WHITE PAPER - This document is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the Guide provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups | Tape Drive Controllers | Tape Drives | Tape Heads | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Relying on tape backup for branch-office data protection is costly and risky. This white paper examines some of the strategies and technologies available for backing up remote or branch offices.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Cloud Computing | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | European Union | RPO | RTO | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - This paper is intended to help simplify the process of starting a disaster recovery plan so as not to be so overwhelming. Through some basic steps, businesses can better protect themselves against data loss while working toward a more complete business continuity plan.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | RPO | RTO | Storage Best Practices | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: March 18, 2009


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Architectures | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Review the comparisons in this paper and learn the various ways that moving to disk-based backup and data protection solutions – as onsite software, SaaS or managed service – can be the smart move for your company.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups | Tape Drive Controllers | Tape Drives | Tape Heads | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be far more reliable than tapes. When your backup completes, you know the data is secure and accessible on the disk drive. Read this paper to learn other best practices on disk-to-disk technology and more.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Data Security | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Best Practices | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This paper chronicles the implementations and results of three enterprises that addressed their data protection issues using Data Domain enterprise protection storage systems.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2006


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Security | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) in a Veritas NetBackup™ environment. It is intended to provide best practices for configuring all components.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disk Backups | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - When you resume business after a disruption, you want to pick up where you left off. That means minutes, or even seconds, before the lights went out or the computer virus struck. If your business is aiming for zero data loss and zero downtime, there's only one choice - continuous data protection (CDP).
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Security | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Email Archiving | RPO | RTO | Tape Backups | Virus Protection

WHITE PAPER - Spectra Logic, with 30 years experience in the field of high technology, is committed to protecting data - your data. Spectra has extensive expertise with all forms of backup, and therefore understands the continuing and increasingly important role of tape in protecting data. To that end, Spectra Logic has set itself a goal: Tape Without Pain.
Posted: September 1, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Damaged or worn out tape cartridges can force you to recreate lost data, which can be costly or even impossible. How do you know which cartridges should be retired? This paper details how a cartridge memory chip inside a storage tape cartridge provides a wealth of information on the remaining viability of that cartridge.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 26, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Storage | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor FDS in an EMC NetWorker environment. The document is intended to provide an architectural overview of FalconStor FDS being used with EMC NetWorker and the benefits of a combined solution.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


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

WHITE PAPER - With the introduction of HP Dynamic deduplication and low bandwidth replication (LBR) on HP D2D2500, D2D4000 and D2D4100 Backup Systems, the way data protection can be implemented has been transformed. This whitepaper explains the terminology and concepts behind these technologies and establishes some sizing rules through worked examples.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Virtual Tape Libraries

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

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data protection and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data center.
Posted: June 23, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | IT Managers | RPO | RTO | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Tape Backups