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Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restores by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 struggling with long backup windows and concerned...
Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of...
FAQ Guide: Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost differentiators of moving from tape to disk for data backup. As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup...
Top 10 Reasons for Using Online Server Backup and Recovery by Iron Mountain Digital
combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. This paper discusses the top 10 reasons businesses are turning to this technology. Backup of vital company information is critical...
Disk Backup with Data Deduplication - Resource Center by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the fastest and most scalable disk-based backup system with byte-level data deduplication at the best price in the industry. It works with your existing backup application to eliminate failed backups and restores, reduce your window all at the same cost as tape...
HP Dynamic Deduplication - achieving a 50:1 ratio by Hewlett-Packard Company
the effective capacity of a disk-based backup system by a ratio of up to 50:1 is big news.

In June 2008, HP introduced two additional products to the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System Family, the 1U rack-mountable D2D2500 and the 2U rack-mountable D2D4000. Both new...
BACKUP REDESIGN: Do More with Less ... Really! by AppAssure Software
protect data and applications - disk-based application. The call to protect corporate data in less time and for less money has inspired a whole new way of thinking about backup - a complete backup redesign. Rather than relying on tape and focusing on data, new...
Is Online Server Backup Appropriate for Your Business by Iron Mountain Digital
combines the speed and ease-of-use of disk-based backup with the security and convenience of online backup.

In this paper you'll learn about:

  • Problems with traditional backup technology
  • Features of an ideal backup solution
  • Iron Mountain's LiveVault® online backup
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Fast and Reliable Backup and Disaster Recovery for Mission-Critical Windows Applications by AppAssure Software
is an application-aware, disk-based imaging solution that automatically and continuously images your entire Windows application server. This presentation details the functions of Replay AppImage, a backup and recovery solution for windows...
Data Deduplication Tutorial by Quantum Corporation
the amount of space required for backup and the network bandwidth required for replication. This tutorial explores several facets of data deduplication technology and compares vendor offerings. Data Deduplication is a vital technology to consider as...
Comparing Disk with Tape: Improving Backup and Recovery Performance by EMC Corporation
in our research are using disk-based backup - strongly validating its value. This statistic should come as little surprise to most IT professionals, given the business and economic climate we live in and the demanding SLAs IT departments are continuously...
Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the Data Domain Deduplication File System by Data Domain
to relieve the disk bottleneck. Disk-based deduplication storage has emerged as the new-generation storage system for enterprise data protection to replace tape libraries. Deduplication removes redundant data segments to compress data into a highly...
Five Key Considerations for Enterprise Disaster Recovery and Backup by SEPATON
data over their network with a disk-based backup system. However, solutions that would suffice for smaller organizationss like tape and many disk-based solutions lack the performance, capacity, and automation necessary to meet the needs of large, dataintensive...
ESG Report: Data Deduplication Diversity: Evaluating Software- vs. Hardware-Based Approaches by CommVault Systems, Inc.
improves the value proposition of disk-based data protection as it eliminates the redundancy typically seen in secondary storage processes. The use of deduplication will drive further backup-to-disk adoption and deliver associated performance and...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
and backup operations with a disk-based backup system from Exagrid. Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. The firm's IT staff had been backing up all of its data onto tape, but with 5TB of data to...
SEPATON Architecture: Designed for Data-Intensive Enterprises by SEPATON
budget. Physical tape and standard disk-based backup solutions are not designed to provide the levels of performance, scalability, or management control that these organizations need to backup, store, and restore petabytes of data efficiently or costeffectively...
Data Deduplication Background - A Technical White Paper by Quantum Corporation
as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions. The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this...
Smart Move: Spend Less While Improving Data Protection by i365, A Seagate Company
Businesses today face a myriad of challenges in protecting their business-critical data. The reliance on data and information systems has created internal and external challenges for business owners and their IT staffs. One of the main issues is unrelenting data and application growth. Businesses today face a myriad of challenges...
Webcast: The ROI and TCO Benefits of Data Deduplication for Data Protection in the Enterprise by Data Domain
quickly becoming the standard for disk-based backup and nearline storage use in enterprise data centers across many industries. It delivers clear benefits for the retention, recovery and replication of backup and other nearline data and allows customers to...
eGuide: An in-depth look at data deduplication methods by FalconStor Software
improved the value proposition of disk-based data protection as well as WAN-based remote- and branch-office backup consolidation and disaster recovery (DR) strategies. It identifies duplicate data, removing redundancies and reducing the overall capacity of...
Podcast: Consolidate and Simplify Backup and Recovery for Your VMware Environment by Data Domain
a key enabler in the development of disk-based backup and recovery strategies for VMware virtual environments.

