Workloads & Applications on Catalogic Software

Navigating Microsoft 365 Updates in 2025: How to Prepare for Major Changes

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Microsoft 365 updates in 2025 signal one of the platform’s most transformative periods yet, with a wave of deprecations and retirements set to redefine how businesses manage their environments. From the phasing out of legacy PowerShell modules to changes in Teams and OneNote, nearly every facet of Microsoft 365 is undergoing significant evolution. These updates will impact sysadmins and IT professionals alike, requiring proactive preparation to ensure smooth transitions and prevent disruptions to workflows.

Maximize Database Backup Efficiency with DPX vStor: Application-Consistent Protection for Oracle and SQL

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Backing up a mission-critical database is a different problem from backing up a file server. Speed and storage efficiency matter, but consistency matters more, because a database image captured mid-transaction can restore into a state that needs repair before it will open. Catalogic vStor, the software-defined backup appliance behind DPX, handles Oracle and SQL Server protection two ways: application-consistent backups driven by DPX, or native backups managed by the DBA with vStor underneath them.

Optimizing SAP HANA Backup Strategies

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

SAP HANA is at the core of modern enterprise resource planning. Ensuring its data is securely backed up is paramount for business continuity and resilience. This blog delves into optimizing backup strategies for SAP HANA, highlighting key considerations for administrators and IT professionals.

Challenges in SAP HANA Backup and Optimization

SAP HANA administrators face a multitude of challenges, such as ensuring system reliability, minimizing downtime, and providing timely business intelligence while managing the complexity of diverse systems. A crucial part of addressing these challenges involves optimizing and backing up the SAP HANA environment efficiently. Key to this process is the configuration of the SAP HANA backint interface, which involves setting parameters within the global.ini database configuration file to facilitate efficient backups to external repositories. This configuration not only simplifies backup procedures but also enhances the system’s ability to recover swiftly from data loss, thereby reducing potential downtime costs, which can be substantial across different industries.

Elevating SAP HANA Backup: Safeguarding Your Business’s Backbone

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In the ever-evolving realm of business, SAP HANA stands as an indispensable cornerstone for myriad organizations, delivering potent database and data management capabilities. Ensuring the impregnability of your SAP HANA data through a regime of unwavering backups transcends mere good practice—it is a calculated strategic imperative.

The Necessity of Backup SAP HANA Data

Whether orchestrating On Premise SAP HANA systems or harnessing the dynamic potential of SAP HANA Cloud, the rationale behind data backup resonates profoundly:
1. Data Fortification and Rapid Recovery : The practice of regular backups provides a resilient safety net, ensuring the swiftest recovery from the depths of data loss, system glitches, or unexpected calamities. SAP HANA Cloud’s automated backups, attaining a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as brisk as 15 minutes, adds an indispensable layer of data resilience.
2. Mitigation of Inherent Risks : Backups stand as the vanguard against potential menaces—ranging from data corruption and hardware hiccups to inadvertent deletions.
3. Conformance to Stringent Regulations : In a realm of stringent industry mandates, where data retention and shielded preservation are pivotal, regular backups stand as the sentinel ensuring compliance.
4. Adaptive Recovery Possibilities : SAP HANA backups offer a spectrum of adaptable data restoration timelines, aligning seamlessly with varying recovery requisites.
5. Sustaining Consistency and Wholeness : For denizens of the SAP HANA Cloud, automated backups perpetuate the most recent database integrity, guaranteeing data’s untarnished sanctity.
6. Mitigating Downtime Significantly : An adeptly executed backup strategy truncates downtime during system maintenance and unforeseen operational disruptions.
7. Synergy Across Hybrid Environments : Solutions synonymous with uniform data guardianship, spanning on-premises locales and cloud expanse, etch the epitome of uninterrupted operations.
8. Augmented Cloud Synthesis : Selective backup solutions offer the avant-garde capability of directly funneling backups to cloud terrains, elevating disaster recovery prospects.
9. Intrinsic Log and Data Backups : The SAP HANA Cloud landscape is marked by daily comprehensive data backups coupled with log data backups conducted at 15-minute intervals—a harmonious synergy for curbing data loss.
10. Economical and Uninterrupted Availability : SAP HANA Cloud’s inclusions encompass backup storage sans supplementary overheads, ensconcing data protection with an uninterrupted cadence.

Microsoft 365 Backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As businesses increasingly adopt Microsoft 365 services and applications, it’s essential to use cost-effective, fast, and reliable data backup solutions. While many assume that Microsoft 365 has built-in data protection, it’s important to remember that data protection is always the responsibility of your company, especially when it comes to meeting traditional backup, regulatory, and compliance policies. That’s where Catalogic DPX vPlus for Microsoft 365 comes in to provide a comprehensive Microsoft 365 backup solution.

