Storage Replication

ANALYST REPORT: Server virtualization is a tremendously valuable technology, but as it becomes widely adopted, organizations face new obstacles to managing storage that have significant impact upon Total Cost of Ownership. The Taneja Group examines these challenges and reviews Citrix StorageLink, a solution that maximizes the use of existing networked storage.

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 | Published: 27 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: For years Capital Bank backed up its data to tape and hand-delivered this information to a secondary, off-site location. While this strategy worked for a time, the bank wanted to move to a more automated process in preparation for growth and acquisitions. It found all that with Xiotech.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Andrew Burton, Editor of SearchDataBackup.com, and W. Curtis Preston, Executive Editor of Storage Media Group, discuss global deduplication. They will explain what global dedupe is and reveal the benefits and drawbacks that have been expressed by industry professionals.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Xiotech offers a fresh approach to data storage—disk drives, drive enclosures, and controllers with its Intelligent Storage Element technology: A storage foundation that sets new standards for reliability, performance, scalability, and value.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: The economic downturn is no time to compromise on data availability, especially when storage virtualization software has made it possible to eliminate costly, storage-related downtime without paying a premium.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: SEPATON S2100-ES2 is architected to efficiently support backup and recovery for demanding enterprise-grade sites. Its DeltaScale scale-out architecture enables expansion in performance or capacity by simply adding a processing node or additional disk capacity.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides six tips for an SMB approach to protecting critical data. These tips used in conjunction with Double-Take Availability from Double-Take Software can help SMBs defend against crippling downtime and data loss.

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 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: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: The Sun Unified Storage Simulator is provided as either a VirtualBox or VMware virtual machine that provides a simulated experience of a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System with 16 simulated disk drives.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: As a highly respected leading global intellectual property (IP) consultancy and law firm, Rouse needed to be confident in its level of client service, even in the event of a IT system failure. Read this case study to learn how Rouse partnered with Double-Take Software to develop and implement a full 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

WEBCAST: Boston Medical Center details its decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. Brad Blake, IT Director at Boston Medical Center, presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2009

EGUIDE: This E-Guide will explore if Data Deduplication is suitable for primary data and what vendors are doing to keep performance high for your company’s backups. If you are an IT Professional looking to Dedupe your Primary data, this E-Guide will help you navigate all the options and decisions you need to make.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

PRODUCT DEMO: Please join Peter Eicher, Product Marketing Manager, FalconStor, as he highlights file-interface deduplication for backup capacity reduction. This presentation talks about why data deduplication is needed and how it works. It also describes how FalconStor’s FDS works and what applications it is useful for.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This E-Guide explores server virtualization and its impacts on storage. Learn more about the dynamic nature of virtualized environments and the overall state of adoption, performance spectrum, benefits, and challenges.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn about how Double-Take Backup reduces the window for data loss, is more efficient than tape, and less costly than tape or other replications solutions.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

PODCAST: Storage networks provide the link between the servers that need data and the storage systems that store that data. Too often, however, storage networks are just considered the connective tissue in the storage environment and are often overlooked when greater performance, scalability or new services are needed.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 07 Oct 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: CA ARCserve Backup unites innovative data deduplication technology, powerful storage resource management (SRM) reporting and robust security measures — making it one of the market’s most secure, reliable and efficient methods of protecting the information residing on physical and virtual servers.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Global expansion plans combined with organic growth and an increasing number of job seekers were posing a serious problem for the traditional storage infrastructure underpinning CareerBuilder’s operations. After evaluating several vendors, CareerBuilder identified 3PAR as the only one meeting its performance, scalability, and flexibility demands.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 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

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Please read this presentation transcript in which Brian Biles, VP of Product Management and the Co-founder of Data Domain, discusses data deduplication. And, why is it important? What exactly is it? What are the things that make different implementations different? Learn the questions you should be asking.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Nexsan and FalconStor have formed a strategic venture to deliver an integrated system designed to optimize almost any backup environment and deliver immediate ROI. Read this presentation transcript to find out how you can minimize reliance on tape, reduce storage consumption and improve operational efficiency.

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 | Published: 22 Sep 2009

PODCAST: Join Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst with ESG, as he explores high-speed, power-efficient deduplication with industry innovators Nexsan and FalconStor who have formed a strategic venture to deliver the cost saving benefits of these technologies in an integrated system designed to optimize almost any backup environment and deliver immediate ROI.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 10 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: Industry innovators Nexsan and FalconStor have formed a strategic venture to deliver the cost saving benefits of these technologies in an integrated system designed to optimize almost any backup environment and deliver immediate ROI.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 10 Sep 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Data deduplication has quickly moved from a "nice-to-have" to a "must-have" technology for those organizations trying to keep pace with relentless data growth. Organizations surveyed by ESG are citing difficulty keeping up with storage capacity demands, while also reporting flat or decreasing IT budgets.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009