Backup And Recovery

Nothing is scarier than the prospect of having to recover an entire site after a disaster. VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is designed to simplify and accelerate disaster recovery. This article discusses the challenges of DR planning and how VMware SRM—in conjunction with NetApp storage functionality—can simplify DR for virtual infrastructure.

This paper focuses generally on optimal storage and storage management for SharePoint and specifically evaluates NetApp's approach, detailing how the capabilities in NetApp's DataONTAP and SnapManager for SharePoint Server offerings help to drive storage efficiency, reduce cost, and exclude complexity in a comprehensive SharePoint implementation. It is not so much a "how to" guide, but rather a "why to" explanation. Learn more today!

This white paper demonstrates how power, cooling, and real estate requirements are finally combining-to form a perfect storm for expensive, locked-in, proprietary hardware. Is there a way out?

The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010. In this free white paper, they'll show you how to simplify managing all that extra data while lowering costs, by implementing unified storage.

According to industry analysts, email volume in organizations is growing by more than 30% annually, and the average user receives 7MB of data per day via email. if not more. As a result of this growth, the handling of email has become a critical business, IT and regulatory issue - driving the need for email archiving solutions. Most organizations looking for an email archiving solution are motivated by four reasons: mailbox/server management, compliance/records retention, eDiscovery/litigation support, and knowledge management/IP protection. In addition to these challenges, IT departments want to know how to control costs of the email environment, while keeping important data accessible for business, legal and regulatory users.

This free white paper from the experts at IDC posits solutions to the key problems posed by data center crowding: geometrically growing power and cooling costs; the spiraling cost of management; and the sheer number of server footprints.

Mid-sized businesses have long struggled to protect their IT systems. Many firms are inadequately protected and mistakenly think that a disaster is rare and won’t happen to them anytime soon. This custom Yankee Group Report uses customer interviews, statistical data and Yankee Group SMB survey results to examine disaster recovery (DR) issues.

This flash provides an overview of how CA ARCserve® Backup r12 provides several new disaster recovery enhancements, including an easy-to-use Disaster Recovery wizard. Together with the replication and application failover functionality in CA XOsoft™ Replication and CA XOsoft™ High Availability, and the integrity testing features in CA XOsoft™ Assured Recovery, these tools enable you to recover servers, applications, and data swiftly and effectively.

This flash demonstrates how CA ARCserve Backup, CA XOsoft High Availability and CA XOsoft Replication help protect the virtualization data without impacting performance.

CA ARCserve® Backup, CA XOsoft™ Replication, and CA XOsoft™ High Availability provide several key features that enable you to both protect virtualized servers and benefit from server virtualization in your overall recovery management strategy

This paper describes a series of tests run to determine the viability of continuous data protection (CDP) using InMage DR Scout along with Agami Systems AIS 3000 series of unified storage systems.

According to Forrester, "Google is setting a new price floor on email and archiving costs." Download the independent research report comparing the costs of email from Google and other providers.

Discover for yourself how NetApp disk-to-disk backup with SnapVault® can increase the storage availability of a VMware® ESX environment.

Download this exclusive report to learn how NetApp direct-to-tape technology can reduce the number of media servers required to support a solution, which can reduce hardware, software, and management costs by utilizing the VTL to perform tape exports.

Learn about strategies for enterprise data protection from the data center to remote office environments.

Download this exclusive report to learn how NetApp deduplication can be applied to all storage tiers, including primary application data.

Download this exclusive article to gain insight on why a NetApp SnapVault backup system is 54% less expensive than a similar tape-based backup solution over a typical backup product lifecycle.

Download this exclusive article to gain insight on how to view the entire archival infrastructure including benefits that storage management can provide.

This free white paper from the experts at IDC posits solutions to the key problems posed by data center crowding: geometrically growing power and cooling costs; the spiraling cost of management; and the sheer number of server footprints.

Today, email management is not only a filing and storage challenge. Because law firms and attorneys must be equipped to take control of litigation, email authenticity must be unquestionable with strong chains of custody, constant availability, and tamper-proof security. This white paper summarizes the author's experiences of litigating in fractured environments, particularly as they pertain to email. Learn the 12 steps that will help you gain control of your electronically stored data.

Increased regulatory scrutiny on the protection levels afforded sensitive information by those that transact and process it is causing enterprises to improve mainframe security strategies. This entails proactively investigating exposures and implementing appropriate policies, processes and technologies, including those for data z/OS tape encryption. Read this Technology Brief created by CA to learn how to identify exposure points and through the use of Tape Encryption.

This workbook helps you assess current needs and usage and determine where deduplication can positively affect your IT consolidation initiatives, help reduce costs, and create a more "green" environment.

This report is a must-read for companies struggling to back up their newly virtualized server environments.  Read this brief to get real-world case studies on how Sterling Testing and Kindred Healthcare have overcome the challenges of protecting VMware environments by implementing high performance virtual tape libraries (VTLs).

To stay competitive in today's business climate, organizations must find ways to meet their business needs while controlling IT costs. IT departments face flat budgets and, at the same time, find that their organizations have become increasingly dependent on uninterrupted access to business-critical data. In today's world, prudent IT administrators prepare to recover from two types of disasters as part of a complete Business Continuity and Availability (BC and A) plan.

In this video, at a high-tech ballistics center managed by National Technical Systems in Camden, Arkansas, HP simulated a gas leak using real explosives to blow up a data center. Every system failed-over after the explosion in less than two minutes—including data on an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array which failed over flawlessly to an HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array.