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How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
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 of the many different protective...
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What are some policy managers for implementing file archiving and where do these policy managers exists?
What are some policy managers for implementing file archiving and where do these policy managers exists?"
Policy managers take your business rules about the information being managed, then implement those rules to move, store and delete information in the enterprise. Trying to find a policy... More...
What type of data reduction ratios should you realistically expect using deduplication?
flip side of that is the kind of data reduction ratios you might see in an archiving environment. I recently had a chance to speak with companies like Permabit and NEC that are seeing their appliances deployed more in that context. They're seeing ratios from as small as 2X to as large as 200X. So again, your mileage...
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What data is actually being backed up when a virtual machine image is backed up?
backing up the files, and everyone's happy. If we need to restore a file or an email, it's fairly simple. We go back into the agent and recover it.
In a virtual server environment, the actual virtual machine image is stored as a single file. So, that's very different. The operating system, the applications, and the data... More... |