Disk Backups

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: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Managed Service Providers with customers who have or are considering Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 can now offer secure, cloud-based protection and recovery for DPM 2007 data with the CloudRecovery service, created by Iron Mountain and Microsoft. Learn how this service can help your customer meet today’s requirements.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: If all storage array vendors buy disk drives from the same small set of disk manufacturers then why is there such a big reliability gap between storage vendors?

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Managed Service Providers working with smaller businesses can help them better protect their data with two cloud-based strategies from Iron Mountain. Learn how LiveVault and CloudRecovery can bring your customers peace of mind.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dealing with disasters at remote offices, where you likely have little or no technical staff, can be challenging—and, if you're not careful, expensive. Here are our top 10 tips for optimizing branch office DR while achieving overall improvements in cost efficiency.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

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: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The data protection market has evolved with a number of alternatives that can save costs. One type of solution is a disk-based backup solution. Implementing a disk-based backup solution can save up to 40% when compared to traditional tape backups.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

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: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

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: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper compares traditional data protection options and provides an overview of the impact data deduplication is having on the storage industry. Deduplication is quickly gaining momentum in the growing disk-to-disk backup market and offers several significant improvements over traditional data protection methods.

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: This paper chronicles the implementations and results of three enterprises that addressed their data protection issues using Data Domain enterprise protection storage systems.

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 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: 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: Today's storage environments need a way to keep data intact without consuming corresponding disk storage. The FalconStor® File Interface Deduplication System provides the solution. Read on to discover the amazing benefits of this data deduplication solution.

Posted: 20 May 2009 | Published: 20 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This TIP research paper delivers findings from over 245 in-depth interviews with Storage professionals at large enterprises, most of them among the Fortune 1000. Read on to learn about the top Storage team challenges and initiatives, current state of deduplication environments and solutions, and much more.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces three techniques employed in the production Data Domain deduplication file system and shows how they can be used to relieve the disk bottleneck.

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Flash storage is now a top contender for new enterprise storage applications. The I/O randomization caused by widespread virtual machine adoption demands higher I/O performance. Faster than disks, cheaper than DRAM, flash is occupying a new layer in the storage pyramid. Read this paper to further investigate flash storage.

Posted: 18 Mar 2009 | Published: 18 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This presentation from leading industry expert W. Curtis Preston will go in-depth into the technology options available, as he shares his insights on deployments he's managed.

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 | Published: 20 Jan 2009