Chico: “You call this a barn? This looks like a stable.”

Groucho: “Well, if you look at it, it’s a barn; if you smell it, it’s a stable.”

From “Monkey Business,” by the Marx Brothers

That’s the way I feel…

Did you think virtualizing your IT infrastructure would put an end to your systems management woes? If so, you are not alone. While it’s true that you now have less hardware, less storage housed on actual servers and less physical infrastructure overall…

First things first. What is data archiving?  Simply put, it’s a process that takes data that’s no longer in use or has lost its relevance and moves it to lesser expensive storage such as magnetic tape or cheap disk storage.  Archived data is…

Gain end-to-end visibility of all data protection activities across your entire IT environment anywhere, anytime. The Quest Data Protection Portal is an intuitive, cloud-based data protection management solution that enables you to monitor all your backup…

Rod Stewart. Jay Leno. Jennifer Lopez. Blue Man Group. Cirque du Soleil. Quest Software.

What do these have in common? They’re all be putting on shows in Las Vegas during August. And while you may not go home bragging to your friends about seeing the…

Part one of this blog series may be found here

Note: This blog series was supposed to be divided in 3 parts. However, some readers were gracious enough to ask me to publish all remaining material in one post and argued that an excessively long post should…

Part two of this blog series may be found here

A few days ago, I was working with a MSP customer that had the same issue on multiple Exchange servers hosted by his own customers. Specifically, in that particular setup, due to the memory-hog behavior of…

In today's business, demand for a complete Disaster Recovery solution is becoming the norm.  The days of backup discussions are gone, DR is the focus and backup is the bridge to bigger conversations in today's modern world.  

Proper DR planning…