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The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
This green data center e-book serves as an all-in-one guide to lead you through the process of creating an energy-efficient data center. Today's average data center is 12 to 15 years old, reaching end of life, and unable to meet today's...
Preventing Data Loss: 10 Key Imperatives by Varonis
describes the Varonis approach to data protection, it centers on the notion of data governance -- a comprehensive means to see, control and audit all aspects of unstructured data access. With 80 - 90% of data being stored on file servers, and the...
Integration Acceleration: Orange County Seamlessly Integrates CAD Design and Geospatial Data by Autodesk
CAD design and geospatial data management, the OCSD has been able to save a signi?cant amount of time on key processes and also improves accuracy of asset data, which helps it to serve customers better. Autodesk Map 3D® provides an easy way for...
New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by F5 Networks
forces 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...
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 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...
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...
Data Discovery and Risk in the Datacenter by Tizor
monitoring (DAM) solutions mitigate data risk by discovering critical data in the data center, monitoring and analyzing activity, providing detailed auditing trails, and reporting on all user access. Database activity monitoring (DAM) solutions mitigate...
Hot Spots: Data Deduplication Drama by Storage Magazine
by knowing where to look for it. Data deduplication for secondary storage is prompting as much passion from vendors as it is confusion for some users. Why? Because dedupe is one of those influential, crucial technologies that comes along every few years.

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Best Practices: Will Your Data Recovery Strategy Work for DR? by Storage Magazine
Not all data is created equal or is necessary for business continuity, so a tiered data recovery plan can be most effective. Data recovery solution, whether remote or local, is a set of technologies that supports your disaster...
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...
Tackle Data Growth Issues through the Power of Enterprise Data Management by IBM
how organizations can address data growth issues through the power of enterprise data management. As a recognized best practice, database archiving has proven effective in managing continued application data growth. Many organizations today rely...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise by IBM
IBM's Optim™Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise provides proven archiving capabilities. Now you can align continuous control of your PeopleSoft data with business objectives to optimize performance...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite by IBM
control of your E-Business Suite data with business objectives. Optim's proven archiving capabilities enable you to set desired service levels for each category of E-Business Suite data - for example, current data, reporting data and historical data. You...
Growing Revenue with Frontline Data Warehouses by Aster Data Systems
The frontline data warehouse is the newest innovation in analytics and data warehousing for organizations building competitive advantage through analytics. The frontline data warehouse is the newest innovation in analytics and...
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...
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...
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...
Securing Data in Motion-Part One by Symantec Corporation and Iron Mountain Digital and Websense and Lumension Security and Utimaco Safeware
In part one of this data protection video series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the tools and techniques needed to protect against data leakage. Information can escape from your organization through every end...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
and total cost of ownership in x86 data centers. Cost, power, and data center cooling and space will continue to worsen if no changes are made to the current data center infrastructure. In fact, an estimated 10 power plants must be built over the next few years...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing...
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, "...
10 Things IT Should Be Doing (but isn't) by Varonis
the responsibility to business data owners, it is IT that has to enforce rules for who can access what on shared file systems and keep those strictures current through data growth and user role changes. Until organizations start to shift the...
Effective Data Migration with Varonis DatAdvantage by Varonis
DatAdvantage helps you identify data owners so you can build data migration, management and governance policies that map to your business needs. Varonis DatAdvantage helps you identify data owners so you can build data migration, management and...
Data Leakage Landscape: Where Data Leaks Occur and How Next Generation Tools Apply by Utimaco Safeware
This paper maps common data leakage points, detailing solution and explaining regulations and best practices. This paper maps the leakage points with regulations and best practices. Protection mechanisms can be simplified by breaking them...
Leveraging eDiscovery in Litigation by StoredIQ
face in storing and retrieving data effectively, as well as new generation technology that can help them do so. The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure govern the speed in which relevant electronic data must be produced during the discovery process of...
Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering by F5 Networks
an ever increasing amount of file data. The F5 Acopia intelligent file virtualization solution provides an automated tiering approach, without the drawbacks associated with other solutions. The amount of file data in the enterprise is growing at...
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or even "going green." The goal of virtualization in the data...
eGuide: Data Deduplication for Primary Data by Ocarina Networks
This E-Guide will explore if Data Deduplication is suitable for primary data and what vendors are doing to keep performance high for your company's backups. Many IT Professionals are looking to add Data Deduplication to their backup system, and...
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
more frequently. Disk offers far better performance than tape systems, allowing for faster data transfers as well as greater long-term reliability. Disk can accept complete backup volumes, as well as simple file copies. For example, backup software can send a full backup volume to a virtual tape library (VTL) emulating the behaviors of a traditional tape system... 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
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...
What type of data reduction ratios should you realistically expect using deduplication?
There are two ways you can look at it. Most people are looking at data deduplication in conjunction with backup; backup appliances performing deduplication or even virtual tape libraries (VTL). So, looking at it in that context, you'll hear advertised ratios of anywhere from 10 to 500X.

But... More...