Posted by Kimberly Schuerhoff on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 @ 11:00 AM
The Business Challenge
“It takes roughly 30 minutes to configure
Veeam Backup & Replication and
TwinStrata’s CloudArray software. This
is a fast, easy, and cost-effective solution
for our clients who don’t have the
budget or flexibility for offsite backups
of their VMware environments. It provides
anywhere, anytime accessibility to
data—for both business continuity
and disaster recovery purposes.”
Jason Schuerhoff
Vice President of Sales
Sublime Solution
The Business Challenge
Companies of all sizes consider cloud storage of VMware virtual machine backups for several reasons. First, they might have storage capacity needs beyond their current infrastructures or no off-site disaster recovery capabilities whatsoever.
Furthermore, they might encounter challenges with backup-to-tape scenarios and offsite tape management, or they strive for anywhere, anytime data accessibility for business continuity.
Enter TwinStrata, a pioneer in the cloud SAN storage solutions market that created the first software solution to enhance data protection at a substantial cost savings over traditional off-site storage. Storage clouds provide the availability, security,
and performance of local storage without the capital investment and overhead of housing and managing storage.
The Veeam Solution
TwinStrata’s CloudArray software, when used in conjunction with Veeam Backup & Replication, gives organizations access to secure, highly scalable, pay-as-you-go cloud storage for their VMware backups.
Greg Roody, Director of Marketing for TwinStrata, said companies using tape systems or disk-to-disk backup for data protection can select CloudArray as the backup target for Veeam Backup & Replication. “In addition to eliminating the logistics and costs associated with media transport or tape vaulting services, this
solution does not require large capital investments for infrastructure expansion,” he explained. “And, since Veeam provides powerful deduplication and near continuous
data protection functionality, many companies will experience improved backup speed and reduced storage requirements for backups.”
Greg said CloudArray also provides Veeam customers with a fast and efficient gateway to cloud storage providers of their choice. “This enables cost-effective off-site replication and recovery at a fraction of the cost of traditional two-site solutions,” he added.
Sublime Solution is a consulting company specializing in virtualization implementation initiatives that partners with both Veeam and TwinStrata, in addition to many other companies.
“We are an agnostic infrastructure services organization that works with multiple vendors to find the most efficient and cost-effective solution for each client,” explained Jason Schuerhoff, the company’s Vice President of Sales. “We often
recommend the Veeam and TwinStrata strategy because many of our clients don’t have the ability or flexibility to conduct offsite backups for disaster recovery purposes. However, the combination of these two products lets them back up and replicate their virtual infrastructures into the cloud as if they were local, thereby
giving them access to the information at any time and from anywhere. Plus, they avoid the cost associated with co-location infrastructures. Most small and mediumsized companies will find this solution pays for itself within 12-18 months.”
The Results
Provides new levels of business agility - Veeam Software and TwinStrata provide new levels of business agility, efficiency, and cost management for the creation and storage of VMware backups. The combined solution provides companies with the availability, security, and performance characteristics of local data storage— available anytime, anywhere.
Ensures data security, high availability, and portability - To ensure data security and privacy, TwinStrata’s CloudArray compresses and encrypts data prior to transporting it to cloud storage. Since CloudArray runs as a virtual machine in VMware ESX(i), users can configure it in either high availability or hot standby mode for added availability and resiliency. In addition, Cloud storage is portable and can be restored at any recovery site.
Improves efficiency and reduces operational costs - The combination of Veeam Backup & Replication and CloudArray storage reduces the amount of on-premise infrastructure needed to accommodate growth for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes, thereby reducing capital expenditures. CloudArray’s unlimited capacity enables companies to “pay as they go” for storage, rather than overpaying for space they don’t need.
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Posted by Don Fernandes on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 11:00 AM
Acronis®, a leading provider of easy-to-use backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, is announcing today Acronis Backup & Recovery® 10 Online. This online backup and recovery solution offers the advantages of a secondary redundant data store without a substantial upfront investment.
The product will be shown for the first time at the Acronis booth #1125 at VMworld in San Francisco August 30 – September 2.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online answers the need for cost effective online redundant data storage for backup and recovery. IT administrators can use it to recover files, folders or complete systems.
While on-site local backup software like Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides the benefits of high performance backups and recoveries in the event of specific infrastructure failure, the new Acronis solution enables IT organizations to recover quickly and completely from a secure cloud computing environment in the wake of a full data center disaster or outage, without building a dedicated and redundant offsite storage facility. It includes support for mixed virtual and physical computing environments found in many of today’s businesses.
With this product announcement, the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 family becomes one of the first data protection solutions to offer agent-less backup for virtual machines (eliminating agents reduces repetitive administration tasks). Moreover, it:
- Has minimal impact on management overhead, since the same Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 management console allows for control of both online and local backups—for both physical and virtual machines.
- Recovers individual files or whole system images so organizations have the disaster recovery flexibility they need.
- Provides flexible retention periods depending on customer’s backup and archiving policies.
- Protects backup data through AES-256 data encryption and user authentication.
- Offers an initial seeding option for customers with large amounts of data, where the backup is placed on a hard drive and sent to our data center for uploading. Similarly, in the event of a large server outage, Acronis will load a server’s backups onto an external hard drive and ship it to the customer as part of its Large Scale Recovery option.
The service is available in an annual subscription basis and is licensed per machine. For pricing and availability, please contact Sublime Solution at 877-273-1200 or sales@sublimesolution.net.
Posted by Kimberly Schuerhoff on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 @ 11:49 AM
Veeam Announces Veeam ONE for VMware – a Single Solution for VMware Management
Veeam ONE Provides Comprehensive Solution to Optimize Performance, Configuration and Utilization of Enterprise
VMware Environments
VMworld 2010 Conference
COLUMBUS, Ohio--Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery and systems management solutions for VMware virtual datacenter environments, today introduced a single comprehensive solution for managing the performance, configuration and utilization of VMware environments. The Veeam ONE Solution™ for VMware management provides one convenient solution for monitoring, capacity planning, change management, and reporting and chargeback.
“Veeam ONE offers the benefits of a single-vendor solution, but without the one-size-fits-all mentality of some competing products,” explained Ratmir Timashev, Veeam President and
CEO. “As server virtualization has matured to support mission-critical workloads, management must also mature. Only Veeam offers a single solution that takes into account varying
customer requirements and scenarios. For customers using Microsoft System Center, Veeam offers the nworks Management Pack™ Plus, leveraging and extending the management
framework in which customers have already invested. For those using HP Operations Manager, we offer the nworks Smart Plug-in™ Plus. And for other monitoring environments, we offer Veeam Monitor™ Plus. Customers are free to choose the ONE that’s right for them.”
In addition to monitoring, capacity planning and change management, all versions of Veeam ONE include business-oriented monitoring and reporting on resource usage and performance by department, organizational unit or server type – clearly showing stakeholders how the virtual infrastructure supports business priorities and meets service-level agreements.
Choose the ONE That’s Right for You
Veeam ONE is available in four versions to accommodate each organization’s particular monitoring environment:
1. The nworks Management Pack Plus is ideal for organizations using Microsoft System Center. As a native management
pack, it integrates seamlessly and provides scalable, fault-tolerant and agentless VMware monitoring and management
directly in the System Center console. It includes the Veeam nworks Management Pack and nworks PRO Pack™,
Veeam Reporter™ and Veeam Business View™.
2. The nworks Smart Plug-in Plus is a native solution for organizations using HP Operations Manager. It publishes
VMware performance, events, configuration, state and topology directly into Operations Manager, eliminating the need
for an additional console (and training), while giving users a common view across physical and virtual infrastructures. It
includes the Veeam nworks Smart Plug-in, Veeam Reporter and Veeam Business View.
3. Veeam Monitor Plus is a framework-independent monitoring and reporting solution for VMware. It provides a cohesive view of the entire virtual infrastructure, alerting users to performance issues and providing diagnostic data and built-in advice to enable quick problem resolution and expert tuning. Veeam Monitor Plus can be integrated with other monitoring or ticketing systems via SNMP. It includes Veeam Monitor, Veeam Reporter and Veeam Business View.
4. Veeam Monitor Plus Free Edition is a free version of Veeam Monitor Plus, offering limited functionality at no cost for
smaller companies with budget constraints. It includes Veeam Monitor Free Edition, Veeam Reporter Free Edition and
Veeam Business View.
“Veeam ONE fills a market gap by providing a single solution to key VMware management needs,” said Jason Schuerhoff, Vice
President of Sales for Sublime Solution. “No matter which variety a customer chooses, it’s an enterprise-strength solution that’s also easy to deploy, making it an ideal choice for both large and small VMware deployments. We recommend Veeam to our
customers because with Veeam, they get a single pane of glass to manage the virtual infrastructure. Adding the reporting
capability to monitoring allows our clients to go from reactive to proactive. Veeam ONE fills in the rest of the picture and
provides a true end-to-end solution.”
Pricing and Availability
Veeam ONE is available immediately. North American MSRP starts at $550 per socket. More information is available at www.veeam.com/one. Veeam will be demonstrating all versions of Veeam ONE at VMworld in San Francisco, August 31 - Sept
2, Booth 413.
For more information visit www.sublimesolution.net or call us at 877-273-1200 x201
Posted by Jason Schuerhoff on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 @ 01:02 PM
As an Acronis Gold partner we experienced the release of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 the predecessor of Acronis True Image. Myself along with my team field calls on a daily basis with complaints about the new version. We have received so much feedback I thought I would take a moment and share a different point of view.
Acronis True Image 9.5 was a simple easy solution for imaging and restoring your entire system. Its feature and functionality were well placed in the SMB area. Anyone from a site administrator to Joe the owner of a pizza joint could install and configure the software. It was widely known throughout the community as a valid competitor to Symantec’s Backup Exec. However, in the medium to enterprise business area True Image lacked some of the key ingredients to play on the same field as Symantec. i.e reporting, remote management (that worked) and group management (that worked).
Midyear in 2009 Acronis released the long awaited Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, with enhanced management capabilities and scalability from 1-3,000 servers. Acronis did a great job with the GUI. When you look at the competition the Acronis interface is far better than the rest out in the market. They built a single foundation for the rest of their technology to sit on moving forward. Now, like any 1.0 version they have had their hiccups and as an organization did their best to mitigate those issues and release fixes within a reasonable time frame.
Fast forward 1 year. Sublime Solution as a company has seen a dramatic drop in support cases and increased customer satisfaction. Today 80% of the support calls are due to miss configuration or installation issues. Acronis has received feedback on this and has implemented steps such as: reinstating wizard driven installation process (in the works) and partnering up with their VARS to offer “Acronis Jumpstarts” to assist in the install & Configuration process.
Most people fear change and are holding on to the old version of Acronis True Image. With the new version of Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 you have an entirely new look and feel, along with the features and functionality to give any true enterprise DR solution a run for its money. Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 provides you a single pain of glass to manage both your physical and virtual infrastructure for both server and workstations. It’s ability to convert .TIB (True Image Backup file format) into a virtual file format has provided a new level of flexibility giving end-users the ability to restore pretty much anytime anywhere scenario.
My point of view is that Acronis had to take the necessary steps to compete in the enterprise area and like any growing company they along with their customers have experienced some growing pains. However, I believe they are positioned as a much more mature solution that can manage 1 server or workstation with their standalone or 3,000 with their Advanced Server version.
Posted by Jason Schuerhoff on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 @ 09:35 AM
Sublime prides its self as taking an agnostic approach when partnering up with solutions based around virtualization. As a smaller more nibble partner we don't have a large investment in one piece of technology to the tune that our judgment is clouded.
We spend a lot of time researching and analyzing our core technology offerings to ensure we are delivering the best solution possible. Sublime early on in the game identified VKernel as a nice add-on to any growing virtual infrastructure. With its built-in reporting and add on products it provides you a glimpse into possible capacity challenges. It also would identify over & under utilized VM's/resources. VKernel has flip flopped back and forth for 2 years now trying to focus on a solution to go to market with. Reminds me of the "throw spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks" go to market strategy. In the end they seem to have a bundle of tools which are viewed by most as nice to have solutions.
