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Evaluating The Performance Of Shared WAN Links For Data Center Backup And Disaster Recovery by Silver Peak
to your current network load? The complexity — and, therefore, the cost — of running and managing dedicated links among backup data centers can be downright staggering. However, the performance characteristics of shared WAN links leave much to be desired. How are...
Top 5 Reasons to Use NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup: Data Protection for the Virtual Age by NetApp
NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup eliminates backup windows, network bottlenecks, and virtual machine contention. This 1-page white paper lists the top 5 reasons to...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
continue to play a critical role in data protection, offering the lowest cost storage medium for maintaining offsite backup data and long term archive data.

But in the last few years, the rapidly falling cost of SATA magnetic disk technology has come closer to...
Optimizing Backup and Data Protection in Virtualized Environments by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This white paper examines the return on investment of server virtualization and its impact on backups and overall data protection.

The promise of maximizing IT investments while minimizing complexity has resulted in widespread adoption of server...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
the opportunity to dramatically reduce the amount of storage required for backups and to more efficiently centralize backup data to multiple sites for assured disaster recovery. Veritas NetBackup PureDisk from Symantec uses data deduplication technology...
Data De-duplication Experts by Quantum Corporation
Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, and encryption, all supported with common...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, replication, and encryption. Quantum's...
EMC Virtual Infrastructure Data Protection by EMC Corporation
backup and recovery operations — Accelerate backup and recovery operations with technology that reduces the size of backup data and supports VMware backup methodologies. Improved IT efficiency — Save hours of your staff time and boost productivity of your...
The (Business) Day After: Making a Double Rebound from Disaster by Iron Mountain
This white paper has today's best practices and keys to help you get back on your feet even if your backup data has been lost. Receive a backup maintenance checklist with key questions to ask regarding your backup strategies, discover common...
Cloud backup tutorial: How to leverage cloud backup services (Part 2) by Iron Mountain
and providing disaster recovery. However, the way these capabilities are delivered is often very similar. Conventional data backup and recovery applications typically also offer a disaster recovery option, sometimes referred to as "bare-metal restore." However...
Quantum DXi-Series: Deduplicated Backup and Remote Replication Solutions by Quantum Corporation
it finds a block it has seen before, it stores a pointer instead of storing the data again - that means you can send a lot more backup data to disk, store it in less space, and keep it there for months.

Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as...
De-Duplicated Disk Backup: Addressing Backup Challenges Across the Enterprise by Quantum Corporation
and global approach to data de-duplication gives users the option to "tune" the de-duplication process to the backup data and, importantly, identify and eliminate redundant data across their environments before replication for maximum...
Backup Exec 2010: Deduplication Option by Symantec Corporation
the opportunity to dramatically reduce the amount of storage required for backups and to more efficiently centralize backup data from multiple sites for assured disaster recovery. This paper discusses Backup Exec 2010 which now includes integrated...
Efficient Management of Legal and Compliance Requests on D2D Storage by Index Engines
occur and take their place. However, the cycle is often interrupted by legal hold and compliance requests that require backup data to be retained for a specified period of time. This process is causing large volumes of user data to be retained, causing backup...
Konica Minolta Overcomes Current Backup Challenges with Quantum Disk-Tape Solution by Quantum Corporation
technology and two Quantum Scalar® i500 tape libraries for long-term data retention. The result has been reduced backup data volumes, faster backups and restores, and simplified IT administration.

Read this case study to learn more about KMBS’s...
Data Deduplication Approaches: Solving Today's Most Common Backup Problems by Quantum Corporation
This Technology Brief discusses different approaches to data deduplication in the market today along with the pros and cons of each, and then matches some of the most common backup problems to a...
HP Dynamic Deduplication - achieving a 50:1 ratio by Hewlett-Packard Company
System Family. Both feature Dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented algorithm that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and also establishes how a 50:1 deduplication...
Getting Real About Virtual Backup and Recovery by Acronis
learn about the latest trends in virtualisation technology and discover what impact these improvements will have on backup and disaster recovery operations. Learn about the latest in off-site backups, data protection for virtual environments and more.

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Online Backup Guide for the Amazon Cloud: How to Setup your Online Backup Service using Vembu StoreGrid ‘Backup Virtual Appliance’ on the Amazon Cloud by Vembu Technologies
require to be backed up and you can power up your StoreGrid Servers on the Amazon EC2 to receive the client's backups. The backup data will be stored on Amazon's S3 storage service (please note that the StoreGrid backup server will use an Amazon EBS volume during the...
Optimizing Backup Using Deduplication: Select the Right Method to Fit Your Environment by Dell | EMC
Deduplication software has been shown to reduce the amount of backup data stored in typical environments by a ratio of 20:1 - significantly lowering the amount of backup storage media required. However...
Expert Video Tip Transcript: Today's Cloud Backup by Symantec Corporation
on various backup devices.

Many organizations are turning to cloud backup as an alternative for off-site housing of backup data, yet even more companies have considered cloud computing without surpassing the evaluation phase.

Explore a 10-question Q&A on...
IDC: Maintaining Business Continuity with Disk-Based Backup and Recovery Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
This IDC white paper describes the growing need for data backup and recovery solutions, the advantages of disk-based systems and the software required to manage these systems. Read this white...
Remote Data Protection Demo by IBM
Backup is a pretty complex ecosystem. There's data explosion, increasing recovery demands, a shrinking backup window and a limited IT...
The Rising Impact of Virtualization on Data Backup and Recovery by Acronis

This white paper highlights the rise of virtualization and explores what businesses today can do in terms of adjusting backup, data protection and recovery functions to maintain a highly-functioning virtual data center. Learn from research what applications...
Data Deduplication: An Essential Component of your Data Protection Strategy by CA ARCserve
Data Deduplication is a technology that helps organizations balance opposing demands. Disk based backups can be rolled out in order to...
Related SMB Tips
Small business data backup tutorials and tips By SearchSMBStorage Editorial Staff
In survey after survey, when data storage administrators are asked what their No. 1 pain point is, the answer is almost always data backup. Even with declining storage budget dollars, the demand to back up more and more data is never...
Mar 29, 2010
Data Storage Resource Center
Cloud storage options: Public vs. private vs. hybrid cloud storage by Jacob Gsoedl
terms of scalability, security, performance, reliability and cost—and learn how to determine which one is right for your data storage environment.

The primary use of cloud storage today is for unstructured data, which is the fastest growing and most...

Mar 8, 2011
Hybrid clouds: Three routes to implementation by Jacob Gsoedl , Contributor
What you'll learn in this tip: Implementing hybrid clouds in your data storage environment can be done in three different ways. We provide the details on the various cloud software options you can...
Mar 1, 2011
SAN performance best practices: More ways to avoid bottlenecks by George Crump, Contributor
at how SAN performance and SAN efficiency improve with transparency, testing and a better understanding of the impact your data storage has on the rest of your system. Check out our earlier tip on how to improve your storage networks to find out how storage...
Feb 15, 2011
Remote backup systems: Solutions for getting rid of tape by Pierre Dorion
Backup software will make a new copy of a file when it changes regardless of the amount of data that has changed. Backup data provides some of the best reduction levels with deduplication since it contains a large amount of identical byte sequences...
Feb 14, 2011
ATA over Ethernet protocol overview for data storage managers by Stephen Foskett, Contributor
principle behind ATA over Ethernet is simplicity and performance over a local network, and many of the archaic assumptions of data storage have been abandoned in favor of a new approach.

Of course, converging storage over Ethernet is nothing new: IT...

Feb 8, 2011