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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...
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...
CommVault Customer Survey Data Validation and User ROI by CommVault Systems, Inc.
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 services...
University of St. Thomas implements a tiered storage approach from Quantum, including Data De-duplication Technology to Cut Backup Time in Half by Quantum Corporation
to do something to shorten their backup windows and make everything more reliable and more robust, so they chose Quantum DXi™ appliance. St. Thomas is an independent Catholic liberal arts university with its main campus in St. Paul, Minnesota. They needed to do...
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...
Replay appImage 2.1 by AppAssure Software
any Windows server for complete backup and recovery. Product Type: Windows Backup & Recovery Target User: Network Administrator IT Problem: Replay appImage continuously images any Windows server for complete backup and recovery. IT Download Description...
Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
tools that work alongside major backup apps help you predict usage patterns and troubleshoot issues. Backup and recovery (B/R) applications do a good job of managing tasks such as job scheduling, tape management, library support, tracking backup data in...
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-expensive disk...
Hot Spots: A New Level of Backup Reporting by Storage Magazine
Backup success rates are improving, but reliable data recovery is still a concern. Not only does data loss impact business productivity and potentially revenue, but failure to produce data could result in fines or damage to...
ESG Lab Validation Report: ExaGrid Systems Disk-based Backup with Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte level data de-duplication to provide space efficient capacity optimization. This ESG Lab report explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte level data de-duplication to provide...
Virtual Server Backup Explained by Data Domain
gives an overview of virtual server backup and what you need to know to prepare an effective virtual server backup strategy including the available tools, tactics used for deployment, best practices and potential drawbacks. With the ongoing headaches that...
Security Explorer™ for SQL Server, Version 6.6 by ScriptLogic Corporation
password combinations. Backup and Restore Permissions - Instant recovery of SQL Server permissions to restore security and maintain compliance. High-Performance Interface - A multi-threaded architecture, cached browsing, and "Stop" button to stop...
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...
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...
TechTarget 2008 Media Consumption Benchmark Report: Perception versus Reality of the IT Pro and the IT Marketer by TechTarget
new ways-and they're predominantly online. Juxtaposed to this reality, IT marketers still allocate the lionshare of their dollars to traditional media, namely, conferences and events. The apparent chasm between media consumption and media spend may be...
Backing Up VMware Data for Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
mirror VMware data, gain insight on special storage considerations for VMware DR, and more. You know that a disaster recovery plan is critical to ensuring data protection and high availability, but did you know that VMware server virtualization can optimize...
Disaster Strikes! Is Your Business Ready? Disaster Preparedness for Mid-Sized Firms by VMware, Inc.
This report explores common minor and major disaster scenarios, shows that they are far likelier than most people think, and explains how they can affect a business. It also clarifies what true disaster recovery means. Mid-sized...
Tools to Test Your DR Plan by Storage Magazine
to the DR site took place is the backup and replication software you're using and the reports it generates. In addition, the same tools storage administrators use for day-to-day storage efficiency and management can help assess the health of their backup...
Backup = Archive: Can You Tell the Difference? by CommVault Systems, Inc.
The way we think about backup and archiving has changed recently. This stems from advances in synthetic and incremental capabilities, as well as a breadth of support for archiving information across data management sources. Think you know the...
Finding the ‘Right Fit’ for Protecting Virtual Machine Workloads by Symantec Corporation
and all of their contents needs special consideration as the mobility of virtual machines across physical resource pools makes them difficult to track. As it is not bound to physical resources, the virtual machine has the ability to traverse the...
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...
Secure Email and Workflow Automation: The Five Critical Questions Financial Institutions Must Ask by DataMotion
so many business activities going online to take advantage of the benifits of the internet, companies spend billions on security measures. But when canvassing a majority of companies' security programs, one area continues to come up short - email. After years...
NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices by NetApp
This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware® Virtual Infrastructure on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. NetApp® technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to...
How Today’s Enterprise Is Getting More out of Less with Content-Aware Compression and Dedupe for Online Storage by Ocarina Networks
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...
Acquire, Analyze, and Present Data with LabVIEW by National Instruments
I/O capabilities, combined with special data types and measurement analysis functions, are specifically designed to get the measurements you need from your physical sensors as quickly and easily as possible. Reduce programming time with NI DAQmx...
Business Value Analysis Study: Backup and Recovery, Endpoint Management, and Endpoint Security by Symantec Corporation
A Total Operational and Economic Impact (TOEI) analysis by The Alchemy Solutions Group found that the Symantec solutions implemented were driving more than $2 million in labor savings and cost avoidance. The Aspirus Information Technology (IT) Department needed to ensure 24×7 information system operation, support an increasingly...
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 the...
Five Basic Steps for Efficient Space Organization with High Density Enclosures by APC
low and high density enclosure, with special emphasis on how to plan for higher densities. Organizing components and cables within high density enclosures need not be a stressful, time consuming chore. In fact, thanks to the flexibility of new enclosure designs...
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
Who offers server-free backup products?
I think you'll find that any backup product that's aiming at the enterprise, will offer server-free backup. If a vendor doesn't offer server-free backup they either aren't aiming at the enterprise or they aren't doing it very well. So, if you are the type of company that... More...
What is the difference between server-free and LAN-free backup?
LAN-free backup is simply connecting the server that needs to be backed up to a SAN, so the data is transferred over Fibre Channel to a tape drive, VTL or disk.

In server-free backup, the data does not flow through the server being backed up. The server... More...

How has server virtualization affected the backup window and backup capacity?
and you have a new machine set up. But after you do that, is the proper backup process in place?

So, there's more data to be backed up and there's more virtual machines, but you still have to back up the data within the same window. It's important to be aware of that.

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