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When Graham Keeling became annoyed with the complexity of network backup software program Bacula [1], he fired up his program editor. The result was the compact network backup solution Burp [2 ... Network Backup ... Network backup with Burp, Obnam, and Backshift

features of popular solutions such as Acronis Backup & Recovery, Arkeia Network Backup, EMC NetWorker, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, SEP sesam, Symantec NetBackup, and the open source Bacula. Elsewhere up ... Life on the Network

The permanent availability of servers and the services they provide presents a challenge for any administrator. For this reason, network monitoring and the tools used to perform it play an important ... We look at two tools for Windows network monitoring – PRTG Network Monitor and NetCrunch – that allow you to monitor servers at work or on the road. ... Network monitoring for Windows

Linux comes with a whole bunch of useful network analysis tools, many of which provide excellent results that can easily compete with commercial tools. Despite this, Windows administrators ... An administrator can only gain useful insights from network analysis if they understand the underlying procedures and protocols. The new version of Wireshark, 1.6, formerly known as Ethereal, can ... Network analysis with Wireshark

of how a well-tended network should operate. This issue starts with a story on the state of migration to the IPv6 Internet protocol, including a look at some services that will let you try out IPv6 right ... The Present and Future Network

, and storage components, into consideration. In many cases, administrators forget that a network failure will make the virtual servers inaccessible. A switch should never be a single point of failure (Figure 1 ... Virtualization doesn't necessarily provide protection against system failure if the network is a single point of failure. We explain how to set up redundant network connections for virtual machines ... Redundant network connections with VMware ESX

Version 3.0 of Hyper-V in Windows Server 8 offers several improvements in terms of networking that improve the system's performance. Examples include direct access by virtual machines to the network ... Performance problems with virtual servers on Hyper-V are often caused by a network access bottleneck, but various optimization settings can help speed things up. ... Optimizing Hyper-V network settings

A server can struggle for many reasons: System resources like the CPU, RAM, or hard disk space could be overloaded, or network services might have crashed. Depending on the applications that run ... Monitoring network computers with the Icinga Nagios fork

. Figure 1: AppLocker lets you restrict the ability to execute programs on enterprise networks. AppLocker also supports whitelists, blacklists, and combinations of rules. It can block applications ... Using AppLocker to block applications on networks

Virtual private networks (VPNs) have established themselves as a standard solution for convenient remote access to enterprise networks. However, they can cause some issues in combination ... State-of-the-art virtual private networks