News and Updates
Using CloneManager for a Virtual to Virtual Migration
In the highly regulated financial services industry, system failure is not an option. Here’s how Cristie CloneManager kept systems running during a virtual to virtual migration.
The Importance of Replication In Your Disaster Recovery Strategy
Here, we discuss why replication should be an important part of your Disaster Recovery Strategy. We’ll also look at how Cristie’s CloneManager software uses replication to make your business more resilient to disaster.
What’s New for Q2
We’ve had a fantastic start to 2021. Here, Cristie Principal Architect Jordan Storford talks us through the releases planned for Q2.
How To Improve Your Business Resilience with Recovery Testing
Recovery testing your entire estate can help improve your business’s resiliency, save time and resources and help you meet your audit and compliance targets. Read here the why, what and how of recovery testing.
Thinking about recovering your systems manually? Read this first.
Thinking about manual system recovery? Don’t do it! Here’s the reality of manual system recovery versus protecting your systems with Cristie BMR.
What is System Recovery and Why Is It Important?
If your servers fail, you’ll need to recover your lost operating systems and applications as well as your data. Read here why system recovery is such an important part of your business planning, and how Cristie software can help keep your systems protected.
Cristie in the Asia-Pacific region. A Q&A with Jamie Allan, Territory Manager
The Asia-Pacific region is an important one for Cristie software. Read here what Territory Manager Jamie Allan has learned from working there.
7 Steps to a Successful Disaster Recovery Plan
Are you prepared for system failure? Read here the 7 steps needed to create a successful disaster recovery plan.
Cristie VA 3.5 What’s New
Here’s an update on what’s new for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 3.5 release includes lots of new functionality and bug fixes which bring with it a wealth of benefits.
How to Strengthen Your Replications with Enhanced Testing
Cristie CloneManager’s Enhanced Testing feature helps you resolve issues with your replicated system while maintaining your RPOs. Read here how it works.
A Q&A with our Head of Business Development, Scott Sterry
Meet Scott Sterry, our VP for Business Development. Here he talks about what sets Cristie software apart and what’s coming up this year.
An Introduction to CoBMR
Meet CoBMR, our new product that provides DR level protection for systems backed up by Cohesity DataProtect.
How TBMR Helped a US Healthcare Company Achieve Their Recovery Goals
Cristie TBMR software protects your critical servers from failure or disaster, by recovering them directly from your IBM Spectrum Protect backup. Here’s how TBMR helped US Healthcare company, Albert Einstein improve their recoveries.
The Cristie 2021 Roadmap
Want to find out what’s coming up from Cristie Software in 2021? Here’s our Principal Architect Jordan Stopford to tell us more.
Meet Jim Carter, Customer Support Manager at Cristie
Jim Carter heads up our Customer Support and Testing teams at Cristie. Here he tells us what a typical day looks like, what sets Cristie apart, and how his team has adapted to remote working in 2020.
How CloneManager’s New Automated Failover and Failback Protects Your Critical Systems
Read here how automated failover and failback helps keep critical systems up and running as well as giving reassurance that your systems are protected.
Migrating across Dissimilar Environments with CloneManager software.
One of our UK customers, Tata Consultancy, needed a solution to enable them to migrate between dissimilar environments without data loss or system downtime. Here’s how CloneManager helped them.
Failover and Failback. How to use it as part of Cristie’s CloneManager software
System replication can be high risk. Your priority will be to avoid downtime and make sure that your systems are protected. Here’s how to use failover and failback to protect your systems.
A Tour of the Cristie CBMR using our Virtual Appliance
The Cristie CBMR is a standalone solution that provides full protection for data files and databases, restoring critical servers in minutes. Here’s a tour of how it works.
CloneManager Lite. Straightforward replication software for simple migrations
Our software can protect every business’ systems, no matter how large or small. And for the small to medium businesses (SMEs) that make up 99% of the UK’s economy, we’ve launched CloneManager Lite. Learn more about CloneManger Lite here.
CloneManager keeps systems operational for a large US healthcare company
In the US healthcare sector, system failure is not an option. Real lives depend on systems being able to function properly at all times. Here’s how our CloneManager software helped our healthcare customer stay operational.
BMR Suite 9.1
Today we are pleased to be releasing a new version of our BMR Suite 9.1 to production. The suite consists of ABMR, CBMR,CoBMR, NBMR and TBMR. Each 9.1 BMR product is immediately available as a separate download from the Cristie Licensing portal download area. Common to all BMR products CDS has been removed & replaced […]
Cristie Looks Towards 2021
We’ll look back on 2020 as a time when we’ve made progress on product development, product improvement and R&D. Here’s what we’ve got planned for 2021.
