Just saw a little article online about separate lawsuits that have been filed by Symantec against both Veeam and Acronis. Each lawsuit varies a bit but Symantec claims that Veeam and Acronis are currently infringing upon a number of Netbackup and Backup Exec patents as it relates to backing up and recovering virtual machines. Continue reading
People are always asking us what’s the best way to backup virtual machines in a VMware environment with our removable disk backup systems. We figured this was a great place to share our thoughts.
When companies make the switch to a virtual environment they get so focused on eliminating physical servers that they feel that everything must go except of course for their VMware host server. This “spring cleaning” mentality often times applies to backup. Continue reading
AUSTIN, TX, February 7, 2012—Idealstor, a leading manufacturer of removable disk-to-disk backup solutions, announced today that they are now offering Drive Backup Server software from backup and recovery publisher Paragon Software Group as an integrated component of all of their backup systems. Combining the best attributes of Idealstor and Paragon, this new offering promises to deliver an unparalleled level of protection and backup portability for Windows servers, virtual machines, databases and desktops. Continue reading
We here at Idealstor are no stranger to the fact that people are looking for an alternative to tape based backups. We get calls and emails all the time for people looking for faster backup/restore, more reliable backups and more capacity. Although the reasons for their calls and the types of companies vary greatly, the common theme is that they are bailing on the tape cartidge and looking to make a change.
StorageNewsletter.com just published an article regarding the latest worldwide tape cartridge shipments from Q3 2011. According to the Santa Clarita Consulting Group tape cartridge shipments were down 4% in the last quarter. Continue reading
The Idealstor Teralyte was launched in 2007 as a fresh new way to replace tape media for backup and disaster recovery. Like all of our systems, the Teralyte uses removable disk media as a true alternative to tape backup and not simply a staging area like most NAS or disk backup systems. The Teralyte is a lean mean backup machine and has become our top selling product. Since we launched in 2007, thousands of Teralytes are on the market running backups and proving that tape is truly a thing of the past.
Unlike other systems on the market it doesn’t ship with an OS, or other bells and whistles that sound nice on paper, but simply end up adding to the cost of the system. Because of this, we’re able to offer you a world class backup starting at only $1995.00 for a 3TB system. Continue reading
Symantec Backup Exec was one of the first backup products to embrace backup to disk. Idealstor has been supporting Backup Exec since version 9.0 was released back in 2003. Even in those early days, Backup Exec acknowledged that disk was a true alternative to tape backup and not simply a staging area to be used when sending your data to tape for archival. Continue reading
We occasionally get questions regarding how to use Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) with our removable disk backup systems. Microsoft DPM has been around for a few years and is positioned as a disk to disk backup software designed to address the shortcomings of tape backup. The issue however, is that Microsoft for some reason didn’t anticipate the popularity of people using removable disk backup as an alternative to tape. Because of this, you can’t “easily” use DPM with removable disk media like you can with Backup Exec, Brighstor, Storagecraft, iBac and others. Continue reading
