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Software-as-a-Service: A Comprehensive Look at the Total Cost of Ownership of Software Applications by Cisco Systems, Inc.
end-users and decision makers on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Learn how it differs from traditional software, and what the key benefits are when deploying SaaS applications. It also looks at Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). According to Gartner, a global IT research...
Comply with Software Licenses While Reducing Costs by MVS Solutions
Meeting software licensing obligations is a challenge, but automating software jobs can simplify the process. Read this white paper to learn how you can benefit from ensured compliancy, lowered software expenses, and more. Meeting...
Software + Services in the Microsoft World by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
S+S” really mean? The first “S” stands for software, of course, but the second “S” also really stands for software, all that changes is where that software runs and who runs it. In not much more than a decade, the Internet has remade large parts of the technology world. Despite...
Should You Install Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server? by Sunbelt Software
and cons of installing third-party software on the Exchange Server, and information on Sunbelt Software’s Ninja Email Security. This white paper discusses the detailed results of our survey on messaging security software and our conclusions about...
IBM Fall 2008 Green IT Catalog by IBM
In the IBM Software for a Greener World catalog you’ll find stories of actual customers who reduced energy consumption and IT costs – by using IBM software to better manage their people, workloads and infrastructure. Energy consumption...
HP Data Protector Software Advanced Backup to Disk Integration with Virtual Tape Libraries White Paper by Hewlett-Packard Company
integration of HP Data Protector Software with Virtual Tape Libraries by utilizing the Advanced Backup to Disk functionality available with the HP Data Protector Software. This white paper provides a better understanding of the integration of HP Data...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
On the VTL/de-duplication software side, the field narrowed quickly down to Diligent, which allowed Quatrio to easily integrate ProtecTIER software with their hardware. Having identified an unmet need, Intellistore turned to its trusted hardware...
Eliminate Tape Restores with TimeData CDP by Double-Take Software
free whitepaper to discover new CDP software that provides a simple and cost-effective way to recover data to any point in time and resume workflow without the pain of recovering from tape. Have you experienced data loss due to corruption, unwanted changes or...
Better Business Continuity with VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
VMware virtual infrastructure software helps organizations increase availability by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime. VMware virtual infrastructure software helps organizations increase availability by reducing both planned and...
Acquire, Analyze, and Present Data with LabVIEW by National Instruments
a wide range of hardware and software products, featuring support for thousands of cameras, superior image quality, advanced triggering, and easy-to-use driver software. Hardware options range from plug-in frame grabber cards for PCI, PXI/CompactPCI, and...
Protecting Sharepoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0 by Double-Take Software
today to learn how to use Double-Take Software as a cost efficient way to protect your SharePoint data and access. As the distributed workforce grows, the need for online collaboration and document management grows with it. MSFT SharePoint(r) streamlines online...
Livewire™: Full-Server Protecting and Recovery in Real-Time by Double-Take Software
about LiveWire from Double-Take Software - a cost effective solution that will keep your second tier servers up-to-date on disk and ready to recover to any physical or virtual machine in just hours or less. Are your second tier servers assigned a lower recovery...
Sunbelt Exchange Archiver (SEA): Your Email Archiving Solution by Sunbelt Software
archiving solution from Sunbelt Software that effectively addresses today’s corporate email communication needs. SEA is a comprehensive email archiving solution from Sunbelt Software that effectively addresses today’s corporate email communication...
Sun’s Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
backup using Symantec NetBackup software. The Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup, powered by the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server and using Symantec NetBackup 6.5.2 software, provides an excellent backup solution for large...
Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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. Yet, many organizations do not have the staff or...
Hot Spots: New Year's Resolution: Get My Storage Organized by Storage Magazine
Storage resource management software is one way to make sure you have a leaner, meaner storage system in 2008. The start of each new year inevitably brings resolutions for improvement. Getting in shape and becoming more organized are ways we can become more...
Top Use-Cases for Replication Demand Integration with Backup and Restore Capabilities by CommVault Systems, Inc.
requirements of using host-based software replication in combination with data protection. Data replication is available in a variety of forms, including storage-embedded, network-embedded, volume manager-embedded, application-embedded and system hosted...
IBM Software: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization by IBM
being achieved today with IBM Software solutions. Utilization of these capabilities can help you meet the increasing challenges of energy efficiency, cost containment and compliance. With today's market realities-rising energy costs; shrinking power...
Security Implications of the Virtualized DataCenter by F5 Networks
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 planning on virtualizing 50% of their IT infrastructure within the next...
Software Demo: Ocarina Content Aware Optimization by Ocarina Networks
growth is a major challenge. Demo our software now. 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 across a...
Try XenServer Enterprise Edition Now with a Free 30-day Trial by Citrix
pool of resources • Streamline software development and testing with instant server cloning and restoration • Simplify IT testing of patches, new applications and operating systems • Simplify server provisioning by building a virtual machine once and...
Developing a Spectacular Support Structure by Numara Software
In this webcast from Numara Software industry leaders will teach you how to be sure that your support structure is running effectively. It will discuss and present solutions for all major issues that support centers encounter. Are you delivering...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
costs, requires fewer hardware and software licenses and requires less administration. The real challenge is cleaning up your data prior to the server consolidation. The solution is simple - identify and remove "junk" data, the heaps of files clogging your data...
Improving Business Performance through Unified Communications by Quest Software
of the competition. In this Quest Software and Blade white paper, Peter O’Dowd, MVP Exchange Server and Valentine Boiarkine, Lead Software architect, explain how correctly managing your unified communications (UC) infrastructure give your business the...
Enabling End-to-End IT Management with Microsoft System Center by Quest Software
Microsoft System Center and Quest Software. In the new Quest white paper, "Enabling End-to-End IT Management With Microsoft System Center and Quest Software," Enterprise Management Associates discuss how Quest can expand the power of Microsoft System Center...
Server Virtualization - Deciding What You Need to Purchase by CDW Corporation
Server virtualization uses software to divide one physical server into multiple isolated virtual machines, each of which can run a different application on a different operating system. Server virtualization uses software to divide one physical...
Securing Physical and Virtual IT Assets without Hardware Firewalls or VLANs by Apani
and reveal the many advantages of software-based access management. The growing reliance on virtual machines (VMs) also introduces significant security vulnerabilities. Communication between VMs is fully undetected by traditional hardware firewalls. In...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
the management of desktop. When software needs patched or upgraded, then only one image needs to be changed and all desktops will instantly receive the new software. ▪ Managed Servers and Blade Servers - netBoot/i separates system state from hardware which...
VIPRE Enterprise Antivirus + Antispyware by Sunbelt Software
gives you high-erformance software that doesn't slow down users' PCs, is low on system resources, and makes it easy for you to protect your network. Some features of VIPRE Enterprise include: • Rock solid Management Console is your "Malware Command Center...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
up snapshots that will likely "age out" of storage in just a few months.

