Backups White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides general information for using EMC Data Domain deduplication storage to back up VMs using VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) with VMware Infrastructure 3(VI3).

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 25 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: In its most sophisticated form, complex managed hosting, companies can outsource high-level IT functions such as OS management, virtualization, load balancing, performance monitoring, security and more. Read this market survey to get a comparison of the different features offered by complex managed hosting companies.

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 | Published: 27 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: The market for cloud-based IT infrastructure services delivered in a software-as-a-service model continues to grow. IDC research indicates this model of IT delivery is disrupting traditional licensed software markets and changing how archiving, backup, recovery, and security technologies are procured. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 | Published: 17 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes components of the VMware vSphere and VMware View solutions and discusses options for protecting these environments using EMC® Avamar® with global source-based data deduplication.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 21 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to demonstrate how KineticD meets and exceeds its clients' demands and expectations for the security of its online backup SaaS offering.

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | Published: 02 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Symantec makes it easier for companies of all sizes to store, manage, protect, and discover Exchange and Windows file servers, with Backup Exec’s new Archiving Options, powered by market-leading Symantec Enterprise Vault. Learn and explore Backup Exec 2010 Archiving Options in this insightful white paper.

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 | Published: 15 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses that dollars and time currently consumed by existing tape libraries can be far better utilized by moving to disk back-up with deduplication.

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 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: When disaster strikes, business must keep moving. Combing the advantages of a cloud computing infrastructure, IBM helps deliver business continuity and resiliency solutions based on tested methodologies designed specifically for your enterprise. Read this paper and learn how cloud computing can give you access to your data no matter what.

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 17 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This article highlights disaster preparedness plans to help reduce risk and minimize the damage to your business in the event of an emergency.

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 | Published: 04 Sep 2006

WHITE PAPER: Business continuity is not just a good business practice - it can mean success or failure if data and applications on a production server are lost. Read this white paper which examines Double-Take Software and their innovative approach to business continuity - one that goes beyond just recovery.

Posted: 28 May 2010 | Published: 27 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Over the last 30 years, companies have significantly changed their approach to ensuring that their businesses can continue to run in the event of a catastrophe. Read this white paper to learn how business continuity and disaster recovery solutions can help you to develop a more robust enterprise.

Posted: 27 May 2010 | Published: 26 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Many remote offices have a relatively small staff, and often lack onsite technical expertise or corporate IT staff. Yet the data generated by the staff at remote offices is a corporate asset that should be backed up just like data at corporate headquarters.

Posted: 13 May 2010 | Published: 13 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than a technology. It is a way of thinking about problems that allow us to go beyond the physical limitations nor­mally associated with entire classes of hardware, from servers to storage. Attaining the maximum benefits of virtualization, however, requires a plan and constant monitoring to ensure peak performance.

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is intended to help you think about that problem with knowledge of pertinent market trends and next generation recovery technologies.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 | Published: 23 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: The customers in this compilation all share one common story: They turned to EMC solutions to address the backup and recovery challenges they faced while implementing a virtualised server environment.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 | Published: 22 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces the EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array (GDA), the industry’s highest-performance inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup applications, and explains how it delivers scalable performance and capacity, enhanced multi-site disaster recovery, and simpler, end-to-end backup administration.

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today’s traditional IT model suffers from resources located in different, unrelated silos—leading to low utilization and gross inefficiency. Enterprise servers reside in one area of the data center and network switches and storage arrays in another. This document describes the design of - and the rationale behind - the Secure Cloud Architecture.

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 | Published: 02 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: There are ten key actions that your company and CIO can take as this hurricane season approaches to help your business achieve communications continuity and business continuity to protect against the unpredictability and devastation that is a hurricane. Read this white paper to learn more!

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares 3 different options of implementing CDP (continuous data protection) and shows how virtualization-enabled CDP - or Near-CDP - becomes the most affordable and most logical disaster recovery choice for businesses of all sizes.

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 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: The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Technology systems such as electronic medical records and digital imaging are revolutionizing healthcare. The continuous operation of these systems has become increasingly critical. Emerson Network Power has developed three centralized UPS configurations specifically for healthcare settings.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT and business managers who are charged with controlling their budgets while closing infrastructure gaps and extending the benefits of IT virtualization will benefit from this white paper.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 20 Jan 2010