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IT Briefing: De-dupe and Disk Backups - What You Need to Know before Taking the Plunge by Data Domain
as "Disk staging," putting the most recent backups on disk and then moving them off to tape. Ultimately, Disk is used as just a staging area...
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...
Enhancing Disk-to-Disk (D2D) Backup with Data Deduplication by FalconStor Software
the most inefficient aspect of the backup process, which is the creation of large volumes of duplicate data.

The FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) provides the following benefits for D2D backup:

  • Reduces disk consumption by 95% or more
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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...
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...

HP Dynamic Deduplication - achieving a 50:1 ratio by Hewlett-Packard Company
products to the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System Family. Both feature Dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented algorithm that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and...
IDC White Paper - Online PC Backup: Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Solution by Iron Mountain Digital
enterprise-level online PC backup solutions. Laptops and desktops, once forgotten corporate information assets, now need to be centrally protected and secured. IDC research suggests that achieving this goal will require increased spending on...
Overview Webcast - Storage Strategy for a Down Economy: Stop Buying Storage by Symantec Corporation
any new storage in 2009?

The good news is that there are proactive strategies to better utilize your existing storage assets and take the cost out of cost savings.

  • Identify exactly how much storage is not being utilized by applications
  • Reclaim wasted
...
Comparing Disk with Tape: Improving Backup and Recovery Performance by EMC Corporation
prefer disk as the nightly backup target. For an increasing number of these organizations, it is the only solution. This paper explains the benefits of Disk Backup from EMC and how it can benefit your business. There's no question about it: The face of data...
Top 10 Reasons for Using Online Server Backup and Recovery by Iron Mountain Digital
latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. This paper discusses the top 10 reasons businesses are turning to this technology. Backup of vital company information is critical...
Importance of Operational Simplicity in Selecting Disk-to-Disk Data Protection by Data Domain
question, Disk-to-Disk (D2D) backup has emerged in recent years to become a critical storage component of an enterprises' data protection environment. With enterprises experiencing accelerating data growth rates, they typically will use tape media...
ESG Report: Data Deduplication Diversity: Evaluating Software- vs. Hardware-Based Approaches by CommVault Systems, Inc.
deduplication will drive further backup-to-disk adoption and deliver associated performance and reliability benefits. Deduplication dramatically improves the value proposition of disk-based data protection as it eliminates the redundancy...
Best Practices for Defining and Establishing Effective Archive Retention Policies by Symantec Corporation
has increased exponentially in recent years. Electronically stored information (ESI) has become a major source of business records, and any organization that uses ESI - from email to word processing to instant messaging - must manage those records. With that...
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...
Tipcast: Do you really need continuous data protection? by FalconStor Software
This PDF of a recent tipcast, sponsored by FalconStor, gives an in-depth overview of continuous data protection (CDP). Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) that CDP products typically deliver is discussed in...
Tipcast - Continuous data protection: Near vs. Real CDP? by FalconStor Software
This PDF of a recent tipcast highlights the differences between continuous data protection and near-continuous data protection, and highlights the evolution of near-CDP. This tipcast also discusses the pros and cons of true...
ESG: Data De-duplication & Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems by Data Domain
hurricanes. And there have been a few recent incidents of large geographic blackouts that take hours or even days to correct.

The fact that most companies and organizations still use tape as their primary defense against these events is troubling. Once, there...
Idera SQL safe backup - High performance backup and recovery for SQL Server by Idera
A robust backup and recovery solution is arguably the most important safeguard of an organizations' data. Without this, backup times can easily exceed maintenance windows, huge amounts of storage space are needed, and managing...
Can Your SharePoint® Backup Harm Your Business? by AvePoint, Inc.
a multitude of questions about backup and recovery. The native SharePoint tools for backup under SharePoint 2007 are a major step forward over the 2003 edition. But there still are major issues in the areas of granularity, performance, fidelity, and...
RSA Online Fraud Report: A Monthly Intelligence Report from the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
report to learn the latest news related to online fraud and analysis from RSA's phishing repositories. Online crime is constantly evolving, and fraudsters do not discriminate against any entity or person. Online attacks involving phishing...
Midsize Business News: Cost-control and Process Flexibility by Oracle Corporation
In this white paper, we're taking a closer look at how cost control goes hand-in-hand with process flexibility. Your IT infrastructure can help, with integrated, automated processes that enable your staff to get things done faster. Midsize companies have their size and agility on their side. To make the most of your agility advantage...
Oracle ONE - News for Midsize Businesses - Autumn 2008 by Oracle Corporation
Read this issue to learn how to ensure that your information systems are secure and stable enough to protect all your information assets. Find out more about how Oracle can help ensure your business continuity. In this issue, we'll be looking at business continuity - how to ensure that your information systems are secure and stable...
Bank On It: Ntirety Lends Expertise, Competitive Advantage to Rockland Trust by Ntirety
not showing up in the bank's system. A recent infrastructure change was causing the system to fail, yet appear to be properly functioning. Read this case study and learn how they brought the system back online. Everything appeared to be fine with the anti-money...
Tools for SQL Server Heros by AppAssure Software
SQL Server Expert - specializing in backup and disaster recovery strategies. He discusses the challenge's that SQL Server database administrators face today, backup best practices and pitfalls, and resources and Q&A. A brief demo of AppAssure's Replay...
Microsoft Hyper-V: Best practices for performance, backups and management by Microsoft
machines, as well as changes to backup strategies and management procedures.

In this webcast, Microsoft MVP Greg Shields offers up some best practices for each of these areas when working with Hyper-V. Here you'll learn how high levels of performance can be...
Secure Copy Version 5.0.2 - Data Migration solution by ScriptLogic Corporation
is more than merely copying the most recent files and folders to that machine. File security, permissions, shared folders and local groups facilitating access need to be maintained. Product Type: Server Migration

Target User: IT/Network Administrator

IT...

Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server by Data Domain
information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain. In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is...
Tipcast: Optimizing Tape Backup Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
on tape instead of disks for their backup needs. As the amount of incoming data increases actions need to be taken to optimize and squeeze more life out of existing tape systems. As a result, storage venders have been taking action to improve these systems. Many...
Oracle's X Factor: HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine by Oracle Corporation
initial implications of Oracle's recent announcements regarding the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine. This document includes some high-level facts about the products as announced, the original equipment...
ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP by Hewlett-Packard Company
how Hewlett Packard, buoyed by its recent acquisition of Tower Software, is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.

As one of the largest and most respected technology solution providers in the world, HP is certainly going...

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
Who needs a backup reporting tool?
Any organization that performs a regular backup can use visibility into those processes, which they're not likely to get with a backup application that has some basic reporting capabilities, such as log files.

If you're looking at backup reporting tools, you might be in an... More...

Are organizations using the same tools to back up virtual server environments that they have in the past?
do is deploy the same type of environment in which they are installing a backup agent inside of the guest OS or inside the virtual machine itself. There are other instances in which people are using the server virtualization vendor tools; these tools complement the backup process. Some people are writing... 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...