Backups Reports

EZINE: Data replication has taken center stage in hot storage technologies and is a fundamental component of DR and backup and recovery operations. This issue's cover story explores where best to deploy replication: in the array, network or servers. Plus, check out features on power-smart disk systems, value-based data protection, deduplication...

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: The call to protect corporate data in less time and for less money has inspired a whole new way of thinking about backup - a complete backup redesign. This paper explores a better way to backup and protect data and applications - disk-based application.

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009

CASE STUDY: Before implementing AppAssure's MailRetriever, Imagine's Exchange environment suffered unrecoverable corruption. During the ensuing downtime, the network administrators searched for a better backup solution. Imagine Schools now relies on MailRetriever for Exchange to backup Exchange, SQL servers, and school Web sites.

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 09 Apr 2009

CASE STUDY: Maintaning an Exchange backup was certainly a challenge for Apptix, to overcome this challenge they used Replay, as a result of which they were able to eliminate about five hours of restore processes.

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Mar 2009

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: The impact of natural, random and man-made disasters on Windows Server applications, especially email, and their subsequent disruption can cripple an organization. This white paper offers advice for protecting your existing Windows Server infrastructure from disruptive application outages.

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 09 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Join Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston and Falconstor's Product Marketing Manager Peter Eichers as they explore common data protection challenges and what technologies can be used to address them.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This segment begins with an explanation of how long to store backups to get the maximum benefit of deduplication, and then discusses the appropriate frequency of full backups.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: First, target and source deduplication are defined and explained in this segment. Then, Curtis discusses the pros and cons of each, how each fits into different types of environments, and how each approach is typically being used today.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this segment, Curtis begins by defining and explaining deduplication. He expands on this with an explanation of file-level and subfile-level deduplication and how subfile-level deduplication makes true disk backup feasible.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Enter the HP Solutions Demo portal for an interactive flash demo and overview on FalconStor CDP with HP Solutions.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2009

DATA SHEET: What's the Riverbed difference? Speed. Scalability. And simplicity. Discover it for yourself and get the facts about the entire family of Steelhead solutions from Riverbed. Companies of all sizes depend on the Riverbed Steelhead product family to accelerate the performance of applications over the WAN.

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Storage consolidation provides a partial solution to soaring storage administrative costs by expanding device connectivity and reducing points of management. It does this by simplifying cumbersome tasks-like allocating storage, load balancing, configuring RAID, and backing up and restoring data. Get the details here.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

CASE STUDY: When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga., bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money behind an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. This white paper gives the details.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2005

WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Storage consolidation brings many applications together to a single storage pool. It improves storage utilization, simplifies management, and increases reliability in well implemented SANs. While consolidation makes it easier to manage, provision, and backup your data, how do you manage different application service level requirements?

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Storage consolidation enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. But how does an organization ensure that consolidation does not cause performance issues? To avoid performance utilization problems administrators should provision storage so that loads are balanced across resources evenly.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WEBCAST: The webcast demonstrates Spectra's nTier with deduplication, a turnkey preconfigured storage solution supporting up to 674 TB of logical storage. With this appliance, an organization can dramatically reduce their storage consumption.

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 24, 2009

EZINE: The March 2009 issue of Storage Magazine includes a cover story announcing the winners of the Midrange Arrays Quality Awards. Also in this issue, get information about remote office backups, disaster recovery plan testing, deduplication, and an eye-opening editorial on crucial data that often isn't being backed up properly.

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Knowledge of data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated. This presentation transcript details re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; Additionally, it highlights a solution that provides superior protection and substantial paybacks.

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 20 Mar 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Knowledge of data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated. This presentation transcript details re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; Additionally, it highlights a solution that provides superior protection and substantial paybacks.

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 20 Mar 2009

EZINE: Read this month's issue to find out why it's time to rethink high availability (HA) strategies and how current virtualization tools can complement familiar high availabilities techniques.

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 | Published: 17 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: When most IT Pros and CIOs think virtualization, the first thing that comes to mind is server consolidation using server virtualization. However, there is a lot more to virtualization than just "consolidating your servers with VMware." In this analysis, we'll help you to understand the different types of virtualization and which works best for you.

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009

WEBCAST: It is critical to choose the right data protection solution, one that is complete, one that not only protects the physical world, but is also finely tuned for the virtual world. The current release of NetBackup delivers award winning solutions for VMware.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 6, 2009

WHITE PAPER: Although there are many e-mail platforms available, Microsoft Exchange is by far the most dominate with a commanding 65-percent share of the overall market. This eGuide explains the three best practices for reducing Exchange downtime and teaches how to proactively approach disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange.

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 | Published: 02 Mar 2009