PODCAST - Deduplication can decrease the physical spend on data center footprint, power, cooling, and physical tape and media costs. This podcast defines deduplication and explains how it can make your data center more efficient. It will also shed some light on what factors you should evaluate when considering a deduplication strategy.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Premiered: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Storage Best Practices | Storage Spending | Tape Backups

PODCAST - W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the options currently available for performing replication as part of a backup strategy for virtual machines, benefits and drawbacks of using replication in a virtualized environment.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Premiered: August 25, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Replication | Disk Mirroring | Economic Environment | SMBs | Storage Best Practices | Storage Replication | Strategic Planning | Structured Programming

WHITE PAPER - The deduplication capabilities of CommVault® Simpana® 8.0 software in the Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by CommVault are designed to eliminate unnecessary copies of backup and archive data—providing an integrated, simplified way to streamline storage throughout the enterprise.
Posted: August 24, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Disk Backups | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Virtual Machine Backups | VMware ESX

BROCHURE - Built on patented peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offer high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment and management, and comprehensive data protection.
Posted: August 24, 2009 | Published: July 9, 2008


Topics:  Data Migration | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | iSCSI SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Consolidation | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Infrastructure 3

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

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Replication | Storage Management | Storage Replication | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

EZINE - The July/August issue of CIO Decisions Ezine focuses on disaster recovery in remote and branch offices, especially in midmarket organizations. Read this issue to learn some great tips and techniques for increasing your remote workers' ability to bounce back after an unfortunate event.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Published: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Contingency Planning | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | File Recovery Programs | Remote Backups | Storage Replication

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 - Read this case study to see how a diversified company with a large, nationwide network discovered the GigaVUE Data Access Switch from Gigamon and gained several benefits.
Posted: July 6, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Data Replication | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Security | Network Traffic Management | Switches

WHITE PAPER - The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: July 2, 2009


Topics:  Caching | Data Migration | Data Replication | Data Security | FPGA | High Availability | NAS | Storage Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage | Virtual Machine

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Published: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | IT Spending | Remote Backups | RPO | SLA | Storage Infrastructure | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

VIDEO - Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication replication as a disaster recovery technique.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Premiered: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Remote Backups | Storage Management | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more about data deduplication as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Published: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Replication | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management

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

WHITE PAPER - In this research paper you'll learn about the top challenges facing storage professionals in Europe and information about Data Domain deduplication storage systems.
Posted: May 30, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Regulatory Compliance | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups