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Virtual Tape Libraries All-in-One Guide by Dell | EqualLogic
help you get the most from virtual tape libraries technology. This document provides in-depth coverage of utilizing virtual tape libraries (VTL) in your data protection plan. You'll learn how to implement virtual tape libraries and what to consider when...
Quality Awards III: IBM and Sun Shine among Tape Libraries by Storage Magazine
components, the reliability of tape libraries ranks high among Quality Awards survey respondents. This year's installment of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for tape libraries revealed a community of largely satisfied users. Last...
HP Data Protector Software Advanced Backup to Disk Integration with Virtual Tape Libraries White Paper by Hewlett-Packard Company
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 Protector Software...
All VTLs Are Not Created Equal: Considerations for Enterprise-Scale Virtual Tape Libraries by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Virtual Tape Library solutions are taking hold in companies of all sizes, but not all VTLs are equipped to meet the requirements of enterprise data centers. Virtual tape library (VTL) solutions are taking hold in companies of all sizes, but...
The Market Opportunity for Enterprise Tape by Sun StorageTek
for enterprise-class tape drives and Sun's new enterprise-class tape drive, the Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive. In this white paper, sponsored by Sun, IDC analyzes the market opportunity for enterprise-class tape drives and Sun...
VTL Data Management Issues by Storage Magazine
With the proliferation of virtual tape libraries within storage environments, storage managers face an increased number of decisions in regards to managing and cataloging the transfer of data to tape. With the proliferation of virtual tape libraries...
Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
backup infrastructure. Virtual tape library (VTL) technology is arguably the easiest way to introduce disk into a tapebased backup infrastructure. A VTL is a set of disks that emulate tape; you see a disk array, your backup software sees a tape drive or a tape...
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
and management. A virtual tape library (VTL) provides a cost-effective addition to their disk-based backup. By storing data to disk rather than tape, the VTL speeds data backup and retrieval without requiring users to change their existing backup processes...
Securing Data Stored on Tape with Encryption: How to Choose the Right Encryption Key Management Solution by Quantum Corporation
for organizations with a single tape library. For customers with multiple tape libraries distributed throughout the organization, Quantum's Q-EKM solution provides a robust, transparent, fully automated approach to enterprise encryption key...
Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovation by Incentra Solutions
Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power and operating costs. As data...
Tape Backup Performance and Reliability Best Practices by Dell | EqualLogic
best practices related to tape backup performance and reliability, troubleshooting automated tape libraries, and managing long term tape archives. This document discusses best practices related to tape backup performance and...
Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovations by Sun StorageTek
Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments. As data volumes grow and budgets continue to shrink,...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
44; Intellistore included a Quantum tape library, also attached to the Quatrio PIVOT VTL appliance via Fibre Channel connections, to give Magnum disaster recovery protection on the appliance itself. The recommendation, supported by Magnum, was to...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
tapes on a daily basis. Magnetic tape will continue to play a critical role in data protection, offering the lowest cost storage medium for maintaining offsite backup data and long term archive data.

But in the last few years, the rapidly falling cost...
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
the way it worked like a virtual tape library, and didn't require special backup software or load agents anywhere; it just acted like a tape library, it runs like a library, and works great thought the University's IT department.

Key Benefits of Quantum...
Beyond Virtual Tape Libraries: End-to-End Data Protection with Syncsort Disk-to-Disk Solutions by Syncsort
when compared with backup-to-tape. But VTL is limited as an end-to-end business continuity remedy. So before rushing into a VTL investment, ask yourself whether there's a better, more comprehensive, data protection solution.

