Snapshot files can grow to the same size as the original base disk file, which is why the provisioned storage size of a virtual machine increases by an amount equal to the original size of the virtual ...

Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term "snapshots" in different ways, that's easy to forget. The public cloud ...

If you're not careful, your backups could become useless ...

LAWRENCE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced that its Compass ® enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup ...

It's really effective when you need to control several standalone nodes ...

This is my third posting in this series. In the first posting, I described the different components that would be needed for this script. Then in the second posting, I started explaining how the first ...