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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...
The Advantages of Deduplication-Based Disk Systems for Onsite Backup Storage by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
45;based disk systems for onsite backup storage. This PowerPoint presentation is from a Storage Decisions session (New York 2008) that explores how, although disk systems are cheaper than ever before, the use of disk in backup systems, including VTLs, has...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
a vital complement to point-in-time backup tools, and will remain so in any comprehensive data protection strategy. The tricky part is to decide how to mix and match backup methods to best meet recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs...
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,...
Disaster Recovery for Remote Offices: It's Easier to Get Right Than You May Have Thought by Overland Storage
a strategy for long-term offsite storage of backups to protect against disasters. Because remote offices have limited IT resources and personnel, the solutions must also be easy to set up and use.

The Overland Storage® Snap Server® family of NAS...
Virtual Server Backup Explained by Data Domain
gives an overview of virtual server backup and what you need to know to prepare an effective virtual server backup strategy including the available tools, tactics used for deployment, best practices and potential drawbacks. With the ongoing headaches...
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...
Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
and other key HP StorageWorks storage array technologies to manage and deploy an effective backup strategy in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure. Rapid adoption of server virtualization accelerates the deployment of high-utilization VMs, which in turn...
Optimizing Storage in VDI Environments by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
the benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage and offers solutions related to storage capacity, provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery, and management visibility. VDI-Optimized Storage dramatically improves boot performance and has...
Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5: Designing and Implementing Backups Using Storage Lifecycle Policies by Symantec Corporation
can be deployed to help ensure that backup storage is used cost-effectively while still maintaining appropriate levels of recoverability. Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5 introduces two new features, Data Classifications and Storage Lifecycle Policies, that are...
VTL Data Management Issues by Storage Magazine
of virtual tape libraries within storage environments, storage managers face an increased number of decisions in regards to managing and cataloging the transfer of data to tape. With the proliferation of virtual tape libraries within storage...
University of St. Thomas implements a tiered storage approach from Quantum, including Data De-duplication Technology to Cut Backup Time in Half by Quantum Corporation
to do something to shorten their backup windows and make everything more reliable and more robust, so they chose Quantum DXi™ appliance. St. Thomas is an independent Catholic liberal arts university with its main campus in St. Paul, Minnesota. They...
Tools to Test Your DR Plan by Storage Magazine
recover from a disaster. Testing the storage portion of your disaster recovery (DR) plan requires tools to ascertain if data was backed up properly. Proper testing may also require an application to constantly monitor the DR site's storage infrastructure--from...
Data Deduplication Made Simple by Data Domain
becoming a core fundamental of any storage system, and the implications go far beyond backup applications. Take this opportunity to learn the key differences between deduplication technologies available today. Data deduplication is rapidly becoming a...
Syncsort AdvancedClient: The New Data Protection Paradigm by Syncsort
Traditional backup strategies are fast becoming obsolete. Read this white paper to learn about a new solution that revolutionizes data protection strategies compared to the technologies of yesterday. Traditional backup...
De-Duplicated Disk Backup: Addressing Backup Challenges Across the Enterprise by Quantum Corporation
Quantum adds an enterprise-class backup-to-disk target with de-duplication to its arsenal, making it a true provider of scalable, end-to-end de-duplicated secondary storage. With the DXi7500, Quantum adds an enterprise-class backup-...
Best Practices for Backup by Syncsort
W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help build a better backup system. There are more and better tools to protect data than ever before, but how they're implemented and used in a storage...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
primary disk storage data was to backup that data onto one or more magnetic tapes on a daily basis. Magnetic tape will continue to play a critical role in data protection, offering the lowest cost storage medium for maintaining offsite backup data and...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
the PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i storage arrays, these optional premium features include Virtual Disk Snapshot and Virtual Disk Copy. Dell offers key-enabled premium features to help enhance the functionality of the PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i...
How Green Is My Backup? by STORServer
has a green component to it. The backup industry is less green now than it was even two years ago. The proliferation of Disk-to-Disk backup is directly responsible. Even with all the data reduction technologies available, the growth in the number of...
Differentiating Hardware- and Software-based Data De-duplication by Symantec Corporation
redundant data, saving valuable storage space, also it may be deployed via hardware- or software-based approaches-each having advantages and trade-offs. Data de-duplication is the process of examining data to identify and eliminate...
What Storage Managers Are Buying Storage Magazine Fall 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about currently available disk subsystems, storage networks, backup & DR, and storage management software. Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
of ExaGrid's disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs. tape and standard SATA disk. Many organizations use tape to back up data nightly. Tape is fairly inexpensive and low-tech, but managing and administering tape...
Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
discover why changing the way you do backup in today's financial climate will benefit your organization. Gain an understanding of data deduplication and learn the benefits of these solutions. Data deduplication has completely taken the storage world by...
Presentation Transcript: Storage Virtualisation - Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real" where Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups. This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real" where Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups...
D2D2T Backup Architectures and the Impact of Data De-duplication by Quantum Corporation
to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment. No one technology by itself solves all the challenges for backup and recovery at every point in the data lifecycle. Different access and retention requirements, as well as cost...
Major Considerations in Moving to Disk-based Backups by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
disk and tape components to meet the backup capacity, performance, reliability, and security requirements of your environment. This paper explains the process of selecting the right mix of disk and tape components to meet the backup capacity,...
ESG - A Compelling Disk Backup Story by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
white paper explores how disk-based backup has emerged and why it is so critical in today's storage environments. Read this white paper to also learn how one company has blossomed in the disk market and the products they offer. Over the past few years, disk-based...
US AFB Implements ProtecTIER™ — Cuts Backup Time by 50 Percent While Maximizing the Use of Existing Storage Resources by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
decided to address growing backup and restore problems, they turned to protecTIER. Organizations performing services for the U.S. Government are held accountable for meeting strict standards as part of the services they provide. When engineers for...
Hot Spots: A New Level of Backup Reporting by Storage Magazine
Backup success rates are improving, but reliable data recovery is still a concern. Not only does data loss impact business productivity and potentially revenue, but failure to produce data could result in fines or damage to...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
For many companies, that's just too much time. IT departments can use snapshots to capture entire storage environments, or simply track changes to the state of mission-critical systems. Snapshots can establish recovery points in just a fraction of the time needed for a traditional backup and can significantly reduce recovery point objectives (RPOs) by supporting... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
As capacities grow and costs per gigabyte shrink, disk is being used as a backup storage target more frequently. Disk offers far better performance than tape systems, allowing for faster data transfers as well as greater long-term reliability. Disk can accept complete backup volumes, as well as simple file copies. For example, backup software can send a... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
The role of tape is clearly changing, shifting away from everyday data backup and moving toward deep archiving or offsite storage, but tape is still an important element of many data centers. Storage professionals must contend with concerns about tape performance and reliability that have remained almost unchanged for decades. In spite... More...
FAQ's
What vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
I mentioned earlier, there are vendor-specific tools that are built into backup applications. So companies like BakBone and CA and CommVault have those types of applications that are built right in and report on their own backup application. And then of course you have storage resource management... More...
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...