Actifio launches disaster recovery appliances

Actifio Inc. is coming out of stealth this week with appliances aimed at managing data and enabling disaster recovery in virtual server environments.

On Tuesday, Actifio will launch Actifio DP for data protection, Actifio DR for disaster recovery and Actifio BC for business continuity. Actifio's founder and CEO Ash Ashutosh claims the startup's technology decouples data management from the underlying storage infrastructure to make the process simpler and less expensive.

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Tips for protecting data on VMware virtual machines

Backing up data is a lot more complex in VMware virtual machine environments. Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director, validation services at Hopkinton, Mass.-based Taneja Group, discusses the challenges of protecting data in virtual environments and the best technologies available from VMware and third-party challengers. This podcast is also available below as an MP3 download.

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