WHITE PAPER - This document is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the Guide provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups | Tape Drive Controllers | Tape Drives | Tape Heads | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Managed Service Providers with customers who have or are considering Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 can now offer secure, cloud-based protection and recovery for DPM 2007 data with the CloudRecovery service, created by Iron Mountain and Microsoft. Learn how this service can help your customer meet today’s requirements.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: May 31, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - If all storage array vendors buy disk drives from the same small set of disk manufacturers then why is there such a big reliability gap between storage vendors?
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | RAID

PODCAST - Discover the benefits of disk over tape-based storage systems. This podcast will examine a large medical nonprofit’s transition from a tape-based storage system to a disk-based system. Find out how this organisation increased backup performance, shortened RTOs, lightened management burden, cut costs and more by switching to disk-only storage.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | RTO | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - Managed Service Providers working with smaller businesses can help them better protect their data with two cloud-based strategies from Iron Mountain. Learn how LiveVault and CloudRecovery can bring your customers peace of mind.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cloud Computing | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Disk Backups

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - 3PAR Thin Provisioning software improves storage system efficiency and optimizes capacity utilization system-wide. No more up-front capacity allocation. No more dedicating resources for each application. No more paying to power, house, and cool disks you may not need for months or years to come, or may never actually need.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: November 12, 2009


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Capacity | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization | Thin Client Software

WEBCAST - Protecting data that is not in the primary datacenter amplifies all the traditional challenges of backup - either there is not enough bandwidth to accomplish a remote backup in the window available, or the process of handling and shipping tapes is in the hands of non-IT employees.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups

PODCAST - Listen to this podcast to learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disk Backups | Economic Environment | Solid State Disks | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - View this mediacast and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disk Backups | Economic Environment | Solid State Disks | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - Disk-based backup systems fundamentally change the way we do backup and recovery. But the key is to treat disk as disk and not as tape. Solutions need to recognize the intelligent features of disk and take advantage of those features. This webcast explores how to leverage the advantages of disk for best possible backup performance and maximum ROI.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Premiered: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | High Availability | Storage Architectures | WAN

PODCAST - Disk-based backup systems fundamentally change the way we do backup and recovery. But the key is to treat disk as disk and not as tape. Solutions need to recognize the intelligent features of disk and take advantage of those features. This podcast explores how to leverage the advantages of disk for best possible backup performance and maximum ROI.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Premiered: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | High Availability | Storage Architectures | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Dealing with disasters at remote offices, where you likely have little or no technical staff, can be challenging—and, if you're not careful, expensive. Here are our top 10 tips for optimizing branch office DR while achieving overall improvements in cost efficiency.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Cloud Computing | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Downtime | Remote Office Connectivity | ROBO | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | SMBs

PODCAST - Disk offers significant management and performance benefits over tape-based storage systems. Now, with advances in virtualization and deduplication, disk-only storage is also less expensive than tape. This podcast explores a real-world example of an organization going tapeless and outlines the processes required and the resulting benefits.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Premiered: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Server Virtualization | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - Relying on tape backup for branch-office data protection is costly and risky. This white paper examines some of the strategies and technologies available for backing up remote or branch offices.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Cloud Computing | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | European Union | RPO | RTO | Tape Backups

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - The Storage Decisions Virtual Seminar, "Backing Up Virtual Machines" addresses the challenges in backing up and recovering virtual machines residing in a virtual infrastructure
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Premiered: November 12, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Disk Backups | Storage Virtualization