Mistakes happen – whether they’re made on purpose or by pure accident. No matter the reason, we can all agree mistakes happen. While some environments repeatedly tell you that mistakes are bad, sometimes mistakes can be fun. Mistakes lik...

As the 50th anniversary of the Star Trek TV series looms, it’s interesting to think of the wisdom that can be shared from the many voyages of starship Enterprise as it went “where no man has gone before.” Remember “The Troubl...

Here is an annoying issue that hopefully will never happen to you.

For the most part, there is just one service account to run the Diagnostic Server; however, some users may decide, "Hey, I'm  going to monitor one or two connections with my own…

NetVault Backup 11.1 is now available. The latest release is focused squarely on two of NetVault’s main tenets: ease of use and scalability. A new installer, along with updates to the user interface, user-level access (ULA) and other functionality make…

If you haven’t heard yet, we now have a beta version of our newest recovery solution – Recovery Manager for Azure AD. If you’re moving to Azure AD or plan to, please help us with beta feedback.

• What’s Recovery Manager for Azure AD?…

The biggest highlight is the full support of environments with disabled NTLM recovery which can continue when Windows or Windows security is unresponsive.

Other new features for both RMAD and RMAD FE include:

• Quickly backup and restore Microsoft Azure…

Next Monday we launch Migration Manager for Active Directory 8.13, now supporting Exchange 2016 as a target.

As many of you know, Migration Manager for Active Directory is a fan favorite, ensuring ZeroIMPACT to your organization to mitigate the risk of…

 

What is Peer-to-Peer (or active to active) replication?

Peer-to-Peer replication (P2P) allows users on multiple databases to make changes concurrently to the same data, while SharePlex replication keeps all of the databases synchronized. Peer-to-Peer…

Changes are not only inevitable but they are also more complex and have a greater impact each time. Even the simplest modification can have a considerable effect on the virtual environment.

Generally, we don't realize how we have been impacted until…

Let me start with this – I am not “piling on.” This kind of outage could happen to anyone. I remember when I first heard that Delta had to cancel many flights over the last few days, I assumed that their systems had been hacked. I ...

My grandmother was the greatest. She was the iconic example of old world class and style… I never knew she was also a prophet. As I was growing up, she would always take me aside and raising a finger crooked from age, she would point to me an...

To all you DBAs and database performance monitoring enthusiasts out there: Have you gotten your copy of the survey The Real World of the Database Administrator yet? In my previous post, I highlighted several facts of DBA life noted in the survey, inc…