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Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
system. Get your business-critical data back online before the entire server farm comes back. Recovery Manager for SharePoint provides granular recovery of anything in the backup of your SharePoint content database—individual documents, lists...
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 walks...
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...
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...
Software Demo: Ocarina Content Aware Optimization by Ocarina Networks
storage optimization solution for online data. Our solution drastically reduces capital and operational expense for customers where explosive data growth is a major challenge. Ocarina reduces data footprint with the world's first content-aware storage...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data and Backup Compression by Unisys
users with large databases 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...
Reduce Your Storage Footprint: Data Reduction with Online Storage Optimization by Ocarina Networks
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 schemes to classify and move data across tiers of...
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...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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 effectively support HPC environments. Traditional...
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...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
are seeking new ways to tackle their data protection challenges. While data growth is not new, the pace of growth has become more rapid, the location of data more dispersed, and the linkage between data sets more complex. Data deduplication offers companies...
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...
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...
Protecting Sharepoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0 by Double-Take Software
way to protect your SharePoint data and access. As the distributed workforce grows, the need for online collaboration and document management grows with it. MSFT SharePoint® streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create...
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...
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...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
why one solution's byte-level data deduplication outperforms in-line block-level 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...
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...
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...
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...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
this whitepaper learn how Symantec Backup Exec12 for Windows Servers and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 are complementary solutions that deliver complete Windows based data and system protection and recovery. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows...
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...
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...
Morningstar Invests in ExaGrid, Gains Better Backups by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
full backups of up to 18TB, its backup windows had grown out of control to overcome it they use ExaGrid solution. Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Morningstar...
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...
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...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
dead, but tools like continuous data protection and snapshots can reduce a company's dependence on full backups without compromising data protection. I recently helped a Fortune 100 client evaluate continuous data protection (CDP) products and was...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
(RPOs) by supporting more frequent recovery points. When properly implemented, snapshot data can be used to restore lost files or recover from more substantial data loss. Features like data deduplication are also appearing in snapshots to reduce disk storage requirements, allowing for many more snapshots and longer retention periods. Below are a series... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
as backup targets. Storage space is finite, which can limit the allowable retention period for data. Data reduction technologies like data deduplication and delta differencing can dramatically extend the effective storage capacity. Also, indexing and search are can be valuable when rapid file organization and location are needed. Below are a series of best... 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
Are there any benefits or drawbacks of choosing a separate tool for backup reporting compared with using a tool that's integrated with your backup software?
The backup applications usually provide some fundamental reporting on backup operations. You might have a dashboard view and some canned reports that focus on things like backup job status or media, or device error. And if you need to drill... More...
Server-free backup FAQ
Not too long ago, server-free backup was the best option for backing up large data sets. However, there are some legitimate alternatives available today. W. Curtis Preston discusses how server-free backup works, pros and cons of server-free backup, the server-free... 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...