The ROI and TCO Benefits of Data Deduplication for Data Protection in the Enterprise
[ Source: Data Domain ]
October 2009-Deduplication storage is quickly becoming the standard for disk-based backup and nearline storage use in enterprise data centers across many industries. It delivers clear benefits for the retention, recovery and replication of backup and other nearline data and allows customers to eliminate tape from the processes of both operational recovery and disaster recovery.
In order to quantify the benefits of deduplication, industry expert Barb Goldworm, Focus Consulting, interviewed and documented the experiences of three ....
NetBackup Disaster Recovery and High Availability Configuration Categories, and the Role of Replication Technologies
[ Source: Symantec ]
January 2008-NetBackup Disaster Recovery and High Availability is all about protecting the business environment as simple as providing DR/HA for a single server and its applications, or can be as complex as providing a corporate site disaster and business continuity strategy. Whatever the business needs, and wherever one is at with this process, the goal is the same: correctly match computer technology infrastructure with the specific business environment. This paper covers the spectrum from helping the ....
7 Backup Risks Your Business Can't Afford to Take
[ Source: i365 ]
August 2009-Backing up is hard to do. But that doesn't mean you don't have to do it. This slideshow discusses 7 common backup and recovery risks - from planning mistakes to paying too much. See how not planning correctly can sink your backup efforts, and maybe even your company.
EMC NetWorker: EMC's Next Generation Backup and Recovery Strategy Comes into Focus
[ Source: EMC ]
May 2008-EMC NetWorker was once easily defined as a "backup application". That reality is now long gone as the company has transitioned NetWorker into a true platform residing in the middle of a range of data-centric operations for the management, monitoring, moving and protecting data. Specifically, we see that EMC has integrated NetWorker across a wide range of key high-profile offerings including Avamar, RecoverPoint, VMware, Centera, EMC Disk Library (EDL), Celerra, and Documentum as well as ....
NetApp RAID-DP: Dual-Parity Raid 6 Protection Without Compromise
[ Source: NetApp ]
January 2008-This white paper by Network Appliance (NetApp) outlines the issues of disk-related downtime and data loss and compares the effectiveness of available RAID technologies, highlighting the benefits of NetApp RAID-DP. The paper makes the case for NetApp RAID-DP, an advanced RAID 6 technology. While all RAID 6 implementations protect against double disk failures and MEDR, most come with a substantial performance penalty that disqualifies them from production storage environments. The paper explains why only NetApp ....
Boot From SAN in Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server
[ Source: Microsoft ]
January 2008-Booting from a Storage Area Network (SAN) can enable organizations to maximize consolidation of their IT resources, minimize their equipment costs, and realize the considerable management benefits of centralizing the boot process. The paper describes boot from SAN technology in a Windows environment, the advantages and complexities of the technology, and a number of key SAN boot deployment scenarios.
Six Data Protection Tips for SMBs
[ Source: Double-Take ]
October 2009-Limited resources and vulnerability to interruptions put small and midsize businesses at higher risk, and relying on native backup for a small business server can leave gaps in the disaster recovery plan. While native backup for Windows Small Business Server provides a small measure of protection, periodic tape backup can leave small businesses vulnerable to data and time loss in quantities they cannot afford. The key to getting back on track quickly is a comprehensive ....
VERITAS Backup Exec 10: Disk, Tape, and Multiplexing Performance Comparison
[ Source: Symantec ]
January 2008-VERITAS Software commissioned VeriTest to benchmark both backup and restore performance, comparing disk, tape, and tape multiplexing solutions. VERITAS Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers was tested with disk and tape, and Computer Associates ARCserve 11.1 was tested with disk, tape, and tape multiplexing. This paper highlights Disk to disk data protection solutions offer performance Advantages when compared to the tape multiplexing solution that was tested. The introduction of inexpensive disk products has changed the ....
Symantec Veritas NetBackup Design Best Practices with Data Domain
[ Source: Data Domain ]
September 2009-Standard practices and conventional technologies are being pushed to their limits in many backup environments. Data Domain deduplication storage solutions for Symantec NetBackup (NBU) helps customers efficiently manage the ever-increasing amount of backup and archive data.
This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution.
You ....
NTFS/FAT Disk Defragmentation in RAID and SAN Environments
[ Source: Raxco Software ]
January 2008-There is a common misconception that disk defragmentation is not necessary in RAID or SAN/NAS storage environments. At the core of this issue is the common perception that disk defragmentation software directly shuffles around disk clusters. That belief is incorrect. This paper explains how disk defragmentation really works and how it can deliver significant benefits to RAID or SAN/NAS storage.
The Benefits of Data Replication for AIX
[ Source: Vision Solutions ]
September 2008-
Listen to John Gay, Senior AIX Solutions Architect from Vision Solutions and learn how to implement a comprehensive, rapid AIX disaster recovery and data replication solution with minimal investment, provide continuous data protection (CDP) and uptime for your employees, customers and partners, and extend the useful life of your existing AIX application server.
Secure Passage Through a World of Technological Threats
[ Source: CoSoSys SRL ]
January 2008-
Business world, in its pursuit for enhanced efficiency, is opening up more and more to all devices that can improve workforce mobility and productivity. Technology has supported the need for mobility and has also provided additional means of communication. Information theft and proprietary data leakage are a reality of business world, effectively preventing all possible security breaches is becoming an ultimate concern for enterprise security experts. Endpoint security comes to complete existing security policies, aiming ....
Fast-Start Failover Best Practices Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture White Paper
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Oracle describes that the Fast-Start Failover is an Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2 feature that automatically, quickly, and reliably fails over to a designated, synchronized standby database in the event of loss of the primary database, without requiring manual intervention to execute the failover. This paper describes Fast-Start Failover and describes Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices for its use.
Optimized Backup and Recovery for VMware Infrastructure with EMC Avamar
[ Source: EMC ]
April 2008-
Over the last decade, disk storage has been used to augment traditional backup approaches, but disk solutions that are designed to replace tape libraries and media solve only a fraction of the data protection challenges faced by enterprises. Avamar backup software solves traditional backup challenges by reducing the size of backup data at the source. Avamar does this using patented global data deduplication technology that stores only a single copy of sub-file data segments across ....
Five Fatal Myths of Data Backup
[ Source: AbilityCRM ]
February 2008-
Data loss can cause catastrophic problems to businesses. When not fatal, it can certainly be costly, time-consuming, and stressful. The best protection against data loss is to backup the data. Yet the process of data backup can be confusing and is often misunderstood. This paper addresses the most common fatal myths that our support desk encounters on a daily basis.
VERITAS Backup Exec 10: Disk, Tape, and Multiplexing Performance Comparison
[ Source: Symantec ]
January 2008-
VERITAS Software commissioned VeriTest to benchmark both backup and restore performance, comparing disk, tape, and tape multiplexing solutions. VERITAS Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers was tested with disk and tape, and Computer Associates ARCserve 11.1 was tested with disk, tape, and tape multiplexing. This paper highlights Disk to disk data protection solutions offer performance Advantages when compared to the tape multiplexing solution that was tested. The introduction of inexpensive disk products has changed the ....
Whiteboard Tutorial: How SSD is Delivered
[ Source: TechWeb ]
June 2009-
In Part 3 of our SSD Whiteboard Video Tutorial series, George Crump of Storage Switzerland, provides an in-depth, technical look at the various ways that Solid State Disk is being delivered: as a separate SSD box, a drive module, and as a PCIE card.
Reliability of Modular Mesh-Connected Intelligent Storage Brick Systems
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2008-
A key objective of the IBM Intelligent Bricks project is to create a highly reliable system from commodity components. By delaying service actions, possibly for the entire lifetime of the system, management of the system is simplified. This paper examines the hardware reliability and deferred maintenance of Intelligent Storage Brick (ISB) systems assuming a mesh-connected collection of bricks in which each brick includes processing power, memory, networking, and storage.
The Green Data Center: Where Ecology Meets Economy
[ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
October 2008-
This paper critically examines ways to maximize your Data Center’s efficiency by providing you with a green perspective of your computing environment. Once you are able to look at your entire Data Center environment, it becomes clear how you can make it operate leaner and more efficiently. The way forward is to follow a green path where no processing cycle goes to waste. The result allows you to provide the same level of information from ....
How to Recover an Entire Laptop in Minutes
[ Source: Atempo ]
September 2008-
Nothing can slow down your day like desktop and laptop computer recoveries. There is the daily aggravation of emotional users desperate for a miracle recovery of a lost, deleted, or unsaved file. And then there are those who are disconnected from the network or traveling – some victims are not very patient.
If you would like to simplify recoveries of users files, desktops, and laptops quickly, read this tutorial. There is a ....
