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Hot Storage Skills
 
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008
2008 will be an exciting, competitive and sometimes confusing time to be a storage professional. It won't be enough to be a great storage tech.
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More than Just Backup
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008
Data protection is changing rapidly: Point-in-time recoveries, faster legal discovery response times and near real-time disaster recoveries are becoming new requirements for corporate data protection.
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Hot Spots: A New Level of Backup Reporting
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008
Backup success rates are improving, but reliable data recovery is still a concern. Not only does data loss impact business productivity and potentially revenue, but failure to produce data could result in fines or damage to a company's reputation.
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Best Storage Products of 2007
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008
If there's a lesson to be learned from the 2007 Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year, it's that vendors can't rest on their laurels.
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Sync Up Virtual Servers and Storage
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008
As deployments of virtualized servers proliferate in enterprise IT environments, there are growing concerns associated with creating, managing and protecting these newly created virtual machines (VMs).
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Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization Challenges
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: December 20, 2007 | Published: December 1, 2007
Backing up and recovering data from virtual machines is easier said than done.
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Demystifying Unix dump
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: August 15, 2007 | Published: August 1, 2007
dump is a powerful tool to back up Unix files. However, the dump utility isn't intuitive and can produce some unexpected results, especially during a restore. Here's how dump works.
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Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: July 20, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007
Reports from specialized tools that work alongside major backup apps help you predict usage patterns and troubleshoot issues.
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Hot Spots: The Inevitability of Tape Encryption
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: July 20, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007
You can't duck it any longer; it's time to encrypt your backup tapes.
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Corral Virtual Server Backup
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: June 29, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007
This excerpt from W. Curtis Preston's new book Backup & Recovery describes the three different ways to back up a VMware server, and the pros and cons of each method.
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Catching up with Deduplication
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: June 29, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007
Deduplication backup products differ in how they recognize and reduce duplicate data. Here's how to pick the product that will best fit into your environment.
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The Skinny on Data Deduplication
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: January 15, 2007 | Published: January 1, 2007
Data deduplication products drastically cut the amount of data you need to back up, but the way these systems reduce and store data varies.
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Configuring Storage for ERP
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: December 12, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006
Enterprise resource planning apps often hold a company's most important information and have unique storage requirements. In this first installment of a three-part series, we look at ways to protect ERP data while improving performance.
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Hot Spots: Backup vs. Archiving: Make the Break
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: December 12, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006
Companies should split backup and archiving into two separate initiatives to help them differentiate between copying data for recovery, and retaining data for future reference and retrieval.
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Automate Data Migration
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: November 13, 2006 | Published: November 1, 2006
Moving seldom-accessed data from primary storage to less costly storage is a good idea. HSM products can do the job, but each one is closely aligned to a specific backup software product and file system.
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