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Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
restore capability by keeping most recent backup intact • Optimizations for your specific backup application and content awareness • Scales to larger amounts of data and avoids hash table limitations
Presentation Transcript: Highlighting Data Deduplication and Disk Backups by Data Domain
as "Disk staging," putting the most recent backups on disk and then moving them off to tape...
5 Key Considerations for Long Term Data Retention by Quantum Corporation
Managing backup and recovery in today’s environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. This paper explains 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans...
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...
The Alarming Shift in Cybercrime: How Organized Attacks Now Target Your Wallet by Blue Coat
just by the user checking the latest news or sports scores. Many websites of businesses, agencies, and medical and educational institutions that may not have been originally designed with tight security in mind are also being targeted for their databases...
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...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
real-world benefits for data backup and data management. The Virtual Disk Snapshot premium feature includes the following capabilities: • Data protection by providing a readily available point-in-time image that reduces restore time, especially as...
Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation
data on the network, on disk and on backup media. Operating in today's global business environment presents numerous security and compliance challenges. The economic benefits of outsourcing must be coupled with adequate protections to safeguard...
Cool Vendors in Data Protection by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
administrators responsible for backup/recovery and/or disaster recovery will want to consider these vendors for applicability in their environments. In recent years, some of the most interesting innovations in backup/recovery have come from smaller...
Simplifying SharePoint Backup and Recovery by Quest Software
data is critical, but native tools are limited. In this new Quest white paper, discover the strengths and weaknesses of native tools, and how you can extend them. Read this white paper today. For many organizations, SharePoint is the standard for data...
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...
Disaster Recovery with Sunbelt Exchange Archiver by Sunbelt Software
issue for businesses worldwide. In recent years, growing occurrences of natural and man-made catastrophes have emerged and businesses face major repercussions if precautionary steps are not taken. This white paper explains what to look for in an email...
Why Archive Is Archive, Backup Is Backup and Backup Ain’t Archive by STORServer
The differences between backup and archive are quite simple and the stumbling block to understanding the difference is the tools we’ve chosen to use. The differences between backup and archive are really quite simple. Often, the stumbling block to...
Email Archiving Implementation: Five Costly Mistakes to Avoid by Mimosa Systems
certain steps are not taken. The good news is that with several years of hindsight, it is now possible to draw upon this experience and avoid costly installation mistakes. This white paper will describe five key areas of email archiving implementation...
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...
Unlimited Storage by Storage Magazine
break into the top tier of the U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of higher learning. Clemson University, a South Carolina state university that's probably best known for its nationally ranked football team, is no exception. This year, U.S. News & World...
Best Practices for Backup by Syncsort
W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help build a better backup system. There are more and better tools to protect data than ever before, but how they're implemented and used in a storage...
Cloudy Future for Storage? (Editorial) by Storage Magazine
com--managed to survive. The recent storm of cloud offerings leverages a model that can significantly reduce implementation, administration and ongoing maintenance costs. The cloud storage cosmos--also referred to as Software as a Service or...
Tools to Test Your DR Plan by Storage Magazine
recovery (DR) site, DR testing tools can constantly monitor the site's readiness to recover from a disaster. Testing the storage portion of your disaster recovery (DR) plan requires tools to ascertain if data was backed up properly. Proper testing may...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
a vital complement to point-in-time backup tools, and will remain so in any comprehensive data protection strategy. The tricky part is to decide how to mix and match backup methods to best meet recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), and...
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 and retention...
General Backup Purchasing Considerations by Quantum Corporation
the door for specialized backup tools such as continuous data protection (CDP), remote replication and snapshots. Even once the backup platform is decided, you’ll still need software to execute the necessary backups...
Windows Server 2008 Backup Tool – A Review of Its Features by Global Knowledge
of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista. This white paper presents some of the more significant pros and cons of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista, so that you can decide whether the...
Storage Bin 2.0: Ringing in a New Storage Market by Storage Magazine
Don't be alarmed by all the recent industry news; it's a good time for storage consumers. In 2007, the storage system world had its share of relevant happenings. Isilon Systems went public at the end of 2006, heralding a new era in storage system value and...
Beyond Virtual Tape Libraries: End-to-End Data Protection with Syncsort Disk-to-Disk Solutions by Syncsort
this white paper to learn why D2D backup solutions are the ideal data protection technologies for y... Today, IT network administrators responsible for data protection are struggling with similar quandaries. While VTL data storage has been "all the rage...
Reducing Storage Complexity by Dell, Inc.
grow faster than it budgets. The good news is that easy-to-use ip-based networked storage with built-in data protection and management capabilities promises to bridge the budget gap-and effectively complement traditional fibre channel-based storage area...
Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
the Sun Fire X4540 server as a backup server for Amanda Enterprise Edition software. Explosive data growth, combined with demanding requirements for data availability, has placed a tremendous burden on IT operations staff at businesses of all sizes...
Executive Summary: How to Achieve Comprehensive Network Security by Q1 Labs Inc
of security management. The good news is that all of these management functions ultimately can be driven by a common data set, and that is the opportunity for a security management platform to aggregate this data once and leverage it for a number of...
Security Implications of the Virtualized DataCenter by F5 Networks
in our daily vocabulary. The recent rate of virtualization adoption however, especially that of software operating system virtualization, has grown exponentially in the past few years. According to Joe Tucci, the CEO at EMC®, most VMware® customers are...
How to Leverage the Network for Better Application Performance by Citrix
access control and more. A recent SearchNetworking.com survey of over 1,200 companies shows just how focused networking managers are on application optimization. Additional applications are the number 1 factor driving investments in the...
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
A notable exception here is LTO-3 tapes, which are still readable in LTO-4 tape drives.

Use data backup tools to locate bottlenecks

Experts point to a growing number of backup and data protection management tools that can analyze backup traffic and highlight potential problem areas. For example, you might identify tape as your data bottleneck and spend significant... More...

FAQ's
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 storage... More...
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 server-free backup, and how does it work?
Server-free backup is an umbrella term for two different kinds of backup. The general distinction is that it is backup that is going to be done outside of the server that is being backed up -- hence the name. Some of the methods for doing server-free backup... More...