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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...
Centralized Data Backup and Your WAN by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
strategy for combining WAN-based backup with wide-area data services (WDS) solutions. Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices,...
Using Snapshots in Your Data Backup Strategy by Dell | EqualLogic
the use of snapshots in your data backup strategy, as well as a new snapshot product offering from EqualLogic to simplify your backup projects. This document discusses the use of snapshots in your data backup strategy, as well as a new snapshot product...
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
disk rather than tape, the VTL speeds data backup and retrieval without requiring users to change their existing backup processes. This is because, to the backup server and backup application, the VTL looks like a traditional tape library. Benefits include...
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...
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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Simplifying SharePoint Backup and Recovery by Quest Software
native utilities for SharePoint data backup and recovery - they're useful in some situations, but limited in others.

In this new white paper, learn more about these native tools - including a key weakness - and what role they should play in your SharePoint backup and...
Backup Express and Novell Open Enterprise Server: A Business Continuity Model for OES Migration by Syncsort
migration might complicate the data backup and recovery processes for your organization.

This white paper offers technical and tactical guidelines to assess whether your backup/recovery plans successfully assure that business-critical data and...
Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
of technologies, problems and solutions available around Open Storage and SSD (solid state drive). Choose from a variety of white papers, editorial articles, webcasts and software downloads including:
  • Open Source Storage: Addressing the need for new Storage
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
scalable, cost-effective disk-based backup solution that works with your existing backup application. Learn how it satisfies the 7 requirements of cost-effective disk-based backup and the advantages it has over other solutions. Organizations today cannot...
Data Protection Scenarios and Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
data protection for business data. Data loss can occur when users or applications accidentally delete one or more files. Data needs to be protected from virus infection. Data must be restored or recreated when a single disk drive or an entire disk subsystem...
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...
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
for data protection. Backup solutions must protect all computers at the remote site, must enable quick restores of data, and must provide a strategy for long-term offsite storage of backups to protect against disasters. Because remote offices have...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
are seeking new ways to tackle their data protection challenges. While data growth is not new, the pace of growth has become more rapid, the location of data more dispersed, and the linkage between data sets more complex. Data deduplication offers companies...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
the need to maintain multiple backup solutions, rising storage requirements, and increasingly complicated scheduling and recovery processes.

However, new features in vRanger Pro 4.0 will address and provide a single, comprehensive and complete backup solution...
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Backup Exec - Best Practices for Implementing a Centralized SAN-Based Infrastructure by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows servers gives Windows based organizations a flexible, powerful solution they need to efficiently manage backups and restores across a distributed organization. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for...
Syncsort AdvancedClient: The New Data Protection Paradigm by Syncsort
a new solution that revolutionizes data protection strategies compared to the technologies of yesterday. Traditional backup strategies - based on tape, tape libraries, file-level backups, overnight backups, periodic weekend base backups,...
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...
Five Key Considerations for Evaluating the Scalability of Disk-based Backup Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the scalability of any disk-based backup solution. This paper outlines the five key questions you should ask when evaluating the scalability of any disk-based backup solution.

  • Can the system size to your current requirements and accommodate near-term
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ESG: Disk-based Backup With Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
are embracing disk-based backup solutions to improve backup performance, eliminate tape media management issues and improve the speed and reliability of recovery operations. This ESG Lab report explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte...
Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 reduces costs and capacity by removing duplicate data.

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Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
the Sun Fire X4540 server as a backup server for Amanda Enterprise Edition software. Explosive data growth, combined with demanding requirements for data availability, has placed a tremendous burden on IT operations staff at businesses of all...
Enterprise Backup & Recovery Methodologies for Your Oracle Environment by Datalink/NetApp
options available for Oracle data. Backing up and recovering Oracle data presents unique challenges. How can you back up your large and growing databases within a limited window? How do you recover your environment in under a day? Where do Oracle...
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...
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. ExaGrid and CA...
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
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 is server-free backup, and how does it work?
Server-free backup is an umbrella term for two different kinds of backup. The general distinction is that it is backup that is going to be done outside of the server that is being backed up -- hence the name. Some of the methods for doing server-free backup... More...
How about when doing target data deduplication on the virtual tape library (VTL) or backup appliance? Is there a similar performance impact?
has a little bit different performance impact. The knock on target-based data deduplication is that you aren't really reducing the amount of data you are sending over the network. So you are still sending the full amount of data over the network every time you do a backup. You are reducing the amount of data... More...
Are organizations using the same tools to back up virtual server environments that they have in the past?
do is deploy the same type of environment in which they are installing a backup agent inside of the guest OS or inside the virtual machine itself. There are other instances in which people are using the server virtualization vendor tools; these tools complement the backup process. Some people are writing... More...