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The gap between your last backup and a failure defines exactly how much data disappears. That gap is your recovery point objective (RPO), and teams running production workloads on OpenShift and KubeVirt find that most traditional DR tools simply don’t understand the environment well enough to close it. Near-zero RPO requires synchronous replication at the block level. Data must hit both your primary and DR site simultaneously.

VMware is one of the best virtualization platforms in the world, popular among IT specialists for its ability to provide high-speed operations, reliability, scalability, security, and convenience. VMware ESXi Server is a type 1 hypervisor designed to be installed directly on physical servers, that is, it is a bare metal hypervisor. VMware type 2 hypervisors (VMware Player, Workstation, and Fusion), on the other hand, can be installed on existing operating systems running on desktops and laptops.

As a virtualization market leader, VMware offers products for a wide range of users. Its enterprise-grade line includes VMware vSphere products like ESXi, which is a type 1 hypervisor. VMware also offers type 2 hypervisors like VMware Workstation Player (or VMware Player) and VMware Workstation Pro (or VMware Workstation). Type 2 hypervisors are installed on the underlying host OS running on the physical machine.

India’s data protection landscape is changing. With the Digital Personal Data Protection Act bringing new compliance obligations to the fore, businesses across the country are being forced to think more...

Many organizations invest heavily in backup solutions but still face a critical gap: the absence of a well-defined backup retention policy. Without a structured retention policy, backups may either be stored longer than necessary, driving up costs, or deleted prematurely, increasing compliance risks and limiting recovery options. In critical scenarios like ransomware attacks or system failures, organizations may find that their backups are incomplete, outdated, or unusable.

AI adoption in the DevOps field has been extensive. Developers use agents daily to broaden context, automate coding, prototype, etc., saving time and minimizing the footprint of mundane tasks. But it’s not all about gains. Agentic AI enables and introduces security threats that were unknown just a few years ago. With machine speed and scale, these can impact your corporate repos in a number of highly dangerous ways. The trend is on the rise, including at the level of popular DevOps platforms.

Author: Umair Ahmed, Product Marketing Manager, Security AI phishing, BEC and social engineering have made user behavior part of the attack path. Acronis Security Awareness Training helps MSPs reduce human risk at scale. Many client breaches do not begin with a dramatic failure.

In VMware environments, replication can be implemented using one of two modes for handling I/O changes: snapshots or journaling. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages. The key differences lie in how they manage data consistency, change tracking and recovery.

Data loss is no longer a rare event—it is an inevitability. From ransomware attacks to accidental deletions, organizations must be prepared not just to prevent incidents, but to recover from them quickly and reliably. Modern threats increasingly target backup environments, making recovery readiness a critical component of any data protection strategy.

Open-source virtualization is moving fast, and many IT teams are standardizing on KVM running the latest Linux distributions and Proxmox VE 9.1 to balance performance, flexibility, and cost.