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Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the benefits of all new disk-based data protection options to allow you to select the best technology for each of the data types to be protected in your environment. Over the past 40 years of computing, the standard way of protecting primary disk storage...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
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 storage arrays. These optional premium features include Virtual...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the first 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...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the pros and cons of tape and disk-based storage and presents a cost analysis 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...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restores by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 struggling with long backup windows and...
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...
ESG - A Compelling Disk Backup Story by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This ESG 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...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
a 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...
ExaGrid: A Scalable Approach to Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Looking for a new disk-based backup solution? Download this Taneja Group white paper to learn some key criteria to consider when evaluating disk-based data protection vendors and how one company matches up against these criteria. Now...
Disaster Recovery for Remote Offices: It's Easier to Get Right Than You May Have Thought by Overland Storage
Snap Server data protection solutions provide the simplest way to protect critical data stored on desktops, laptops, file and application servers, and Snap Servers at remote offices. Remote offices and retail locations...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology 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...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
types of modern disk-based data storage systems in large data centers. Disk drives consume a significant amount of power and consequently place a considerable load on the cooling resources in large data centers. The type of disk drive and...
Atrato Design for Three Year Zero Maintenance by Atrato, Inc.
drive tending and minimize risk of data loss for a three-year operational lifetime. Many storage RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) systems employ data replication or error correction coding to support automatic recovery of data when disk...
Disk Based Backup - Implementation Techniques by Dell | EqualLogic
implementation techniques for disk-to-disk backups, what to be aware of when evaluating VTL, and how to equip your organization for changes in data protection technologies. In this document, you'll gain expert insight from W. Curtis Preston...
ESG: Disk-based Backup With Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 solutions...
Presentation Transcript: Highlighting Data Deduplication and Disk Backups by Data Domain
webcast entitled "De-dupe and Disk Backups--What You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge." This document is based on a Data Domain/TechTarget webcast entitled "De-dupe and Disk Backups--What You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge." In this...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
deliver complete Windows based data and system protection and recovery. 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...
Gartner Names "ExaGrid Cool Vendor" in Data Protection by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
to a focus on new and less-expensive disk-based backup options that make the use of disk for faster backup and recovery a more viable option than traditional backup-to-tape methods. The "Cool Vendors in Data Protection" report points to a focus on new and...
ProtecTIER: Changing the Game With An Enterprise-class Disk-based Data Protection Solution by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
is the first enterprise-class disk-based data protection solution that enables customers to effectively increase the capacity of disk systems by 25 times or more. Read about this world-class solution here. Diligent Technologies' ProtecTIER...
EMA Whitepaper: Simple, Reliable, Fast De-duplication Data Protection Platform by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
utilizing a clustered gateway and data de-duplication can assist data centers that face such challenges, and such devices provides data center managers faster backups and recoveries. While Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) are now a fundamental element...
The Power of Disk-based Backup with Symantec Backup Exec by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 first backup running on the most cost-effective and scalable...
Enabling Economically Viable Long-Term Disk-Based Data Protection by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
enterprise-scale comprehensive data-protection solution that produces dramatic data reduction, allowing for an increase in the effective capacity of a given disk array of 25x or more. Diligent's ProtecTIER platform is an enterprise-scale...
D2D2T Backup Architectures and the Impact of Data De-duplication by Quantum Corporation
the impact of de-duplication in a disk-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...
NetBackup 6.5: Enabling Next-Generation Disk-Based Data Protection by Symantec Corporation
solution, provides disk-based data protection for remote office and enterprise datacenter environments. Influenced by factors such as disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, legal pressures, and IT risk management, many IT organizations need to...
Five Key Considerations for Evaluating the Scalability of Disk-based Backup Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
evaluating 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
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ESG Lab Validation Report: ExaGrid Systems Disk-based Backup with Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Lab report explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte level data de-duplication to provide space efficient capacity optimization. This ESG Lab report explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte level data de-...
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
can be solved by backing up to disk; data deduplication reduces the size of the backup. ExaGrid and CA offer a fast and scalable, disk-based, backup solution that fits into existing corporate infrastructures. Read this IT Briefing, based on an ExaGrid Systems...
Disk-Based Backup and Recovery: Making Sense of Your Options by Datalink/NetApp
white paper details four enhanced data recovery (disk-based backup) architectures and provides guidance on how to determine whether or not those architectures would be an overall fit within the IT infrastructure. Data and storage requirements are...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
their servers and streamline their data centers, resulting in as much as a ten-fold boost in resource utilization. The software also reduces the cost of setting up a disaster recovery site, as companies can run mirrored systems on virtual servers...
Creating and Managing Virtual Hard Disks by SearchServerVirtualization
disks, configure virtual machine disk controllers and attach and maintain virtual hard disks. See why the flexibility of virtual hard disks (VHDs) makes virtual machines so attractive. Compared to their physical counterparts, VHDs can:

  • Be created in, added
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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... More...
FAQ's
What are the benefits of using a virtual tape library (VTL) for data deduplication?
Well, there are a few big use cases right now that are driving data deduplication to the forefront of the decision-making that's going on in backup environments. The bottom line is data deduplication is dramatically changing the economics of using disk as a backup target as opposed to tape. You... More...
Are there any major drawbacks to using tape encryption?
Probably the biggest one: You lose your keys; you lose your data. This deserves the most consideration and you need to have the best possible key management.

Also, if you plan on encrypting at the client level, that may cause some issues if you have implemented deduplicaiton within your... More...

Data deduplication FAQ
Will you be able to achieve the huge data reduction ratios that data deduplication vendors are touting? In this FAQ guide, analyst Jerome Wendt answers the most common data deduplication questions he's hearing today. Jerome's answers are also available below as an MP3... More...