an error message. It can be a bit of a challenge at times to understand exactly […]
Modern companies of any size embrace APIs as a critical part of their business. Recently, we have made all of our Zerto Analytics APIs publicly available for users running ZVR 5.0-6! This means that ANYTHING you see in Zerto Analytics you can get via API. Cloud Service Providers should be especially excited about this because […]
What does it take to back up MySQL on a Linux VM? This is a riddle we sometimes hear at Veeam: When running on a Linux VM, how does one quiesce MySQL databases? Unfortunately, there are not many new ways to answer this riddle, and the answers we currently have are already tried and tested! […]
One of the best things about Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is the ability to back up to and restore from one of the many Veeam Cloud Service Providers. This functionality opens up a new use case for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, the business traveler. Bridging the Availability Gap for “road warriors” Anyone who […]