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Replay appImage 2.1 by AppAssure Software
and recovery. Product Type: Windows Backup & Recovery Target User: Network Administrator IT Problem: Replay appImage continuously images any Windows server for complete backup and recovery. IT Download Description: Replay appImage is disk imaging designed...
Business Value of Streamlining and Automating Data and System Protection for Small and Mid-sized Organization by Symantec Corporation
is dramatically shrinking backup windows. These trends are placing greater pressure on information technology (IT) organizations to improve backup efficiencies and deliver on-demand Microsoft Windows data and system recovery. This white paper offers two...
Evaluate System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Today by Microsoft
DPM) 2007 is the new standard for Windows® backup and recovery -- delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft® application. System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is the new standard for Windows® backup and recovery -- delivering continuous data...
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Backup Exec - Best Practices for Implementing a Centralized SAN-Based Infrastructure by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows servers gives Windows based organizations a flexible, powerful solution they need to efficiently manage backups and restores across a distributed organization. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows servers gives...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows Servers and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 are complementary solutions that deliver complete Windows based data and system protection and recovery. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 needed an efficient disk backup solution to...
Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft Applications by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows servers is the gold standard in Windows® data protection, providing cost-effective, high-performance, disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery. Companies today face the ever-increasing challenge...
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 needed to do...
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure Symantec BE 12.5 for Windows Server by Symantec Corporation
components using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers and the Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (AVVI). Server virtualization is quickly becoming a standard technology in many data centers today. While VMware augments...
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...
Windows Server 2008 Backup Tool – A Review of Its Features by Global Knowledge
of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista. This white paper presents some of the more significant pros and cons of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista, so that you can decide whether the...
Backup and Recovery: The Benefits of Multiple De-duplication Policies by Quantum Corporation
that meets the most demanding backup windows and doesn’t throttle the backup process ▪ The fastest possible ingest and restore rates ▪ Seamless integration with existing D2D2T architectures ▪ The option of more using frequent full backups that use less overall...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
advantages, including shorter backup windows, faster restore times, content awareness and backup application integration, and better scalability. Though data de-duplication technologies have been around for years, there is a renewed focus on them recently as...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restore by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Camera was struggling with long backup windows and concerned about the company's ability to restore data from tape in the event of an emergency. Finally, this organization realized that disk-based backup was a practical option. This white paper presents a case...
Microsoft Windows Runs Best on Vmware Virtualization Solutions by VMware, Inc.
solutions offer a better way to run Windows, delivering improvements in reliability, availability and manageability for your Microsoft Windows infrastructure. VMware virtualization makes it easier and more cost-effective to deploy and maintain your...
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
ever-larger data sets into tight backup windows, retrieving data quickly when required for legal or regulatory reasons, and reducing the operational and reliability risks related to tape...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
Iron Time & Money with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs. Virtual Iron Software knows the value of consolidation. The fast-growing Lowell, Massachusetts, firm provides server virtualization software that has helped...
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...
Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the cost of disk by up to 95% ** Reduces backup windows by 30% to 90% ** Seamless scalability
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User’s Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
job of backing up to disk. Tape-based backup solutions are fraught with problems. Restore time from tape is prohibitive and tape proliferation is a concern. These problems can be solved by backing up to disk; data deduplication reduces the size of the backup...
Enterprise Backup & Recovery Methodologies for Your Oracle Environment by Datalink/NetApp
overview on some of the enterprise backup options available for Oracle data. Backing up and recovering Oracle data presents unique challenges. How can you back up your large and growing databases within a limited window? How do you recover your environment...
L.L.Bean Overhauls its Backup Process by Storage Magazine
servers, and adds SATA disk to its backup environment. Sandy Rideout, a storage engineer at L.L.Bean Inc. in Freeport, ME, had become increasingly unhappy with the outdoor gear retailer's storage backup and restore environment. The system was built around IBM...
Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering by F5 Networks
or application need. Unmanageable backup and recovery windows. As the amount of data increases in the general purpose storage tier, so too do the backup and recovery windows. ILM - the management of information as it changes its business value throughout its...
NetBackup 6.5: Enabling Next-Generation Disk-Based Data Protection by Symantec Corporation
and meet compressing backup windows. The challenge most organizations face is how to upgrade their current processes in an economically viable manner without disrupting users, applications, or infrastructure. Today, enterprise datacenters are...
Near-Instant Oracle Cloning with Syncsort AdvancedClient Technologies by Syncsort
resources ▪ Eliminates the need for backup windows and the complexities of tape handling ▪ Allows for clones from many historic points in time ▪ Results in a modifiable Oracle clone
EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) by Wave Systems
ETS 6 introduces support for Windows Vista, providing TPM management and security applications that further enhance Vista's security. ETS 6 includes multifactor strong authentication support for hardware-secured Windows login using fingerprints...
Top Use-Cases for Replication Demand Integration with Backup and Restore Capabilities by CommVault Systems, Inc.
is deployed with UNIX systems while Windows and Linux environments commonly run host-based software replication. In this paper, DCIG considers the specialized requirements of using host-based software replication in combination with data protection...
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...
Security Explorer™ for SQL Server, Version 6.6 by ScriptLogic Corporation
management across the entire Windows network. Download this free trial. IT Problem: Security Explorer for SQL Server simplifies the management of Microsoft SQL Server security, ensuring that access to privileged database information is restricted...
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...
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
How does data deduplication affect the backup process in a virtual server environment?
can be enormous.

In physical environments, next-generation backup has been somewhat slow and marginalized; maybe solving niche problems on the fringe of the data center. This is most likely due to cost. Implementing server virtualization really requires a refresh of the data center, so it's an... More...

What vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
I mentioned earlier, there are vendor-specific tools 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... 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...