Backups Reports

WHITE PAPER: Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: As organizations continue to employ larger data warehouses, the need for performance will continue to outpace the capabilities of traditional relational databases. This paper explores the data explosion and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost needed to gain the performance edge.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies are now at a juncture where they have a unique opportunity to put in place an underlying backup and archive disk infrastructure that eliminates today's silos of deduped data and islands of underutilized capacity resulting from scalability and scope limitations.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 11 Jun 2009

CASE STUDY: The network administrators at Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, PC have taken many steps to ensure reliable, constant, e-mail services. Like any law firm, e-mail is a central application and protecting the e-mail system is a central function of information services. One of the most important steps was implementing Replay AppImage.

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Download this presentation transcript to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 27 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings.

Posted: 29 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: 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 in-depth detail on the newest issues, technologies, and solutions surrounding backup.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 26 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today's storage environments need a way to keep data intact without consuming corresponding disk storage. The FalconStor® File Interface Deduplication System provides the solution. Read on to discover the amazing benefits of this data deduplication solution.

Posted: 20 May 2009 | Published: 20 May 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast you'll hear from Falconstor Software's Product Marketing Manager , Peter Eichers, as he discusses Falconstor storage virtualization solutions.

Posted: 20 May 2009 | Premiered: May 20, 2009

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript is the first of a two-part ESG e-Seminar Series on data de-duplication. In part one, Tony Asaro, ESG Senior Analyst, and Heidi Biggar, ESG analyst, will discuss the various technology considerations when applying data deduplication technology to disk backup.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 28 Jan 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores the primary technological differences inherent in the various forms of data deduplication currently available.

Posted: 06 May 2009 | Published: 28 Jan 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, backup expert, Mark Bowker, answers questions regarding virtual server environments and how their deployment affects the backup process.

Posted: 06 May 2009 | Published: 15 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: If your company seeks to eliminate or drastically reduce backup windows to create faster point-in-time recoveries for more mission-critical apps, CDP software is a viable alternative to traditional backup software. Take a few minutes to read this presentation transcript to learn more about the technology.

Posted: 06 May 2009 | Published: 28 Apr 2009

EZINE: In this month's Storage Magazine 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 Protection (CDP).

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: There are many ways that blade enclosures can be attached to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. This paper reviews three ways, but depending on the blade enclosure design features there may be other options. Each of the three architecture strategies presented here provides different trade-offs in cost, complexity and scalability.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios.

Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 29 Feb 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: VMware's virtual infrastructure has become the de-facto approach used across the storage industry today for server consolidation. When coupled with Data Domain's backup to disk storage, it provides a compelling solution to consolidate and simplify backup and recovery for VMware environments.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Agentless backup is NOT a myth. The Asigra solution is proof because it requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. This paper serves as an introduction to Asigra's Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery Software.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution.

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation you will learn about this powerful solution, hear about specific deployments and the resulting benefits.

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 | Published: 15 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Email is the foundation of business communication, so outages can have a dramatic impact on productivity. This webcast transcript showcases a technique to prevent email downtime that's non-invasive, remotely managed 24x7, and eliminates the danger of database corruption.

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 13 Apr 2009