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This is a guest blog post from Altaro Software (http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v-backup/). Altaro Software are the developers of a Microsoft Hyper-V backup solution called Altaro Hyper-V Backup. Altaro Hyper-V Backup includes a freeware edition – a 5 minute YouTube demo can be seen here:…
In the first post of this series I discussed the importance of establishing recovery time objectives (RTOs) for each component in your production system. In the second post I covered the comparative demands of performing triage during outages of different magnitudes; one that impacts a set of network devices versus an…
SolarWinds provides a solution for managing storage performance within virtualized environments by using the Storage Manager plugin enabled in Virtualization Manager's Configuration Wizard. Using these solutions can help you identify, diagnose, and correct issues in your virtual environment infrastructure. Resource…
In the spirit of the year-end listing ritual, here are Top 5 web services outages in order of magnitude. * GoDaddy * Amazon Web Services (December 24) * Amazon Web Services (October 22) * Amazon Web Services (June 29) * Google App Engine (October 26) Yes, the list seems to pose the question of what’s going on with the AWS…
You probably heard about the GoDaddy outage in September (2012). A corruption in routing tables across the company’s network left millions of Godaddy-hosted sites dark for many hours. To mitigate damage, Godday offered impacted customers one month of service. Had Godaddy been publicly traded, an outage of that magnitude…
Have questions about your products? Want to know what we're working on or when your favorite feature is going to be implemented? Join us for the Customer Event at Cisco Live for short presentations, lots of Q&A, and a catered lunch. Presentations will be brief to allow plenty of time to chat with SolarWinds staff about…
I am perusing The Human Face of Big Data, and am wide-eyed with wonder. Not only is this book lovely to leaf through, but each page contains a marvel relating to Big Data. Every major industry is seeing changes through this new technology, and the implications and possibility are the stuff of wonder. Take for example the…
Ready to take your mapping skills to a whole new level? You learned a lot from the Admin guide and thwack, and now, this episode will take your mapping skills to a whole new level. In this episode, get step by step demos of: * * How to Add & Embed a Sub-Map * Create Maps for Specific Users/Permissions * Why You’ll Want to…
As Joel Dolisy described in A Lap around Appstack, the first installment of the AppStack series, there are many components in the application stack including networking, storage, and computing resources. The computing resources include hypervisors, virtual machines, and physical machines that provide applications,…
Some files within your storage environment can obviously be discarded, but how do you know which files to keep? How do you know what kinds of files are being stored, their ages, and who owns them, so that you can clean out your storage space? You could use a feature within Storage Manger , the storage performance…
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