Most IT organizations are still feeling the squeeze of the economy and are looking to do more with less. VMware, VKernel and a handful of other solutions all serve up information for you to act on for managing your environment. At the end of the day these solutions still require man power and resources to tackle the action items identified from these solutions.
In comes the new sheriff in town VMTurbo. A new piece of technology based out of NY backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. VMTurbo is really broken down into three major areas:
• Virtual Datacenter Automation
• Virtual Infrastructure Health and Performance Management
• Real-Time Virtual Infrastructure Right-Sizing
VMTurbo goes a step further than VKernel & VMware and will actually re mediate issues. It does this by treating resources like commodities (buyers and sellers) and if resources get to expensive on one host it will move the VM to another host...it is like DRS on Steroids.
We are talking about a solution they identifies, notifies and takes action. Truly providing you a solution to assist in managing a larger virtual infrastructure with less man power. Keep an eye out for these guys: www.vmturbo.com
Posted by Kimberly Schuerhoff on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 @ 10:09 AM
As It’sAVirtualWorld.COM website prepares for the soft launch this coming July 22nd.
Here is a “Sneak Peek” of what the site will bring to the table:
- Community Based Site
- Completely Agnostic
- Blog
- Wiki
- Podcast
- Forum
- Document Library
- Virtual Academy
- Skills Matrix
I thought I would take a moment to give a snap shot of what the online community environment looks like from my perspective. The gang over at itsavirtualworld.com running this project did their homework by performing web based research and customer survey’s. The research was performed to find out if the community at large is satisfied or has the appetite to for a truly agnostic site with all the attributes below. The feedback they received was overwhelming. The demand for a site that will truly provide value to the level they are projecting is astonishing.
I too embarked on a journey to find a single site that had these following qualities I came up empty handed:
- Platform Agnostic
- Single Pain of Glass
- Educational
- Informative
- Knowledge Sharing
I was able to find a handful of sites that position themselves as a community site but they all miss the mark. Not one of the sites gave you the ability to have a single platform to educate yourself or educate others by more than one data delivery method. Most of the sites seem to leverage some sort of scrapping technology to provide RSS feeds on virtualization news. The so called completion was other than that is written in a single point of view via a the creator’s blog… Not to mention most of these sites looked like a used car lot with all the advertising shared by 20 different 3rd party players. It was generally hard to find the valuable information through all the banner ads and BS.
It seems like the only real site that is widely used is the VMware forum. The only issue with this is it doesn’t fit the Agnostic profile needed for the virtualization community.
My reason for posting this is to 1. find out what your appetite is for this kind of site? 2. If you had an empty canvas and could build the ultimate Virtualization Community site what would yours look like? 3. If you had the ability to contribute content for educating the community would you do so?
Anyone interested in contributing? If so please email me heichman@itsavirtualworld.com
Posted by Don Fernandes on Fri, Jul 09, 2010 @ 07:00 AM
Sublime Solution, a Veeam Gold ProPartner, announces the availability for order of the newest version of the award winning Veeam Reporter Enterprise and nWorks MP for Microsoft Operations Manager.
Veeam Reporter Enterprise version 4.0 represents a major upgrade to Veeam’s reporting and change management solution for VMware’s vSphere virtualization platform. Among the improvements and enhancements available in Reporter Enterprise 4.0 are:
- Enterprise Class Reporting
- Customizable Dashboards via the newly redesigned web based UI
- Performance and Event Collection
- Capacity Planning
- Configuration Management
- Full Business View Integration
- Improved Visio Diagramming
Veeam nWorks MP for Microsoft Operation Manager version 5.5, provides scalable, fault-tolerant and agentless VMware infrastructure monitoring and management directly in Microsoft System Center, eliminating the need for a separate monitoring framework. New features and enhancements to version 5.5 include:
- PRO Pack for VMware for further integration into Microsoft SCVMM 2008 R2
- Update certification by VMware for vSphere and the vSphere API
- Configurable data collection
- nWorks Enterprise Manager
- Advanced Ops Manager features
- Derived Metrics from the vSphere API
As a Veeam Gold ProPartner, Sublime Solution is certified to provide the highest levels of pre and post sales support for the Veeam product suite in addition to offering the most affordable pricing available.
