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| VIRTUAL SERVER AND VIRTUAL MACHINE BACKUP: HOT DATA BACKUP STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2010 |
| Each year, Storage magazine chooses the hottest enterprise data storage technologies for the year ahead. The hottest data backup and recovery technology prediction for 2010 was virtual server backup.
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| CLOUD DATA BACKUP MANAGEMENT: USERS SEE NEW OPTIONS FOR CLOUD STORAGE ADMINISTRATION |
| Management isn't the first concern that comes to mind among many of the end users of cloud data backup. One of the reasons that companies outsource their data backups to cloud data backup service providers is to offload the burden of monitoring, maintaining and supporting the infrastructure. But, tracking key metrics can be helpful, and users are seeing improving options depending on their cloud backup providers.
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| STOP BUYING STORAGE: SHOW 3, DEDUPLICATION OF THE DATA STUPEFACTION FACTOR |
| The third instalment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Storage, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed Peter Elliman, senior manager of product marketing at Symantec about storage duplication and how IT organizations can employ deduplication technologies and strategies to engender significant storage savings and avoidance.
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| UNDERSTANDING CLOUD STORAGE TECHNOLOGY: DEFINITIONS, DEPLOYMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES |
What is cloud storage technology? Despite the hype surrounding this new approach to computing last year, the answer to that question remains difficult to pin down. Industry experts and research organizations see dual paradigms evolving, one internal to the enterprise data center and the other external, with storage service providers.
This four-part exploration of this evolving market covers technical definitions of cloud storage, how early adopters are deploying it, and the next phase of innovation and adoption.
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| CHOOSING THE BEST DATA BACKUP TOOL: DISK BACKUP CRITICAL, DATA DEDUPE A MUST-HAVE FEATURE |
Many aspects about selecting data backup tools have stayed consistent in the past few years. Enterprise data storage and backup administrators should always understand what they are backing up and how specific data needs to be protected before choosing a data backup solution. Also, you need to understand data security issues and the value of encryption.
However, several things have changed when considering data backup tools and applications in recent years. Vendors have started to combine more features into one product, and specific data backup features are emerging as must-haves in a storage solution. This article explores what's changing in data backup solutions and how to choose the right one for your data backup environment.
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| IT TRENDS: COST REDUCTION THROUGH VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD COMPUTING |
Cost reduction is a “top-of-mind” issue for most business executives in today’s turbulent environment. Many organizations are looking to drive costs out of the IT function, and still others are looking for ways where technology can help rationalize costs across the enterprise.
This issue covers two important IT trends which have garnered significant attention recently, namely virtualization and cloud computing. Many business and IT leaders are looking to virtualization — or the more efficient pooling of IT resources, including networks, servers and storage — as a way to drive enhanced efficiency and cost savings. Increasing IT infrastructure costs and demands are forcing IT functions to examine the distribution of computing resources, especially where servers may be operating well below capacity.
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| OVER ONE THIRD OF SMBS WILLING TO RISK A 40 PERCENT REVENUE HIT DUE TO THEIR INABILITY TO RECOVER FROM A DISASTER |
| This article looks at the number of SMBs which have no disaster recovery solution in place and exactly what is the cause of it. It also gives a hard number as to how many customers SMBs will lose if an unexpected disaster were to happen.
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| THE ADVANTAGE OF CLOUD-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES |
Disaster recovery has traditionally been seen as an expensive insurance policy, reserved for large corporations. However new cloud-enabled technologies offer rapid recovery without the expense of IT infrastructure.
Join Dell for a complimentary webcast hosted by Troy Winskowicz of Dell and featuring guest Stephanie Balaouras of Forrester Research and learn how you can benefit from cloud-based services. You’ll walk away with an understanding of:
- The benefits of cloud technologies for disaster recovery
- What to look for in a cloud-based recovery service
- Strategies to employ a cloud-enabled disaster recovery service in your organization
- Pitfalls to avoid when designing your virtual infrastructure and selecting a vendor
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| TAPE BACKUP CONTINUES TO BE AN IMPORTANT ASPECT IN DATA BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY PLANS |
| Disk vendors, particularly those sporting data deduplication functionality on specialty stovepipe arrays, continue to market that "tape is dead." But anyone who attended the Supercomputer '09 Conference (SC09) in Portland, Ore., might just reach a very different conclusion.
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| WHY IS A DISASTER RECOVERY STRATEGY SO IMPORTANT TODAY |
Simon Johnson, disaster recovery practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies (UK) discusses the importance of a disaster recovery (DR) strategy and asks how much downtime can you really afford and what level of protection can you get away with?
Applications and the information they hold are increasingly the lifeblood of many organisations. In my experience, many businesses which have encountered major loss of data are never able to reopen; some attempt to but do not succeed and only a handful survive. This just goes to show the long-term importance of a business aligned DR strategy today.
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| EMC GIVES AVAMAR 5 DESKTOP AND LAPTOP DATA BACKUP SUPPORT |
This article takes a look EMC’s upgraded version of AVAMAR. AVAMAR 5 has new capabilities and features, which places it above its predecessor.
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| STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION PRESENTATION |
The management of storage devices is often tedious and time consuming. And as the fragile economy continues to impact everyone this year, we are all going to be required to do more with less. Storage virtualization promises to ease the headaches of increasingly complex storage systems and, ideally, will allow us to still effectively and efficiently do our jobs as IT pros with fewer resources.
This presentation highlights how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to an actual concept storage managers are using to minimize the amount of machines needed to manage, centralize data and change the economics of storage. Marc Staimer will also look at how storage virtualization makes heterogeneous storage compatible, eases data migration and enables consolidation.
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| CLOUD COMPUTING: RETHINKING IT SERVICES |
Is your company ready for the cloud? The debate over whether cloud computing will catch on is moot. What's important now is understanding the variety of permutations it can take and how cloud services can help your particular organization meet its business goals.
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| STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION WITH THE HP STORAGEWORKS |
While virtualization is being addressed at all levels of the SAN, the most powerful application of this technology today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.
Through centralized management, virtualization helps reduce costs. The same number of storage administrators can manage more storage while company assets, such as disk space, are better utilized.
IT professionals benefit from the flexibility and capacity savings through support for virtual disk mirrors, Virtually Capacity-Free Snapshot, and Virtually Instantaneous Snapclone. These tools deliver optimized capacity and greater flexibility to storage administrators.
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| WHY SHOULD YOU BE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR RTOS AND RPOS |
Team Glasshouse, a global provider of data centre consulting services, discusses the importance of RTOs and RPOs for businesses today.
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| OFF-SITE SERVICES |
David Leyland, UK OSS Business Manager at Glasshouse Technologies, talks about the benefits of off-site services.
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| DON'T IGNORE DISASTER RECOVERY TESTING |
Companies facing IT budgetary pressures should not overlook testing their disaster recovery plans, especially those with virtualised environments, warned Glasshouse Technologies.
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| SEEDING THE CLOUDS: KEY INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING |
Cloud computing is an emerging computing model by which users can gain access to their applications from anywhere, through any connected device. A user-centric interface makes the cloud infrastructure supporting the applications transparent to users. The applications reside in massively scalable data centers where computational resources can be dynamically provisioned and shared to achieve significant economies of scale. Thanks to a strong service management platform, the management costs of adding more IT resources to the cloud can be significantly lower than those associated with alternate infrastructures.
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| MANAGING THE IT AGENDA: THE BALANCING ACT FOR BUSINESS AND IT LEADERS |
The role of information technology (IT) is evolving. IT is being called on to do more than simply “keep the lights on.” Board members, C-suite leaders and other stakeholders are looking for IT to make even greater contributions to the success of the enterprise – to create value, rationalize costs and more effectively manage risks across the organization. Many business and IT leaders, however, struggle with balancing this vision of how IT can add value to the enterprise and still address ongoing concerns such as the levels of IT service and support, escalating concerns around security and risk management, IT program delivery and other fundamental day-to-day IT operational needs.
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| MAINTAINING BACKUP HEALTH AMID CONSTANT CHANGE |
Small problems can go unnoticed until they become larger due to the fact that IT staffs are preoccupied on the day-to-day operational aspects of backup. It is important to develop a regular routine to check various aspects of the backup environment’s health. This column provides a few examples.
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| FLIRTING WITH DISASTER |
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis writes about Disaster Recovery and meeting your organizations objectives.
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| 6 MYTHS ABOUT BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT AND DISASTER RECOVERY |
Key issues discussed in this paper:
What strategies, programs, disciplines and best practices will enterprises employ to improve their resilience in the event of a disaster?
How can IT security directors keep business-interrupting events from turning into catastrophic failures? How will business and technology trans affect enterprise recovery strategies?
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