Data Protection

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New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by F5 Networks
that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. Read this white paper for information on such a plan. Enterprise data protection has grown up. With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can...
Data Protection Scenarios and Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This paper will review some of the data protection solutions and discuss the role each plays in formulating a complete IT data protection strategy. There are many different solutions that must be employed today to provide proper data protection for business data...
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 was to...
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 enhance...
Syncsort Backup Express Advanced Protection Manager by Syncsort
Organization's need effective data protection solutions in order to meet today's business demands. Read this white paper to learn about an integrated suite of advanced D2D data protection solutions that ensure business continuity in all environ... Today's...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
are the gold standard in Windows data protection and complete system recovery. By working together, they help keep your business up, running, and growing-no matter what happens...
More than Just Backup by Storage Magazine
Data protection is changing rapidly: Point-in-time recoveries, faster legal discovery response times and near real-time disaster recoveries are becoming new requirements for corporate data protection. Data protection is...
Beyond Virtual Tape Libraries: End-to-End Data Protection with Syncsort Disk-to-Disk Solutions by Syncsort
VTL data storage has been a popular data protection solution in recent years, the VTL solution may be incomplete for long-term needs. Read this white paper to learn why D2D backup solutions are the ideal data protection technologies for y... Today, IT network...
Implementing Highly Available Data Protection with Veritas NetBackup by Symantec Corporation
paper looks at the components of a data protection system based on NetBackup and outlines a number of different configurations and solutions aimed at both reducing the risk of failure within a particular site and recovering from the loss of the site. The data...
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 restore...
Protecting Stored Data Part I 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 restore...
Cool Vendors in Data Protection by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
that details five disk-based data protection solutions from emerging data protection vendors. This research details five disk-based data protection solutions from emerging data protection vendors. IT directors and storage administrators responsible...
Advanced Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Techniques and Technologies: Module 2 Data Protection by SearchStorage.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...
TechNet Webcast: Protect SQL Server 2008 with Data Protection Manager 2007 by Microsoft
Data Protection Manager 2007 uses wizards and workflows to help ensure that you can protect your organization's data, and it doesn't require an advanced degree, training, or certification in storage and backup...
Top Reasons to Look at CA Recovery Management to Address All Your Data Protection Needs Podcast by CA
release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges. This podcast discusses how CA Recovery Management release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges. Mat Dickson, VP of Development answers questions that go beyond common discussions on...
Securing Data in Motion-Part Two by Symantec Corporation and Iron Mountain Digital and Websense and Lumension Security and Utimaco Safeware
In part two of this data protection video series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the steps to take in order to ensure your data is properly secured. Data protection has and always will be a top concern for organizations in...
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:
  • 1) Data protection by providing a readily available
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Full Disk Encryption - Your Best Defense against Data Breach by Wave Systems
encryption is fast becoming the data protection method of choice for organizations seeking to stay in compliance with recently enacted data protection laws. But integrating solutions for encrypting data at rest can be costly and complex. Unti... Full disk...
Delivering Enterprise Class Data Protection to Mid-Sized Environments With ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Range solutions can transform your data protection environment with no disruption to your operations. ProtecTIER™ is the established leader in data de-duplication for enterprise data centers, and it is the only enterprise class disk-based data protection...
Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink/NetApp
trying to master the art of data protection for virtual server environments. Those choices range from whether to use familiar technologies, something new, or a combination thereof in order to effectively meet the needs of the organization. Based on...
Best Practices: Protecting SharePoint Data by Storage Magazine
in popularity, but it has a number of data protection challenges that can result in significant levels of complexity rather quickly. SharePoint's collaboration framework is gaining in popularity, but it has a number of data protection challenges that can result in...
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, and...
The Case for Data Protection Service Level Agreements Over One-Size-Fits-All Backup Strategies by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
PowerPoint presentation defines data protection service level agreements. A system of data protection service level agreements is an effective approach to tailor backup appropriately to the needs of the company's business units. This PowerPoint presentation...
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 present unique...
Gartner Names "ExaGrid Cool Vendor" in Data Protection by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Cool Vendors in Data Protection report points 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...
ProtecTIER: Changing the Game With An Enterprise-class Disk-based Data Protection Solution by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
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 platform is the first...
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...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
dead, but tools like continuous data protection and snapshots can reduce a company's dependence on full backups without compromising data protection. I recently helped a Fortune 100 client evaluate continuous data protection (CDP) products and was asked if full...
Managing Unstructured Data: 10 Key Requirements by Varonis
the right enterprise-wide data protection solution for your specific business. Learn more about these ten imperatives to know when evaluating a vendor offering. Research has shown that more than 80% of all business information comes from, "unstructured...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
recovering files that they're not authorized to access.

Integrate snapshots into the broader data protection scheme

Evaluate the importance of your snapshots and determine the level of data protection that is appropriate for your snapshot data. RAID 5 or even RAID 6 protection is usually adequate in the snapshot storage system itself, while some organizations take it... 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

Use data backup tools to locate bottlenecks

Experts point to a growing number of backup and data protection management tools that can analyze backup traffic and highlight potential problem areas. For example, you might identify tape as your data bottleneck and spend significant capital dollars for upgrades and other changes -- only to discover that the problem was... More...

FAQ's
When does data deduplication using backup software on the host make sense?
to consider. If you're bandwidth constrained and are trying to back up data and you have large amounts of data coming over the network, then using data deduplication at the host makes a lot of sense. That can dramatically free up the amount of bandwidth that you have.

It is important that the host can sustain... More...

Are there any instances where data deduplication will not provide any benefits? Superior benefits?
a lot of new images being created, then you'll see very little benefit from data deduplication. In that case, you're better off just running differential or incremental backups.

As far as areas in which data deduplication can provide superior benefits, databases have a lot of redundant data and... 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...