Backup Software White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a high-level description of how to implement an RMAN backup and recover methodology using Sun® storage arrays as the storage medium. For more information about Oracle best practices, refer to Best Practices for Running Oracle RAC Database with ASM on a Sun Storage 6540, 6580, or 6780 Storage Array.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle Recovery Manager is the preferred backup solution for Oracle database environments and is engineered to work together with Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to meet today's challenging backup requirements. Advantages of Sun ZFS Storage Appliances include; simplicity, speed, savings, and reduced risk. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to successfully recovering from a serious incident the Australians were the least confident. Just 22% of Australian businesses felt that they would be able to recover quickly in the event of downtime, compared to a global average of 50%.

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Big Data holds out the promise of providing businesses with differentiated competitive insights. But those insights, protected by a healthy level of technical complexity, require large-scale data consumption and an innovative approach to the analysis of large public and private data sets.

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 | Published: 25 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Obtaining the best possible backup performance is always a team effort in the sense that multiple technologies are brought together to provide optimal data protection performance. Read this white paper to learn why the components described in this document will help you to protect your valuable virtual machine environment.

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 | Published: 28 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) have a reputation of being somewhat lax when it comes to information protection. Symantec’s last SMB survey, for example, showed a high percentage of SMBs had failed to enact even the most basic protections- Which is why this year’s SMB Information Protection Survey is so surprising. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: As we enter a new decade of record-setting growth of digital information, we face unprecedented challenges in how to manage our Digital Universe. Are you ready for the Digital Decade?

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses the key concerns in remote-backup (like bandwidth and network access) and the shortcomings in existing solutions which makes employees avoid backups. Learn more by accessing this paper today.

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 | Published: 18 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper introduces and describes StoreOnce software, next-generation deduplication technology from HP that allows for better management, higher performance, and more efficient data protection, while providing IT administrators with a cost-effective way to control unrelenting data growth.

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 04 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is no longer strictly an enterprise technology; it is increasingly being adopted by IT groups in small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). However, those organizations are quickly learning that virtualization can also increase complexity in certain areas of IT, particularly in data protection. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 29 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how to leverage Storage Unit Group failover to achieve N+1 redundancy when using EMC Data Domain Boost software with Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage.

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Backup and recovery software typically requires agents that are installed onto the host servers that a system administrator wants to back up. The Asigra solution requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. Read this whitepaper to learn more!

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 | Published: 24 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Data Deduplication is a technology that helps organizations balance opposing demands. Disk based backups can be rolled out in order to reduce the backup window and improve recovery time, and deduplication means the investment in those disk based targets is maximized. Continue reading this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: There are many approaches to remote office data protection and system availability. This paper describes best practices in using available technologies for protection, recovery and availability of remote or branch office systems, applications and data.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT professionals are increasingly responsible for doing more than just provisioning servers and maintaining applications – they are core players in the risk management process. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: No one could have prepared the country for the wrath that Hurricane Katrina unleashed on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Why were businesses not more prepared to recover quickly and continue operating in the face of this disaster? Read this whitepaper to find out how a comprehensive disaster recovery plan could have helped.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to demonstrate that by using the deduplication and compression engine within the Veeam Backup and Replication product, it is possible to make a positive impact in the storage environment of any organisation.

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 | Published: 16 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Backup encryption should be a key element in any security strategy. To achieve that goal, corporations should follow five best practices. This paper details them.

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Data deduplication offers companies the opportunity to dramatically reduce the amount of storage required for backups and to more efficiently centralize backup data from multiple sites for assured disaster recovery. This paper discusses Backup Exec 2010 which now includes integrated deduplication capabilities.

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 | Published: 24 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses both Microsoft's out-of-box migration approaches and Metalogix's SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010. It describes common migration scenarios, and how those scenarios can be addressed using the different migration approaches.

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 | Published: 28 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Protecting virtual machines is not an easy task. Existing agent-based and proxy server-based approaches to backup and recovery for VMware vSphere environments can be disruptive or limit recovery point service levels. These often require downtime to perform backups - a completely unacceptable condition in today’s 24x7 virtual datacenters.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read about the factors that are driving the need for deduplication in the data center, and the benefits of deduplication as a strategic backup feature.

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 | Published: 07 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: There are six technologies and strategies for economizing your storage in this ebook. Together they can transform your data center into an economically superior storage environment.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: VMware's latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere, includes many new features and technological enhancements over its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). This white paper focuses on how VMware improved various storage technologies, how they relate to data backup and recovery, and more.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009