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ESG - A Compelling Disk Backup Story by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This ESG white paper explores how disk-based backup has emerged and why it is so critical in today's storage environments. Read this white paper to also learn how one company has blossomed in the disk market and the products they offer. Over the past few years...
Presentation Transcript: Highlighting Data Deduplication and Disk Backups by Data Domain
webcast entitled "De-dupe and Disk Backups--What You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge." This document is based on a Data Domain/TechTarget webcast entitled "De-dupe and Disk Backups--What You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge." In this...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
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 solution set that also includes conventional disk backup,...
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
do an efficient job of backing up to disk. Tape-based backup solutions are fraught with problems. Restore time from tape is prohibitive and tape proliferation is a concern. These problems can be solved by backing up to disk; data deduplication reduces the...
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 Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
discover why changing the way you do backup in today's financial climate will benefit your organization. Gain an understanding of data deduplication and learn the benefits of these solutions. Data deduplication has completely taken the storage world by...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the first and second generation disk-based backup systems. The question of how to effectively back up data has been plaguing IT departments for years. To date, magnetic tape has been the medium of choice because it is inexpensive and easy to transport...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
and contrast 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...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
a scalable, cost-effective disk-based backup solution that works with your existing backup application. Learn how it satisfies the 7 requirements of cost-effective disk-based backup and the advantages it has over other solutions. Organizations...
IT Briefing: De-dupe and Disk Backups - What You Need to Know before Taking the Plunge by Data Domain
webcast entitled "De-dupe and Disk Backups--What You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge." This document is based on a Data Domain/TechTarget webcast entitled "De-dupe and Disk Backups--What You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge." In...
The Power of Disk-based Backup with Symantec Backup Exec by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
have benefited from using Symantec Backup Exec along with the ExaGrid system for cost-effective disk-based backup with data de-duplication. Four such companies are profiled here. Symantec Backup Exec users may be surprised how quickly they can have their...
De-Duplicated Disk Backup: Addressing Backup Challenges Across the Enterprise by Quantum Corporation
Quantum adds an enterprise-class backup-to-disk target with de-duplication to its arsenal, making it a true provider of scalable, end-to-end de-duplicated secondary storage. With the DXi7500, Quantum adds an enterprise-class backup-...
How Green Is My Backup? by STORServer
The proliferation of Disk-to-Disk backup is directly responsible. Even with all the data reduction technologies available, the growth in the number of disk drives because of backup applications has been tremendous. And what did we really gain: faster...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the pros and cons of tape and disk-based storage and presents a cost analysis of ExaGrid's disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs. tape and standard SATA disk. Many organizations use tape to back up data nightly...
Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Backing up to disk instead of tape eliminates the hassles of tape, provides faster backups and restores, improves security and streamlines operations. Learn about the 7 critical questions to ask when considering a move to disk-...
ESG: Disk-based Backup With Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Lab's hands-on testing of the ExaGrid backup to disk solution with a focus on ease of deployment, performance, disk capacity optimization, WAN-efficient remote replication and scalability. A growing number of organizations are embracing disk-based backup...
ExaGrid: A Scalable Approach to Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Looking for a new disk-based backup solution? Download this Taneja Group white paper to learn some key criteria to consider when evaluating disk-based data protection vendors and how one company matches up against these criteria. Now...
The Advantages of Deduplication-Based Disk Systems for Onsite Backup Storage by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
to move to deduplication-based disk systems for onsite backup storage. This PowerPoint presentation is from a Storage Decisions session (New York 2008) that explores how, although disk systems are cheaper than ever before, the use of disk in backup...
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...
Disk Based Backup - Implementation Techniques by Dell | EqualLogic
implementation techniques for disk-to-disk backups, what to be aware of when evaluating VTL, and how to equip your organization for changes in data protection technologies. In this document, you'll gain expert insight from W. Curtis Preston...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 renewed focus on them recently as they are being utilized by products in the disk...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
Iron decided that a Quantum DXi3500 disk backup appliance with data de-duplication was just what it needed to ensure data was backed up within the window and could be restored quickly. With the DXi3500 disk appliance, all of the Virtual Iron backup jobs are...
Disk-Based Backup and Recovery: Making Sense of Your Options by Datalink/NetApp
four enhanced data recovery (disk-based backup) architectures and provides guidance on how to determine whether or not those architectures would be an overall fit within the IT infrastructure. Data and storage requirements are growing at...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
realized they needed an efficient disk backup solution to fulfill their backup and disaster recovery requirements. This white paper explains how they were able to find the perfect solution and the benefits it delivered, including:
  • Data deduplication
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Quantum DXi 7500 Support for Veritas NetBackup 6.5 VTL-Direct-to-Tape Feature from Symantec by Quantum Corporation
The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data centers where a premium is placed on scalability, performance, high availability, and flexibility. The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data...
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...
Podcast: Highlighting Data Deduplication and Disk Backups by Data Domain
In this Expert Podcast, W. Curtis Preston highlights data deduplication technologies - the features, the benefits and how different solutions differ from each other. In this Expert Podcast, W. Curtis Preston highlights data deduplication technologies - the features, the benefits and how different solutions differ from each other.

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VIDEO: Highlighting Data Deduplication and Disk Backups by Data Domain
In this Expert Videocast, W. Curtis Preston highlights data deduplication technologies - the features, the benefits and how different solutions differ from each other. In this Expert Videocast, W. Curtis Preston highlights data deduplication technologies - the features, the benefits and how different solutions differ from each other.

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IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Gateway 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...
5 Key Considerations for Long Term Data Retention by Quantum Corporation
technological developments in disk backup have had a positive impact on short term data retention requirements. But these improvements do not replace the need to execute and deliver on a long term data retention strategy. This tool provides 5 topics to think...
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
retrieving those backup files later on. For example, if you need to restore a lost Word file from a disk backup, the file should be readily accessible in its native form. Otherwise you'd need to decompress the .zip or .tar package or restore the backup volume to locate the one item you need -- a troublesome and error-prone process.

Consider the use of removable hard drives

Where disk... 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
Not too long ago, server-free backup was the best option for backing up large data sets. However, there are some legitimate alternatives available today. W. Curtis Preston discusses how server-free backup works, pros and cons of server-free backup, the server-free... More...
What are the drawbacks of server-free backup?
There is inevitably going to be a license involved. Server-free backup is a complex thing from a coding perspective, so that is going to come along with cost when you purchase the license. The dedicated server or disk array that you need to do this isn't free either. So, the big downsides are complexity and... More...
What is the difference between a traditional file-level backup and a virtual machine backup?
agents. There's processor overhead, which can be an issue, agent-based backup and virtual machines. This is especially true if multiple virtual machines are running on a single physical server, which is very much the case in a virtualized world. If those virtual machines all kick off the backup process at... More...