ANALYST REPORT - Deduplication is one of the few IT solutions that cuts costs quickly and improves service levels. ESG believes CIOs and IT executives should look to deduplication for cost reduction projects in their environments.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | CIOs | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

ANALYST REPORT - An investment in data deduplication products is easy to rationalize. These products cut data protection capital and operating expenses, facilitate consolidation of distributed backup operations, and slash server virtualization-related storage costs. Data deduplication offerings should be on every CIO?s project short list in 2009.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

WHITE PAPER - Unreliable backups and recovery times that are too long have long plagued IT organisations. This paper takes a look at the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | TCO | Virtual Machine Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Please read this presentation transcript featuring 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: September 29, 2009 | Published: January 28, 2008


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Replication | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape

ANALYST REPORT - Understanding and measuring an offering’s operational simplicity is crucial criteria for selecting a D2D solution. As we at Taneja Group will explore in this brief, we believe that Data Domain has delivered an offering that personifies this notion of operational simplicity.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape

ANALYST REPORT - Disk-to-Disk (D2D) backup has emerged in recent years to become a critical storage component of an enterprises’ data protection environment. Taneja Group has identified a locus of buying criteria that we believe compose the overall simplicity of operation of a D2D solution.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape

WHITE PAPER - Disaster recovery and remote office replication are top-of-mind issues for IT professionals, with frequent natural disasters underscoring the fallibility of tape-based backup strategies. This paper highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2008


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Remote Backups | WAN

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - In this presentation transcript, you will hear from industry leaders VMware and Data Domain, and we will discuss compelling solutions for today's data protection and DR challenges for these virtualised server environments.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Management | Storage Replication | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Please read this presentation transcript in which Brian Biles, VP of Product Management and the Co-founder of Data Domain, discusses data deduplication. And, why is it important? What exactly is it? What are the things that make different implementations different? Learn the questions you should be asking.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disk Backups | Storage Replication | Tape Backups

PODCAST - This on-demand Podcast helps simplify the basics of data deduplication and outlines the benefits that are being achieved by enterprises around the world.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Encryption | Data Management | Data Replication | Data Security | Storage Best Practices | Storage Media | Storage Service Providers | Storage Systems | Strategic Planning | Structured Programming

WEBCAST - This on-demand webcast helps simplify the basics of data deduplication and outlines the benefits that are being achieved by enterprises around the world.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Encryption | Data Management | Data Replication | Data Security | Storage Best Practices | Storage Media | Storage Service Providers | Storage Systems | Strategic Planning | Structured Programming

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript features Brian Babineau, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Today Badineau would like to talk to you a little bit about driving efficiency within your data center and how you can reduce cost by reducing the amount of duplicate data that maybe in your environment.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Governance | Data Management | IT Governance | IT Management | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper describes how mainframe users can effectively switch from physical tape (or hybrid disk/tape) to a modern mainframe Virtual Tape solution with Data Domain deduplication storage.
Posted: July 7, 2009 | Published: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Remote Backups | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment products in the US. Having implemented the Data Domain and Luminex solution they have been able to successfully meet DR goals and achieve significant yearly cost savings.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Replication | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Mainframe Server Hardware | Microsoft Exchange | ROI | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Media | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN