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Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
library support, tracking backup data in catalogs and supporting a variety of backup media, including disks. But B/R applications fall short when it comes to advanced capacity reporting, predicting usage patterns, performance tuning, troubleshooting and...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
Iron is storing 24.1 terabytes (TB) of backup data in only 1.3TB of disk capacity, a reduction of 95 percent. In addition, the company is saving $12,000 a year in tape media costs and has reduced IT management time by roughly 300 hours a year...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
and to more efficiently centralize backup data to multiple sites for assured disaster recovery. Veritas NetBackup PureDisk from Symantec uses data deduplication technology to help customers address these data protection challenges. At the heart of...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 the cost of magnetic tape, making it a viable option for specific data protection...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
de-duplication, you keep much more backup data on fast-recovery RAID arrays than with any conventional disk backup system. You get fast, reliable backup and restores, increase the number of recovery points, yet use less disk capacity. • Data de-duplication reduces...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
their hardware. Based on keeping backup data on the storage array for a 60-day retention time, Intellistore was confident these combined solutions would allow Magnum to save 50% over their current tape backup costs. Not ruling out tape altogether, Intellistore...
Sun’s Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
for next-generation data backup using Symantec NetBackup software. The Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup, powered by the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server and using Symantec NetBackup 6.5.2 software, provides an...
Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Gain an understanding of data deduplication and learn the benefits of these solutions. Data deduplication has completely taken the storage world by storm. As far as backup technologies go, data deduplication offers the most promise because it...
Protecting Personal Data in Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise by Sybase, Inc.
To protect data on media such as disks and backup tapes, the strongest solution today is to encrypt data prior to putting it on the media. Sybase ASE’s encryption option provides several distinct advantages for protecting data. First...
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User’s Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
job of backing up to disk. Tape-based backup solutions are fraught with problems. Restore time from tape is prohibitive and tape proliferation is a concern. These problems can be solved by backing up to disk; data deduplication reduces the size of the backup...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data and Backup Compression by Unisys
compression features (available in Enterprise and Developer editions) that are of interest to users with large databases they are Data compression and Backup compression. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces two new compression features...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
and Virtual Disk Copy. These data protection features provide real-world benefits for data backup and data management. The Virtual Disk Snapshot premium feature includes the following capabilities: • Data protection by providing a readily...
Backup = Archive: Can You Tell the Difference? by CommVault Systems, Inc.
for archiving information across data management sources. Think you know the difference? If we are to keep long term data management costs down while facilitating ease of data management, recovery, accessibility and data flexibility, then a unified data...
De-Duplicated Disk Backup: Addressing Backup Challenges Across the Enterprise by Quantum Corporation
the de-duplication process to the backup data and, importantly, identify and eliminate redundant data across their environments before replication for maximum efficiency, cost-savings and data retention...
ESG: Disk-based Backup With Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Lab’s hands-on testing of the ExaGrid backup to disk solution with a focus on ease of deployment, performance, disk capacity optimization, WAN-efficient remote replication and scalability. A growing number of organizations are embracing disk-based backup...
Quantum DXi 7500 Support for Veritas NetBackup 6.5 VTL-Direct-to-Tape Feature from Symantec by Quantum Corporation
and remote replication system for data centers where a premium is placed on scalability, performance, high availability, and flexibility. The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data centers where a premium is placed on...
How to reduce the backup data footprint: Capacity optimization, intelligent data protection software, deduplication, and single instancing - Let's translate by Hewlett-Packard Company
energy prices and exponential data growth are driving organizations to seek solutions that minimize data footprint across all storage tiers. The challenge that managers face, though, is implementing the right technology for their specific use case...
Protecting Stored Data Part II by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
asset ▪ Techniques for protecting data in place and for replicating it for recovery: hype and hope ▪ The role of intelligent archiving in business continuity ▪ Challenges to (and solutions for) managing complexity in data protection and replication processes...
Tape Backup Performance and Reliability Best Practices by Dell | EqualLogic
best practices related to tape backup performance and reliability, troubleshooting automated tape libraries, and managing long term tape archives. This document discusses best practices related to tape backup performance and reliability...
Podcast: How to compare data deduplication products by Data Domain
service providers. Data deduplication is rapidly becoming a core fundamental of any storage system, and the implications go far beyond backup applications. Knowing how to evaluate and compare vendor products will save you time, money, and...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restore by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Camera and how they overcame their backup woes through an efficient disk-based backup solution. Concord Camera Corp. designs, develops, manufactures and markets, popularly priced, easy-to- use image capture products. The IT staff at Concord Camera was...
Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware: Transforming Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
disaster recovery is done today and in the future; it changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one that is cost effective, rapid and reliable. VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future. It changes the...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
advantages, including shorter backup windows, faster restore times, content awareness and backup application integration, and better scalability. Though data de-duplication technologies have been around for years, there is a renewed focus on them...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
if a backup job is successful, the data in a large file may have changed in the hours it took to create the backup image. Vendors and users are now applying new ideas and technologies to ensure that no data set is too big to back up. The rapid creation and...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
system. Get your business-critical data back online before the entire server farm comes back. Recovery Manager for SharePoint provides granular recovery of anything in the backup of your SharePoint content database—individual documents, lists...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
their disaster recovery and backup operations with a disk-based backup system from Exagrid. Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. The firm's IT staff had been backing up all of its data...
General Backup Purchasing Considerations by Quantum Corporation
of evaluating and purchasing backup products. Also discussed are the issues to be aware of during this process, such as recovery deadlines, scalability, security, and more. The process of evaluating and purchasing backup products can be an intimidating...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows Servers and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 are complementary solutions that deliver complete Windows based data and system protection and recovery. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
This raises the bar for backup and recovery applications like vRanger Pro. Virtualization is becoming more widely used and accepted. As the level of use rises, experienced users are adopting virtualization to run more of their production...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
(RPOs) by supporting more frequent recovery points. When properly implemented, snapshot data can be used to restore lost files or recover from more substantial data loss. Features like data deduplication are also appearing in snapshots to reduce disk storage requirements, allowing for many more snapshots and longer retention periods. Below are a series... 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
to the tape system. This approach allows all of the server's processing power to focus on moving backup data rather than creating the backup and moving data at the same time.

Use data reduction technologies to shrink the backup task

Data reduction techniques like data deduplication, conventional compression and delta differencing to reduce the amount of data that... More...

FAQ's
What are backup reporting tools and how do they work?
Backup reporting tools are solutions that monitor and report on the backup process. These tools usually take some time to gather information and then allow administrators to report on various workings. This enables administrators... More...
Do you think data should be deduplicated while the backup is occurring or after it is complete?
incoming and then stores the data on disk. Then, there is the more common in-line architecture.

Personally, I'm more in the post-processing camp right now. I'm trying to fully understand the benefits of doing it in-line. My concern at the enterprise level is that these products can do consistent restores... More...

VTL Deduplication FAQ
Inc., discusses the pros and cons of virtual tape library (VTL) data deduplication and the state of the VTL deduplication market today in this Q&A. His answers are also available below as an MP3 for you to download.

Listen to the VTL deduplication FAQ

>>The benefits of using a VTL for data... More...