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Tips for protecting the edge: remote-office data protection By George Crump
Over the past few years, there has been much discussion about the different ways to protect an enterprise's remote sites, but what exactly the "remote office" is can vary from organization to organization. It could be just a few people with laptops all the way up to a small data center. The larger that remote data set... More...
Is online data backup right for your business? By George Crump
Online data backup comes in many flavors, but the most common architecture involves the transfer of data across a WAN segment to a service provider that then stores your data. There are many misconceptions about online backup and points to consider when deciding if online backup is right for your business.

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Source-side data reduction and backup By George Crump
Data reduction strategies abound today. There's data deduplication technology, which identifies redundant streams of data and eliminates the duplicates. There's single instancing, which identifies like files and eliminates them. Finally, there's standard compression. With all of these technologies, the data... More...
Learn how to back up virtual machines By George Crump
What you will learn: Two approaches to backing up virtual machines.

Virtual machine disk format (VMDK) files created for virtual machines (VM) exist in a VMware file system referred to as VMFS. A VMDK file then represents a physical hard drive that VMFS presents to your virtual machine. All user data and configuration... More...

Five tips for creating a backup service-level agreement By George Crump
A data backup service-level agreement (SLA) is often a verbal understanding between the IT staff and the corporate community as a whole. But it's dangerous not to have backup SLAs as written documents with management buy-in. Without the commitment in writing, there's a grey area, and in my experience when there's a grey... More...
What is the difference between archives and backups? By George Crump
Backups are primarily used for operational recoveries, to quickly recover an overwritten file or corrupted database. The focus is on speed, both to back up and recover, and on data integrity. Archives, on the other hand, typically store a version of a file that's no longer changing, or shouldn't be changing.

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How to recover deduplicated data faster By George Crump
Data Domain, along with others companies such as ExaGrid Systems Inc. and Quantum Corp., are riding the wave of rapid adoption of data deduplication systems as the solution to unmanageable data growth. However, there have been questions raised about how these solutions will affect recovery speed.

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REMOTE BACKUP SOLUTIONS
Demo - Installing Hyper-V Server on Dell PowerEdge R805 by Dell, Inc.
on a Dell PowerEdge R805 server through a Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) using the Virtual CD-ROM and remote console features to facilitate installation remotely. This video shows the installation of Hyper-V Server on a Dell PowerEdge R805 server through a Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC...
Virtualized Client Solutions: HP Remote Client Solutions (RCS) by Hewlett-Packard Company
HP offers client virtualization under its HP Remote Client Solutions (RCS) portfolio, andit includes virtualized client solutions like thin clients blade PCs, blade workstations, VDI and server-based computing. Would you like to gain a competitive edge without compromising...
Virtual Server Backup Explained by Data Domain
Tech Report gives an overview of virtual server backup and what you need to know to prepare an effective virtual server backup strategy including the available tools, tactics used for deployment, best practices and potential drawbacks. With the ongoing headaches that storage...
Backup Gets a Boost: Hot Spots by Storage Magazine
Backup vendors benefit from snapshot and dedupe technologies. You can, too. Backup vendors have made some strides in moving advanced technologies into the mainstream. For example, snapshot and CDP technologies are being integrated with backup...
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...
Related Knowledgestorm Podcasts
Podcast: Optimize your Network for Better Business Outcomes by Hewlett-Packard Company
leading edge application acceleration to mobile workers, and speed up backup procedures associated with disaster recovery. Your network has never been more critical to business success than it is today, with employees, customers and partners relying on it to communicate easily and transfer large quantities of...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
to run more of their production applications. This raises the bar for backup and recovery applications like vRanger Pro. Virtualization is becoming more widely used and accepted. As the level of use rises, experienced users are adopting virtualization to run more of their production applications. This raises the...
Addressing Backup and Recovery in a Consolidated Server Environment: Practical Advice from a Field-Proven Expert by Datalink/NetApp
This podcast discusses the pros and cons of using VMware Consolidated Backup for local backup and recovery, where it makes sense to use consolidated storage in a virtual environment, and the challenges of DR in a consolidated server environment. Organizations are deploying server virtualization at a rapid pace...