For those of you interested in Cloud Computing and how it will affect your business, there are some great events coming up that you could attend.
First up on February 1st and 2nd is the “Powered by Cloud” conference in the Lewis Media Centre, Millbank, Westminster, London. Our managing director Lance Wicks shall be speaking on [...]

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As we introduce our cloud backup software to more and more people we have discovered an area of data protection that is causing some confusion, in this post we shall try and make the differences and implications clearer.
When it comes to data protection, you could say there are the following approaches:

Do nothing
Backups
CDP
Replication
Near CDP

Option one obvious [...]

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The Cloud is growing in acceptance, all the various types of service are valuable. We at enVirtua use the cloud for our Cloud Based Backup product. We use Amazon EC2 instances when we need a server to test on, and we use SaaS (Software as as Service) here there and everywhere.

A big issue that we [...]

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Our original involvement in “The Cloud” came from becoming involved with the Cassatt Collage product, now called “Active Response”. Collage was all about shutting down and powering up servers based on demand. The product integrates with VMware and Xen as well as physical servers and is very flexible.
If however you are a pure VMware shop, [...]

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Back in Spetember 2008, the latest version of iShared was released by the new owners Blue Coat. Here is a rather overdue post summarising what has changed in this product. It is also a warning post to existing iShared users, as per emails we have sent to people last year ishared as a product has [...]

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The most common question we get in regard to virtualisation is “How much will it cost me?” which is a fair question to ask. In this post we shall give a example cost for a small to medium sized company. The sort of company that uses Microsoft Windows 2003 SBS for their server(s).
In this example [...]

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When we are introducing our Cloud Backup product to people it can take a while to explain the benefits to people; especially in comparison to traditional tape based backups. In this post we’ll cover some of the benefits we see compared to traditional (and still very important) methods of data backup.

1. Go any where backups
Unlike [...]

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On February 2nd and 3rd the “Powered By Cloud” conference will be held at the Lewis Media Centre, Millbank, Westminster, London.
I (Lance) have been invited to speak on day two of the event and shall be sharing the stage with some great people ( Speakers List ), specifically I shall be speaking in session 7 [...]

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Richard Garsthagen most VMware people in Europe will be familiar with (to be honest, if you are looking at VMware consultants ask them if they know Richard; if they don’t know his name it’s possibly a bad sign). Richard is the enthusiastic evangelist for VMware in their EMEA region. he visits the UK on an [...]

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