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Cohesity DataPlatform 6.3 - Active Directory Backup and Recovery

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:35:13 +0000

I’ll be upfront and honest - backup and recovery doesn’t excite me, and it never has. On the other hand, this world of data management, policy driven protection / placement and analysis of said data does tweak my interest, which is why I taken an interest in tinkering with some of the modern platforms, for want of a better term, such as Cohesity. But as I was reading through the “what’s new” section of Cohesity DataPlatform 6.3, which I’ve got early access to (Thanks Pete Marfatia), I saw the following comment:

Cohesity 6.2 - Office365 Exchange Online Protection

Thu, 09 May 2019 10:54:33 +0000

Introduction

With the release of Cohesity version 6.2, there is support to protect Exchange Online Office365 mailboxes natively within the product.

Protecting data in a SaaS platform is always an interesting discussion. At the end of the day, there is a shared responsibility model at play here, and as the customer and/or consumer, there are still some very valid reasons you’d want to ensure you are protecting business critical data such as exchange online mailboxes. The low hanging fruit that comes to mind as I write this post are things like malware, phishing and insider threats or attacks. Microsoft do provide some native built-in functionality for protecting data, but there are limitations with the offerings from Microsoft.

Vembu Version 4 - What's Coming

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:07:33 +0000

Disclaimer: Vembu are a sponsor of Virtual Tassie and this post is a sponsored blog post. This post has been written in my own words but may contain some material supplied by Vembu for an upcoming release or announcement.

Vembu have been hard at work behind the scenes on a new version of their BDR suite and version 4.0 is due for release soon.

As a quick recap, the BDR Suite is a range of products available from Vembu to help businesses with data protection and disaster recovery of their workloads. There are several products available under the suite, all of which are managed from a central management portal.

Vembu Webinar - Why you need Multiple Recovery Options

Mon, 28 May 2018 10:02:18 +0000

Disclaimer: Vembu are a sponsor of Virtual Tassie and this post is a sponsored blog post. This post has been written in my own words and is not a direct redistribution of a blog post written by Vembu. With that said, I am new to the Vembu suite and have not had time since taking them on as a sponsor to use all aspects of their solution, so some of the content above has been comprised using information from Vembu’s website.

vCenter Server 6.7 Appliance Backup Scheduler

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:32:34 +0000

This one will be a quick post, but I wanted to alert people to a new minor but useful feature that’s included in the vCenter 6.7 appliance, which is the ability to schedule backups natively within the appliance management interface.

If you wanted to schedule an appliance based backup in 6.5, you would have to schedule a task to do so. Thankfully this was made easier by Brian Graf’s script, but now we have a way to build this in to the appliance configuration with no reliance on an external script.