This white...
EMA Whitepaper: Simple, Reliable, Fast De-duplication Data Protection Platform by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
This document looks at how a virtual tape library utilizing a clustered gateway and data de-duplication can assist data centers that face such challenges, and such devices provides data center managers faster backups and recoveries. While Virtual Tape...
US AFB Implements ProtecTIER™ — Cuts Backup Time by 50 Percent While Maximizing the Use of Existing Storage Resources by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Fibre Channel fabric, a new IBM 3584 tape library with seven LTO-3 tape drives, and a virtual tape disk-to-disk solution using SATA drives. In choosing the virtual tape solution, the team worked with Ken Payne of Abba Technologies. One thing that sparked the team's...
Backup & Recovery by SearchStorage.com
44; slow-acting drives, tape drives, optical drives, disk drives behaving as disk drives, disk drives emulating tape drives and tape libraries, and disk targets with data de-duplication features. This decision actually is easier to...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 they...
Tape Technology Leaps Forward in the 3rd Era by Sun StorageTek
The magnetic tape industry has progressed into its third era and the economics of tape for many applications are compelling from an acquisition cost and, more importantly, a cost of ownership perspective. The magnetic tape industry...
Syncsort AdvancedClient: The New Data Protection Paradigm by Syncsort
backup strategies - based on tape, tape libraries, file-level backups, overnight backups, periodic weekend base backups, and restores from multiple backups to get back to yesterday's data state - are fast becoming obsolete.

Read this...
The Advantages of Deduplication-Based Disk Systems for Onsite Backup Storage by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
the advantages for companies using tape backup to move to deduplication-based disk systems for onsite backup storage. This PowerPoint presentation is from a Storage Decisions session (New York 2008) that explores how, although disk systems are...
SARCOM Simplifies Storage: Virtualization Makes Provisioning and Management Much Easier - and More Cost Effective by Hewlett-Packard Company
data set snapclones) and backup to tape libraries.

Searching for a better solution, SARCOM management took a long, hard look at the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). They visited the HP Storage Solution Center in Colorado Springs,...
Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive by Sun StorageTek
Sun StorageTek T10000B enterprise tape drive blends highest capacity, reliability, performance, and data security to support demanding, 24x7 datacenter operations. The Sun StorageTek T10000B enterprise tape drive blends highest capacity,...
General Backup Purchasing Considerations by Quantum Corporation
one. It's not enough to simply buy a new tape drive or upgrade to a larger disk--not with data volumes growing at 60% per year. In addition, as more vendors deliver more backup products to meet specific backup needs, it gets harder for IT organizations to make...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
paper examines the pros and cons of tape and disk-based storage and presents a cost analysis of ExaGrid's disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs. tape and standard SATA disk. Many organizations use tape to back up data...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
operations with just strictly tape solutions. Although tape may be cheaper than disk, the overall costs of tape are becoming more expensive than disk as tape is slow and requires additional purchases to maintain optimal performance.

This white paper...
Protect Your Investment with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive by Sun StorageTek
access-centric StorageTek T-series tape drives provide you with the industry's fastest access to data (T9840D) and industry-leading capacity (T10000B) tape drive utilizing earlier generation media. Watch this videocast to learn how the access-centric...
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 recovery points in just a fraction of the time... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
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 world. Storage administrators can then recover... 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... More...
FAQ's
How about when doing target data deduplication on the virtual tape library (VTL) or backup appliance? Is there a similar performance impact?
It has a little bit different performance impact. The knock on target-based data deduplication is that you aren't really reducing the amount of data you are sending over the network. So you are still sending the full amount of data over the network every time you do a backup. You are reducing the amount of data that you store, but there is... More...
Are pretty much all of the virtual tape library (VTL) vendors now offering deduplication or is it still limited?
I think it's a fair statement to say that today most of the leading VTL vendors and a lot of the network-attached storage (NAS) vendors are offering deduplication. There are some incumbents and some newcomers. FalconStor and all of the FalconStor partners have FalconStor Single Instance Repository (SIR) options for deduplication. Data... More...
Why should I encrypt tape?
concern when it comes to tapes. We've seen a lot of companies move away from tape specifically for that reason.

But for companies that have very large investments or requirements for these tapes, security becomes a great concern, particularly when looking at compliance. Take PCI for example, where you are... More...