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Part III: Not All Servers Are Equal In Part 2 we addressed DR site location and personnel plan and how these often under considered criteria can make or break the efficacy of your DR strategy. Now you've studied and understand your geographic risk and now understand the realistic and practical implications of your personnel plan. The next issues to address are application categorization and how that feeds into an intelligent plan for Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and Reco

And How RackWare Delivers Reliable Recovery Executive Summary Most disaster recovery products focus on replicating data. Unfortunately, successful disaster recovery requires far more than simply copying data from one location to another. Organizations routinely discover during an outage that applications fail to start, dependencies are missing, recovery environments are incorrectly configured, or DR procedures have never been fully tested. Recovery plans that appear successfu

Unlock the full potential of RackWare across any cloud environment. This technical training equips cloud-focused engineers and architects with the knowledge and skills to deliver seamless migration, disaster recovery, and backup solutions across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures using the RackWare platform. What You Will Learn ​​ Key Use Cases ​ Migration from on-premises or third-party clouds to public, private, or sovereign clouds Comprehensive Backup and Disaster Re

Take your RackWare expertise to the next level. This advanced technical training is designed for engineers and architects ready to master the granular configurations and complex recovery logic required for enterprise-grade resilience and seamless large-scale migrations. What You Will Learn ​​​​ Build upon your foundational knowledge to execute high-precision workflows and advanced data protection strategies: Advanced Source Preparation Master the critical pre-requisites fo

Part II: The Human and Physical Reality In Part 1 we addressed the idea that many DR plans and strategies are too narrowly focused. Some only look at RPO; some are only focused on having a copy of data with no concept of total datacenter recovery. The two I’d like to address first (DR site location/network infrastructure and your personnel plan) are often the least considered. They’re not the quantitative metrics teams tend to fixate on; they’re about the physical and human r

For years, the hardware refresh cycle was boringly predictable. Servers aged out every three to five years, you budgeted for the replacement, component prices drifted down over time, and the refresh was a routine line item nobody lost sleep over. That math just broke. Over the past year, the cost of the components inside enterprise servers and other infrastructure equipment hasn’t just crept up. It has exploded. Memory has taken the hardest hit by far. DDR5 server memory roug

A brief video showcasing Rackware's ability to perform a live migration of any VMware virtual machine to IBM VPC and IBM OpenShift virtualisation. Your VMware instance can be in an on-prem environment, or it can be any flavor of VMware in the cloud such as Google VMware Engine, VMware on AWS, or Oracle VMware solution.

Quick overview of the steps to deploy RackWare Disaster Recovery and Migration solutions for servers, VMs, and Kubernetes in OCI, via the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

Quick overview of the steps to deploy RackWare Disaster Recovery and Migration solutions for servers, VMs, and Kubernetes in IBM Cloud, via the IBM Cloud Catalog.

Part I: The Criteria That Matter Disaster Recovery products, deployments, and strategies have evolved extensively in the last 15 years or so. With Cloud technology, robust virtualization options, vastly improved wide area networking, and new products and methods, it can be a daunting task to plan and implement a modern Disaster Recovery solution. Legacy backup and DR products with limited support for Hyperscaler as well as emerging Cloud technologies can complicate things eve

Automated Cross-Cloud Failover for Nutanix Cloud Clusters Executive Summary Organizations adopting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are increasingly looking for a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that extends beyond a single cloud provider while maintaining operational simplicity and automation. RackWare provides failover and disaster recovery automation for workloads running on Nutanix NC2 across any supported public cloud environment leveraging Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)

Enterprise-Scale Migration and Workload Mobility Modern infrastructure transformation initiatives require more than simple VM conversion tools. Enterprises are migrating from mixed environments that include legacy virtualization platforms, public cloud infrastructure, private cloud environments, and bare-metal systems — often under aggressive timelines with minimal tolerance for downtime or operational disruption. RackWare provides an enterprise workload mobility platform tha

Why Data Consistency Delivers Better Recovery Outcomes Than Near-Zero RPO Executive Summary Disaster recovery vendors have long competed on a single metric: RPO. The lower, the better — or so the pitch goes. In practice, near-zero RPO is a theoretical measure that describes how frequently data is captured. It says nothing about whether that data can restore your application to a usable state. RackWare takes a fundamentally different approach: consistency-first replication. In

End-of-support for VMware perpetual licensing is closer than you think If your organization runs vSphere 8, you have a decision to make — and the window for making it the right way is narrower than the calendar suggests. Broadcom has set October 2027 as the end-of-support date for vSphere 8, the last version of vSphere that could be perpetually licensed. After that date, no more security patches. No more critical bug fixes. No more compatibility certifications for new hardwar

By Todd Matters, Chief Technology Officer, RackWare Every generation of enterprise technology has a moment where the platforms that defined the previous era start to strain against a world they weren’t designed for. We’ve seen it with storage. We’ve seen it with networking. We’ve seen it with virtualization itself. Disaster recovery is now having its moment. That’s not a criticism of the platforms that got us here. The DR solutions that emerged a decade or more ago were well-

Enterprises know where they want to go. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is a serious destination. But knowing your destination and actually getting there are two entirely different problems - and only one of them is keeping IT leaders up at night When Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware, the ripple effects were fast and unambiguous. Licensing structures shifted. Costs surged. Renewal conversations that had been routine became fraught. For many IT and infrastructure

Overview As enterprises accelerate VMware exit strategies in response to rising costs and licensing changes, they face an immediate and often overlooked problem: their disaster recovery strategy breaks along with it when moving to cloud-native. Zerto was built for a VMware-like world. When VMware goes, so does resilience - leaving organizations without DR coverage precisely when they are most exposed. RackWare solves this by delivering a modern, platform-agnostic disaster rec

Overview As enterprises accelerate VMware exit strategies due to rising costs and licensing changes, many IBM customers are replatforming workloads into IBM Cloud VPC. However, this transition exposes a critical gap: legacy disaster recovery solutions like Zerto are primarily built for VMware-like environments and do not function in IBM Cloud VPC without VMware in place. RackWare addresses this challenge by delivering a modern, platform purpose-builtdisaster recovery and migr

Overview As enterprises accelerate VMware exit strategies due to rising costs and licensing uncertainty, many are standardizing on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as the next-generation platform for virtualized workloads. However, while OpenShift Virtualization provides a modern Kubernetes-based infrastructure, the primary challenge remains execution, how to migrate and protect existing VMware workloads without disruption, replatforming, or operational risk. RackWare elimina

We’re excited to be at Nutanix .NEXT 2026 this week, showcasing how RackWare helps enterprises move and protect containerized applications with RackWare SWIFT for Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). RackWare is also now Nutanix Ready validated , further reinforcing our alignment with the Nutanix ecosystem. Visit RackWare at .NEXT If you’re attending .NEXT, stop by the RackWare team in the AI & Cloud Native Pavilion at Booth CN7. At the booth, we’ll be showing how RackWare SWIF