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Reading Time: 7 minutesQNAP is one of the leaders in the Home/SMB NAS area, with a lot of products including also some Enteprise solutions. But the big advantage of this product is the flexibility to add “apps” and extend the functions of the NAS itself to not only store data, but also use them or provide vertical solutions (like for example video-surveillance).

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis year is very active for NAKIVO: on January they announced the version of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.1, on February the NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.2 and now it’s the turn of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.3. The newest version offers native protection of Oracle databases via RMAN.

Reading Time: 2 minutesiSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) accelera e migliora le prestazione del protocollo iSCSI utilizzando la modalità RDMA (Remote DMA) supportata da alcune schede di rete.  iSER consente ai dati di bypassare i driver di rete generici, il livello socket, e di accedere direttamente nel buffer di memoria del server. Anche il tempo di risposta si riduce per garantire la qualità di servizio del NAS. Combinando iSCSI con RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access), iSER offre miglioramenti impressionanti e una maggiore efficienza sia per ambienti fisici, sia per ambienti di virtualizzazione.

Reading Time: 4 minutesOne important concept of virtual networking is that the virtual network adapter (vNIC) speed it’s just a “soft” limit used to provide a common model comparable with the physical world. The real limit depends by several aspects, included the hpyervisor, the CPU speed, the available RAM and (for external comunication) also by the physical NIC speed. For this reason, the Intel e1000 and e1000e vNIC can reach a real bandwidth bigger than the canonical 1 Gpbs link speed. But what about the vmxnet3 vNIC that can advertise also the 10 Gpbs link speed. What is […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast month, NAKIVO has announced the version of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.1, and now it’s the turn of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.2. This is the 28th software release of their backup and data protection product. A really fast-growning product. The main news is the support of Office 365 backup! To be more precise is better say that support the backup of the Exchange Online part.

Reading Time: 2 minutesNAKIVO has just announced the new version of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.1, that is the 27th software release of their backup and data protection product.  Compare to NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.0, there are several new features in this release: Native Backup to Tape, Physical Linux Server Backup, Physical Workstation Backup, and Instant Verification.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA usual way to backup the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is to manage as a common VM and use a backup solution to backup (and restore) the entire VM. But it’s approach does not always work and cannot guarantee a restore in some cases, for example in the case of a database corruption.

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