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 [...]

Continue reading...

Some time back my colleagues and I needed to build an example usage for server automation product Cassatt Collage (since renamed Cassatt Active Response ). It needed to be relatively portable, and yet show off as many of the bells and whistles as possible.
What we decided to do was build a “Medium Availability Cluster“.
(It appears [...]

Continue reading...