Backups White Papers

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: Deduplication software has been shown to reduce the amount of backup data stored in typical environments by a ratio of 20:1 - significantly lowering the amount of backup storage media required. However, deciding how to implement deduplication requires a better understanding of the alternatives available.

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) emerges as one of the critical areas of focus as these data centers virtualize, unify, centralize, and scale out their storage resources. This document discusses some of the critical challenges related to the BC/DR solutions and how the Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) addresses each of them.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to overcome the challenges of traditional data backup for your small to mid-size organization and discover the benefits of implementing a Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) backup solution.

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 | Published: 11 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: There are many IP storage capabilities that are becoming increasingly critical requirements for all customers. And there are many vendors offering various IP-based storage solutions. This paper makes the case for choosing EMC for IP storage.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

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: This white paper discusses the different ways for installing the Data Protector package and shows the pros and cons of each method. You can choose the method which fits your requirements. At the end of this white paper, a troubleshooting chapter lists error messages and necessary steps for fixing these problems.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Case Study examines Pascack Community Bank’s use of i365’s EVault SaaS enabled Product Suite across its IT infrastructure. It provides an examination of their experience on the solution. End users can use this information to assess whether online backup services are applicable within their environment and what benefits can be expected

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: The challenge of saving power while maintaining server performance has become a primary concern within the IT environment. But, the latest generation of Adaptec RAID controllers provides Intelligent Power Management software and supports a variety of techniques that, together, enable significant savings without compromising performance.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an in-depth discussion of what data deduplication is, how it works, what problems it solves, and what options are available.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Backup is the core of data protection because it provides the ability to recover data from either physical disasters or common data loss conditions. But backup can have drawbacks - regular disruption of production applications, long recovery time, and significant data/work loss. Replication technologies were developed to shorten recovery time..

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the ever increasing compliance regulations in terms of E-mail archiving, It becomes clear that E-mail archiving is an information governance imperative. This paper presents the 3 technical challenges which should be understood when evaluating email archiving solutions

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 | Published: 17 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This technical note discusses how to configure deduplication for primary storage policy copies on the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 magnetic library to achieve high performance.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization helps reduce IT costs and increases business agility. Because of this, virtualization technologies are particularly suited to these economic times. This white paper explores the evolution of virtualization, and then gives practical advice on how virtualization can benefit your organization.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT systems are vulnerable to a variety of disruptions. This paper will focus on common processes and procedures that should be part of any effective enterprise backup/restore system.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: As organizations continue to employ larger data warehouses, the need for performance will continue to outpace the capabilities of traditional relational databases. This paper explores the data explosion and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost needed to gain the performance edge.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies are now at a juncture where they have a unique opportunity to put in place an underlying backup and archive disk infrastructure that eliminates today's silos of deduped data and islands of underutilized capacity resulting from scalability and scope limitations.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 11 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 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: 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: There are many ways that blade enclosures can be attached to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. This paper reviews three ways, but depending on the blade enclosure design features there may be other options. Each of the three architecture strategies presented here provides different trade-offs in cost, complexity and scalability.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008