The incredible growth in the amount of electronic data generated for both business and personal use has resulted in higher costs for data storage and backup. Several factors have lead to these spiraling cost increases, including storage of larger files such as video and audio, multiple backups of the same files, and enforcement of industry [...]
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Backup Basics: Distributed Vs Centralized Backup
When designing a power protection scheme for their data center, IT and facilities managers must ask themselves whether a distributed or centralized backup strategy makes more sense. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to that question. Companies must weigh each architecture’s advantages and disadvantages against their financial constraints, availability needs and management capabilities before deciding [...]
The Dollars and Sense of Online Backup
Businesses today face unrelenting data growth. IT staffs are struggling to ensure data availability under tight fiscal constraints. The unreliability and intensive management of traditional tape-based backup has forced backup administrators to create manual, error-prone processes in order to protect their data. Consequently, other critical objectives, such as supporting distributed environments and complying with regulatory [...]
Many Faces of Storage Hypervisor, Virtual Storage or Storage Virtualization
Storage hypervisors were a 2012 popular buzzword bingo topic with plenty of industry adoption and some customer deployment. Separating the hype around storage hypervisors reveals conversations around storage virtualization and virtual storage. Cloud and virtualization components Storage virtualization along with virtual storage and storage hypervisors have a theme of abstracting underlying physical hardware resources like server virtualization. The [...]
AUTOMATE your data protection. HP StorageWorks D2D Backup Systems powered by Intel Xeon processor 5500 series & StoreOnce technology
HP & Intel provides a comprehensive array of solutions across services, software, servers, storage, and networking. In addition, HP’s services expertise can bring all your solutions together and deliver them any way you want. You can use these services to help keep critical processes “always on”: • Integrated Support • Server Services • Mission-Critical Services [...]
Tokyo Data Centers in the Aftermath of the Major Quake
You need to understand that even though there was a big jolt then countless small aftershocks, there was very little damage to the infrastructure in Tokyo. Daily life is almost normal, except for the scare of rolling blackouts, which do not include the special wards of Tokyo. See here for the explanation of the special [...]
VMware Backup, Archive, and Disaster Recovery: Next Generation VMware Data Protection
When VMware released its vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP), the company revolutionized data protection capabilities for virtual environments. Unitrends has incorporated support for VADP to provide seamless next generation support for VMware licensed ESXi and ESX environments for all of its backup appliances. The Unitrends backup solution enables VMware 3.5 and vSphere 4 backup, [...]
Six Fairy Tales of VMware and Hyper-V Backup
Cinderella. Snow White. Hansel and Gretal. VMware host level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. These famous, and not so famous, fairy tales have one thing in common – they are fiction. In this paper we explore six fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup. Like all fairy tales, our virtualization backup fairy tales [...]
Buyer’s Guide: Midmarket/Enterprise Backup & Recovery
With the differing ideological approaches and so many solutions on the market, selecting the right backup and recovery solution for your organization can be a complicated affair. Our Midmarket/Enterprise Backup & Recovery Buyer’s Guide can help you select the correct solution based on your business requirements including budget, backup windows, platform support, key applications and [...]
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Seven Ways to Control the Cost of Data Growth
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The Cloud Advantage: Five Ways the Cloud Is Better for Business When Disaster Strikes
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BYOD: Staying Secure with a Mobile Workforce
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Remote Desktop Access for Mobile Users Without the Pain of VPN/RDP
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Backup Basics: Distributed Vs Centralized Backup
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The 8 Most Common Power Management Challenges & How to Overcome Them
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How To Choose Between Generic and Industry-Specific ERP Systems
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BYOD: Staying Secure with a Mobile Workforce
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A Tiny Programmable Fly’s Eye
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The 8 Most Common Power Management Challenges & How to Overcome Them
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Over Half of Big Data & Cloud Projects Stall Because of Security Concerns
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Seven Ways to Control the Cost of Data Growth
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Soft Matter Offers New Ways to Study How Materials Arrange
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How To Choose Between Generic and Industry-Specific ERP Systems
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