Multiplatform
Business Continuity Plan Checklist
April 28, 2026
A disruption or a disaster can happen when you least expect it. In fact, 80% of data center managers have experienced an outage in the past...
What Is Incremental Backup?
April 28, 2026
An incremental backup is a backup method that copies only changes written since the last backup – whether full or incremental. Incremental b...
Thick and Thin Provisioning: What Is the Difference?
April 28, 2026
In this article, we are going to consider the storage pre-allocation aspect of virtual disk settings in detail and find out what thick and t...
3-2-1 Backup Rule: Implementing Efficient Data Protection
April 28, 2026
Most businesses now understand the importance of backing up data to avoid the negative impact of data loss on their operations. Whether it i...
NAKIVO Talked VM Data Protection at TECH Meets in Poznan
April 28, 2026
Recently, several NAKIVO team members headed to the city of Poznan, Poland, to attend TECH meets – a data protection event held by FEN. FEN...
NAKIVO Wins Great User Experience and Rising Star Awards by FinancesOnline for VM Backup
April 28, 2026
We at NAKIVO are proud to share some wonderful news with you! Recently, our product NAKIVO Backup & Replication for VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS...
Best Practices of Using SAN Storage for VM Backup
April 28, 2026
Storage Area Network (or SAN) has long been staple storage in the enterprise datacenter. Especially since virtualization has also become a m...
What Is Synthetic Full Backup: Facts Every Sysadmin Should Know
April 28, 2026
There are multiple backup approaches, including full, incremental, and differential. Creating full backups frequently may be inconvenient an...
What is VM Backup and Replication in VMware?
April 28, 2026
VM backup and replication are essential parts of a data protection plan. At the first look, they seem similar and interchangeable, and this...
GFS Backup Retention Policy Explained
April 28, 2026
Ideally, the goal of backup is the ability to recover data from any point back in time. The straightforward way to do that is to keep period...
What Is Deduplication in Backup Data Storage
April 28, 2026
Today’s large virtual infrastructures generate a vast amount of data. This leads to an increase in backup data and in expenditure on backup...
What Is Application-Aware Backup?
April 28, 2026
When it comes to backups, you have a wide range of options to consider for successful and fast data recovery. The options include type of ba...
Crash-Consistent vs. Application-Consistent Backup Comparison
April 28, 2026
The reliability of backups, and data protection strategies in general, depends on whether the backup data is valid and usable immediately wh...
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Components: Transporter
April 28, 2026
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments, includin...
How to Detect Ransomware: Understanding Signs of Infection
June 1, 2023
With ransomware getting more sophisticated, organizations are under the constant threat of data loss and breaches. According to Statista, an...
LAN-Free Backup Technologies for VMware vSphere
June 1, 2023
During a backup, large amounts of data are transferred through the networks, slowing down business-critical operations in the production env...
Tape Backup Advantages That Make It Still Relevant
June 1, 2023
Modern businesses are data-driven, meaning that data is a critical asset of any organization, and it should be protected at all costs. For t...
Magnetic Tape Backup: Choose the Best Backup Practice
June 1, 2023
Disk-based and cloud-based backups are more commonly used than backup to tape due to the benefits that they provide, such as continuous data...
Image-Based vs. File-Based Backup Comparison
June 1, 2023
In today’s data protection landscape, there are numerous backup types that you can use to safeguard your data. When it comes to backing up s...
Differential Backup vs. Incremental Backup
June 1, 2023
Modern backup solutions deliver different technologies to help save on storage space requirements, cut backup windows, improve performance,...