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Sunbelt Exchange Archiver (SEA): Your Email Archiving Solution by Sunbelt Software
form on your preferred secure media storage, email versions are seamlessly maintained, and authorized users can easily access the information they need when it's needed. SEA provides flexible, secure, and cost-effective archiving functionality...
VTL Data Management Issues by Storage Magazine
of virtual tape libraries within storage environments, storage managers face an increased number of decisions in regards to managing and cataloging the transfer of data to tape. With the proliferation of virtual tape libraries within storage...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
a highly scalable software-based storage system, and integration with NetBackup for greater functionality. Enterprises are seeking new ways to tackle their data protection challenges. While data growth is not new, the pace of growth has become more rapid...
Storage Virtualisation Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization...
Storage Virtualisation Video: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualisation project. Storage virtualisation continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualisation...
The Total Economic Impact of Isilon's Clustered Storage System by Isilon Systems
and cost avoidance of traditional storage media.

The Forrester study concluded that on average, the interviewed Isilon customers achieved the following benefits over traditional storage solutions:

  • 97 percent reduction in management resources.
  • 22 percent
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Cisco Storage Media Encryption: Meeting the Security Challenge by Cisco Systems, Inc.
paper is an introduction to Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), a heterogeneous, standards-based encryption solution for data at rest with comprehensive built-in key-management features. Unfortunately, storage and network virtualization adoption has also...
Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization...
Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
is intended for IT managers and storage architects familiar with HPC applications and data requirements in the organization. Today's exponential growth in data volumes creates formidable challenges in building IT storage infrastructures that can...
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
fraction of the cost of traditional storage consolidation solutions. Learn more in this paper. Now small and medium-sized organizations can harness the storage consolidation and data management capabilities of a SAN, easily and cost effectively. The...
The Market Opportunity for Enterprise Tape by Sun StorageTek
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...
Sunbelt Exchange Archiver for MS-Exchange Environments by Sunbelt Software
archives all email messages onto storage media.

The strain on the MS-Exchange Server is heavily reduced lowering the risk of system failure, improving the email search and retrieval response time and enhancing storage capacity. Email response times and...
Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive by Sun StorageTek
reuse existing StorageTek T10000 media and rely on proven compatibility with Sun StorageTek enterprise libraries and third-party hardware and software.

The Sun StorageTek T10000B drive tape delivers superior performance for high-duty cycle data...
PODCAST: Storage & Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments by Dell, Inc.
specifically the effects on your storage and data management architecture. This short question and answers session walks through the benefits of virtualization, how storage solutions can impact key capabilities of virtualization, what to consider when...
Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
especially reporting, storage managers often find it difficult to justify bringing in another product to overcome the limitations of their backup apps. Product choice is highly subjective and dependent on the storage and backup environment in...
Live Q&A with Disaster Recovery expert Jon Toigo by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
Editorial Director of TechTarget's Storage Media Group. Disaster Recovery expert Jon Toigo answers all of your questions in this live Q&A moderated by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director of TechTarget's Storage Media Group. Attendees of the Disaster Recovery...
MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software: The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
which includes servers, storage, and networks, has addressed some of the challenges related to consolidation, space constraints, demand for high power, and cooling requirements. End-to-end virtualization helps increase efficiency...
Layer8: Data Leak Fatigue by Information Security Magazine
Based on media coverage, an outside observer would conclude that the rate of data leakage has suddenly increased dramatically, putting individuals at huge risk of identity theft. Based on media coverage, an outside observer would...
Disaster Recovery with Sunbelt Exchange Archiver by Sunbelt Software
archived email into various storage media. Since the turn of the new millennium, disaster recovery has slowly grown into a challenging issue for businesses worldwide. In recent years, growing occurrences of natural and man-made catastrophes have emerged and...
Business Continuity No Longer out of Reach by Dell | EqualLogic
afford expensive fibre channel storage area networks (FC SANs), the highly trained staff to manage them, duplicate data centers, channel extenders, and expensive replication software, SMBs were restricted to making backup tapes and carting them...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
way of protecting primary disk storage data was to backup that data onto one or more magnetic tapes on a daily basis. Magnetic tape will continue to play a critical role in data protection, offering the lowest cost storage medium for maintaining offsite...
ESG - Understanding the Power of Data De-Duplication by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
duplication. Exploding volumes of storage are causing major headaches for organizations large and small by devouring a large amount of their IT resources. In the past, organizations could do little - if anything - to control this problem. However, new...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
the PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i storage arrays, these optional premium features include Virtual Disk Snapshot and Virtual Disk Copy. Dell offers key-enabled premium features to help enhance the functionality of the PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs. Virtual Iron Software knows the value of consolidation. The fast-growing Lowell, Massachusetts, firm provides server virtualization software that has helped more than 2000 organizations...
Sun's Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
T5220 server as the NetBackup media server provides a powerful and cost-effective backup platform.

This reference architecture features a highly flexible architecture with virtually unlimited scalability. Although the configuration...
The State of Enterprise Solid State Disk by SearchStorage.com
This document explains what Solid State Disk is, when you need it, why it is so popular, and the future of SSD. What is Solid State Disk? -- In The Enterprise:

  • Is an array of semiconductor memory organized as a disk drive, using integrated circuits (ICs) rather than magnetic or optical media
  • DRAM Based Solid State Disk uses battery
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D2D2T Backup Architectures and the Impact of Data De-duplication by Quantum Corporation
be satisfied with a multi-tier storage solution. By leveraging the strengths and benefits of a number of different integrated technologies, it is possible to fulfill these different requirements while lowering the overall TCO.

D2D2T backup systems...
Email Archiving: Saving Money and Time for Small & Medium Businesses by Metalogix Software, Inc.
This white paper explains how email archiving handles problems and at the same time reduces overall costs and saves management time. This white paper was created to explain how email archiving handles these problems and at the same time reduces overall costs and saves management time.

Email Archiving Lowers:

  • Storage costs
  • Mail
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Disk Array Actuator: A Case for Self-Maintaining Array of Identical Disks by Atrato, Inc.
analysis details a high-density storage array with much finer tuning, sparing, and I/O granularity, extremely high aggregate bandwidth (on the order of several gigabytes per second), impressive transaction rates (on the order of tens of thousands of...
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 capacities grow and costs per gigabyte shrink, disk is being used as a backup storage target 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... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
you to get the most service from your tape drive and media investments.

Pay close attention to media storage conditions

Plastic outer cartridges provide a modicum of protection against casual handling, but severe impacts, temperature or humidity extremes, and even airborne particles like dust on exposed tape can lead to premature media damage and data loss. If you... More...

FAQ's
Who should be responsible for storage security?
There can be several individuals responsible for storage security. Ultimately, there is going to be an executive responsible for information security in general, and storage security is certainly a part of that. This will likely be the chief information security officer (CISO), chief... More...
What security tools should I be using to test the security of my storage environment?
have to dig in deeper. When looking for vulnerabilities, go beyond the storage arena and consider any connected or related systems, including operating systems, Web applications, desktops, servers, switches, routers, firewalls and wireless networks -- practically anything that has access into the storage... More...
What vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
in and report on their own backup application. And then of course you have storage resource management solutions that also offer a pretty high-level monitoring of the backup process.

But the vendors that really fit into this category are the independents who offer multivendor backup reporting solutions... More...