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How to Protect Your Enterprise's Critical Data Wherever It Is by Iron Mountain Digital
read this white paper to discover tips and advice for creating a comprehensive data protection strategy and solutions that can help you accomplish this. There is more data in your organization than ever before and its value keeps multiplying...
Expert Advice - 20 Practical Tips on Authentication and Access Management from Practiced Professionals by Imprivata
process. Read these 20 expert tips and pointers to get a handle on how to manage authentication and access management within your organization. The threat of a data breach and the need to address regulatory compliance are forcing many organizations to...
Essential Guide to Data Backup for SMBs by SearchSMBStorage.com
Data backup is still the No. 1 pain point for storage administrators. The tips in this guide will help you simplify your backup process and put together a reliable backup and recovery plan. Data backup is still the No. 1 pain point for...
Building a Service-oriented Data Protection Strategy by Storage Decisions
data replication and clustering to tape backup and restore, are available to provide the data recovery capability that a business process or application requires. Matching data protection service levels to business requirements is not only a rational...
Storage Decisions Data Deduplication Virtual Seminar by Storage Decisions
On June 30, 2009, backup and recovery expert W. Curtis Preston brings the popular Storage Decisions Deduplication Seminar to the virtual world. This live, one-day online workshop features how-to advice on the hottest technology in storage. Get...
Storage Magazine Online May 2009: Put Dedupe to the Test by SearchStorage.com
Online cover story, our resident backup expert, W. Curtis Preston, shows how to test various systems against your data so you can make the right decisions. Plus, check out features on recession-proof storage tips, four-tier storage design, and Continuous Data...
Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being...
eGuide: Get More Out of Your Data Protection Plan by Hewlett-Packard Company
This eGuide offers the practical advice storage pros need in order to get more out of their data protection plan, an increase overall IT efficiency. Every storage pro is looking to do more with less, especially in today's economy. This eGuide offers the...
Podcast: Getting Set for e-discovery by SearchStorage.com
expert Podcast provides survival tips and advice for coping with e-discovery from legal expert Craig E. Bertschi. Download this Podcast for an important Q&A session with Craig and Jo Maitland of SearchStorage.com to get the answers to the most pressing...
FAQ Guide: Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost...
Backup School 2009 by Data Domain
This Advanced Backup School seminar presentation is guaranteed to provide you with time-tested advice and techniques that will make backup easier. Renowned backup guru W. Curtis Preston will review the basics - but will also be going into...
Presentation Download: Backup School 2009 by SearchDataBackup.com
This Advanced Backup School seminar presentation is guaranteed to provide you with time-tested advice and techniques that will make backup easier. Renowned backup guru W. Curtis Preston will review the basics - but will also be going into...
eGuide: A Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Performance, Disaster Recovery, and Backup by Microsoft
to you by SearchWindowsServer.com and Microsoft, you will discover how to effectively manage performance and backup strategies for Hyper-V. Learn how your organization can monitor Hyper-V performance in a comprehensive and cost-effective manner...
SharePoint E-Zine Volume 8: Must-have Free SharePoint Tools and Add-ons by SearchWinIT
SharePoint chores. Also included is expert advice on the following topics:

  • How to avoid five common SharePoint traps
  • Tips to build scalability in SharePoint governance
  • How to set criteria for mandated upgrades

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    eGuide: The Benefits of Data Deduplication by Data Domain
    as one of the most popular backup trends hitting the UK storage market today. This eGuide will highlight the benefits, as well as key areas to focus on when considering or implementing Data Deduplication. In the near term, industry experts see data...
    Energy Efficient Data Center by APC
    microsite features independent expert advice from industry analysts, proven best practices, and a series of videos exploring the Green Data Center of the future. Also included are the tips you need to increase efficiency throughout the data center, ranging from...
    Webcast: The ROI and TCO Benefits of Data Deduplication for Data Protection in the Enterprise by Data Domain
    Focus Consulting, interviewed and documented the experiences of three enterprise customers who have implemented Data Domain systems into their storage fabric. Deduplication storage is quickly becoming the standard for disk-based backup and...
    Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
    Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that perhaps one size fits all.

