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Zip Drives

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ALSO CALLED: Zip Disks and Drives
DEFINITION:

A Zip drive is something different.

Zipping is the act of packaging a set of files into a single file or archive that is called a zip file. Usually, the files in a zip file are compressed so that they take up less space in storage or take less time to send to someone. There are several popular tools that can be used for zipping files: PKZIP for  … 
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The Evolution of File Systems
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
VIDEOCAST: This TechTalk explains the difference between a File Area Network (FAN) and traditional File Systems, the pros and cons of each, and what can be expected in File System Architecture in the coming years.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 23 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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File Serving Utility Provides Higher Performance, Lower Cost File Serving
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how HP's PolyServe File Serving Utility delivers scalable performance and capacity with high availability services at a fraction of the price of traditional NAS.
Posted: 19 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Keeping It Simple: How to Protect Growing VMware Environments
sponsored by BakBone Software
WHITE PAPER: VMware has evolved to meet the needs of its growing customer base and has built an excellent foundation for data protection. It's Designed to work in conjunction with third-party backup software applications.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent, standards-based security that protects data on the network, on disk and on backup media.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Going the Distance with Disaster Recovery - How to Protect More Data and save Costs While Adding Distance
sponsored by Compellent
WEBCAST: Learn how Community Health Plan, a leading managed care provider serving over 225,000 people, performs real-time data replication across a WAN, dramatically improving disaster recovery effectiveness while reducing TCO.
Posted: 14 Jul 2008 | Premieres: 20 Feb 2009
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Protecting Stored Data, Backing up Virtual Infrastructure & Remote Data
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This session will start by explaining the challenges of backing up and recovering virtual machines residing in a virtual infrastructure such as VMware, Microsoft's Virtual Server or Virtual Iron.
Posted: 11 Jul 2008 | Published: 11 Jul 2008
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Optimizing Your Backup System
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: The backup system is one of the most expensive and troublesome systems in your data center, and yet it's rarely configured for optimum performance and maximum utilization of resources.
Posted: 11 Jul 2008 | Published: 11 Jul 2008
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PostPath Server Archive Edition: Enabling Simple-Forward Archiving
sponsored by PostPath, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: PostPath Server Archive Edition offers a superior solution to Exchange-Journal-based archiving; it is significantly less expensive and more efficient than implementing third-party solutions.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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11 Myths about Microsoft Exchange Backup & Recovery
sponsored by AppAssure Software
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides us with the 11 Myths about Microsoft Exchange Backup & Recovery and, how can we overcome them with careful planning and the right toolsets.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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Zmanda Recovery Manager: Guide to MySQL Backup & Recovery
sponsored by Zmanda Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces you to the Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL version 2.1. ZRM is a comprehensive, certified, mission-critical enterprise backup and recovery solution designed to protect MySQL databases.
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 08 Jul 2008
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ZIP DRIVES DEFINITION (continued): …  the DOS operating system, WinZip and NetZIP for Windows, MacZip for Macintosh users, and Zip and UnZip for UNIX systems. The result of zipping is a single file with a ".zip" suffix. After you receive a zip file, you may have to extract and decompress the file by using the same kind of tool that was used to zip the original file.

Most software that you download from the Internet will arrive as a self-extracting zip file. Typically, by double-clicking on a self-extracting zip file, it will automatically extract, decompress, and store the individual files. … 
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