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IDC Technology Spotlight: Optimizing Storage to Reduce Data Footprint and Lower Costs by Hewlett-Packard Company
available today that reduce data footprint. Rising energy prices and exponential data growth are driving organizations to seek solutions that minimize data footprint across all storage tiers. The challenge that managers face, though, is...
Accelerated Server Refresh Reduces Data Center Cost by Dell, Inc. and Intel
refresh is part of our broader data center efficiency program, which includes initiatives such as data center consolidation and server virtualization and aims to generate overall savings of USD 1 billion or more. Accelerated server refresh is...
Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Intel Corporation
exceeding the thermal limits of its data center, CERN is taking a comprehensive approach to improving energy efficiency. This paper outlines key strategies, including a move to Intel Xeon processors. Improving data center energy efficiency is becoming a...
Software Demo: Ocarina Content Aware Optimization by Ocarina Networks
Ocarina reduces data footprint with the world's first content-aware storage optimization solution for online data. Our solution drastically reduces capital and operational expense for customers where explosive data growth is a...
Sayers Reduces Datacenter Costs with HP and VMware by VMware, Inc.
agility and continuity while reducing data center costs and complexity so they turned to HP, which helped them from a management standpoint. When Sayers needed to improve business agility and continuity while reducing data center costs and complexity...
4 Stages of Green: Mapping Your Way to a Useful Project by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
to reduce energy consumption in the data center and the additional challenges that come with "going green." This webcast reviews approaches to reduce energy consumption in the data center and the additional challenges that come with "going green."...
See How Intel Xeon Processors Provide Data Traffic Optimization. by Intel Corporation
manageability, and reduce data center costs using the Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series - the optimal virtualization server platform. Learn how you can maximize consolidation, simplify manageability, and reduce data center costs using the...
Deduplication: The Post—Snapshot Revolution in Storage by Data Domain
the storage infrastructure for reducing data, improving data protection and overall, simplifying data management. However, deduplication is hard to implement in a way that runs fast with low overhead across a full range of protocols and application...
Using a Shared-Disk Architecture for Your Data Management System by Sybase, Inc.
service levels, reduce data center costs, and create data infrastructure for future business growth...
FCoE: Coming to a Data Center Near You: Hot Spots by Storage Magazine
FCoE) has the potential to reduce data center complexity and make the world a little greener by decreasing the number of cards, cabling and network devices in the data center...
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...
Recovery Manager for Active Directory by Quest Software
AD administration with other data sources - Manage Corporate or Hosted Exchange 2000 environment Recovery Manager for Active Directory provides seamless integration of business rules and directory updates to enhance security and prevent data...
Best Practices for Endpoint Data Loss Prevention by Symantec Corporation
tool for reducing the risk of data loss while enabling the mobile workforce, especially when part of a full suite DLP solution with network and stored data capabilities. Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a powerful tool for reducing the risk of...
Solve Exchange Storage Problems Once and for All: A New Approach without Stubs or Links by Mimosa Systems
tools that can search years of email data and attachments in seconds. Management ease, flexibility, and huge storage cost savings are the outstanding benefits of the Mimosa NearPoint solution...
Hot Spots: Data Deduplication Drama by Storage Magazine
by knowing where to look for it. Data deduplication for secondary storage is prompting as much passion from vendors as it is confusion for some users. Why? Because dedupe is one of those influential, crucial technologies that comes along every few years.

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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...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
their servers and streamline their data centers, resulting in as much as a ten-fold boost in resource utilization. The software also reduces the cost of setting up a disaster recovery site, as companies can run mirrored systems on virtual servers...
Accelerate Business and Reduce Costs with EMC Archiving Solution by EMC Corporation
This case study tracks the success of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company as they faced enormous growth in production SAP, Microsoft Exchange, and file-sharing environments and details how they handled the resulting problems. ScottsMiracle-Gro Company, the world's largest marketer of branded consumer products for lawn and garden...
Virtualization and Automation Drive Dynamic Data Centers by CA
and automation in the data center will lead to better customerexperience, reduced environmental impact and increased capacity for future services. Adopting a dynamic data center model addresses the problems of over- and...
How to Collapse Tiers in the Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
to collapse switching tiers in the data center network with a two-tier switching architecture from Juniper Networks. When data center consolidation is used to centralize servers and applications from remote sites, providing adequate rack space and...
Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever...
Reducing Complexity by Simplifying the Enterprise Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
can centralize and consolidate the data center environment, allowing IT administrators to oversee and manage resources in fewer locations while still providing global access and reducing operating costs. While innovations in server...
Strategies for PST File Elimination by Mimosa Systems
for Microsoft Exchange, a disk-based data management solution which optimizes the storage capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server. Email growth is exploding, and the common practice of saving old email and attachments is overburdening email servers...
Better Business Continuity with VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
increase availability by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime. VMware virtual infrastructure software helps organizations increase availability by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime.

Most data center downtime is typically...
Storage Economics Podcast: Ideas and Tactics to Reduce Storage Total Cost of Ownership by Hitachi Data Systems
Chief Storage Economist at Hitachi Data Systems, discusses concepts and principles around storage TCO, ideas and tactics to reduce the cost of your storage architecture, and what the analysts are saying about storage... David Merrill, Chief Storage...
BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ by F5 Networks
more and more sensitive customer data is exposed to new threats that most current security systems cannot prevent. The BIG-IP Application Security Manager significantly reduces the risk of loss or damage to data, intellectual property, and web...
Leveraging, protecting virtual machines in disaster recovery sites by Citrix
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Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
staff had been backing up all of its data onto tape, but with 5TB of data to protect, backup windows were long and relying on tape meant juggling multiple backup jobs with several different backup servers and tape libraries.

Finally, Konica Minolta realized...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
The growth of business-related data means IT must efficiently manage and control data-center storage. Analysis and storage consolidation helps recover wasted assets. Learn to identify and eliminate useless data. Read the white paper today. It's a...
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
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 full backup volume to a virtual tape library (VTL) emulating the behaviors of a traditional tape system... 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... More...
FAQ's
There are also concerns about data loss due to hash collisions. How have manufacturers addressed that issue today?
and it said that the only way you can be absolutely sure that each chunk of data is completely unique is to take each new chunk of data and compare it to every other chunk of data stored. It also said that's really not practical because if you do that, it creates a huge time delay. So, the compromise is to use a hashing... More...
Are there any major drawbacks to using tape encryption?
Probably the biggest one: You lose your keys; you lose your data. This deserves the most consideration and you need to have the best possible key management.

Also, if you plan on encrypting at the client level, that may cause some issues if you have implemented deduplicaiton within your... More...

How has server virtualization affected the backup window and backup capacity?
recently adopted server virtualization, and 37% say that the amount of data they back up increased after deploying server virtualization. It's significant. You're backing up the operating system, you're backing up applications, and you're backing up data.

Then, there is the proliferation of virtual... More...