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Data backup and recovery software Quality Awards: 2010 Enterprise and midrange winners
Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com conduct an annual survey among readers to identify the best data backup and recovery software. Find out which vendors' products came out on top in this year's survey, which is broken down by enterprise and midra... Survey Results
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What's the role of tape backup in disaster recovery?
Tape was once the most important component of disaster recovery. Learn how this role has changed and what role tape backup plays in disaster recovery today. FAQ
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How does a customer's data backup method impact capacity planning?
Your customer's data backup approach influences their storage capacity needs. Learn how to assess that influence. FAQ
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Symantec goes after Veeam, Acronis for patent infringement
Headlines: Symantec charge Veeam Software and Acronis with patent infringement in separate lawsuits; says smaller rivals’ software use Symantec’s technology. News | 22 Feb 2012
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Users handle NetApp backup in the array
Headlines: NetApp backup strategies can consist of carving out space in the array instead of adding a separate disk target. News | 14 Dec 2011
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Removable disk appealing to SMBs, but with caveats
Headlines: A new generation of removable storage media is making inroads in the SMB space—as well as the enterprise space—as an alternative to tape backup. News | 27 Apr 2011
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Sepaton delivers faster deduplication VTL with OST support
Headlines: Sepaton gives its VTLs a hardware and software makeover, with faster processors, support for Symantec OpenStorage (OST) and better integration with IBM TSM. Article | 26 Jan 2011
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Enterprise data storage 2010 Products of the Year finalists
Headlines: Finalists in the backup and DR software and services, backup hardware, disks and disk subsystems, storage management tools and storage networking equipment POY categories. Article | 19 Jan 2011
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EMC buys clustered NAS vendor Isilon and Bus-Tech
EMC pays $2.25 billion to get into the clustered NAS market by acquiring Isilon; sees the technology complementary with Atmos object-based storage to address cloud storage customers. Article | 17 Nov 2010
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IBM to ship Storwize system without compression; Quantum completes dedupe line overhaul
Headlines: IBM debuts its first Storwize product – a storage virtualization system that doesn't include Storwize data compression – and upgraded its enterprise storage array; and Quantum finishes refreshing its DXi dedupe line. Article | 13 Oct 2010
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Pivot3 expands into data protection with iSCSI SAN storage system
Pivot3, looking to take its serverless iSCSI SAN storage systems beyond the video surveillance market, takes on data protection software partners in hopes of expanding its channel base. Article | 29 Sep 2010
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Cisco and NetApp certify FCoE to run with VMware; JetBlue now uses EMC Avamar
Headlines: Cisco and NetApp have certified end-to-end FCoE products to run with VMware vSphere and hope this certification will spur the technology's adoption. Article | 04 Aug 2010
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Dell OEM deal with EMC expanded; Cleversafe improves performance, security
Headlines: The Dell OEM deal with EMC has been widened to include rebranding of EMC Celerra NAS/unified storage and Data Domain data deduplication devices; Version 2.0 of Cleversafe's software adds security features to dsNet and gains storage provisi... Article | 31 Mar 2010
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Backup design: Source-side considerations
Proper backup design involves a lot more than just the backup target. Find out how the backup source, the network connection, backup software and the backup server impact backup design. Tip
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How to secure primary storage for life outside the data center
While tape encryption is standard fare at customer sites, there's another inroad to storage security: primary storage encryption. Find out why primary storage is at risk even though it spends most of its life inside a secure data center. Tip
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How to develop a backup data reduction strategy for customers
Deduplication can be a key component of a data reduction strategy, but it's important to consider a range of techniques to keep backup storage usage under control. Find out what two classes of products to consider. Tip
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EMC/Data Domain deal: How should VARs react?