Contact us at sales@sublimesolution.net or call 877-273-1200 for additional information.
Posted by Kimberly Schuerhoff on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 @ 03:14 PM
Join Sublime Solution as we outline how to back up and recover stand-alone Windows Server operating systems, applications and all data in minutes, instead of hours or days.
· Minimize downtime and meet challenging RTOs
· Advanced backup scheduling
· Automate recovery
· Live disk snapshots of entire system to single file or folder
· Advanced encryption technology ensures data security
· Optimized, image-based backup technology maximizes
backup performance
For attending you will receive a free E-book on: "Simplifying DR within a Virtual Infrastructure with Acronis."
Date: July 13, 2010
Time: 2:00pm ET
Posted by Kimberly Schuerhoff on Fri, Jun 25, 2010 @ 08:38 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sublime Solution Partners to Create a Procurement and Purchasing Division to Best Serve our Clients
A New Division of Sublime Solution Unveiled to Provide Broad Spectrum of Resources and Technical Expertise
Manchester, NH., June 28, 2010 Sublime Solution, a services company realizes that IT is a highly valued asset to all businesses and that our valued customers rely on technology to provide a competitive advantage in their industry. To be successful as a business, IT must have a clear vision and a realistic plan that is aligned with corporate goals and the ability to execute those plans and manage them effectively. This requires a consistent and methodical approach to IT projects and services, and Sublime Solution has a simple model that enables businesses to be effective. In an effort to increase our efficiencies and focus on our core offerings, Sublime Solution has partnered to create a procurement and purchasing division to best serve our clients. This new entity is Sublime Procurement Group. (SPG)
As a new division and extension of Sublime Solution, SPG will provide an even broader spectrum of resources and technical experts trained in the finer details vendor-specific equipment and complex configurations. If you have a purchasing requirement related to a specific project, you can leverage SPG to ensure that you are getting the best prices available. We provide a full purchasing and procurement team to quote, purchase, and track your hardware and software shipments as well as fulfill your day-to-day needs. In addition to hardware/software our team can help with all licensing programs and management of your renewals and special pricing contracts. Whether it is a small purchase or a large rollout your SPG team has the presales expertise and systems in place to find you the correct items, on time delivery, at the lowest costs.
Sublime Solution is excited about the additional level of expertise, knowledge, and resources that SPG will bring to our relationship with current and future customers. Sublime Solution is committed to an efficient purchasing process and continued high levels of customer service.
About Sublime Solution Inc.
Headquartered in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Sublime Solution Inc. provides IT and data center managers with high quality and cost effective software and hardware solutions for their virtualization infrastructures. With unparalleled technical support, and professional services, Sublime Solution Inc. offers its customers the unique one on one attention to help them choose the correct technology to fit their environments needs. For more information about Sublime Solution Inc.’s products and services please visit www.sublimesolution.net.
Posted by Jason Schuerhoff on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 @ 08:25 PM
DEAL 1:
Get Acronis Universal Deploy FREE when you purchase 1 license of Acronis Snap Deploy 3 Workstation or Server.
With Free Acronis Universal Deploy, hardware constraints become a thing of the past. Customers can even distribute the master image to target systems with dissimilar hardware.
**This promotion cannot be used in conjunction with any other special pricing or promotion.
DEAL 2:
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 simplifies and automates backup nd disaster recovery across physical and virtual systems to meet challenging recovery time
objectives (RTOs).
When you purchase Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition, you’ll get 25% off (MSRP $1,499 USD), savings value of $500 USD. This limited time offer is only valid through June 30, 2010 in the Americas, and it is not to be combined with any other promotional offer from Acronis.
DEAL 3:
Receive a free Acronis Universal Restore License when you purchase any Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 Server or Workstation products!
To learn more about these promotions please contact us at 877-273-1200 or sales@sublimesolution.net