We all remember Abbott and Costello’s skit “Who’s On First?”. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend you pop over to YouTube and give it a watch. It has become one of the legendary classic comedies of all times, with Costello not knowing baseball…
Yes Folks, NetVault Backup is back, and it is better than ever. With NetVault Backup 12.0 finally hitting the proverbial shelves, you can be sure you are getting a state-of-the-art Enterprise Backup Software on a platform that is far more scalable than…
Last year, we ran a Wastefinder contest and on average customers were wasting over 50% of their storage. Yes - over 50%! Our Systems Engineering team also reports similar numbers when they are engaged in POC´s with our customers.
On top of that…
Announcing Quest Rapid Recovery 6.2 is now available
As all technologies evolve and change, Rapid Recovery evolves to keep pace — and to keep them better protected. Based on valuable customer and partner feedback, Quest is proud to announce Rapid Recovery…
Do you know you have access to self-paced, web-based training courses for many of your products current on maintenance? Even better, they’re available at no additional charge! These courses help you:
It is a dark time for IT pros. With corruption, data loss and ransomware attacking networks across the galaxy, disaster recovery (DR) is more important than ever. Fortunately, a group of freedom fighters, led by the two heroes in our Two Techs on a Q…
The new Quest Data Protection Portal is now online and available!
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 pro…
In our last post, Reducing virtual infrastructure costs while supercharging performance is possible, we discussed how IT professionals are often limited to either reducing cost, minimizing risk or improving service. But there are solutions that can help…
One of the most important items in a good backup and disaster recovery strategy is making sure that data is redundantly stored at a location beyond just the primary site. It’s important because, if something happens to our…
It doesn’t matter what type of organization you are; small, big, public or private – everyone has a database of some description. Databases come in many forms from Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, SQL to a litany of lesser known databases. The database, for…
Storage Groups: Your Next Data Protection Bullet
OK – so you may now have an awesome data deduplication appliance in your environment. Using it gives you the peace of mind that data can be quickly backed up and recovered. But what about going further…
The requirements for data protection continue to evolve with the changing IT environment as well as the need to protect an increasing amount of data.
My experience in the area of data protection began in the late 1980’s when the only option for data…
Having worked in a Data Center, I’m familiar with the challenges IT Admins face on the daily. From security, networking, to data management and everything in between, it seems there just isn’t enough time in the day to get done what needs to.…
Life is about making decisions. Every decision will start with a simple question and assessing the options. What will I wear today? Will I travel by car or by train for my meeting this morning? Simple questions with potentially, a massive impact. You…
Part one of this blog post may be retrieved here.
Part three of this blog post may be retrieved here.
In the previous post we worked together toward laying the foundation for a simple and scalable PowerShell GUI framework for managing Rapid Recover…
Our journey towards innovation aimed at reducing IT administration continues. We’ll deliver solutions that ensure that productivity, simplicity and value are synonymous, not exclusive.
We'll help you manage and protect your data, take control of…
We have always had a simple goal. That’s to reduce the time you spend on IT administration, so you can focus more on business innovation. As we move forward as Quest we will continue to drive innovation and support our customers in the areas of Data…
In a world where data availability and integrity are paramount to the success of an organization, IT administrators are always looking for the best way to secure their data and keep the business running. One essential component of this strategy is backup…
So we’re finally here, it’s hockey season again. The training camps have concluded and positions are set. The cold weather in the north is setting in and time lace up the pond skates. Each player has a responsibility and they know what job…
IT professionals today have a great deal on their plate. They are responsible for servers, applications, storage, networking, security, etc. Throw in a Cloud initiative, BYOD, managing a diverse array of endpoints like smartphones and its easy to see…
Part two of this series may be found here.
Part three of this series may be found here.
Over the years I have written hundreds of PowerShell scripts for RapidRecovery/AppAssure Management and Automation. One of the constant requests I have heard from…
I get asked this question a lot. What is AppAssure? Since I won't be at the Dell User Forum this year, I thought I'd write out what I usually tell people when I'm asked to explain about what AppAssure does. This is going to be the first in…
Earlier today I posted about how AppAssure does archives. Today we released AppAssure 5.4.2, and this release provides several improvements to the AppAssure's archive capabilities.
In Virtual Standby with AppAssure - Part 1:Creating a Virtual Standby I demonstrated how to create a Virtual Standby VM. This blog is part 2 and shows how to properly test the VM and the little tricks that you should know.
Once the Virtual Standby has been…
