Remote data protection

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Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Resource Center by Symantec Corporation
and proliferation of remote data centers, backups are becoming ever more costly and complex. Symantec, a leader in next generation data protection solutions, provides an extensive line of products which offer increased functionality and...
Performance: What makes Symantec's Backup Software Faster? by Symantec Corporation
library is essential for complete protection of email data, but it has traditionally been impossible to restore a single email from this file. This podcast highlights a next-generation solution that enables granular recovery of any single email or file from a...
Bringing the edge to the data center—a data protection strategy for small and midsize companies with remote offices by Hewlett-Packard Company
can effectively address their data protection challenges, implementing solutions that help store and protect their business-critical data as they cut costs and improve efficiency and reliability. Small and midsize businesses with remote offices need data...
How to Categorize PC Online Backup and Recovery Providers by Iron Mountain Digital
recovery services for distributed data protection. The need for 24x7 access to business data, the cost-efficiency and predictability of a SaaS subscription model, and the increasing challenges of protecting vastly distributed information are just a few of these...
Data protection for businesses with remote offices across multiple locations by Hewlett-Packard Company
for a better way to approach data protection. It also explains how the HP data protection portfolio can help businesses overcome their data protection challenges, and drive better business outcomes. This white paper drill deep into the challenges and...
DCIG Report - Achieve Near-Real Time Backup and Recovery by FalconStor Software
Which of the many forms of disk-based data protection should they start with?” This paper will help organizations answer that question.

Introducing disk as a backup target is a place where many enterprise organizations are starting their backup redesigns. Disk is now...
SQL Server Advanced Protection and Fast Recovery by Dell, Inc.
of implementing iSCSI SAN and other data protection technologies in SQL Server environments, such as:

  • Simplified data protection recovery
  • Automated management
  • Flexible data replication options
  • Consolidated backup processes
  • And more
How to Compare Server Online Backup and Recovery Service Providers by Iron Mountain Digital
solutions more and more for server data protection due to a variety of factors. The need for 24x7 access to business data, the cost-efficiency and predictability of a SaaS subscription model, and the increasing challenges of protecting vastly distributed...
Analyst Podcast: Interview with Vertafore: Solving DR Challenges by FalconStor Software
speed local and remote disk-based data protection with instant recovery.

Get first-hand feedback from IT professionals. This customer interview focuses on FalconStor’s leading Continuous Data Protector technology, providing high speed local and remote...
ESG Paper: What Data Domain is Doing to Storage by EMC
the impact of data deduplication on data protection, and specifically how Data Domain pioneered the combination of storage system interfaces and software to make the disk-based solution an efficient and cost-effective alternative to tape-based methods.

This paper...
Mobile Management: Reducing Risks and Maximizing Return by Absolute Software
Learn about a remote management and data protection tool that enables organizations to get the most from their existing IT resources using cloud-based services. Let's face it - business doesn't stop because of tight resources. Despite limited staff and budget, IT is...
Next Generation Backup and Recovery by Sun Microsystems and Symantec
combine the unified disk-based data protection, archiving, and recovery management of Veritas NetBackup 6.5 with a range of Sun server and storage platforms to provide desktop, remote office, and data center protection across the entire enterprise. These...
TOTALLY Open™ Disaster Recovery by FalconStor Software
Software offers TOTALLY Open Data Protection that is complete – and saves you time and money.

The ability to recover quickly and completely from any site failure is of paramount importance to organizations of all sizes – yet complexity and high costs prevent...
A Better Way to Manage Data in Virtualized Environments With CommVault® Simpana® Universal Virtual Server Agent by CommVault Systems, Inc.
virtual environments to improve data protection, resource utilization and return-on-investment.CommVault offers leading solutions that work from remote office to data center and unique integration with leading storage technology vendors to help leverage the...
Dell Equallogic PS Series and VMware View Enhance Virtual Desktop Project Success by Dell, Inc.
by centralizing management, data protection and security. Today's user computing environments have grown more distributed, incorporating an expanding variety of devices, including desktops, laptops, and mobile units. Companies benefit from these new...
D2D2T Backup Architectures and the Impact of Data De-duplication by Quantum Corporation
technology appropriately in the data protection lifecycle. De-duplication is a key technology that is bridging the gap between conventional disk and tape, bringing better balance between accessibility and retention, while improving TCO...
Backup and Recovery Solution for Oracle® Databases using Sun™ Storage 7000 Series Unified Storage System by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Storage System has comprehensive data protection features that provides instant snapshots, cloning, rollback and remote replication. These features make the database protection and maintenance tasks easier for systems and database administrators. This...
Six Secrets to 24x7 Exchange Availability by Marathon Technologies
environment with zero lost data and continuous application availability—with no IT intervention—in the event of a disaster.

Businesses have grown to rely on 24x7 access to Microsoft Exchange to meet the increasing demands of mobile...
Threat Control and Containment: A Proactive Approach Can Lead to More Network Security Plus Peace of Mind by CDW Corporation
to effectively protect corporate data is essential to threat control and containment and reducing the risk of costly data breaches.

Taking a proactive approach to mobile security can help you stay ahead of the curve and protect the organization. This...
How to Measure ROI for PC Online Backup by Iron Mountain Digital
efficiency of utilizing online data protection in order to back up and recover corporate data within their organization. However, one question often arises when it comes time to approach management for funding: How does one measure ROI and prove profitability of...
ESG Brief: Cloud-Based Data Protection for Servers by Iron Mountain Digital
strategies are the best solution in data protection for your SMB or ROBO.

Lower disk costs and bandwidth-optimized data transfer are fueling disk-to-cloud (D2C) and disk-to-disk-to-cloud (D2D2C) strategies. Off-site, cloud-based storage provides inherent DR for SMBs and may...
Cisco Wide Area Application Services: WANs with LAN-like Speed by Cisco Systems, Inc.
server, storage, application, and data protection infrastructure into the data center, allowing for a multitude of business benefits. Watch this informative video to learn more. Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) enables consolidation of your branch...
Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery Solutions: Eliminate Backup Impacts While Improving Recovery Capabilities by InMage Systems
in the network, which combines remote DR, local backup, and application failover (both local and remote) into a single platform.

Data Recovery is something all businesses must prepare for. Most organizations acknowledge the need for comprehensive...
Is Online Server Backup Appropriate for Your Business? by Iron Mountain Digital
in order to function - their computer data. The business risk of losing this data - or even losing access to this data - is well documented and well recognized. In addition, continuously expanding regulatory requirements are forcing businesses to re-examine...
Quantum DXi-Series: Deduplicated Backup and Remote Replication Solutions by Quantum Corporation
video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication...
Desktop Virtualization with Dell and Citrix: Solving the Desktop Lifecycle Management Challenge by Dell, Inc. and Intel
and advice on how Dell Virtual Remote Desktop (VRD), a server-hosted desktop virtualization, can deliver substantial benefits, simplifying lifecycle management, and driving ongoing cost and productivity benefits. Dell and Citrix together provide an...
Learn why a $2 billion healthcare company modernized their data management infrastructure with CommVault by CommVault Systems, Inc.
750 servers, and 1.5 Petabytes of data entrusted their mission-critical data management to Simpana® software from CommVault®.

In a world increasingly driven by and dependent on digital information, the ability to reliably backup and quickly recover key...
Server Virtualization Strategies for Disaster Recovery by Hewlett-Packard Company
that want to implement remote replication for disaster recovery (DR) purposes. This includes reducing recovery time objectives (RTOs), the costs associated with remote site server infrastructure and improving ease of implementation of remote...
Business Case for Data Protection: Study of CEOs and other C-level Executives by Ounce Labs, an IBM Company
think about the value of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. It is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of...
Implementing Best Practices in Endpoint Security: Remote Client Management and Data Encryption by Dell, Inc. and Intel
in remote client management and data encryption to avert security threats before they are allowed to infiltrate the enterprise. The endpoint is often the last - and most vulnerable - line of defense for enterprise IT and it is just as often the preferred...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
recovering files that they're not authorized to access.

Integrate snapshots into the broader data protection scheme

Evaluate the importance of your snapshots and determine the level of data protection that is appropriate for your snapshot data. RAID 5 or even RAID 6 protection is usually adequate in the snapshot storage system itself, while some organizations take it... More...

How to implement disk-to-disk backups
as backup targets. Storage space is finite, which can limit the allowable retention period for data. Data reduction technologies like data deduplication and delta differencing can dramatically extend the effective storage capacity. Also, indexing and search are can be valuable when rapid file organization and location are needed. Below are a series of best... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability

Use data backup tools to locate bottlenecks

Experts point to a growing number of backup and data protection management tools that can analyze backup traffic and highlight potential problem areas. For example, you might identify tape as your data bottleneck and spend significant capital dollars for upgrades and other changes -- only to discover that the problem was... More...

FAQ's
Server-free backup FAQ
the only way to do large server backups. However, the advent of continuous data protection (CDP) and near-CDP has created real alternatives to server-free backup. And, I think the large ISVs are agreeing with that. Many, if not most, of them have either acquired CDP technology or they are writing it themselves.

With a large... More...

Are there any instances where data deduplication will not provide any benefits? Superior benefits?
a lot of new images being created, then you'll see very little benefit from data deduplication. In that case, you're better off just running differential or incremental backups.

As far as areas in which data deduplication can provide superior benefits, databases have a lot of redundant data and... More...

What type of data reduction ratios should you realistically expect using deduplication?
There are two ways you can look at it. Most people are looking at data deduplication in conjunction with backup; backup appliances performing deduplication or even virtual tape libraries (VTL). So, looking at it in that context, you'll hear advertised ratios of anywhere from 10 to 500X.

But... More...