Convirture Adds OpenStack Cloud Backup Tool

Grazed from TheVarGuy.  Author: Christopher Tozzi.

A lot of people back up their data to the cloud. But how do you back up the cloud itself? Convirture, the company that until now has specialized in cloud and virtualization management solutions, hopes to answer this question with a new backup and disaster recovery solution for the OpenStack open source cloud operating system running on the KVM hypverisor.

The tool, called Convirture Backup, "is a software-based product that provides automated, policy-based backup for OpenStack compute pools and tenants with fast," according to the company. It has a Web-based interface and is designed to work efficiently by minimizing the load on virtual and physical infrastructure, bandwidth usage and storage requirements…

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