    Indeed, the range of storage...
    Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
    Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that perhaps one size fits all.

    Indeed, the range of storage...
    Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    review of Sun Microsystems' tape virtualization solutions, identifying how their offerings can best be leveraged to produce an optimized backup infrastructure. Virtual tape library (VTL) technology is arguably the easiest way to introduce...
    Backup 101: Tips You Need to Simplify DR and Continuity by Compellent
    webcast to learn how to design and develop a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy that works for your budget. Watch this on-demand webcast to learn how to design and develop a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy that works for your budget. Learn the backup basics to...
    Using Deduplication with Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape by Data Domain
    effectively switch from physical tape (or hybrid disk/tape) to a modern mainframe Virtual Tape solution with Data Domain deduplication storage. Mainframe IT managers have used physical tape for backup and recovery for decades. However, they no longer have...
    iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries by Dell, Inc.
    a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores this setup and configuration. To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to...
    Enhancing Disk-to-Disk Backup with Data Deduplication by FalconStor Software
    streamlines management tasks, and minimizes the bandwidth required for replication. Data deduplication improves efficiency and saves money, exactly what is needed when IT budgets are tight. Backup is critical to protecting data and ensuring its...
    HP StorageWorks tape and disk-to-disk data protection by Hewlett-Packard Company
    variety of choices, ranging from tape backup to multiple layers of online, nearline and offline protection. And the newer technologies--such as disk-to-disk backup, virtual tape libraries, data deduplication, and low-cost hard drives--enable you to add layers of...
    Victaulic Speeds Backup and Restores, Cuts Capacity with SEPATON VTL and Data Deduplication by SEPATON
    backup times, Victaulic Company's tape backup systems could no longer provide the performance or capacity they needed for efficient data protection. For a cost comparable to tape, Victaulic Company implemented a SEPATON S2100-ES2 virtual tape library (VTL) with...
    Tipcast: Optimizing Tape Backup Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Many organizations still rely 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...
    Understanding the Role and Application of Remote Server Backup Technologies by Iron Mountain Digital
    their tape solutions. Tape backup is inexpensive, very scalable via automation, and can be easily transported and secured off-site. Disk-based backup can help improve the performance of backups and restores, reduce the cost of management...
    Webcast: Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems by Data Domain
    performed. For years, users have used tape backup because it was the only cost-effective option. Disk was too expensive to deploy in significant quantities.

    The inherent flaws of tape:
    • complexity
    • unreliability
    • slow performance

    This webcast explains why data de...
    Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup by Double-Take Software
    of a backup strategy based only on tape backup. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to dynamically move, protect, and recover your critical applications. Many companies are already backing up their main and branch office systems to tape...
    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... More...
    How to implement disk-to-disk backups
    error-prone process.

    Consider the use of removable hard drives

    Where disk capacity is finite, a tape backup can be almost any size (within the limits of the operating system and backup software) -- just add more tape cartridges. Tapes can also be transported for offsite storage. A new generation of removable hard drives from vendors like Imation Corp., Prostor Systems Inc... 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
    Backup reporting FAQ
    The old joke, "The backup is fine -- it's the restore that doesn't work," is all too often true. But tools designed specifically to monitor and report on backups can help eliminate those restore surprises. Lauren Whitehouse, analyst with the Enterprise... More...
    Who are the major vendors in the tape encryption market?
    IBM and are probably the leaders right now. HP is probably not too far behind, although I don't have numbers to tell you if HP is selling more than Sun. But they are definitely one of the top players, and being a large hardware player, you'd... More...
    Data replication for backup best practices
    need for many organizations. In this interview, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses synchronous and asynchronous replication, deduplication and management best practices. His answers are also available below as an MP3 download.

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