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Cloudy Future for Storage? (Editorial) by Storage Magazine
players ponied up big bucks to snare online storage service providers. 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
Shop smart and 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 locations, mean SMBs struggle with geographically dispersed data...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
item from across multiple database backups before restoring it. Best of all, you can leverage the backups you already have; no proprietary platforms and no site- or item-level backups required. Leverage Your Existing Backup Infrastructure Recovery Manager for...
CommVault Customer Survey Data Validation and User ROI by CommVault Systems, Inc.
s customers participated in an online survey in March 2008 which documented the ROI across infrastructure, software, and services spending; backup reliability; administrative time; and backup and restore performance. CommVault’s customers...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data and Backup Compression by Unisys
can be used to reduce the amount of online storage required for databases and their backups...
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
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 the...
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. As a storage professional, you need timely and accurate information...
Storage Bin 2.0: The Life and Death of Information by Storage Magazine
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...
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(r) streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create remote project teams with only an Internet connection. However, when these...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
cost-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, storage, and...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restore by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This white paper presents a case study on Concord 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 struggling with long backup windows...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
the amount of storage required for backups 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...
The Power of Disk-based Backup with Symantec Backup Exec by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Many leading organizations 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 first backup running on the most cost-effective and...
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 technologies...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. This white paper tells how they improved 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...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
daily incrementals and weekly full backups to the VTL system. Fast backups from the VTL to the Quantum tape library could be performed on the back-end, without interruption to production applications. In addition, once a month, the latest full backup of VTL...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
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 applications. 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...
Virtual Server Backup Explained by Data Domain
This Tech Report 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 storage professionals have today regarding backup, it’s no...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
It's a long-standing problem: As data piles up 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 stall throughput when...
Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
such as increased visibility about backups, compliance requirements, reporting consolidation and a need to cover the entire backup cycle, including snapshots and replicas...
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
St. Thomas University needed 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 something to shorten their backup windows and make...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
Quantum’s solutions allow data de-duplication technology 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 and retention solution set that also...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
The question of how to effectively back up data has been plaguing IT departments for years. This paper will examine the differences between the first 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...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
ExaGrid’s byte-level data de-duplication provides several advantages, including shorter backup windows, faster restore times, content awareness and backup application integration, and better scalability. Though data de-duplication technologies have been around for years, there is a renewed focus on them recently as they are being...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
the snapshot once it's stored.

Employ security features to manage recoverability

Traditional backups are usually not recoverable by everyday users, but snapshots can often allow end users to recover the most recent copies of their files without the direct intervention of a storage administrator. While this provides convenience, it also presents a security risk... More...

How to implement disk-to-disk backups
might otherwise be required.

Avoid the use of compression or backup sets

When dealing with D2D backups, it's often a preferred practice to backup in native file system formats and avoid the use of vendor-specific backup save sets or compression-centric formats like .zip or .tar. This may demand additional disk space, but eliminates the need for backup or compression... More...

How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
compression and delta differencing to reduce the amount of data that must be backed up. Smaller backups will execute faster, resulting in a shorter backup window, less drive wear, and lower media usage (and lower media costs). Most backup software packages today include some combination of data reduction features, though dedicated deduplication appliances are also... More...
FAQ's
Do you think data should be deduplicated while the backup is occurring or after it is complete?
level is that these products can do consistent restores, backups and offloads to tape. And, that the product can do these things while maintaining performance.

From a tactical perspective, I like the post-processing approach. As long as you keep buying disk, you can keep doing backups. It may not be... More...

We're hearing a lot about forward-referencing deduplication and backward-referencing deduplication. Can you talk about what that means exactly?
that environment made up of pointers that really go back to the older backups, maybe even back to the original pull if you have a full and incremental-forever approach.

Your newest backup as a result is really going to have a lot of pointers back to older data. So when you "redupe" the data back to its original... More...

Who needs a backup reporting tool?
has invested in more than one backup application. You might be running backups at multiple locations. You might spend more time troubleshooting errors than you'd like. You may have failed an audit. Or you just might need more information than is given to you in your standard backup application.

These are... More...