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How to implement snapshots
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 recovery points in just a fraction of the time needed for a traditional backup and can significantly reduce recovery point objectives (RPOs) by supporting...
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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 can send a...
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How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
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 of the many different protective cassette designs...
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FAQ's
What security tools should I be using to test the security of my storage environment?
have to dig in deeper. When looking for vulnerabilities, go beyond the storage arena and consider any connected or related systems, including operating systems, Web applications, desktops, servers, switches, routers, firewalls and wireless networks -- practically anything that has access into the storage...
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Are pretty much all of the virtual tape library (VTL) vendors now offering deduplication or is it still limited?
today most of the leading VTL vendors and a lot of the network-attached storage (NAS) vendors are offering deduplication. There are some incumbents and some newcomers. FalconStor and all of the FalconStor partners have FalconStor Single Instance Repository (SIR) options for deduplication. Data Domain has...
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What types of innovations are being introduced in this space?
new tools, we're seeing that people want management tools similar to storage system management tools integrated in the server virtualization management platform.
Take something like VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB). VCB is a kind of framework for the backup process that snapshots the network storage... More... |