Snapshots are a well-known and mature technology used for data protection, historically found in storage arrays. With the advent of virtualisation, the hypervisor now provides an alternative location ...

VirtualBox Snapshots is a tool for capturing incremental snapshots of the virtual machine (VM) state. It enables us to restore our VM to a specific condition. In this post, we will learn how to create ...

New filesystem technology for Linux includes high capacity, snapshots, copy-on-write, and on-the-fly corruption detection. Almost exactly one year ago, as the developers were discussing changes to the ...

Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term "snapshots" in different ways, that's easy to forget. The public cloud ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

IBM recently announced that it is bringing advanced data protection capabilities to its IBM FlashSystem all-flash arrays. IBM says that its Safeguarded Copy for these all-flash storage arrays ...