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How To Keep Your Business Running In The Event Of A Disaster by Simply Continuous
This Webcast explores how Data Domain deduplication storage coupled with the Simply Continuous Data Protect Vault managed services can help enterprise customers. This Webcast explores how Data Domain deduplication storage coupled with the Simply Continuous Data Protect Vault managed services can help enterprise customers...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
recovery of anything in the backup of your SharePoint content database—individual documents, lists, document libraries, sites, workspaces. It restores all information stored in the databases, including alerts, permissions, metadata and custom views...
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...
Securing Data Stored on Tape with Encryption: How to Choose the Right Encryption Key Management Solution by Quantum Corporation
each year-many of them on backup tapes-businesses must take steps to improve data confidentiality and integrity. Luckily, the data encryption capabilities built into every Quantum LTO-4 tape drive can help organizations prevent a costly...
Delivering Integrated Security, Recovery, and Archive Protection with Symantec Backup Exec 12 by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec 12 helps businesses confidently protect their infrastructures, their information, and their interactions by delivering integration to efficiently secure, recover, and archive critical...
EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) by Wave Systems
PCs today. ETS 6 features a variety of secure business productivity capabilities with an easy-to-use security center and is compatible with all TCG-Compliant secure hardware platforms. Wave Systems' EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) delivers advanced levels of...
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...
Quantum DXi 7500 Support for Veritas NetBackup 6.5 VTL-Direct-to-Tape Feature from Symantec by Quantum Corporation
The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data centers where a premium is placed on scalability, performance, high availability, and flexibility. The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data...
Always Be Open for Business: iSeminar by Oracle Corporation
data infrastructure that is always secure, available and accessible, despite potentially disruptive circumstances. Is it possible to have business continuity with low administration and maintenance costs? This internet seminar addresses the key...
Where Encryption Fits Best by Storage Magazine
to embed encryption into your backup infrastructure. Considering key management and performance issues, here are our recommendations. Encryption secures data and makes it accessible only to those individuals or applications with the proper...
Cisco Storage Media Encryption: Meeting the Security Challenge by Cisco Systems, Inc.
data via theft of disk drives, loss of backup tapes, and security breaches from inside the firewalls. This white paper details a heterogeneous, standards-based encryption solution for data at rest with comprehensive built-in key-management features that...
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...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
and to more efficiently centralize backup data to multiple sites for assured disaster recovery. Veritas NetBackup PureDisk from Symantec uses data deduplication technology to help customers address these data protection challenges.

At the heart of...
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...
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...
IT Briefing: Virtualized Infrastructure Management with LSI StoreAge SVM by LSI Corporation
a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets. This paper highlights a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets...
Archiving Compliance with Sunbelt Exchange Archiver by Sunbelt Software
Archiving for compliance is an important step in securing your company's future. Learn how to implement an email archiving solution that will minimize the burden on your Exchange server and help to avoid costly legal penalties in this whitepaper. Archiving for compliance is an important step in securing your company's future. New...
Business Continuity - Are You Always Open for Business? by Oracle Corporation
mid-sized organizations provides a secure, easily accessible, and always available information infrastructure. Helping mid-sized organizations ensure business continuity. Controlling costs and making the best use of scarce resources is critical for the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
University of St. Thomas implements a tiered storage approach from Quantum, including Data De-duplication Technology to Cut Backup Time in Half by Quantum Corporation
to do something to shorten their backup windows and make everything more reliable and more robust, so they chose Quantum DXi™ appliance. St. Thomas is an independent Catholic liberal arts university with its main campus in St. Paul, Minnesota. They...
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...
Expert eBook: Encryption: Properly Securing Your Valuable Data by Information Security Magazine
Check out this expert eBook and learn about best practices and techniques for protecting your company's data with encryption technology. There have already been 449 data breach incidents this year and that number will continue to grow. The challenges of protecting confidential information are forcing companies to deploy...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 renewed focus on them recently as they are being utilized by products in the disk-based backup...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
scalable, cost-effective disk-based backup solution that works with your existing backup application. Learn how it satisfies the 7 requirements of cost-effective disk-based backup and the advantages it has over other solutions. Organizations today cannot...
Backup and Recovery: The Benefits of Multiple De-duplication Policies by Quantum Corporation
of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits. Data de-duplication systems, which in the past have required that users apply one de-duplication methodology to all of their jobs...
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
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
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... More...
How virtualizing servers has impacted the backup process

However, in some cases server virtualization can reduce the number of backup licenses. This is a nice benefit. You don't have to run as many agents as in the past, and you can save some money there.

In some environments, server virtualization has prompted the use of a secondary storage system, for example, a disk-to... More...

What type of data reduction ratios should you realistically expect using deduplication?
at it. Most people are looking at data deduplication in conjunction with backup; backup appliances performing deduplication or even virtual tape libraries (VTL). So, looking at it in that context, you'll hear advertised ratios of anywhere from 10 to 500X.

But, realistically, I think it's safe to assume a ratio of... More...