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Cloudy Future for Storage? (Editorial) by Storage Magazine
Much of the activity has been around online backup, with EMC scarfing up Mozy, Seagate buying EVault and Iron Mountain corralling LiveVault, among other deals...
Hot Spots: On-demand Technology Sized Right for SMBs by Storage Magazine
your small shop could find on-demand backup a great fit. Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are challenged by many of the same data management issues larger companies face. Mandated reporting requirements and rapid growth, along with remote or mobile...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
recovery of anything in the backup of your SharePoint content database—individual documents, lists, document libraries, sites, workspaces. It restores all information stored in the databases, including alerts, permissions, metadata and custom views...
CommVault Customer Survey Data Validation and User ROI by CommVault Systems, Inc.
44; and services spending; backup reliability; administrative time; and backup and restore performance. CommVault's customers participated in an online survey in March 2008 which documented the ROI across infrastructure, software, and...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data and Backup Compression by Unisys
they are Data compression and Backup compression. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces two new compression features (available in Enterprise and Developer editions) that are of interest to users with large databases. Data compression applies to...
Reduce Your Storage Footprint: Data Reduction with Online Storage Optimization by Ocarina Networks
to manage the explosive growth of online storage that lets you store up to 10 times more file data on storage you already have. Ocarina File-Aware Optimization is a breakthrough new way to manage the explosive growth of online storage. Rather than complex...
How Today's Enterprise Is Getting More out of Less with Content-Aware Compression and Dedupe for Online Storage by Ocarina Networks
45;Aware Compression and Dedupe for Online Storage." In this document Carter George talks about some key trends that are happening in the storage world that fortuitously are going to allow doing more requests just at the time when everybody needs that...
Storing More for Less: 4 Key Trends in Online Storage and How to Leverage Them to Lower Your Storage Costs by Ocarina Networks
storage capacity and integrity of online data, you know how rapidly your storage needs are growing. Consequently, the costs to support those business demands are also increasing.

This Webcast outlines the basic challenges storage managers face today. It...
12 Pitfalls of IT Systems Management: Maximize Performance and Availability While Lowering Cost by uptime software inc.
capacity helps companies maintain service level agreements, meet contractual obligations, improve customer and partner satisfaction, and move forward into new markets. High availability and performance of mission-critical applications is no longer a...
eLearning for Storage Professionals - Course Catalogue by Evaluator Group
The eLearning Series online classes are designed to provide you with up-to-date information regarding the latest requirements, standards and technologies in storage. Explore this white paper for an outline on the course offerings for...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set 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...
Evaluator Series: eLearning for Storage Professionals by Evaluator Group
The eLearning Series online classes are designed to provide you with up-to-date information regarding the latest requirements, standards and technologies in storage. Explore this white paper for a quick overview on what the eLearning...
Storage Bin 2.0: The Life and Death of Information by Storage Magazine
Four steps to keeping it simple. Four steps to keeping it simple.

  • Stage 1: Dynamic active online data.
  • Stage 2: Persistent active online data.
  • Stage 3: Persistent inactive data.
  • Stage 4: Persistent inactive offline data.
Top 7 Critical Things to Consider When Purchasing a Storage Optimization Solution by Ocarina Networks
storage capacity and integrity of online data, you know how rapidly your storage needs are growing. Consequently, the costs to support those business demands are also increasing.

This Webcast and accompanying Podcast outlines the basic challenges storage...
The Case for Data Protection Service Level Agreements Over One-Size-Fits-All Backup Strategies by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
defines data protection service level agreements. A system of data protection service level agreements is an effective approach to tailor backup appropriately to the needs of the company's business units. This PowerPoint presentation is from a...
Protecting Sharepoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0 by Double-Take Software
workforce grows, the need for online collaboration and document management grows with it. MSFT SharePoint® streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create remote project teams with only an Internet connection. However, when...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
45;effectively to meet growth in online, nearline, and offline storage needs.

Based on customer best practices and innovative Sun technologies, Sun proposes a reference architecture that addresses the complexity of the HPC data management,...
Business Continuity for E-mail - You Don't Know What You've Got Till it's Gone by Azaleos Corporation
Azaleos RestoreXchange service gives you a complete business continuity e-mail system and it is always on standby and ready to take over at your command. Azaleos RestoreXchange service gives you a complete business continuity e-mail system...
Nationwide Foils Phishers with Markmonitor: Financial Services Giant Achieves ROI with Antiphishing Solutions in Three Months by MarkMonitor
one of a number of prime targets for online fraud as offenders increasingly used the organization as a "test bed" for online phishing scams. Nationwide noticed a dramatic rise in phishing attacks in 2006, up from two or three attacks per month in 2005 to more than...
Gartner Names "ExaGrid Cool Vendor" in Data Protection by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
on new and less-expensive disk-based backup options that make the use of disk for faster backup and recovery a more viable option than traditional backup-to-tape methods. The "Cool Vendors in Data Protection" report points to a focus on new and less-...
Financial Services & Consumer Credit: A Primary Target for Fraud by iovation, Inc.
a new device for screening online customer transactions. This solution offers operational efficiency and scalability for profit optimization. iovation ReputationManager is a proven real-time and forensic fraud management solution that...
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...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
and to more efficiently centralize backup data to multiple sites for assured disaster recovery. Veritas NetBackup PureDisk from Symantec uses data deduplication technology to help customers address these data protection challenges.

At the heart of...
Presentation Transcript: Storage Virtualisation - Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real" where Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups. This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real" where Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups...
IT Briefing: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real" where Curtis Preston will discuss about server virtualization and backups. This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real." In this document W. Curtis Preston, Vice President,...
Centralized Data Backup and Your WAN by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
strategy for combining WAN-based backup with wide-area data services (WDS) solutions. Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices,...
US AFB Implements ProtecTIER™ — Cuts Backup Time by 50 Percent While Maximizing the Use of Existing Storage Resources by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
decided to address growing backup and restore problems, they turned to protecTIER. Organizations performing services for the U.S. Government are held accountable for meeting strict standards as part of the services they provide. When engineers for...
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...
General Backup Purchasing Considerations by Quantum Corporation
of evaluating and purchasing backup products. Also discussed are the issues to be aware of during this process, such as recovery deadlines, scalability, security, and more. The process of evaluating and purchasing backup products can be an intimidating...
Case Study: How UBS Defeats Identity Theft and Fraud by MarkMonitor
industry, had become a target for online fraud over recent years, and realized they needed a method and infrastructure for protecting their online assets, as well as their customers. Read how they solved this issue. Designed to mitigate online fraud and...
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
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... 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
What type of environment is server-free backup best suited for?
The best way to do any backup is the simplest way to do that backup. Complexity brings, well, complexity. But, along with complexity comes cost and risk that things could go wrong. So, server-free backup is more complicated than other forms of backup. Therefore, it... More...
Are there any alternatives to server-free backup that address the same problems?
advent of CDP and near-CDP has created real alternatives to server-free backup. And, I think the large ISVs are agreeing with that. Many, if not most, of them have either acquired CDP technology or they are writing it themselves.

With a large server, I don't have enough time in the day or enough CPU cycles to back up... More...

Are there any standards for server-free or LAN-free backup?
talking to the ISVs. So, if you are an ISV that plans to support server-free backup, there's no single API for you to write to. So, generally, an ISV has to decide which of the OEMs they are going to support. Most start with the obvious two or three and then the others as the market dictates.

While its really important for... More...