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Tips for Protecting the Edge: Remote-Office Data Protection by Overland Storage
remote backups done locally and managed centrally from the main data center. Date backup and recovery of remote offices is an ongoing challenge to the storage team due to issues such as lack of qualified staff or inefficient equipment. This Tipcast...
eGuide: Tipcast Transcript: Solid State Drives in the Enterprise by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This series of tips discusses the issues involved in integrating solid state drives at three junctions in enterprise storage environments. Solid state drives are going to play everywhere in the enterprise-at the storage array level...
Expert eBook: Encryption: Properly Securing Your Valuable Data by Information Security Magazine
Check out this expert eBook and learn about best practices and techniques for protecting your company's data with encryption technology. There have already been 449 data breach incidents this year and that number will continue to grow. The...
Data quality best practices: How to get started, build a business case and structure programs by IBM
quality in your organization, get expert advice for evangelizing the benefits of data quality to businesspeople and hear best practices for building a business case to get the support and funding you need. Then, find out how to best structure the program and team...
Podcast: How to compare data deduplication products by Data Domain
explores key tips on how to evaluate and measure deduplication service providers. Data deduplication is rapidly becoming a core fundamental of any storage system, and the implications go far beyond backup applications. Knowing how to evaluate and...
eGuide: Channel Success Story: Virtualization by Dell PartnerDirect and Intel
customers to a virtual environment and offers valuable, expert and practical advice to avoid pitfalls and to help your customers understand the true rewards of going virtual. This E-Guide talks about the benefits for solutions providers in moving...
Blades and Virtualization: What to Think About by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
how to combine virtualization and blade servers for the best possible space reduction, resource utilization, and disaster recovery. Energy efficiency is the number one topic among IT managers today; so many organizations are turning to...
Addressing Backup and Recovery in a Consolidated Server Environment: Practical Advice from a Field-Proven Expert by Datalink/NetApp
multiple servers meeting backup and recovery windows becoming even more challenging. This Podcast describes, organizations are declined server virtualization at a rapid phase with multiple applications consolidated on fewer multiple servers...
Learn how Cisco MDS enables an efficient and a cost effective Storage Area Network-based solution by Cisco Systems, Inc.
on securing your SAN environment and meeting government regulations. Learn about a technique that transparently encrypts data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business critical applications. Watch this webcast to...
eBook: 2009 Spending Priorities in the UK by SearchSecurity.co.uk
Check out this expert eBook and learn about the security issues that are receiving increased focus in the UK for 2009 and get tips for addressing these challenges. Highly publicised data breaches and the increasing number of compliance...
Deploying the NAC Solution by Sophos Inc.
Protecting your company's network and sensitive data through network access control (NAC) requires a realistic approach to deployment that works with your company's existing IT infrastructure and security policies. Utilizing a straight-forward...
Storage Virtualization Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that perhaps one size fits all. Indeed, the range of storage...
Storage Virtualization Video: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that perhaps one size fits all. Indeed, the range of storage...
Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that perhaps one size fits all. Indeed, the range of storage...
Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that perhaps one size fits all. Indeed, the range of storage...
eBook: Strategies for Securing Virtual Machines by Information Security Magazine
concerns of virtualization and get best practices for securing virtual machines. Many companies are deploying virtualization technology in an effort to reduce costs and increase employee productivity. However, it is critical that IT...
E-Guide: Expert Tips on What PCI Version 1.2 Will Mean to Your Organization by Tripwire, Inc.
will be introduced in PCI version 1.2 and how your company will benefit from these changes. Differing interpretations of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements have made it hard for merchants and assessors to agree upon an...
7 Tips that IT can use During the Economic Downturn by Microsoft
solutions from reducing server and desktop power consumption to consolidating applications on servers. Expert Mark Minasi will deliver information that SMBs can use right now to achieve enhanced IT value. Mark Minasi, noted author, MVP, and self...
eGuide: Meshing Virtual Machine and Physical Systems Management by Dell and Microsoft
guru Joe Clabby can help. Read on for expert advice on the following key topics: • How to provide adequate network redundancy and isolation • Adaptive automation practices for high availability • The best tools to eliminate separate virtual and physical management...
Backing Up VMware Data for Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
in the storage industry to provide tips and best practices you can use to improve your DR approach now. Watch it now for answers to these pertinent questions: ▪ Why is a VMware server virtualization plan better than my existing DR approach? ▪ What are some proven...
SearchServerVirtualization.com E-Guide: Advanced Virtualization Management by CA
expert e-guide for tips on vertical and horizontal scaling, preventing virtual sprawl, and more. Most virtualized data centers have been primarily focused on deploying virtualization and reaping its consolidation and energy-saving benefits. But now...
eGuide: Blade Servers Trends by Dell, Inc. and Intel
and in the future? The following tips and articles from the experts at SearchDataCenter.com examine the benefits of consolidation and virtualization on blades...
IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
solution meets the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The IBM System Storage™ TS7650G ProtecTIER™ De-duplication Gateway solution meets the disk-based data...
Maximizing Business Value Across Your Enterprise...Understanding the ROI of Database Archiving by IBM
solution that supports compliance and discovery initiatives, mitigates risks, and controls costs. Database archiving can help organizations to understand IT infrastructure and improve system performance. Furthermore, an organization can increase...
IDC Analysis: Lower IT Costs by Moving to a Virtualized Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
x86 server configuration. And, more advanced virtualization approaches can further increase the savings. Read this white paper to learn advanced virtualization techniques to synergize blade architectures with virtualization and maximize...
Enabling Economically Viable Long-Term Disk-Based Data Protection by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
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 comprehensive data-protection solution that produces dramatic data...
Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink/NetApp
paper provides practical advice 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...
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 rather than...
Virtual Tape Libraries All-in-One Guide by Dell | EqualLogic
common implementation mistakes and help you get the most from virtual tape libraries technology. This document provides in-depth coverage of utilizing virtual tape libraries (VTL) in your data protection plan. You’ll learn how to implement virtual tape...
Reduce Your Storage Footprint: Data Reduction with Online Storage Optimization by Ocarina Networks
you store up to 10 times more file data on storage you already have. Ocarina File-Aware Optimization is a breakthrough new way to manage the explosive growth of online storage. Rather than complex schemes to classify and move data across tiers of storage...
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
focus on moving backup data rather than creating the backup and moving data at the same time.

Use data reduction technologies to shrink the backup task

Data reduction techniques like data deduplication, conventional compression and delta differencing to reduce the amount of data that must be backed up. Smaller backups will execute faster, resulting in a shorter backup... More...

FAQ's
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...

There were early concerns about scalability. Have manufacturers largely dealt with those concerns, or do scalability issues still remain?
take a look at how the product is architected, how to manage performance and scalability, and even data destruction on the back end. How does the product remove expired data from the index? How is the index rebuilt over time? How do you add more capacity? It really becomes a much more complex proposition at the... More...
How virtualizing servers has impacted the backup process
you are backing up virtual servers. What we are finding is the amount of data that needs to be backed up has increased significantly.

However, in some cases server virtualization can reduce the number of backup licenses. This is a nice benefit. You don't have to run as many agents as in the past, and you can save... More...