WHITE PAPER - This paper compares traditional data protection options and provides an overview of the impact data deduplication is having on the storage industry. Deduplication is quickly gaining momentum in the growing disk-to-disk backup market and offers several significant improvements over traditional data protection methods.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Data Security | Disk Backups | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | High Availability

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

WEBCAST - Every company with multiple locations has the challenge of managing backup data across different sites, media types, and retention periods for short term protection and long term retention. View this webcast to learn about a new consolidated approach to solving this problem by combining disk, deduplication, and tape storage systems.
Posted: September 21, 2009 | Premiered: September 21, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | Tape Backups

ANALYST REPORT - Disk-based backup, deduplication, and MAID are three of the most talked about technologies in the storage industry—each is so popular that organizations often purchase them individually just to see the capabilities they can bring to their environments. Now, all three are available in Nexsan's DeDupe SG—an integrated system from Nexsan & FalconStor.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disk Backups | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Capacity

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Today, let's focus on one of the leading players in the data deduplication space, FalconStor. FalconStor can rightfully claim the market share leadership space for VTLs, even though there are other strong players in the space. But the market is fiercely competitive and FalconStor is not resting upon its laurels.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: June 3, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - When a full backup of the city's 125-plus servers became impossible overnight on a legacy tape system, Burbank went looking for a better answer. The city chose Quantum's DXi7500 Express disk-based backup solution with deduplication technology.
Posted: July 22, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Compression | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup

ANALYST BRIEF - This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison - using a backup/recovery and archive scenario - between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: February 29, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - With the increasing importance of disk-based data protection, the question arises on what are the relative choices of disk and tape for basic operational recovery. The answer lies in what data protection software technologies are used and for what reasons. This white paper gives more information.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: June 18, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Replication | Storage Replication Software

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: May 20, 2009 | Published: May 20, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Databases | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk Backup | SQL | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Replication

WHITE PAPER - Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. But as IT are aware, data replication increases your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used by data replication, enabling cost savings while maintaining application...
Posted: March 3, 2009 | Published: March 3, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

DATA SHEET - Designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, the ioDrive is the world's most advanced NAND clustering technology with performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today's hard disks, giving you the power to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by up to one thousand times.
Posted: February 16, 2009 | Published: February 16, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
Posted: February 16, 2009 | Published: February 16, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Environmental Compliance | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries