SmartBiz IT Research Library

CASE STUDY - The ability to stay up and running in the face of a disaster can be crucial to the survival of any business. Without effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans, businesses risk lost income, lost productivity, or worse. Read this brief paper to learn about effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Consulting Services | Business Continuation Services | Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery

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: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Server Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Replication | Storage Security | Tape Backups

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: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Storage | Load Balancing | Storage Replication

WHITE PAPER - As mid-size enterprises find themselves strapped for time, money and management resources, they have to find ways of doing more with less. Age-in-Place is a data management strategy that means no more tiers – the easiest and most cost effective way to manage the life-cycle of your data.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Capacity | Tiered Storage

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Global data deduplication allows users to deduplicate data across multiple boxes, which can simplify management as companies back up more and more data. W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group, discusses the pros and cons of global deduplication, who should consider it, and which vendors are offering it today in this Q&A.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

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: October 9, 2009 | Published: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Storage Capacity | Storage Replication

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: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Replication | Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software | Storage Security

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Data deduplication is rapidly becoming a core fundamental of any storage system, and the implications go far beyond backup applications. Take this opportunity to learn the key differences between deduplication technologies available today.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Storage

WHITE PAPER - This IDC Workbook discusses consolidation at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualisation. This paper also discusses how deduplication can help improve consolidation of resources and reduce storage footprint, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

WHITE PAPER - This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce disk I/Os in high-throughput deduplication storage systems. These techniques are general methods to improve throughput performance of deduplication storage systems.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

WHITE PAPER - We are beginning to see the next generation of backup and recovery solutions appear. New data protection solutions led by Data Domain’s deduplication architecture are quickly gaining market momentum improving data and application availability while increasing the probability for a business to survive most types of outages.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disk Backups | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup

WHITE PAPER - Data protection is fast becoming the most critical part of IT strategies today. Read this paper to learn how your organization can address data protection issues using Data Domain enterprise protection storage systems.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2006


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Acquisition Hardware | Data Deduplication | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Security

ANALYST REPORT - Deduplication is one of the few IT solutions that cuts costs quickly and improves service levels. ESG believes CIOs and IT executives should look to deduplication for cost reduction projects in their environments.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | CIOs | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

ANALYST REPORT - An investment in data deduplication products is easy to rationalize. These products cut data protection capital and operating expenses, facilitate consolidation of distributed backup operations, and slash server virtualization-related storage costs. Data deduplication offerings should be on every CIO?s project short list in 2009.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Please read this presentation transcript featuring the first of a two-part ESG e-Seminar Series on data de-duplication. In part one, Tony Asaro, ESG Senior Analyst, and Heidi Biggar ESG analyst, will discuss the various technology considerations when applying data deduplication technology to disk backup.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: January 28, 2008


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Replication | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape