Backup & Storage

Earlier this week, IBM announced Cloud Mass Data Migration, a new service that enables organizations to quickly and easily transfer large amounts of data to IBM’s cloud infrastructure.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at the benefits of cloud storage and why a combination of cloud and on-premises solutions is sometimes a happy medium.

In the second part of this article, Russell Smith looks at Network Attached Storage solutions for SMEs.

In part one of this article, Russell Smith looks at the advantages for small businesses of server hardware running Windows Server Essentials for local storage needs.

Aidan Finn explains how to use a preview feature of the Azure Backup MARS agent to backup and restore system state for Windows Server machines.

Aidan Finn explains how a new preview feature, Azure Site Recovery for Azure Virtual Machines, can provide disaster recovery services for virtual machines that are running in Azure.

Aidan Finn walks you through deploying Azure virtual machines with smaller OS disks.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy VHD Sets on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.

Russell Smith shows you how to configure Operations Management Suite’s Update Compliance to monitor Windows updates.

Aidan Finn explains how storage resiliency decreases downtime to virtual machines that are running on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.