With EMC and Data Domain set to join forces at the end of this month, storage VARs will need to take action. But how you react will depend on your existing relationships with the two companies, as well as NetApp. Get advice on your next best move. Tip
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Low-cost disk backup vs. tape
Learn how two low-cost approaches to disk backup – power-managed disk and deduplication appliances – can enable your customers to lessen their reliance on tape backup. Tip
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Five questions to ask in a disk array data replication project
Customers looking to improve their disaster preparedness might be good candidates for disk array data replication, but there are a number of questions to be answered before you can propose a product and implementation plan. Tip
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Helping storage administrators save money: Telling both sides of the story
There are ample ways your storage administrator customers can save money, but make sure they understand the pros and cons of each technology. Tip
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New dynamics in data protection sales
With disk replacing tape as the preferred initial backup medium and new data protection tools for continuous data protection and deduplication available, VARs are faced with a problem: how to maintain a short sales cycle while supplying customers wit... Tip
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Disk libraries: Picking the right one for data backup
Disk libraries help enable virtual tape library (VTL) or network-attached storage (NAS) technology, but be sure to select the right disk library to solve customers' backup issues. Tip
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Disk drives for data archiving
Understand disk drive and storage options to support your customers' data archiving needs. Tip
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Archiving storage systems -- VTL or disk to disk
Archiving storage systems will vary from instance to instance depending on the customer. Expert Greg Schulz explains the differences between VTLs and disk to disk based storage. Ask the Expert
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Channel Expert Podcast: Implementing a modern backup strategy
In this two-part Channel Expert Podcast, Executive Editor and backup expert W. Curtis Preston examines the tools that should be used when developing a modern backup strategy for customers – including deduplication, CDP and near-CDP, and replication. ... Podcast
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Channel Expert Podcast, Part 2: Backup testing and verification strategies
Backups are not effective if they cannot be restored, but backup testing is unfortunately an afterthought at a lot of companies. In this second podcast in a two-part series, backup expert W. Curtis Preston discusses backup testing and verification st... Podcast
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Channel Expert Podcast, Part 1: Modern backup systems
Backup expert W. Curtis Preston explains what a modern-day backup system looks like, with details on which technologies need to be discussed with customers – and why. Podcast
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Symantec goes after Veeam, Acronis for patent infringement
Headlines: Symantec charge Veeam Software and Acronis with patent infringement in separate lawsuits; says smaller rivals’ software use Symantec’s technology. News
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Users handle NetApp backup in the array
Headlines: NetApp backup strategies can consist of carving out space in the array instead of adding a separate disk target. News
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Removable disk appealing to SMBs, but with caveats
Headlines: A new generation of removable storage media is making inroads in the SMB space—as well as the enterprise space—as an alternative to tape backup. News
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Sepaton delivers faster deduplication VTL with OST support
Headlines: Sepaton gives its VTLs a hardware and software makeover, with faster processors, support for Symantec OpenStorage (OST) and better integration with IBM TSM. Article
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Enterprise data storage 2010 Products of the Year finalists
Headlines: Finalists in the backup and DR software and services, backup hardware, disks and disk subsystems, storage management tools and storage networking equipment POY categories. Article
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EMC buys clustered NAS vendor Isilon and Bus-Tech
EMC pays $2.25 billion to get into the clustered NAS market by acquiring Isilon; sees the technology complementary with Atmos object-based storage to address cloud storage customers. Article
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IBM to ship Storwize system without compression; Quantum completes dedupe line overhaul
Headlines: IBM debuts its first Storwize product – a storage virtualization system that doesn't include Storwize data compression – and upgraded its enterprise storage array; and Quantum finishes refreshing its DXi dedupe line. Article
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Pivot3 expands into data protection with iSCSI SAN storage system
Pivot3, looking to take its serverless iSCSI SAN storage systems beyond the video surveillance market, takes on data protection software partners in hopes of expanding its channel base. Article
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Data backup and recovery software Quality Awards: 2010 Enterprise and midrange winners
Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com conduct an annual survey among readers to identify the best data backup and recovery software. Find out which vendors' products came out on top in this year's survey, which is broken down by enterprise and midra... Survey Results
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Cisco and NetApp certify FCoE to run with VMware; JetBlue now uses EMC Avamar
Headlines: Cisco and NetApp have certified end-to-end FCoE products to run with VMware vSphere and hope this certification will spur the technology's adoption. Article
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This section includes tips, advice and news on disk backup products and services for storage service providers, resellers and systems integrators. Read about trends in disk backup and best practices for storage channel professionals offering disk backup solutions including disk-to-disk backup, virtual tape library (VTL) and other disk-based storage, as well as how to choose the best disk library and other considerations.