The Smartest Way to Deal with Disaster - Be Ready Before it Happens
[ Source: IBM ]
July 2009-
For those companies that are concerned about their ability to recover lost data, this solution is for them. No matter how critical business data is lost - natural disaster, hacker or common human error, the IBM Comprehensive Data Protection Solution makes sure that your business is always protected no matter what happens. This data sheet describes the benefits of the IBM Comprehensive Data Solution and how it is a cost-effective and easy-to-install solution.
IBM's Business Continuance Bundle for SMEs
[ Source: IBM ]
June 2009-
If there is prolonged disruption to normal IT operations, a company can be at risk. This paper discusses IBM's Business Continuance Bundle for SMEs and how it can help you avoid any business interruption.
Results Of Validation Testing CA ARCserve Version 12.5
[ Source: CA, Inc. ]
August 2009-
Despite the growing use of traditional tape backup for business continuity, cost-containment, compliance, and other data protection issues, negative perceptions of tape backup persist. This report provides an assessment of tape backup designed to set the record straight about the misperceptions of the medium, demonstrate the value of data deduplication, and prove the merits of its application to data management and recovery in both physical and virtualized IT environments. Toigo Partners International conducted the detailed ....
Remediate Backup Tapes to Control Liability & Cost
[ Source: Index Engines ]
September 2009-
In the past it was far too expensive and difficult to understand the detailed content of old backup tapes. Discovery efforts required that the content to be restored first, and then analyzed in order to determine what to keep and what can be purged. Restoring thousands or tens of thousands of tapes was out of the question. It would take too much time, money and legacy infrastructure. As a result IT departments have let the ....
Enabling Enterprise Class Features for the Mid-Range
[ Source: BlueArc ]
October 2009-
Bringing a scale-out file system with a global namespace to the mid-range is an important point- until recently, the mid-range landscape has been dominated by scale-up systems. In fact, scale-up systems are what got IT into the underutilized, stove-piped storage situation it is in today. Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how BlueArc's new storage platform, BlueArc Mercury(TM), scales in fixed increments that make it easy to install and deploy, scales up to an eight ....
The ROI and TCO Benefits of Data Deduplication for Data Protection in the Enterprise
[ Source: Data Domain ]
October 2009-
Deduplication storage is quickly becoming the standard for disk-based backup and nearline storage use in enterprise data centers across many industries. It delivers clear benefits for the retention, recovery and replication of backup and other nearline data and allows customers to eliminate tape from the processes of both operational recovery and disaster recovery.
In order to quantify the benefits of deduplication, industry expert Barb Goldworm, Focus Consulting, interviewed and documented the experiences of three ....
ESG Report: What Data Domain is Doing to Storage
[ Source: Data Domain ]
September 2009-
This paper describes the role of deduplication in the evolving data lifecycle, along with its historical significance. Industry expert Steve Duplessie explains how Data Domain has changed the status quo when it comes to data protection by reducing the number of products needed for operational and disaster recovery. How did Data Domain do it? And how does Data Domain maintain its leadership? Duplessie outlines key success factors with historical references to market makers such as ....
Dedupe-Centric Storage for General Applications
[ Source: Data Domain ]
October 2009-
Proliferation and preservation of many versions and copies of data drives much of the tremendous data growth most companies are experiencing. IT administrators are left to deal with the consequences. Because deduplication addresses one of the key elements of data growth, it should be at the heart of any data management strategy; it should be baked into the fundamental design of the system. Storage systems vendors who treat deduplication merely as a feature will check ....
Belden Adaptive Heat Containment System White Paper
[ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009-
According to the EPA’s Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, if current trends continue, the demand for power by data centers will require an additional 10 power plants on the North American power grid by 2011. In order to minimize the impact of this phenomenon, data centers must be increasingly efficient in their use of power.
Symantec Veritas NetBackup Design Best Practices with Data Domain
[ Source: Data Domain ]
September 2009-
Standard practices and conventional technologies are being pushed to their limits in many backup environments. Data Domain deduplication storage solutions for Symantec NetBackup (NBU) helps customers efficiently manage the ever-increasing amount of backup and archive data.
This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution.
You ....
The Smartest Way to Deal with Disaster - Be Ready Before it Happens
For those companies that are concerned about their ability to recover lost data, this solution is for...
Data Protection Strategies Using Replication
This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios.
|
|
InformationWeek Business Technology Network
|
 |
|
TechWeb
Events Network |
|