Use heterogeneous snapshot software

Many storage systems ship with some type of snapshot software. This may greatly simplify taking or storing snapshots on that particular storage system, but does not guarantee interoperability with other storage systems in your environment. Instead, opt for a... More...

How to implement disk-to-disk backups
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. But disk platforms don't just emulate tape. Files can just as easily be copied to a disk array in the same data center or located on the other side of the... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
term storage life.

It may also be necessary to refresh old archival tapes when the tape hardware/software infrastructure changes significantly. For example, moving to a new backup/archive software product or deploying a new tape drive or library platform may render any existing tapes unreadable. In this case, transfer the old tape data to the new tape media. This way you... More...

FAQ's
What are the drawbacks of using a virtual tape library (VTL) for data deduplication?
are really no alternatives for disk-based backup outside of backup software options. For example, Symantec has PureDisk that offers a data deduplication function at the client. IBM is soon to release a similar function in its software product. Other products like Avamar or Asigra have a software... More...
Are there any standards for server-free or LAN-free backup?
Not so much. Each of the ISVs, the independent software vendors, have their own way of talking to the disk vendors. And each disk vendor has their way of talking to the ISVs. So, if you are an ISV that plans to support server-free backup, there's no single API for you to write to. So, generally, an... More...
Can you explain the various ways to encrypt tape?

And of course, probably the most ancient form of encryption, is software level encryption. This encrypts your data at the server level or the backup client level and then sends it to the tape device encrypted.

Check out the entire Tape Encryption FAQ.

The most recent addition is a tape level or device... More...