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Tips for Protecting the Edge: Remote-Office Data Protection by Overland Storage
remote backups done locally and managed centrally from the main data center. Date backup and recovery of remote offices is an ongoing challenge to the storage team due to issues such as lack of qualified staff or inefficient equipment. This Tipcast...
eGuide: Tipcast Transcript: Solid State Drives in the Enterprise by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This series of tips discusses the issues involved in integrating solid state drives at three junctions in enterprise storage environments. Solid state drives are going to play everywhere in the enterprise-at the storage array level...
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...
Addressing Backup and Recovery in a Consolidated Server Environment: Practical Advice from a Field-Proven Expert by Datalink/NetApp
on fewer multiple servers meeting backup and recovery windows becoming even more challenging. This Podcast describes, organizations are declined server virtualization at a rapid phase with multiple applications consolidated on fewer multiple...
Disaster Recovery Basics by Dell and Microsoft
This expert Podcast will answer frequently asked questions about disaster recovery. This expert Podcast will answer frequently asked questions about disaster recovery. After listening to this podcast you will know more...
Tape Encryption FAQ by Sony Electronics Inc.
the key concerns regarding tape encryption and the benefits it offers. Encryption for mainframe tapes has rapidly ascended to the top of the list of data center requirements due to increasing disclosures by high-profile organizations regarding...
Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The use of tape virtualization will improve backup performance and reliability while allowing you to preserve investment in your existing tape infrastructure. Virtual tape library (VTL) technology is arguably the easiest way...
Podcast: How to compare data deduplication products by Data Domain
explores key tips on how to evaluate and measure deduplication service providers. Data deduplication is rapidly becoming a core fundamental of any storage system, and the implications go far beyond backup applications. Knowing how to evaluate and...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
available at about the same price of tape backup systems. This white paper examines the pros and cons of both technologies and will present a cost analysis of ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs. tape and standard SATA disk...
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...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Magnum to save 50% over their current tape backup costs. Not ruling out tape altogether, 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...
Disk Based Backup - Implementation Techniques by Dell | EqualLogic
Preston regarding disk vs. tape backup. This document also discusses proven implementation techniques for disk-to-disk backups, what to be aware of when evaluating VTL, and how to equip your organization for changes in data protection technologies...
Storage Virtualization 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...
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...
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
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. This is because, to the backup server and backup application, the...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the differences between the first 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...
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...
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...
Storage Virtualization Video: 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...
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 reliability...
7 Tips that IT can use During the Economic Downturn by Microsoft
solutions from reducing server and desktop power consumption to consolidating applications on servers. Expert Mark Minasi will deliver information that SMBs can use right now to achieve enhanced IT value. Mark Minasi, noted author, MVP, and self...
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 cheaper than ever...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
primary disk storage data was to backup that data onto one or more magnetic 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...
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...
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 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 needed to do something...
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...
Backup & Recovery by SearchStorage.com
How do you decide which type of backup drive to purchase? There are only eight critical decision factors, and this paper covers each of these factors in detail. How do you decide which type of backup drive to purchase? There are big drives, small drives, fast...
Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
of tape, provides faster backups and restores, improves security and streamlines operations. Learn about the 7 critical questions to ask when considering a move to disk-based backup. Dealing with tape is cumbersome and time consuming, however with the...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restore 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...
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
Tape Encryption FAQ
to a vault site, so therefore you want that added level of protection and should the tape become lost, it won't end up in the wrong hands. Encryption makes the data unreadable without the encryption key.

Can you explain the various ways to encrypt tape?

The most recent addition is a tape level or device... 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...
What vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
that are built into backup applications. So companies like BakBone and CA and CommVault have those types of applications that are built right in and report on their own backup application. And then of course you have storage resource management solutions that also offer a pretty high-level... More...