Online Backup

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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...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
12 Pitfalls of IT Systems Management: Maximize Performance and Availability While Lowering Cost by uptime software inc.
to bring servers back online. Indeed, proactive server management can create new cost-saving and revenue-generating strategies--greatly simplifying the planning of application growth and the adoption of the latest products and...
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...
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...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
their disaster recovery and backup operations with a disk-based backup system from Exagrid. Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. The firm's IT staff had been backing up all of its data...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
their hardware.

Based on keeping backup data on the storage array for a 60-day retention time, Intellistore was confident these combined solutions would allow Magnum to save 50% over their current tape backup costs. Not ruling out tape altogether,...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
This raises the bar for backup and recovery applications like vRanger Pro. Virtualization is becoming more widely used and accepted. As the level of use rises, experienced users are adopting virtualization to run more of their production...
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...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder. It's a long-standing problem: As data piles up on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder. Backup apps become bogged down with millions of files to examine, and network and CPU limits can...
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...
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...
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...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 offsite for...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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-based backup...
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 vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
I mentioned earlier, there are vendor-specific tools that are built into backup applications. So companies like BakBone and CA and CommVault have those types of applications that are built right in and report on their own backup application. And then of course you have storage resource management... More...
What types of innovations are being introduced in this space?
In a recent survey, we asked the question, "Are you using the same backup tools for your virtual environment as you are for your nonvirtualized environment?" Seventy-five percent are using the same tools and of the 25% implementing new tools, we're seeing that people want management tools similar to... More...