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Storage and the Law: Backup, Recovery and Depositions by SearchStorage.com
As the keepers of the corporate data, storage managers can play a pivotal role in ensuring that their companies not only toe the line when it comes to regulatory compliance, but also ensuring that their companies can respond effectively to any legal issues. In...
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...
The Market Opportunity for Enterprise Tape by Sun StorageTek
the offering in the context of Sun’s storage portfolio and the secondary storage market. The enterprise tape platforms provide customers with many measurable benefits beyond what midrange tape technologies, such as LTO, can provide. In addition to its high...
Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
tools that work alongside major backup apps help you predict usage patterns and troubleshoot issues. Backup and recovery (B/R) applications do a good job of managing tasks such as job scheduling, tape management, library support, tracking backup data in...
Tools to Test Your DR Plan by Storage Magazine
recover from a disaster. Testing the storage portion of your disaster recovery (DR) plan requires tools to ascertain if data was backed up properly. Proper testing may also require an application to constantly monitor the DR site's storage infrastructure--from...
Simplifying SharePoint Backup and Recovery by Quest Software
SharePoint is the standard for data storage and collaboration – which means it’s critical to safeguard this data. Microsoft provides native utilities for SharePoint data backup and recovery - they’re useful in some situations, but limited in others. In this new...
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 that...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
a vital complement to point-in-time backup tools, and will remain so in any comprehensive data protection strategy. The tricky part is to decide how to mix and match backup methods to best meet recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), and...
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...
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 sizes...
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 and retention...
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...
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...
General Backup Purchasing Considerations by Quantum Corporation
the door for specialized backup tools such as continuous data protection (CDP), remote replication and snapshots. Even once the backup platform is decided, you’ll still need software to execute the necessary backups...
Why Archive Is Archive, Backup Is Backup and Backup Ain’t Archive by STORServer
The differences between backup and archive are quite simple and the stumbling block to understanding the difference is the tools we’ve chosen to use. The differences between backup and archive are really quite simple. Often, the stumbling block to...
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...
Windows Server 2008 Backup Tool - A Review of Its Features by Global Knowledge
of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista. This white paper presents some of the more significant pros and cons of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista, so that you can decide whether the...
5 Key Considerations for Long Term Data Retention by Quantum Corporation
about as you design your long-term data retention plans. Managing backup and recovery in today’s environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. Recent technological developments in disk backup have had...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder. It's a long-standing problem: As data piles up on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder. Backup apps become bogged down with millions of files to examine, and network and CPU limits can...
Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
and outlines how to apply HP Data Protector 6.0/6.1 software and other key HP StorageWorks storage array technologies to manage and deploy an effective backup strategy in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure. Rapid adoption of server virtualization...
Balancing System Cost and Data Value: With Sun StorageTek Tiered Storage Systems for Oracle® Transaction Processing Applications by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
systems to meet specific RAS and data access requirements. Tiered storage architectures reduce cost without affecting business operations by matching data resources with storage resources. Because Oracle databases control data placement...
The Case for Data Protection Service Level Agreements Over One-Size-Fits-All Backup Strategies by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
PowerPoint presentation is from a Storage Decisions (New York 2008). This session discusses how storage environments are becoming increasingly complex, with multiple tiers of storage often the norm. With a variety of storage delivery services supported...
Virtualization for disaster recovery, an interview with Tom Dugan, Chief Technology Officer of Recovery Networks Inc. by SearchServerVirtualization
Dugan, Chief Technology Officer of backup services provider Recovery Networks Inc., to discuss virtualization for disaster recovery. Editorial Director Jan Stafford sits down with Tom Dugan, Chief Technology Officer of backup services provider Recovery...
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...
VTL Data Management Issues by Storage Magazine
often the best option for long-term data storage and retention. Companies continue to use disk and tape in their backup process, but managing both media creates issues...
Data Deduplication Made Simple by Data Domain
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 technologies available today. Data deduplication is rapidly becoming a...
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...
L.L.Bean Overhauls its Backup Process by Storage Magazine
with the outdoor gear retailer's storage backup and restore environment. The system was built around IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and ran on the mainframe under z/OS, but was backing up more than 240 open-systems nodes--Windows, AIX, Linux, Sun and NetWare...
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
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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 data across their...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
For many companies, that's just too much time. IT departments can use snapshots to capture entire storage environments, or simply track changes to the state of mission-critical systems. Snapshots can establish recovery points in just a fraction of the time needed for a traditional backup and can significantly reduce recovery point objectives (RPOs) by supporting... 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
A notable exception here is LTO-3 tapes, which are still readable in LTO-4 tape drives.

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... More...

FAQ's
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...
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...

We're hearing a lot about forward-referencing deduplication and backward-referencing deduplication. Can you talk about what that means exactly?
backup as a result is really going to have a lot of pointers back to older data. So when you "redupe" the data back to its original state, you're going to be going back and pointing to lots and lots of pointers because you have a reverse-referencing-type methodology.

Forward referencing is kind of the opposite and... More...