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 ...

Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

To sum up, backups are copies, come with an overhead, and are taken relatively infrequently, generally once a day. They provide a copy of the selected datasets from which customers can recover data to ...