DPX Extends Support for Micro Focus Open Enterprise Server 2023

Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In the ever-evolving landscape of data protection and enterprise server management, Catalogic DPX continues to pave the way with its advanced features and broad compatibility. With the recent release of Open Enterprise Server (OES) 2023, DPX takes it a step further by integrating seamlessly with this cutting-edge platform. In this blog, we explore how Catalogic DPX provides Micro Focus OES backups, granular OES file restore capabilities and OES ransomware protection while also highlighting its newfound compatibility with OES 2023.

Microsoft 365 – Why OneDrive Backup is Needed

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

It is clear that the cloud is replacing physical storage formats due to its collaboration and access features, its cost-effectiveness, and data security and resiliency. As organizations continue to store more and more, cloud storage will continue to increase in popularity. One of the most popular forms of cloud storage used by organizations today is Microsoft OneDrive.

OneDrive is a productivity tool that allows users to synchronize files across different endpoints and share those files with other users in the enterprise. It is one of the several applications that make up the Microsoft 365 suite. The other applications include Exchange, Teams, and SharePoint. OneDrive is designed for users to store and share files, along with other collaboration capabilities that make not only daily jobs easier but also the management of shared files across different team members. The great thing about OneDrive being a cloud storage destination is that it enables employees to access their business files, as well as files shared by other people or teams, from different connected devices. In today’s world of remote working, access flexibility is incredibly useful.

Microsoft 365 – Why SharePoint Backup is Needed

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

SharePoint has become the go-to solution for organizations to manage extensive volumes of shared data in the cloud. Its robust platform streamlines document sharing among teams, making it an indispensable tool, especially as remote collaboration becomes the standard. However, the essential business data stored in SharePoint exposes a critical vulnerability: the risk of data loss without a reliable SharePoint backup strategy. Microsoft 365‘s native features are not designed to provide comprehensive protection, leaving organizations at risk. Implementing a dedicated SharePoint backup ensures your critical data remains safe and recoverable, safeguarding business continuity

Protect Your Microsoft 365 Data with DPX vPlus

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We live in a world where data is the new oil. Not only is data valuable for you to maintain and run your business, but if you do not have a plan for data backup and recovery, we can end up paying a high price for it. According to a study by Touche Ross, 90% of businesses without a disaster recovery plan, will fail after a disaster. Meanwhile, more and more critical organizational data is being created, stored, and shared outside of the data center. Oftentimes, this is close to or over 50% of organizational data. This data lives on laptops, tablets, mobile devices and in cloud services, like Microsoft 365. And yet this data can very easily be lost and lost for good without proper Microsoft 365 backup.

Granular File Restore and Ransomware Protection for Micro Focus OES Backups

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Catalogic DPX and Micro Focus OES Backup

Catalogic Software is not one of those data protection vendors that have abandoned Micro Focus Open Enterprise Server (OES) backups. Catalogic DPX has provided industry-leading Novell backup and recovery for OES and Groupwise products since 1997, and we even pioneered many data protection features such as OES cluster-support and deep integration for GroupWise backup. And unlike many other OES backup vendors, we are still committed to the Micro Focus OES, including full support for Micro Focus OES 2018 SP3 and OES 2023 release.

Catalogic DPX is the Smart Choice for Micro Focus OES Customers in Education

Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In 2014, Micro Focus acquired Novell, in a move that extended the mainframe software provider’s reach into Linux. This acquisition included Novell’s Open Enterprise Server (OES). Micro Focus OES is a server operating system that provides a virtual computing environment and shared network resources, giving it the functionality of an enterprise-scale server operating system. OES consists of multiple modules and components around files, storage, directory, and web application management which are essential for shared files, print networks, driver deployment, identity-based management, and network connectivity for Windows, Mac, and Linux client devices.

Catalogic DPX is Not Backing off from Commitment to Micro Focus OES

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

History of Novell Open Enterprise Server

In early 2005, Novell, since then acquired by Micro Focus, made a splash in the Linux pool with their Open Enterprise Server (OES) product. Based initially on Netware and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and later just on SLES, Micro Focus OES is an enterprise-scale server operating system that provides essential shared services, including networked storage, file and print services, identity management, and network connectivity for Windows, Mac, and Linux client devices.

Catalogic DPX Provides SAP-Certified Protection and Recovery

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Many companies globally are moving their databases, analytics, and CRM workloads to SAP HANA and it may run most, if not all, a company’s day to day business activities. SAP HANA is an in-memory database platform that offers a range of analytics processing capabilities to support enterprise-grade workloads. In conversations with customers and partners, it became clear that while DPX provided SAP on Oracle support, we also needed to provide simple reliable protection and recovery for SAP HANA.