Backup services can save hardware and staffing costs, but beware of surprise fees. (Journal Article - October 1, 2008)

Read this article to learn how continuous data protection (CDP) products offer the most granular recovery points of all data protection applications. (Journal Article - October 1, 2008)

The storage and server cluster installed at The University of Texas at Austin is a lesson in how to do HPC. Storage requirements for HPC go beyond massive capacity, and include the use of high-performance file systems. (Journal Article - October 1, 2008)

Most virtual tape libraries will accelerate backups, but there are key differences among them when it comes to scaling, interoperability and management. (Journal Article - August 1, 2008)

Backup vendors benefit from snapshot and dedupe technologies. You can, too. (Journal Article - August 1, 2008)

2008 will be an exciting, competitive and sometimes confusing time to be a storage professional. It won't be enough to be a great storage tech. (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

Data protection is changing rapidly: Point-in-time recoveries, faster legal discovery response times and near real-time disaster recoveries are becoming new requirements for corporate data protection. (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

Backup success rates are improving, but reliable data recovery is still a concern. Not only does data loss impact business productivity and potentially revenue, but failure to produce data could result in fines or damage to a company's reputation. (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

If there's a lesson to be learned from the 2007 Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year, it's that vendors can't rest on their laurels. (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

As deployments of virtualized servers proliferate in enterprise IT environments, there are growing concerns associated with creating, managing and protecting these newly created virtual machines (VMs). (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

Backing up and recovering data from virtual machines is easier said than done. (Journal Article - December 1, 2007)

dump is a powerful tool to back up Unix files. However, the dump utility isn't intuitive and can produce some unexpected results, especially during a restore. Here's how dump works. (Journal Article - August 1, 2007)

Reports from specialized tools that work alongside major backup apps help you predict usage patterns and troubleshoot issues. (Journal Article - July 1, 2007)

You can't duck it any longer; it's time to encrypt your backup tapes. (Journal Article - July 1, 2007)

This excerpt from W. Curtis Preston's new book Backup & Recovery describes the three different ways to back up a VMware server, and the pros and cons of each method. (Journal Article - June 1, 2007)

Deduplication backup products differ in how they recognize and reduce duplicate data. Here's how to pick the product that will best fit into your environment. (Journal Article - June 1, 2007)

Data deduplication products drastically cut the amount of data you need to back up, but the way these systems reduce and store data varies. (Journal Article - January 1, 2007)

Enterprise resource planning apps often hold a company's most important information and have unique storage requirements. In this first installment of a three-part series, we look at ways to protect ERP data while improving performance. (Journal Article - December 1, 2006)

Companies should split backup and archiving into two separate initiatives to help them differentiate between copying data for recovery, and retaining data for future reference and retrieval. (Journal Article - December 1, 2006)

Moving seldom-accessed data from primary storage to less costly storage is a good idea. HSM products can do the job, but each one is closely aligned to a specific backup software product and file system. (Journal Article - November 1, 2006)