5 Things You Need To Know About CloneManager
CloneManager is software that protects your business from system disruption or failure. Here are 5 things you need to know about our replication software, CloneManager.
The Cristie Year In Review
2020. How was it for you? This last year has been like nothing we’ve ever experienced. But after the initial disruption in March of moving from office based to remote working, we’ve had a productive and successful year. As we move into December and with year end in sight, we’re looking back over 2020 and […]
The New Release of the Cristie Virtual Appliance Is Here.
We’ve released V.3.4 of our Virtual Appliance. It’s a major step forward with a new user interface and many updates to the features and functionality.
Cristie VA 3.3 What’s New
Here’s an update on what’s new for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 3.3 release includes lots of new functionality and bug fixes which bring with it a wealth of benefits.
Enhanced Testing – Roadmap 2020
Cristie’s Virtual Appliance software console has a new feature for CloneManager, enhanced testing for physical environments. Scott and Jordan give us the roadmap overview for this new feature. If you’d like to know more, see a demo or set up a free trial of our software, just email Scott on sales@cristie.com or call +44 (0) […]
Cristie VA 3.2 What’s New
We are pleased to announce a new update for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 3.2 release includes lots of new functionality and bug fixes which bring with it a wealth of benefits. Headline Enhancements Enhanced Testing – replication jobs can be setup to continually replicate data for DR testing, even when the target system is […]
Cristie VA 3.1 What’s New
We are pleased to announce a significant update for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 3.1 release includes lots of new functionality which brings with it a wealth of benefits. Headline Enhancements Brand new – DR Orchestration has been added, allowing you to fully plan out your recovery process in the event of a disaster. Click […]
Linux 8.7 BMR Intel and PPC Suite Release
Today we are pleased to be releasing a new version of Linux 8.7 BMR Intel and PPC Suite (Intel and PPC – big/little-endian) to production. The suite consists of ABMR (Intel only, not PPC), CBMR, NBMR and TBMR. These are the main changes compared with the previous BMR releases: Common to all BMR products The […]
Windows BMR Suite 8.7
Today we are pleased to be releasing a new version of our Windows BMR Suite 8.7 to production. The suite consists of ABMR, CBMR, NBMR and TBMR. Each Windows 8.7 BMR product is immediately available as a separate download from the Cristie FTP site. Common to all BMR products Installation of BMR will be aborted […]
Cristie VA 2.9 What’s New
Headline enhancements Our latest release includes volumes of new functionality which brings with it a wealth of benefits. Some of the key highlights include: User privileges: You can now configure user (or group) permissions from within the “User Management” section. Users without the required privileges will not be able to access areas via the GUI […]
Cristie VA 2.8 What’s New
Headline enhancements Our latest release includes volumes of new functionality which brings with it a wealth of benefits. Some of the key highlights include: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is now a supported target hypervisor for Recoveries, Simulations & Replications. You can now Simulate Protect for VMs recoveries. EMC Avamar 19.1 is now supported for Recover […]
Linux BMR Suite 8.6.2
Today we are pleased to be releasing a new bug fix version of Linux 8.6.2 BMR Intel and PPC Suite (Intel and PPC – big/little-endian) to production. The suite consists of ABMR (Intel only, not PPC), CBMR, NBMR and TBMR. Each BMR 8.6.2 product is now available for immediate download from the Cristie FTP site. […]
Linux 8.6 BMR Intel and PPC Suite Release
Today we are pleased to be releasing a new version of Linux 8.6 BMR Intel and PPC Suite (Intel and PPC – big/little-endian) to production. The suite consists of ABMR (Intel only, not PPC), CBMR, NBMR and TBMR. These are the main changes compared with the previous BMR releases: Common to all BMR products Added […]
Linux 8.6 BMR Intel and PPC Suite Release
Today we are pleased to be releasing a new version of Linux 8.6 BMR Intel and PPC Suite (Intel and PPC – big/little-endian) to production. The suite consists of ABMR (Intel only, not PPC), CBMR, NBMR and TBMR. These are the main changes compared with the previous BMR releases: Common to all BMR products Added […]
Windows BMR Suite 8.6
Today we are pleased to be releasing a new version of our Windows BMR Suite 8.6 to production. The suite consists of ABMR, CBMR, NBMR and TBMR. Each Windows 8.6 BMR product is immediately available as a separate download from the Cristie FTP site. Common to all BMR products The Clone settings step of the […]
Cristie BMR 8.5 Suite What’s New
Headline enhancements Our latest release includes volumes of new functionality which brings with it a wealth of benefits. Some of the key highlights include: ABMR support for Dell EMC Avamar client/server version up to 18.2.100-134/18.2.0.134 respectively. NBMR support for Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version up to 18.2.0.0/18.2.0.1 respectively. All BMR products include an option to […]
Cristie VA 2.7 What’s New
Headline Enhancements Our latest release includes volumes of new functionality which brings with it a wealth of benefits. Some of the key highlights include: VA Features can be enabled and disabled. This keeps the protect.ova download smaller, allowing you to only install the features you require Feature bundles. You can download and install features without […]
Empirical Technical Debt
Determining the cost and location of technical debt using measurements of velocity in a DevOps organisation. By measuring the time it takes to make change, and the locations where change is hardest, we estimate the interest we are paying on technical debt and the best place to start paying off the capital.
Great Expectations
Using the expect tool for autonomous interaction with SysBack to produce an end-to-end test embedded into the continuous integration pipeline.
SysBack 7.1
Cristie are pleased to announce the release of SysBack 7.1 for AIX, the first release of SysBack for AIX constructed and tested at Cristie. This includes support of TSM 8.1.4 and above using SSL certificates, modifications and corrections to the licensing model and minor bug fixes in scripts, code and documentation.
Cristie VA 2.6 What’s New
The Cristie Virtual Appliance is now able to manage, recover and simulate Networker, Avamar, TSM and Cristie installations and backups including support for older Networker and Avamar clients. This release also includes a raft of enhancements, extra supported systems and bug fixes.
Mixing the old and the new
If you haven’t tested your recoveries, you do not have backups. All well and good, but in a heterogeneous computing environment systems rely on each other …and sometimes, some of those systems pre-date virtualisation and require extra care…
Testing Tape
You’ve got your production NAS running a full backup to tape every day/week/month as per your RPO requirements for archival, so your backup is covered. You’ve got a system to test the data integrity of the tape, so your data is covered. Now, how do test your recovery?
The Cristie Virtual Appliance 2.5 – what’s new
The Cristie VA is an easy to use central management console which provides a unified user experience for the entire range of our software. As part of our agile methodically, our software is continuously evolving allowing us to provide new versions more frequently. One of our strengths is the ability to react to our customers’ […]
Don’t go chasing waterfalls
In 1910 Henry Gantt laid out a framework that was used in World War 1 to manage the manoeuvring of weaponry, “The Gantt Chart” has been part of project management vocabulary ever since. In his book “The art of doing twice the work in half the time” Jeff Sutherland explains…
The Cristie Virtual Appliance 2.2 – what’s new
The Cristie VA is an easy to use central management console which provides a unified user experience for the entire range of our software. As part of our agile methodically, our software is continuously evolving allowing us to provide new versions more frequently.
We’re exhibiting at Dell Technologies World 2018
In just over two weeks we will be exhibiting at Dell Technologies World 2018 in Las Vegas. Come say hello at booth No. 453!
Cristie Software to take over development and support of IBM SysBack software
Cristie Software today announces that it has agreed with IBM to take over the development and support of IBM SysBack software.
Avoiding crypto mining
In light of recent news surrounding Starbucks’ wi-fi hijack and the surge in interest regarding cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin. Looking at how your business can put in place best practice to avoid crypto mining, where cryptocurrency is installed as a malware, might just save your company some valuable resource.
A preview of NBMR in the Cristie VA
Our reliable, automated and rapid system recovery solution for EMC NetWorker, NBMR, will shortly be compatible with The Cristie VA.
Supporting the charities Place2Be and Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust
This holiday season we are making two charitable donations, supporting Place2Be and Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust.
Cristie Software welcomes Veeam as a partner
Cristie Software today announces a new technology partnership with Veeam to address the data protection requirements of Veeam’s enterprise customers.
The rise in cyber attacks, 2017 in review
As we head in to the final quarter, it provides a chance to reflect on what’s been happening during 2017. It comes as no surprise that news about cyber attacks and breaches have dominated globally. So, when one annual review from GCHQ’s NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) was released on the 3rd of October, it piqued our interest.
The latest enhancements to Cristie’s management console
The Cristie Virtual Appliance (VA) management console is continuously evolving. The latest enhancements for the web-based remote tool, includes…
Meet us at IBM Tech U, New Orleans OCT-17
Cristie Software will be exhibiting at the IBM Tech U event in New Orleans this October. Come meet the team in the solutions centre at booth No. 66 to find out more about our system recovery, server migration and server replication software.
Can we have a drumroll please…
Ok so it’s not a sparkling new car, but we are immensely proud to finally reveal our shiny new company brochure.
The latest on Protect
Early adopters (EAs) have now been using Protect for a couple of weeks and have been appreciating the simplicity of protecting their virtual machines using Cristie. Deployed and managed through the intuitive GUI of the Cristie Virtual Appliance (VA); a few clicks and your virtual machine or machines are protected. Feedback…
SambaCry; how to overcome vulnerability
With the news dominated by WannaCry, the malware which disrupted the NHS in the UK; you may not be aware of its similar Linux counterpart SambaCry. But you should. SambaCry is a malware that attacks vulnerabilities in Samba. For those who don’t use Linux, Samba provides…
A preview of Protect
Protect gives users the ability to protect multiple VMs across multiple Hosts from a centralized console, maintaining regular or continuous consistent back-ups, that can be recovered rapidly when needed. Perform complete VM restores as well as single file recovery, depending on user requirements.
Finally a #WorldDay that makes sense
There’s a day for everything it seems, isn’t there? At least there’s no reason to dress up for this one! I think World Backup Day is a really good idea, because even those of us who may think we have it all under control, we should use this prompt to question if we really do.
BMR and Healthcare
In the USA, Healthcare is one of the largest private-sector industries, making up 13% of the total U.S Workforce. Understandably healthcare professionals have high cybersecurity concerns and with the ever evolving IoT, bare machine recovery (BMR) can play an important part in mitigating risks.
Cristie Community Forum
Share ideas. Gain insight. Contribute. We are excited to launch the Cristie Community Forum. It’s a new initiative to increase our communication and engagement with our valued customers and partners. We’ll share the latest information about our products and product roadmap, as well as invite you to share tips and tricks in using Cristie solutions that you feel will benefit others.
Protection not payment: How to avoid paying ransomware demands
Ransomware is a type of malware that can be covertly installed on a computer, without the knowledge, or even interaction, of the user. Once held to ransom, a company has three options: restore, the data to a previous point in time, lose the infected data, or pay up. As with all areas of disaster recovery and business continuity, preparation and testing are the key forms of defense.
Cristie set to positively disrupt the cloud replication market
Today sees the release of an important update to Cristie’s popular system migration solution – CloneManager. By introducing a real-time replication process, CloneManager now allows users to create hot standbys of live systems that can be instantly activated in the event of a disaster.
TBMR 7.3.1 for Windows released
Today we are pleased to release a significant version of TBMR 7.3.1 Windows to production.
Cristie launches premium system recovery suite
Cristie Recovery Suite is an integrated suite of solutions that combines powerful system recovery and automated recovery simulation for leading backup products.
Holiday Season Checklist for your Backups
For some businesses, Christmas means a slowing down of operations; fewer staff, reduced orders, and more time to catch up on the filing. For other organizations Christmas is the busiest time of the year. Either way, there are definitely some precautions you can take to ensure a Grinch-like machine failure doesn’t steal your holiday cheer!
5 barriers to successful recovery assurance
Many recent studies have revealed there is a worrying lack of regular testing of the viability of backups, and there are good reasons for that. Finding time to run tests without disrupting day-to-day usage seems an impossible task, which is why many organisations rely on a ‘fingers-crossed it will work’ strategy. Risky – but frighteningly common.
Cristie CloneManager v3.1 gives users Hot Standby functionality
Cristie today announced new functionality for its popular machine mobility solution, CloneManager. A new GUI allows users to quickly and easily create hot standby machines that can be instantly powered on in the event of disaster or failure.
Cristie acquires SMARTtsm and 12 patents
Cristie Software today announced the acquisition of SMARTtsm and 12 patents from Front-safe. SMARTtsm is software that performs automated recoveries of machines that have been backed up with IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) – now Spectrum Protect. SMARTtsm will also test the recovered machine to ensure that specific applications are operating correctly.
Windows 2003 versus the asteroid
When support for an IT product is withdrawn, the formal announcement is greeted by many with a cursory glance; the rumour mill let them know months, or even years, ago and they have already executed Plan B. But this still leaves a number of organisations for vendors to peck over, vying for their business. And that’s where the scaremongering comes in.
Do you test simply to pass your DR test?
Although often perceived as a necessary evil – regular disaster recovery testing is about more than seeing how well a business will cope if their systems fail. Comprehensive, objective DR testing can throw up interesting information about what is and isn’t working properly in your IT infrastructure, as well as give you a much needed level of recovery assurance.
Cristie CloneManager now available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Companies looking for a way to streamline their IT infrastructure and benefit from the agile, scalable and economic environment that Microsoft Azure offers can do so with Cristie CloneManager. The flexible migration solution is now fully certified for deployment on Azure.
Exploiting the cloud for recover assurance
We all know that the protection of data and systems is crucial to business continuity. Any loss of that data could be catastrophic. Disasters are inevitable in the life of an organization – whether man-made, natural or mechanical – and inevitably cause mayhem when machines storing valuable data become unavailable.
Why IT sleeps better with Cristie
With 96% of SMB IT professionals fearing that they will be held personally responsible for data and machine recovery problems – it’s no wonder that many are now seeking ‘recovery assurance’. This is more than the latest buzz phrase in the backup and recovery industry – it’s essential for a successful and auditable disaster recovery strategy.
Cloud computing – back to basics
Everybody seems to have a different definition when it comes to the ‘Cloud.’ When combined with ‘computing’ the meaning gets even more complicated. One of the simplest and narrowest descriptions of cloud computing is it being multiple virtual servers available over the internet.
SoftLayer and AWS support added to Cristie CloneManager
Cristie Software today announced that its machine mobility solution, CloneManager, now supports two of the most popular public cloud computing platforms – IBM SoftLayer and Amazon Web Services EC2 – on Windows and Linux.
Cloud Computing worth $240bn by 2020: 5 reasons why you should migrate too
Migrating The Cloud is one of the fastest growth areas in the IT sector, with more and more businesses using the Cloud for their day to day processes.The Cloud Computing industry is estimated to reach a whopping $240bn by 2020. For those of you who have not considered the move previously, it is now time to re-iterate the key advantages of Cloud Computing.
3 common misconceptions about the Cloud
Here’s a reality check for you: don’t be fooled by everything you read during this Cloud Computing hype. It’s like Chinese whispers in the technology world. The Cloud is still one of those popular buzz words somebody created to explain a whole world of complex IT infrastructure. It is really just a metaphor for the internet, a fuzzy grey area that people cannot entirely explain easily yet. It goes back to the days of flowcharts and presentations that would represent the gigantic server-farm infrastructure of the Internet as nothing but a puffy, white cumulonimbus cloud, accepting connections and doling out information as it floats.
Four aspects to look out for when comparing disaster recover protection
In the past, the most common reasons for enterprises not investing in disaster recovery software to protect I.T infrastructure, applications and important data were because of cost, complexity and unreliability.
Cristie Software’s machine mobiliy and recovery assurance solutions are added to IBM’s portfolio
Cristie Software announced today that it has signed a software remarketing agreement with IBM to include two products – CloneManager and Recovery Simulator to the existing reseller relationship.
Cristie Software launches a new management console for users of CBMR protect software
Cristie Software a leading provider of machine mobility and recovery software today announced the launch of a new console to provide full deployment, management, monitoring and reporting services for all CBMR backups.
Cristie Software announces the latest release of CloneManager™ to provide agentless migrations.
The new agentless feature allows machines to be cloned to and from physical, virtual and cloud environments without the need to install any agent software on the source machine. This is a major step that allows locked down or restricted machines to be cloned or migrated.
Cristie releases its cloud migration solution, CloneManager
Cristie Software has today made the first release of CloneManager; a software solution that migrates running Windows or Linux servers to another location which may be a physical, virtual or cloud environment.
Cristie releases new BMR solution for EMC Avamar users
Cristie Software today announced the release of ABMR, a new software product specifically for users of EMC Avamar backup software which provides fast automated recovery of machines direct from normal Avamar backups.
Cristie offer replacement for end of life HomeBase
Cristie Software is offering EMC HomeBase users a low cost option to migrate to NBMR following EMC’s decision to make HomeBase end of life from 12th August 2012.
Cristie Software’s BMR solutions now available for EMC Products NetWorker and Avamar
Cristie Software today announced that NBMR and CBMR will now be available to order for NetWorker and AvaMar end users.
New release launched today – NBMR for Linux 6.4.2
We are pleased to announce the latest release of NBMR 6.4.2 for Linux has been launched today.
Cristie Software strengthens relationship with IBM as products are included in Passport Advantage®
From the 27th November 2012, Cristie’s CBMR and TBMR software products will now be available to order through Passport Advantage®.
Cristie Software November Bulletin out today
What a packed edition of the bulletin we have this month with the launch of our latest product announced!
Latest version of NBMR for Windows released today
We are pleased to announce the new release of NBMR 6.4.2 for Windows was launched today.
Kwik data recover called for as server fails for main customer contact centre
Latest testimional from Kwik-Fit Financial Services using TBMR.
