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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...
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...
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...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, replication, and encryption. Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data and Backup Compression by Unisys
users with large databases they are Data compression and Backup compression. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces two new compression features (available in Enterprise and Developer editions) that are of interest to users with large databases. Data...
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...
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...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
provide real-world benefits for data backup and data management.

The Virtual Disk Snapshot premium feature includes the following capabilities:
  • 1) Data protection by providing a readily available point-in-time image that reduces restore time,
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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,...
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 this. Sybase ASE's...
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...
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...
Protecting Stored Data Part II by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
provides the latest information on data protection technologies and provides best practices for applying appropriate protection services to data assets. The best metric for measuring business resiliency is "time to data" -- the amount of time required to...
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Enterprise De-Duplication Solutions: How to Navigate the Pitfalls and Hyperbole by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
When it comes to data deduplication, the truth is often distorted. This white paper breaks through the hype and provides you with an outline on the principles of deduplication as well as tips for evaluating solutions. Data deduplication...
Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware: Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way 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 disaster recovery paradigm to one...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restores 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...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
why one solution's byte-level data deduplication outperforms in-line block-level data deduplication in a disk-based backup system. Read this white paper to learn more. Though data deduplication technologies have been around for years, there is a...
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...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder. It's a long-standing problem: As data piles up on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder. Backup apps become bogged down with millions of files to examine, and network and CPU limits can...
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
this whitepaper learn how Symantec Backup Exec12 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...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
and second generation disk-based backup systems. The question of how to effectively back up data has been plaguing IT departments for years. To date, magnetic tape has been the medium of choice because it is inexpensive and easy to transport offsite for...
The Power of Disk-based Backup with Symantec Backup Exec by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
have benefited from using Symantec Backup Exec along with the ExaGrid system for cost-effective disk-based backup with data de-duplication. Four such companies are profiled here. Symantec Backup Exec users may be surprised how quickly they can have their...
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
expenditures for new storage purchases, but allowing far greater retention periods for backup data.

Consider multi-purpose disk storage systems

Position the storage infrastructure for flexibility. Select and deploy storage platforms that can support multiple tiers internally, or that can provide support for nearline or archive storage. Implement the tools... 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 type of environment is server-free backup best suited for?
The best way to do any backup is the simplest way to do that backup. Complexity brings, well, complexity. But, along with complexity comes cost and risk that things could go wrong. So, server-free backup is more complicated than other forms of backup. Therefore, it... More...
Are there any alternatives to server-free backup that address the same problems?
advent of 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 server, I don't have enough time in the day or enough CPU cycles to back up... More...

How does data deduplication affect the backup process in a virtual server environment?
I'm hearing more and more questions about data deduplication and virtualization. And, it's not just server virtualization, another area is desktop virtualization. With server virtualization, you have lots of virtual machine images out there and they have the same operating... More...