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In the last episode of TechNet Radio: Virtualization and Cloud Experts Café , Chris Henley from Veeam was my guest and he had a chance to share about Veeam’s backup solution for Hyper-V. Just recently, Veeam announced a new backup offering that integrates with Windows Azure. I asked Chris...

Virtualization has become the norm in most IT shops today.  Backup can be a bit more challenging in this world of virtualization.  In the “old” days, an IT Admin would install backup agents on every server and perform backups to a central backup server (or set of servers).  In the virtualization...

In the West Region, Chris Avis and I are hosting a set of events in the March and May / June timeframe. In November 2011, we tried out a new format for events which we called IT Camps. This new format included the ability for the attendees to select the topics that would be discussed. We are evolving...

On October 17th, I wrote a blog post about upcoming TechNet Events taking place in the West Region in the November and December time frame ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2011/10/17/upcoming-west-region-technet-events-in-november-2011.aspx ).  I am now writing a follow up post to...

For all those IT Professionals who administer some aspect of Microsoft servers and desktops and live in Las Vegas, I wanted to let you know that I am holding a last minute event in Las Vegas on October 18, 2011 (that’s 5 days from now).  I do apologize for the short notice, but I am hoping you can...

On February 21st, I wrote a post about Backup Strategies for File Servers and Exchange ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2011/02/21/backup-applications-and-strategies-for-exchange-and-file-servers.aspx ) where I promised to evaluate some backup products. I already did a write up for Backup...

I finally got a chance to install Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 in my lab environment and test it out. I was quite happy with the interface and ease of use on configuring backups and restores (protection / recovery). The terminology was a bit different, but not totally confusing. This is...

On Monday, February 21st, I posted a blog about Backup Strategies for File Servers and Exchange Servers .  Here’s my first follow on post based on my experience with Backup Exec 2010 R2.  This is not a super detailed “review”, but my first impressions of the product in my test environment....

Over the years, I’ve had many a discussion on Backup applications as well as strategies for how often to backup.  As a follow up to the series of posts I did regarding upgrading to current Microsoft technologies, I thought I would put forward my thoughts on Backup options as well. I will not be...