Data Recovery

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: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: To provide disaster recovery for virtual machines running on a Hyper-V host, look to Double-Take for Hyper-V from Double-Take Software to protect your workloads with real-time replication and automated failover for virtualized workloads. Read this white paper for more details.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Keeping data secure in a mobile environment is not just a daunting challenge, but a critical requirement. Complying with increasingly stringent regulations in data security and privacy adds additional complexity for companies with mobile users. Read this technology brief to learn about Intel® Anti-Theft Technology.

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: For many enterprises, the backup and recovery process has not kept pace with the sheer growth of data or the increased requirements for higher data protection. As a result, many storage organizations are redesigning their existing backup architecture.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Recent technological developments in disk backup have had a positive impact on short term data retention requirements. But these improvements do not replace the need to execute and deliver on a long term data retention strategy. This tool provides 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical component of IT and risk mitigation strategies, and compounded in difficulty by ever growing data volumes, distributed computing, and new technologies.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce disk I/Os in high-throughput deduplication storage systems. These techniques are general methods to improve throughput performance of deduplication storage systems.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IDC Workbook discusses consolidation at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualisation. This paper also discusses how deduplication can help improve consolidation of resources and reduce storage footprint, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: We are beginning to see the next generation of backup and recovery solutions appear. New data protection solutions led by Data Domain’s deduplication architecture are quickly gaining market momentum improving data and application availability while increasing the probability for a business to survive most types of outages.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data protection is fast becoming the most critical part of IT strategies today. Read this paper to learn how your organization can address data protection issues using Data Domain enterprise protection storage systems.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Unreliable backups and recovery times that are too long have long plagued IT organisations. This paper takes a look at the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

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: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an in-depth discussion of what data deduplication is, how it works, what problems it solves, and what options are available.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

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: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Although more companies than ever have continuity plans, an AT&T study discovered that a high percentage of those plans are outdated. If your company is one of those with an outdated plan or no plan, here are some things that might help them understand the importance of good continuity planning.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: In an increasingly digital world, it's clear that business continuity is no longer an option. Keeping systems running 24x7 and ensuring that data reaches its intended destination — precisely when it's needed — is the heart and soul of a business. This paper discusses Business-Continuity (BC) initiatives on a tight budget and with limited resources.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

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: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

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: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines some of the top ways that organizations can achieve great efficiencies in their environments and drive benefits ranging from steep capital savings to streamlined operations. It also illustrates how Datalink customers have implemented these methods in their architectures.

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain's LiveVault® online backup and recovery is supported on virtual machines, just as it is on physical machines. This paper outlines the use of LiveVault and VMware to achieve excellent data protection by leveraging the benefits of each technology.

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 | Published: 19 Aug 2009