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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...
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,...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This resource center is a one stop shop for all of your storage research needs around Open Storage and SSD (solid state drive). Here you will find expert editorial content as well as technical resources, business resources and free trial downloads. In this resource center get a more in-depth understanding of technologies, problems and...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
This raises the bar for backup and recovery applications like vRanger Pro. Virtualization is becoming more widely used and accepted. As the level of use rises, experienced users are adopting virtualization to run more of their production...
Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation
Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent, standards-based security that protects data on the network, on disk and on backup media. Operating in today's global business environment presents numerous security and compliance...
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...
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...
Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
considering a move to disk-based backup. Dealing with tape is cumbersome and time consuming, however with the cost of SATA falling dramatically; backing up to disk has become a reality for IT departments of all sizes.

As you may know, backing up to disk...
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,...
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...
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,...
Backup and Recovery: The Benefits of Multiple De-duplication Policies by Quantum Corporation
of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits. Data de-duplication systems, which in the past have required that users apply one de-duplication methodology to all of their jobs...
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...
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...
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,...
EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) by Wave Systems
ETS) delivers advanced levels of security to the client PC using the TPM security chip found on most enterprise PCs today. ETS 6 features a variety of secure business productivity capabilities with an easy-to-use security center and is compatible with all TCG...
Data Deduplication Made Simple by Data Domain
Data deduplication is rapidly 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...
Securing Data Stored on Tape with Encryption: How to Choose the Right Encryption Key Management Solution by Quantum Corporation
designed to protect sensitive data throughout the enterprise. Securing data from unauthorized access is a critical issue for businesses in all industries. Regulatory compliance and customer loyalty all depend on keeping sensitive information...
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...
De-Duplicated Disk Backup: Addressing Backup Challenges Across the Enterprise by Quantum Corporation
remote offices and the central data center). Quantum's flexible and global approach to data de-duplication gives users the option to "tune" the de-duplication process to the backup data and, importantly, identify and eliminate redundant...
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 Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink/NetApp
and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures. A dizzying range of technology choices awaits IT organizations trying to master the art of data protection for virtual server environments. Those choices range...
Delivering Integrated Security, Recovery, and Archive Protection with Symantec Backup Exec 12 by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec 12 helps businesses confidently protect their infrastructures, their information, and their interactions by delivering integration to efficiently secure, recover, and archive critical...
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
Server-free backup FAQ podcast
W. Curtis Preston discusses how server-free backup works, pros and cons of server-free backup, the server-free backup market today, and alternatives to this complicated approach to backing up large data sets.

Check out the entire Server-free Backup FAQ.

W. Curtis Preston is the vice... More...

What are backup reporting tools and how do they work?
Backup reporting tools are solutions that monitor and report on the backup process. These tools usually take some time to gather information and then allow administrators to report on various workings. This enables administrators... More...
Do you think data should be deduplicated while the backup is occurring or after it is complete?
to this. There's the post-processing architecture that accepts all the data incoming and then stores the data on disk. Then, there is the more common in-line architecture.

Personally, I'm more in the post-processing camp right now. I'm trying to fully understand the benefits of doing it in-line. My concern at the... More...