At Indiana University, OpenInfra Days North America 2024 was an event that brought together the brilliant minds of the open infrastructure community. For my teammate Kevin Jackson and I, this was not just another tech event; it was a long-overdue reunion with friends in the OpenStack community and an exciting opportunity to forge new relationships. The atmosphere was charged with collaboration and learning, with best practices, user journeys, and insightful panel discussions taking center stage.

It’s autumn again here in New Jersey, home of Catalogic Software and global hub of CloudCasa engineering. Temperatures are getting cooler, leaves are starting to turn, and the scent of hot cider and pumpkin spice latte is in the air. But here and in our offices around the world, CloudCasa development is continuing to heat up. This is the fourth October since CloudCasa’s 2020 debut, and we’re pleased to announce our 18th significant feature update.

As we recognize Cybersecurity Month, it is essential to focus on understanding threats and how different security measures can increase data safety. These measures include regular training, strong password practices, multi-factor autftware and devices, endpoint phentication, updating sorotection, implementing IDS and IPS, and much more. One of the measures I would like to emphasize in this article is backup and disaster recovery.

Having a market share of 8.81 % and competing with other version control platforms, like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, Azure DevOps can already boast of more than 700M Azure users. That’s not surprising, as the service offers a variety of things from planning to development and operations. Thus, containing critical DevOps information, Azure DevOps becomes a critical hub of your data. So, in this case, is the question “Why back up Azure DevOps” the correct one?

When it comes to file storage, it's not just a case of storing your files in the cloud and the job’s done. You have to take more steps to protect against data loss, corruption, accidental deletion, or ransomware. Whenever you store anything, it is essential to back up your files for complete reassurance that no matter what happens to your device, you will always have a backed-up version of your files that you can recover.

Migrating virtual machines (VMs) from VMware to next-generation open infrastructure platforms like KubeVirt and OpenShift Virtualization carries some VM migration risks that can impact business operations if not managed properly. One of the key challenges is compatibility, as the architecture, configurations, and dependencies of VMs in VMware may not seamlessly translate to new environments, leading to issues with performance, application functionality, or even failed migrations. Process risks include.

Virtualization offers several advantages for backup and recovery operations, which are the backbone of data protection, operational continuity, and availability. Most importantly, virtualization makes agentless and image-based, host-level backups possible. These types of backups can capture the full VM, including VM configuration as well as VM data. However, it’s important to protect hosts too, as healthy ESXi hosts are important for VMs to run properly.

We are so proud to announce that GitProtect Backup and Disaster Recovery for Azure DevOps is here! The 1.8.5 release also brings a few improvements – performance, UX, and more – and small fixes. Let’s dig into more details.