JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: November 13, 2006 | Published: November 1, 2006


Topics:  Backups | Data Classification | Data Migration | Storage Management Software

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Backup vendors benefit from snapshot and dedupe technologies. You can, too.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Business Continuity Planning Software | Disk Storage Systems | Storage Appliances | Storage Hardware

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: June 29, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Disk Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: December 12, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Backups | DB2 | ERP | ILM | SAP (Product) | Storage Infrastructure

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: June 29, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Server Virtualization | Software Migration | VMware

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: August 15, 2007 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Data Recovery | UNIX | Utility Software

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Most virtual tape libraries will accelerate backups, but there are key differences among them when it comes to scaling, interoperability and management.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Recovery | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: December 12, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Backups | Content Archiving | Email Archiving | Records Retention

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Backup services can save hardware and staffing costs, but beware of surprise fees.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Operational Support Systems | SLA | Storage Best Practices | Storage Security | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - You can't duck it any longer; it's time to encrypt your backup tapes.
Posted: July 20, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Data Encryption | Storage Security | Tape Drives

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Channel Management | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | ITIL | SAN | Staffing | Storage Industry | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection Software | Server Virtualization | Software Licensing | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Read this article to learn how continuous data protection (CDP) products offer the most granular recovery points of all data protection applications.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Microsoft Exchange | SQL Server

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Backing up and recovering data from virtual machines is easier said than done.
Posted: December 20, 2007 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The storage and server cluster installed at The University of Texas at Austin is a lesson in how to do HPC. Storage requirements for HPC go beyond massive capacity, and include the use of high-performance file systems.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Cluster Software | Clustering | Grid Computing | High Performance Computing | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 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).
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Blade Servers | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Appliances | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Data deduplication products drastically cut the amount of data you need to back up, but the way these systems reduce and store data varies.
Posted: January 15, 2007 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Data Replication | Data Storage | Virtual Tape Libraries

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Reports from specialized tools that work alongside major backup apps help you predict usage patterns and troubleshoot issues.
Posted: July 20, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Recovery | Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software