Backup images for VMware virtual machines require significant amounts of storage in order to keep them online and readily available. Data Domain high...
Replay AppImage 3.0 by AppAssure Software
is an application-aware, disk-based imaging solution that automatically and continuously images your entire Windows application server delivering accelerated application backups and disaster recovery for Windows servers in minutes.

The...
What Data Domain is Doing to Storage by Data Domain
interfaces and software to make the disk-based solution an efficient and cost-effective alternative to tape-based methods. This paper outlines the impact of data deduplication on data protection, and specifically how Data Domain pioneered the combination of...
Technical Brief: Data Domain SISL™ Scaling Architecture by Data Domain
cost, it is steadily losing ground to disk-based deduplication storage systems. The CPU-centric design of Data Domain systems takes the pressure off of disk accesses as a bottleneck. While tape has been the dominant storage medium for data protection for decades...
Presentation Transcript: Changing the Rules of Backup: Go Beyond Virtual Tape Library for Accelerating Your Backup by FalconStor Software
that can dramatically improve backup speeds while working with your current backup technology and operations. Management can be streamlined even while performance improves. For most IT organizations, traditional server backup remains the primary...
Changing the Rules of Backup: Go Beyond Virtual Tape Library for Accelerating Your Backup by FalconStor Software
that can dramatically improve backup speeds while working with your current backup technology and operations. Management can be streamlined even while performance improves. For most IT organizations, traditional server backup remains the primary...
Backup and Archive Are Not the Same Thing! by Storage Decisions
is easy or that your existing backup application makes a good archive utility? If you've ever had to try to recover backup data from a retired backup application or an out-dated media format, then check out this presentation for answers. Does your...
Understanding the Role and Application of Remote Server Backup Technologies by Iron Mountain Digital
Disk-based backup can help improve the performance of backups and restores, reduce the cost of management and improve the reliability of backups. Tape remains an important element of most backup processes for obvious reasons. But...
Virtually Effortless Backup for VMware Environments by FalconStor Software
impacted.

However, standard agent-based backup processes aren't well suited to virtual server environments. VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) improves virtual server backup, but there are a number of limitations. FalconStor Software has a solution that works with...
Continuous Data Protection by FalconStor Software
to eliminate or drastically reduce backup windows to create faster point-in-time recoveries for more mission-critical apps, CDP software is a viable alternative to traditional backup software. Take a few minutes to read this presentation transcript to...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
It can take up to 12 hours or more to process a full backup job and move the entire backup volume to tape or disk. 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... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
data deduplication technologies

Data deduplication has become an indispensable element of disk-based backup, and should be an integrated part of the storage platform itself. Deduplication systematically locates and eliminates redundant data stored within the disk array. This can effectively compress storage as much as 50:1 over time -- not only easing capital... 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
VTL Deduplication FAQ
using a VTL for data deduplication?

There are really no alternatives for disk-based backup outside of backup software options. For example, Symantec Corp. has PureDisk that offers a data deduplication function at the client. IBM Corp. is soon to release a similar function in its software product. Other products like... More...

What vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
I mentioned earlier, there are vendor-specific tools that are built into backup applications. So companies like BakBone and CA and CommVault have those types of applications that are built right in and report on their own backup application. And then of course you have storage resource management... More...