Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft virtualization blog

Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition

anonymous — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:49:00 GMT

Protecting your business against catastrophic data loss is vital, and offsite storage is the key. Although tapes are often used for long-term, secure data storage, public storage clouds provide the reliability you need without the cost or complexity associated with tapes. Veeam Backup & Replication™ Cloud Edition makes offsite backup to the cloud easy and [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http...(read more)

Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Server Monitoring Solutions

anonymous — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:58:00 GMT

Server monitoring offers a multitude of benefits to beleaguered system administrators. We’ll look at the top seven benefits and how they can make your life easier, as well as save you time. Even better, they’ll do all that without putting a strain on your budget. Does it sound too good to be true? Well we [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info...(read more)

Unitrends Enterprise Backup

anonymous — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:36:00 GMT

Earlier this year, Unitrends announced a new software-only product called Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) that protects virtual and physical environments both locally and in the cloud. UEB is available as a virtual appliance integrated with both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, and offers all the advantages of their physical backup appliance solutions, but with the [...] Copyright © Ilija...(read more)

Altaro first to support Windows Server 2012 with release of Hyper-V Backup v3.5

anonymous — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:47:58 GMT

Altaro Software, a fast-growing developer of backup solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V, a couple of weeks ago announced the release of Altaro Hyper-V Backup v3.5, becoming the first Hyper-V Backup solution provider to fully support Windows Server 2012, including support for CSV, Volume Shadow Copies of SMB 3.0 and more. “Windows Server 2012 and [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www...(read more)

Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware and Hyper-V

anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:47:56 GMT

Virtualizing servers to reduce cost is the first step. Now you need to ensure virtual machines (VMs) are protected and your disaster recovery strategies are intact. However, without a solution specifically built to leverage the disruptive power of virtualization, IT is forced to use backup tools designed for the physical world. Veeam Backup & Replication [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http:...(read more)

Hyper-V Server 2012 RTM

anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:39:53 GMT

Aidan Finn just announced Hyper-V Server 2012 RTM! Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 is a hypervisor-based server virtualization product that enables you to consolidate workloads, helping organizations improve server utilization and reduce costs. Hyper-V Server is a dedicated stand-alone product that contains the hypervisor, Windows Server driver model, virtualization capabilities, and supporting... Copyright...(read more)

Review of Altaro Backup for Hyper-V

anonymous — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:07:10 GMT

Altaro provides reliable protection for backing up Hyper-V virtual machines with its line of premier backup software. There are three available editions: a free edition that covers two virtual machines, a standard edition that supports five virtual machines and unlocks several advanced features, and an ultimate edition that protects an unlimited number of virtual machines [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic...(read more)

[INFOGRAPHICS] Essential facts on Microsoft virtualization

anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:17:42 GMT

Microsoft holds 27% of the virtualization market. Virtualization saves Microsoft almost $50 million yearly. The Microsoft Virtualization community has 1,397 members. These and some other interesting facts on Microsoft virtualization can be found in this new infographics, provided exclusively for this site by Conosco. Tags: virtualization Related [VIDEO] How to install Hyper-V Server 2008?.....(read more)

MVP for the third year in a row!

anonymous — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:43:04 GMT

I have been rewarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the 2012! Althouhg I don’t write much lately and don’t deliver many technical presentations, I’m still quite involved in Microsoft community. This is my third MVP award, and I‘m very proud of it! I’m very happy to be recognized by Microsoft for [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info...(read more)

V-Index – how much is virtualization being used?

anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:04:48 GMT

V-index is an online virtualization industry study performed by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company. It is based on a survey of at least 500 enterprises across the US, UK, France and Germany and is designed to measure 3 parameters – virtualization rate, consolidation ratio and primary hypervisor in use. Results for quarter 3 [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info...(read more)

Where am I?

anonymous — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:49:39 GMT

Uh, haven’t been here lately. I’m fine, in case you’re worried . I have just been very busy lately and I just didn’t have time (and a good will) to write some posts. I even missed to write some news about Windows Server 8 and new Hyper-V (many interesting news there). I’m starting a company [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info...(read more)

Differences Between MACs and PCs

anonymous — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:21 GMT

In the last several years, Apple has gotten a lot of attention and has made big strides in capturing large portions of the market. Their brand is recognized the world over and they’ve become a major player in the tech market. Given this fact, there are still many people who refuse to make that switch. [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info...(read more)

Microsoft virtualization whitepapers

anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:25:12 GMT

Two virtualization whitepapers have been recently published to introduce Hyper-V and Microsoft desktop virtualization. These whitepapers will be useful to everyone with only basic knowledge of virtualization and consider using it in their environment to reduce costs and improve business agility. Whitepaper #1: Everything you need to know about implementing Hyper-V. Aidan Finn provides [...]...(read more)

Linux Integration Services 3.1 for Hyper-V

anonymous — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:38:30 GMT

Microsoft has released version 3.1. of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V. Linux Integration Services are a set of drivers that enable synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V. The supported operating systems for 3.1 are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 and 6.1 x86 and x64 (Up to 4 vCPU) and [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info...(read more)

Windows Server 8 sneak peek

anonymous — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:55:54 GMT

At the 2011 Microsoft worldwide partner conference, Jeff Woolsey showed a first sneak peek of the Windows Server codename “8”. As he said, Windows Server 8 will bring us a dozen of new features, but he demoed two, both connected with Hyper-V. Virtual machines with more than 16 logical processors Hyper-V replica, which will allow [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info...(read more)